Dawn French almost unrecognisable after unveiling shorter grey crop

Dawn French, 63, looks almost unrecognisable after ditching her signature raven bob for a striking grey crop

Dawn French looked almost unrecognisable as she unveiled her much shorter grey cropped hairstyle on Instagram in Monday.

The comedian, 63, looked a far cry from her former self as she ditched her signature raven bob to embrace her naturally greying hair, with Dawn initially showing off her hair transformation back in June.

And now Dawn told has told her social media followers that she trimmed off more of her locks, with her husband Mark Bignell even comparing her to The Chase star Anne Hegerty.

New look: Dawn French looked almost unrecognisable as she unveiled her much shorter grey cropped hairstyle on Instagram in Monday

Sharing a duo of snaps of her new shorter tresses, Dawn penned: ‘Hair update. 3 shades of grey (working up to the 50)

‘I’ve chopped even more off. I’m thinking I’m giving it solid Jamie Lee Curtis.

Husband says I’m giving it full Anne Hegerty…. Righto.

‘In your face husband, coz BOTH are Ishtar…’


The way she was: The comedian, 63, looked a far cry from her former self as she ditched her signature raven bob to embrace her naturally greying hair (pictured in 2016)

Dawn’s fans and celebrity pals were quick to heap praise on her new look, with one writing: ‘Oh yes Dawn. So Devil wears Prada. I bloody love it x.’

Another penned: ‘Looking great Dawn xxx’, and a third gushed: ‘Go for it!! You look amazing. love these glasses too. X.’

With another adding: ‘Love thiiiiis I love that you’re embracing the grey! It looks so chic on you.’ 

Transformed: Sharing a duo of snaps of her new shorter tresses, Dawn penned: ‘Hair update. 3 shades of grey (working up to the 50)

In June, Dawn initially ditched her trademark style in favour of a bold new look to embrace the fact that she’s going grey and shared her hair transformation with her followers. 

In the first picture, Dawn showed off the natural colour transformation. 

Even more dramatically, in the second picture, Dawn lifted up her locks to reveal her brand new undercut – with the silver colouring in line with her approach to embrace going grey.

Approval: Dawn’s fans and celebrity pals were quick to heap praise on her new look, with one writing: ‘Oh yes Dawn. So Devil wears Prada. I bloody love it x’


Lookalikes? Dawn’s husband Mark Bignall reckons she looks like quiz genius Anne Hegerty (left) while Dawn thinks she bears a likeness to Jamie Lee Curtis

Captioning her two new photos, Dawn wrote: ‘Going lighter bit by bit to happily welcome the grey… with an undercut surprise..! Hello there woman in her 60s….’

Dawn’s hair transformation comes after she called out a fake diet advert using her images in June and branded it as ‘bo*****s’ in an impassioned tweet.

She took to Twitter to hit back at the sham testimonial which used falsely attributed quotes from her.

The actress shared a screenshot of the fake advert to her Twitter which she captioned with ‘Keto lies…’ and wrote ‘b****x’ over it.

‘Happily welcoming the grey’: Back in June, Dawn revealed she’s ditched her trademark dark bob for lighter locks and a dramatic undercut 

The sham testimonial used two pictures of Dawn, claiming to be before and after, with falsely attributed quotes from her.

It read: ‘All I can say is that it works! I dropped a total of 6.4 stones in the course of five months! Beret the catch, with no exercise!

‘I wanted to see if it would do as they claimed it would if I did no exercise and to my surprise it did – Dawn French, 61.’ 


Now and then: Dawn showed off the colour transformation of her hair after opting for a much lighter brunette shade, a far cry from her trademark dark locks 

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