Australian man shaves for the first time in 41 years

They've been married for 35 years, but until Friday night, Sue King had never seen her husband Rod's face. That's because the 59-year-old Port Lincoln man hadn't shaved in 41 years.



After side-stepping his work's clean-shaven policy for a decade, Mr King finally had to toe the company line to keep his job and shaved off his 20cm-long beard. Daughter Jessica, 26, cried as she watched pieces of his mottled beard fall to the ground. "It's not dad," she said, wiping her eyes.

His other daughter, Emily, 30, looked on "devastated", Mrs King, 58, bit her nails and shook her head and Mr King himself needed a bit of Dutch courage before the job was done.



"It's bloody awful," Mrs King said of her husband's new look. "It just doesn't look like him. It's going to take some getting used to, he'd better hurry up and retire so he can grow it back again. I married him when he had a beard and that's how I like him."