the illusion of rapid celebrity aging due to a withdrawal into privacy or steep decline in public presence; describing the disparity between one's memory or perception of a person's age and the reality of their appearance
Did you see Brad Dourif? God, that guy got old in the DARK.
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when a celebrity’s current appearance is vastly older than your last memory of them; the illusion of rapid aging caused by living a normal private life
“My god, did you see Brad Dourif? He got old in the DARK.”
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