Patched up and make-up free: Liza Minelli hits London for first British tour in 20 years

With two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and a curved spine, patched up singer Liza Minnelli arrived in London for her first British tour in 20 years

The 61-year-old legend strode through the airport, dressed in black, bravely wearing no make-up save for her trademark heavily pencilled in eyebrows.

She appears to have bounced back from the health problems she suffered last year, when she collapsed on stage during a concert in Sweden.

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However, the singer revealed she still suffers with a litany of health problems, which stem from her years of performing.

She said: "I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis a curved spine. If I don't dance, I seize up."

The ageing singer says she has been dancing for 90 minutes every day at a class in New York in the build-up to the tour.

"I've never danced so much in my life," she says.

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Liza is in London preparing for the tour, which climaxes in Glasgow at the Clyde Auditorium, performing in Scotland for the first time.

"To me, I'm just a showbiz gipsy, somebody who travels from job to job.

"This whole living-legend thing always makes me feel like I'm hearing about somebody else anyway," she said.

She has joked: "From the waist down, I'm the Tin Man. They said I would never walk and talk again. I wanted to say, 'Bullsh*t!'"

However, despite her health problems, she admits to one vice, smoking.

She admitted: "I'm having such trouble even wanting to give them up.

"When I'm singing, I allow myself three a day. Anyway, every singer I've ever known smokes. Look at Frank and Sammy and Dean."

Minnelli won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Sally Bowles in the 1972 film Cabaret.

She has been married four times, including to I'm A Celebrity contestant David Gest who she divorced in 2003.