How old is Joel McHale? Comedian says he spent $10,000 on 4 hair transplants

Joel McHale is coming clean about going under the knife for cosmetic enhancements.

The comedian made a guest appearance on the We Might Be Drunk podcast on June 16, where he spoke to co-hosts Mark Normand and Sam Morril about the procedures he has undergone to keep his tresses in place.

"Yeah, I'm fully bald ... This is four transplants. I did it way back when it was a strip. Painful. Don't do a strip."

He was referencing a hair transplant method that involves peeling off a strip of scalp. Instead, he advises opting for the newer methods that have since become popular in recent years.

"Do plucking," McHale suggested. "Now they pluck it from the whole back section, and it's a miracle."

Joel McHale then revealed that despite the growing trend of visiting Turkey for a hair transplant, he got his work done in Los Angeles, but for a hefty price at that.

"I can get you a name of a guy in Turkey," he joked, adding, "But just make sure, because if somebody is like, 'I'll do it for $3,000,' then you don't. You get what you pay for." Noting that he spent $10,000 on the transplants, he said, "it might have gone up."

Joel McHale is best known for his work on Animal Control and Community. He was born in November 1971 and is currently 53 years old.

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During his podcast appearance, Joel McHale revealed that he would have paid even more for his hair transplant. 'And it's your hair that you're growing,' he said, before noting:

'You're still going bald, so that hair is still falling out, but the hair that you put there is growing, but you'll still thin, because the hair that was going to fall out is going to fall out.'

When probed about what the recovery process looks like, he said:

'They send you home with Tylenol,' adding, 'If you shave your head, it goes faster.'

Joel McHale also shared that he would wear baseball hats while in recovery, noting that the waitlist is 'a year and a half' already. He also cited studies that indicate there is work being done to create a pill that would cure baldness, saying,

'they are still trying to unlock the DNA but they thought that would be solved 15 years ago.'

Joel McHale is not the only celebrity to go through a hair transplant. Just today, The Mirror has reported that former footballer Wayne Bridge has conceded to undergoing the procedure to "boost his confidence." The 41-year-old had his wife Frankie Bridge's full support for it as well.

He revealed that he underwent the surgery nine months ago, during which time thousands of hair follicles were implanted into areas where there was thinning.

He said:

"It's like I have got a full head of hair again and the transformation is pretty unbelievable. When I look at the before and after pictures it is pretty amazing and it has done so much for my self-confidence."

Recalling the first time he started losing hair a decade ago, he admitted to hiding his insecurities for a long time before deciding to undergo the procedure in September.

"I used to move it around to cover it up," he went on. "I didn't get a lot of banter about it from mates because I was so good at hiding it. I work in the media and knew that I would really benefit from getting it sorted. You feel so much more confident when your hair looks good."

He also revealed that his head of hair is "so much thicker now":

"Before I was always conscious of how my hair looked and it used to take me a lot longer to get ready. I told Frankie what I was doing and she was really supportive. She said 'go for it' and supports anything that makes me feel better about myself."

Back in April, WWE superstar John Cena came clean about opting for the procedure after he was virtually bullied for being bald. The 47-year-old said on The Pat McAfee Show at the time:

“Y'all don't know what that's like. That is straight-up bullying. That's just not cool. I don't like it. So, thank you for bullying me into getting surgical hair replacement. That's how far y'all push me."

He also said that he had "no shame" in trying to fix his issues with his hair, as he pointed out how common male pattern baldness is.

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