I like Wills’ mustache with his new fuzz… and he’s not the only famous face who looks better with a beard

SORRY, Mom, but Prince William was never a man I would consider looking askance at, even with all the money and cars and that palace to grow old in.

That is, until he grew a beard. Wills, who showed off her newly grown facial fuzz in a video expressing her support for Team GB at the Olympics, has never looked sexier.

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Who cares about his receding hairline when he’s got the kind of gloriously rough stubble that’ll make you wince after a quick kiss before afternoon tea at Balmoral?

By joining the movement, the King in Waiting, 42, proved to all mere mortals that beards are back. For too long, guys, regardless of their social status, have become slaves to Gillette – with many who let their facials grow their hair during lockdown, shaving it all off when they return to work.

But as a self-confessed lover of the bearded man, I’m pleased to say that it’s not just me who’s welcoming facial furniture back onto the market.

Take Kit Harington, famous for his role as the rugged Jon Snow in Game Of Thrones.

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Naturally, as a White Walker hunter, his beard was almost a necessity. Also, I don’t think many guys thought about sharpening their swords to trim their mustaches in the Dark Ages.

Fast forward to Kit’s role in the BBC banking drama Industry, where he plays the millionaire founder of a technology company, Henry Muck.

Kit, 37, was afraid the writers would make him shave his beard. But luckily, he made his feelings about being clean-shaven clear from the start — and for good reason.

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“One of the first things I said was, ‘You guys are putting on a sexy show here. And I know you’re going to want me to shave, because you’re a banker, right?’” Kit said yesterday.

“And I just don’t look sexy without a beard. I look like a tired child. A quick Google search will confirm that what Kit says is true. And I mean that without intending to offend.

Bearded Kit could seduce women with a simple stroke of his mustache.

Hairless Kit looks like a pre-pubescent member of the Jonas Brothers who definitely still wears a chastity ring.

And he is not alone. Many Hollywood stars have admitted that they would never shave unless it was necessary for work.

Take Jamie Dornan, 42, who played filthy sex god Christian Gray in the Fifty Shades films.

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He previously revealed: “I’ve had to shave for work in the past, but otherwise it just wouldn’t occur to me to be clean-shaven. I usually let it get wilder and wilder.”

Then there’s Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Reynolds, who admits that besides looking much better with his slightly longer 5 o’clock shadow, he actually just doesn’t like being bare-faced.

Foam-stained Santa Claus

“Shaving is just not great,” responded Ryan, 47, when asked why he prefers to keep his sexy beard.

“It looks like your face went through some kind of trauma, and it really did, because you took a razor to it.”

See, it’s technically cruel and also unpleasant.

And although A-list actors such as Bradley Cooper, Tom Hardy and Ben Affleck have been happy to say goodbye to their Bics, the number of Brits spending their money on beard transplants has TRIBULED in the last couple of years.

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On average, blokes are now forking out £4,000 to buy a new face covering in the UK or heading to Turkey for treatment, where it’s cheaper at around £2,250.

Batuhan Kızılcan, co-founder of Estenove, one of the world’s leading hair transplant clinics based in Istanbul, told me: “Football players, actors and influencers are much more likely to wear some type of facial hair than in the past, and this is having a real impact.

“Fifty percent of our patients come from the UK and we offer hair, beard and eyebrow transplants.

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“More and more men, and younger men than in the past, are asking for beard transplants. The numbers we are dealing with have tripled in the last two years.

“Many of our clients think facial hair makes people look rugged and masculine and want to achieve similar results.”

I couldn’t agree with him more, and as a lover of a rough guy with a bit of facial hair, it’s music to my ears.

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I’ve never dated a guy without a beard and, to be honest, I don’t think I could.

Nothing looks less sexy than a man who spends more time in the bathroom than I do, looking like a man smeared with shaving foam. Santa Claus doppelganger as he clogs the drain with bits of discarded fluff.

Keep your beards bushy, boys, or stay the hell away from me. . .