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Cliff Hakim, 70
Cliff is a writer and mentor based in Boston. He recently joined Leap, a San Francisco-based tech start-up which has just released a conversation app, set to transform the way people socialise online. “My first words were a question. I think I said, ‘who are you?’ or ‘where am I?’ or something along those lines. I’m a […]
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Jeffrey Archer, 80
Jeffrey is a former politician, life peer and best-selling novelist. Bolder met him at his London penthouse. “I didn’t start writing until I was about 38 years old. I had to leave the House of Commons facing bankruptcy and it’s not easy to get a job after something like that. So I sat down and […]
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Ben Jakober, 90
Ben is the co-founder of the Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, a gallery and sculpture park in northern Mallorca. He is also an artist and sculptor. “I was born in Vienna in 1930, but after a few years things got a bit difficult, because we were Jews. I remember my father taking me to the […]
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Elaine Kingett, 70
Elaine runs weekly writing and mindfulness meditation workshops in North London and writing, walking and meditation retreats in Andalucia. She is also a journalist “My parents used to hit me and told me I was mad from a young age. That’s why I started writing in a notebook, because it was a way of saying how […]
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Cleo Sylvestre, 74
Cleo is an actress in film, stage and television. Most recently, she starred in Alan Bennett’s play Allelujah! at the Bridge Theatre. She also performs the Blues as Honey B Mama. “For as long as I can remember, I wanted to act. One of my godfathers was Constant Lambert, a conductor at Sadler’s Wells and […]
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Esther Rantzen, 79
Esther is a television presenter and journalist. She also launched Childline and more recently The Silver Line, a telephone support service for older people in the UK. She is a trustee of the NSPCC, a patron for 19 charities and has a damehood for services to children and older people. “I lived with my grandmother […]
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Zandra Rhodes, 79
Zandra is a British fashion designer whose brand turns 50 this year. She is also the founder of London’s Fashion Textile Museum. “My mother taught dressmaking in an art college and I used to love wearing her pretty little dresses on a Sunday to visit my granny. The local kids would laugh at me and […]
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Dominique Afacan, 39, Helen Cathcart, 38
A blog? A website? A movement? When we started Bolder back in 2015, we weren’t entirely sure how to label it. We just knew we had to do something to change the conversations we kept hearing about ageing. The negativity was rubbing off on us. We were both in our mid-thirties, and yet we were […]
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Alberto Portugheis, 78
Alberto is an award-winning pianist, born in Argentina to parents of Russian and Romanian descent. His career takes him all over the world, but he lives in London, where he also works as a piano teacher. “I discovered music thanks to our neighbours in Argentina. I would be on the street playing with my friends […]
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Norma Howard, 92
Norma is the oldest female wing-walker in the UK. The former physio took to the skies last year to raise money for charity. “My parents divorced when I was about eight or nine, but they remained friends. My father married again but my mother didn’t want to. There was no jealousy between them and as […]
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Lotte Moore, 82
Lotte began her writing career age 70 and has since written more than 20 children’s books, including the best-selling Lotte’s War. She has recently written her autobiography, which details her earlier life as an actress and dancer – and her first novel, In the Fast Lane, is shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize. “Writing is […]
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Jimmy Cornell, 78
Jimmy is a Romanian-born yachtsman, author and founder of the World Cruising Club. GEOGRAPHY CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING I grew up in a village in Transylvania and only saw the Black Sea once when I was nine years old on a summer camp. I was immediately fascinated by it and wanted to go to sea ever […]
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Elizabeth Seabrooke, 92
Elizabeth hit the headlines at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival when photos of her dancing with fellow carnival goers in the pouring rain went viral. THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE SHOULD BE CELEBRATED I’ve lived in Notting Hill for a handful of years and my son took me along to the Carnival this year. I […]
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Dr. Charles Darby Jr, 85
An accomplished paediatrician and philanthropist, Dr. Charles Darby Jr. has dedicated his life to children’s health and wellbeing. Playing sport can get you places I grew up in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a small fishing village just outside of Charleston. When I wasn’t helping my dad in the family boatyard, I was playing ball. All I […]
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Eddy Diget, 73
Eddy is a personal trainer at DW Fitness. He is also a kung fu master, a two-time British body-building champion and a stuntman. You are never too old to get fit So much of fitness is in the mind; people get older and are told they can’t do things, so they decide they can’t. My […]
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Tuula Olin, 76
Tuula Olin, 76, is a competitive ice skater based in Porvoo, Finland. Bolder photographed her at Myllypuro Ice Hall in Helsinki. Staying active helps you meet people I’ve skated for my whole life, but when my husband died back in 2009, I decided to start synchronised skating as a way to meet people. Skating really […]
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Tim Drake, 73
Tim relaunched his career in his fifties when he lost everything to the recession. He went on to work in consultancy and has also launched a successful writing and speaking career. He has recently released his latest book, Generation Cherry, offering inspiration for people approaching retirement. It is possible to start all over again I […]
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Sue Plumtree, 72
Life coach Sue is ‘The Over 50s Love Specialist.’ She has recently released her latest book, ‘Open Your Heart, the 7 Secrets of Strong and Loving Relationships.’ She also runs the Life Enhancing Group at the U3A (University of the Third Age.) Don’t rush into marriage I got married very young, aged 20, and stayed […]
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Pat & Alicia Moorehead, 86 and 70
Los Angeles-based skydivers Pat and Alicia both hold multiple skydiving world records and between them have made almost 10,000 jumps. They both jump with the SOS (Skydivers over Sixty) organisation, launched by Pat in 2003. Bolder photographed them on Seal Beach, California. Pat Never say never I decided to give skydiving a go when I […]
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Ellery McGowan, 71
Ellery has won multiple world championships in open water, marathon and winter swimming. She is also head of swimming and waterpolo at Charterhouse school. Bolder photographed Ellery at Guildford Lido. Swimming makes you glow At the World Cold Water Championships in Russia last year, I cut my arms from swimming through ice – but I didn’t […]
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Joel Gotler, 71
Joel Gotler is CEO of Intellectual Property Group, a literary management company representing some of the world’s best-selling authors. He is also responsible for selling the underlying rights to hundreds of films, including Indecent Proposal, Chocolat and The Wolf of Wall Street. Bolder met him on location in Los Angeles. “I grew up in Queens, […]
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Mary Bartnicki, 86
‘Grandma Mary’ became a You Tube sensation along with her two sisters after a video of them all discussing the Kim Kardashian sex tape went viral, getting almost four million hits. They have since appeared on Oprah and launched their own YouTube channel, 3GoldenSistersTV. Bolder met and photographed Mary at her home in Los Angeles. […]
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Rita Gilmore, 84
Rita Gilmore runs The First & Last, a restaurant on Alderney in the Channel Islands. When she’s not running up and down the stairs serving customers, she sings in a choir and models for her local dress shop. “I was born and bred in dear old Devon but I ended up here in Alderney after […]
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Sister Mary Sean Hodges, 76
Dominican Sister Mary Sean Hodges of Mission San Jose spent over 40 years teaching in Catholic schools across California before starting a second career aged 60, setting up the Partnership for Re-Entry Programme in the prison ministry, which offers both practical and emotional support for lifer prisoners on parole. “I grew up here in LA […]
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John Lyon, 78
“I was bought up on a farm in Chester and even though my degree was in agriculture, I could see that was not going to be for me so I changed my tack completely and went on to instructing because I love motoring. I am pleased I chose to do a job that I enjoy and I would urge others to do the same. We spend a third of our lives sleeping, a third of our lives being lazy and a third at work. For me, there is nothing better than sitting with people, enjoying their company in a lovely motor vehicle on a clear open road and watching them develop as a driver.
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Dr. Wickremesinghe, 75
I think medicine has always been in my blood; the majorityI think medicine has always been in my blood; the majorityI think medicine has always been in my blood; the majorityI think medicine has always been in my blood; the majorityI think medicine has always been in my blood; the majority
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Pierre Gruneberg, 85
I’ve been working as a swimming instructor at this hotel for the past 66 years. For me, it’s the best retirement home in the world!
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Michel Roux OBE, 75
I first came to England to visit my brother Albert, who was already working there as a chef de cuisine.
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Barbara Hulanicki, 79
I was brought up during the war and had a happy childhood in Jerusalem, where my father was a diplomat.
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Jörmundur Ingi Hansen, 76
I was brought up to be well-dressed and went regularly to the tailor to have my suits made.
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Brenda-Lee Martin, 74
I think if I wanted to go and get a paid job today, I would never get it. Ageism exists! Both my age and the fact that I’m a woman work against me.
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Frances Dunscombe, 83
I was born in Streatham, the fifth of six children, and we were quite poor, but respectable.
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Philip R Wood CBE, QC (Hon), 73
Most jobs are 95% dull and a lot of mine involves commas and tedious administrative chatter. It doesn’t matter though, so long as you do something.
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Gawn Grainger, 78
My parents had nothing to do with the theatre at all but my Dad was an alcoholic and the only way you could get a drink out of hours was to go to a music hall.
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Bobby Gill, 76
I’m very aware of how lucky I am to enjoy what I do. I notice people around me who are desperate to retire – especially people who...
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Professor Gordon McVie, 71
I hated school and was told by my careers master that I wasn’t very good at anything.
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Bruce Fogle, 71
I wanted to become a vet because my best friend was going to study veterinary medicine and I thought it would be fun to go to university with him!
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Michael Eavis, 79
When I was young, I wanted to go to sea. We used to sing around the piano as a family twice a week and there was a picture on it of my mother’s cousin, a commander in the Australian navy...
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Michael Wolff, 81
When I was 26, I used to look about 14, which was terrible. I suffered enormously from looking too young. Now, it’s revenge time!
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Alan Grieve, 87
My age doesn’t bother me. I treat everybody equally and expect the same in return. I never play the age card.
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Eve Branson, 91
My mother, at 90, was the oldest person to hit a hole in one. I think I’ve either inherited her ambition or her genes – I’m not sure which!
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Sue Kreitzman, 74
Ageing is a blessing, of course it is; what’s the alternative? We’re so lucky to be alive – it’s time travel!
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Alan Kitching, 74
I’m from Darlington, a big railway town. Back in those days, anyone who lived there moved into that business. I didn’t want to do that – I wanted to be a poster artist.
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Pauline Macaulay, 77
All the way through life, your age is both a blessing and a constraint. Part of it is because from birth, society or people have expectations of how you should ‘be’ at a certain age.
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Robert Burke, 75
By my forties, I’d already broken a lot of bones from racing motorbikes so when a friend recommended polo, I took him up on it.
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Madame Duckstein, 71
I will never retire, at least I hope I won’t. My work is my life, it’s like breathing air.
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Muffie Grieve, 82
“I don’t consider my age a factor at all. It was never traumatic to me to be30 or 40 or 50 – it just doesn’t worry me.
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Terry O’Neill, 76
“I’m very aware of getting old. I’ve got a bad back so I swim every day. I have to have my eyes injected too otherwise I’ll go blind.
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Jennifer Murray, 74
“I took up helicopter piloting in my 50s. My darling husband bought a half share in a helicopter which I thought was extraordinary given that neither of us were pilots!
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Tess Jaray, 77
“I don’t do anything specifically to stay young, I would say choose your parents carefully! Genetics have a lot to answer for. Age is a blessing in many ways.
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Sylvia Paskin, 70
“When you’re young, you’re quite ego-centric. You want to eat and drink life and you aren’t too interested in what happened in the past.
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Michael Sandle, 78
‘I’ve enjoyed my life more in my 70s which is extraordinary. A lot of my shyness has gone and I’m beginning to think maybe I’m not that bad an artist after all.
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