Happy Mondays hellraiser Shaun Ryder is so bald he says he looks like Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.
The I’m a Celeb runner-up told the Sunday People he has also been forced to take time out from music as he recovers from a hip replacement operation, admitting: “It’s not very rock and roll.”
Shaun, 56, whose Manchester band had a hit with Kinky Afro, blames his hair loss on a thyroid gland condition.
He said: “I reckon all my hair will start coming back in the next three months or so when we get the treatment levels sorted.” The dad-of-six is recuperating at home in Salford, Lancs, from a hip operation last month.
Shaun said: “I’m down to one crutch now and I feel pretty good.”
But he joked: “Hobbling about on me crutches with alopecia – it’s not a great rock ’n’ roll image is it?”
And in a reference to the character in horror sitcom The Addams Family, Shaun added: “It’s more like a mental Uncle Fester than Mick Jagger!”
In November last year the Mirror reported that tributes were being paid to the singer's father, who died aged 74.
Derek Ryder, aka 'Horseman' passed away, according to a statement released on his son's Twitter account.
The tweet read: "Linda Ryder would like to let everyone know that her husband (Shaun and Paul’s Dad) Derek Ryder ‘Horseman’ sadly passed away today.
"R.I.P. Derek Ryder 1.11.42 - 23.11.18."
Derek was well-known for working with the Happy Mondays, which features Shaun Ryder on vocals and brother Paul on bass.
He had stints as the Step On band's sound man and tour manager.
Derek was apparently given the nickname 'Horseman' so his sons didn't have to call him 'dad' in public, according to rock n' roll legend.
The proud father is also said to have inspired some of the lyrics to one of the Happy Mondays' biggest tracks, Kinky Afro.
The band, formed in 1980, hit the big time with 1990 album Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches, capitalising on the acid house movement which took hold in Manchester and the Hacienda nightclub.
