GALLERY: 15 celebrities who look very different to their first red carpet

The Noughties called, it wants its chained belt back...

Cheryl

The red carpet is often awash with frivolous frocks, fancy-shmancy canapés and a few shiny gongs up for grabs, which would really look nice in your downstairs loo. That's not even to mention the beautiful celeb types that make us want to sob into our lasagne meal for one.

But celebrities didn't always look so perfectly preened and before the stylist, there were a lot of fashion horrors and fake tan disasters to be had. Don't believe us? We have found the proof...

Amy Childs

In the early TOWIE days, the red head's uniform of choice was a diamante-encrusted babydoll dress and lashings of fake tan.

GALLERY: 15 celebrities who look very different to their first red carpet
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