LIONEL RICHIE SCARED OF LOSING SEX APPEAL

Singing legend Lionel Richie went into a panic when the news that his daughter reality show star daughter Nicole was pregnant. The singer believed it would spell an end to his sex appeal. The All Night Long star, at age 59, believed the birth of 14-month old Harlow, fathered by Joel Madden, would signal his sex symbol status was over, once and for all. Yet Richie now admits he enjoys life as a grandfather, albeit at a distance. He tells British tabloid the Daily Record, "I went through a panic - that’s the end of my career. But I’m having more fun now with the responsibility of being a grandpa - that is, playing with the baby and handing her back."

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