It takes a lot of work to look this UGLY! ; Beer-bottle glasses, car-crash smile and a bad hair day EVERY day. Yes Ugly Betty is back on TV - and the (stunning) actress who plays her tells Lina Das ... [Eire Region]

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UGLY BETTY'S signature look - beer-bottle glasses, a hairstyle that can best be described as unstructured, and metal braces, which give her a smile like a car crash - has become as much a TV icon as Kojak's bald pate or Columbo's weathered raincoat.

As her alter ego, America Ferrera, says, 'There are so few unusual-looking people on TV that when you do come across one, you take them to your heart because they're so different to the glamorous characters who normally get all the attention'.

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It takes a lot of work to look this UGLY! ; Beer-bottle glasses, car-crash smile and a bad hair day EVERY day. Yes Ugly Betty is back on TV - and the (stunning) actress who plays her tells Lina Das ... [Eire Region]

Miss Ferrera, I am surprised to discover, is, in the flesh, not at all like Betty Suarez, the frumpy star of the hit series shown in more than 70 countries, and which returns to Channel 4 for a third series next week.

Instead, I am confronted by a stunning young woman with perfect teeth and soulful eyes beneath exquisitely sculpted eyebrows. She's petite, curvy and elegant and looks like one of those impossibly glamorous fashionistas on the fictitious Mode ...

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