Jeremy Paxman's beard

I just think it makes him look older really. My DH had a beard and ponytail (not a word ladies ha ha) for years and we would get stopped through customs nearly everytime we went away!! When he shaved it off, firstly he looked so much younger and secondly, trips abroad became so much more enjoyable as we were no longer looked at as drug mules!!! I know for JP it has nothing to do with anyone else but I really think if just one of the photos of him with said beard, showed him smiling it would help "the look".

Jeremy Paxman? With a beard? What is the world coming to?

I think it makes him look better and far less smug & sneery. I love a beard!

Oh, Gracesmum, I don't like it! I agree, he was attractive in an 'I'm so clever I could get you do anything I want' kind of way, but now he just looks creepy! I'll bet a flowing 'tache isn't doing a lot for gorgeous Geraldine, either!

Beards have become fashionable with young men. Saw a dyed one the other day.
JP is trying to be cool perhaps?

I read that he's going to shave it off because he's realised it makes him look like Old Man Steptoe....