Soap-dodging celebrities Michaela Strachan and Jonathan Ross speak out against daily showering
Soap-dodging celebrities Michaela Strachan and Jonathan Ross speak out against daily showering – but who else believes less is more? A look at the stars who admit to skipping a wash
We are used to seeing celebs looking clean, polished and flawless.
But, for some A-listers, the thought of showering every day is too much as they believe daily bathing is unnecessary.
While overwashing can cause greasy hair, dry skin, and breakouts, every person’s showering routine is different.
For those like Matthew McConaughey, showering three times a day is a necessity, but for many others, such as Michaela Strachan and Jonathan Ross, cleaning is merely a priority in their weekly list of chores.
MailOnline has compiled a list of soap-dodging stars who are not embarrassed to admit that they keep the odd shower or few.
Michaela Strachan
Michaela Strachan revealed this month that she only showers twice a week, rarely washes her hands and once ended up with a worm under her skin after eating a sandwich with grubby fingers.
The TV personality, a household name thanks to presenting roles on Springwatch and The Really Wild Show, relocated to South Africa with partner Nick Chevallier in 2002.
Based in Cape Town, Strachan welcomed son Oliver – her only child with Chevallier, a cameraman and producer – in 2005 and has since adopted a casual attitude towards personal hygiene.
Appearing on Loose Women – filmed at The Eden Project to mark Earth Day – the presenter, 58, admitted her laissez-faire approach to cleanliness came from the need to conserve water while living in South Africa during a drought.
When asked if she considered herself a ‘nature girl’ because of her rugged surroundings, she said: ‘I think, if you’ve got kids, if they come home really dirty, you know they’ve had a good day.
‘I’m not the sort of mother that looks at a child and thinks, ‘Oh get them washed.’ It’s like no, you’ve had a great day, you’ve got down, you’ve got dirty, brilliant.’
Michaela also admitted she’s not fussy about basic hygiene, adding: ‘I’m not fastidious about washing hands and things, I think we’re way too clean, all of us.
‘I went through a country with major, major droughts, and we so we learnt to only have a shower every three days.’
The presenter also recalled an unsavoury hygiene-related incident that left her with a bug under her skin while she filmed with a group of animals.
She said: ‘I was doing a lot of work in zoos at the time so I was in cages, and I was with animals, and I didn’t wash my hands properly. Then, I ate a sandwich. So, it was from animal faeces that I ended up getting a worm that was under my skin.
‘It would itch and then I’d get my partner to take a picture and you could see this sort of worm under the skin.’
Asked if she was ‘panicked’ by the situation, she added: ‘I got quite attached to this man – literally! I ended up giving him a little name, you know, ‘William the Worm’.
‘So, I had some worm tablets to try and get rid of it [but it] didn’t touch it.
Jonathan Ross
Jonathan Ross revealed in March that he and his wife, Jane Goldman, shower less than once a week – because he feels all grooming is a waste of valuable time.
The chat show host, 63, said he and his wife were like a pair of dirty ‘hamsters,’ and he ‘resents’ the fact he has to wash regularly.
He said: ‘Do you think I give enough of a s**t about anything to bother spending any extra time on grooming whatsoever – I resent the fact that I have to shower.
‘I sometimes go at least a week without showering – at least. So does Jane sometimes. We’re like a couple of hamsters in their own straw in that bed.’
Speaking on the Parenting Hell Podcast, he said he hadn’t showered on the morning of the interview after comedian Josh Widdicombe asked him when he’d last showered.
Jonathan, saying he hadn’t done anything to work up a sweat, said: ‘It was yesterday. Why bother doing it two days in a row, what’s wrong with you? I didn’t do any exercise.’
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