It really is True... Tony Hadley has shrunk by two inches. The pop star stood a proud 6ft 4in tall when he had a 1980 smash with To Cut A Long Story Short.
But today the former Spandau Ballet frontman is just 6ft 2in - and blames shunts he’s suffered in his hobby of stock-car racing.
Tony said four of his vertebrae were “fusing and compressing together”. He added: “I’ve done some stock car racing and got T-boned a few times – when they come at you from three angles – and basically it compresses your spine. “I got compressed and now I’ve lost about an inch-and-a-half off my height.
I started at 6ft 4in – and I’m about 6ft 2in now.” Spandau’s best-known hit Gold, which got to No2 in 1981, contains the lines “Nothing left to make me feel
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