Renee's 'altered' face and the charge to comment on it

Renee Zellweger stepped out last week looking altered, says Sarah Caden, but can we no longer stop ourselves from saying so?

Renee Zellweger

Sarah Caden

In 1987, the small-budget, coming-of-age movie Dirty Dancing became one of the biggest box-office hits of that year, despite lukewarm reviews. The following year, it became the first VHS video to sell 1m copies.

Dirty Dancing made a star of Patrick Swayze, but its female star, Jennifer Grey, never really surfaced again, until, in recent years she emerged from the outer reaches of made-for-TV movies to admit that once she had a nose job, in the early 1990s, her career never recovered.