"10 Years Younger - The Challenge" consigned to the bin

It was made over a year ago and is now seeing the light of day at the strange daily time of 5pm. Channel 4's "10 Years Younger - the Challenge" has clearly reached the end of the road.

The rot set in when presenter Nicky Hambleton-Jones was dismissed in favour of the bland Myleene Klass. Klass isn't a stylist so she brings nothing to proceedings. The way she is forever grabbing the contestants is very irritating. A mysterious "team of stylists" does the dressing part which makes the show unbalanced. They clearly buy the clothes without the contestants trying them on. In one show this week, a contestant didn't like the garish colours but nothing else was provided. She even had to wear the clothes she didn't like in her "after" montage.

As for the contestants: well. They've all been mostly in their 5Os. To my mind they don't deserve the makeovers they get. Could they never get to a dentist? Have they never heard of a hairdresser? If they bought at least one women's magazine a month they would surely improve their dress sense.

But this show has always been about the dramatic transformations. So the worst they look at the start, the better.

A new dentist was hired at the same time as Klass and I think her results are dreadful. She goes for the big white US smile, which looks unnatural on these older women. And as we're told the dentistry usually costs around £19k, and veneers often last for only 10 years, I hope these women will be able to afford it when they're left with blackened stumps.

Shows about plastic surgery are less popular than they were. Extreme Makeover has been cancelled in the US. So 10 Years Younger added the twist of one contestant having surgery and the other having a non-surgical transformation. But really, as soon as their hair and make-up is done properly, and they wear decent clothes, they already look 10 years younger.

Good news for Victoria, Gwyneth et al: high heels are safer than trainers!

It's claimed today that training shoes are worse for your feet than wearing heels. The US study, carried out by Dr Casey Kerrigan from JKM Technologioes in Virginia, said trainers protect the feet from the impact of hitting the ground. But they then transmit that force into the ankle, knee and hip joints, setting the body up for future problems.

68 runners were surveyed, none of whom had a history of injury. It was found that wearing running shoes increased rotational stresses on the hip joints by 54% and heightened knee stresses by 36%.

So now the field's open for Nike or whoever to invent a running shoe with a wedge, heel or platform. Finally a running shoe that looks good and prevents joint stress.