JOHN CURLEY

John Curley returns to KIRO Newsradio with a new face

Jan 12, 2026, 7:25 PM

KIRO host John Curley returned to work Monday after a brief absence last week — this time with a new face.

“Look at my face. It’s your fault. I’m a monster. It’s your fault,” Curley exclaimed on Monday, kicking off his return. “I’ll never be on the cover of TV Guide. It’s your fault. My future is in radio.”

Curley underwent a lower facelift operation last week, a cosmetic surgery that tightens loose skin, smooths wrinkles, and lifts the jawline and upper neck.

“I thought, ‘Should I say this on the radio?’ And I thought, what the hell, at this point in my career and my life. I don’t care if you guys know this sort of stuff because it’d be worse if you denied it. Like, ‘Oh no, no, what are you talking about? I just changed my hairstyle,'” Curley said on “The John Curley Show.” “I am on stage like 50 times a year doing auctions, and I’m standing on the stage in front of 1,000 people or 500 people, and I kind of catch a glance at myself on the big screen every once in a while and think, ‘Man, I look like the oldest guy in the room.’ There are people in their 30s and 40s. I got more energy than my face.

“What happened was, I really screwed up my life. I made a really bad decision, and then it caused my entire life to fall apart. I lost about 25 pounds in two months or less. Actually, even more weight, and then the weight never came back in my face, and my face got really angular and looked like an old man’s face,” Curley continued. “I kept thinking, it’s not that bad. And then I kept noticing every once in a while, I would see a picture and I’m like, ‘Wow, I got this weird chicken neck thing going. My cheekbones were all sunk in. And then Nick’s like, ‘You’re getting peanut head.’ That’s where your head gets really narrow on the side.”

According to Curley, everything that was done in the operation was removing the “chicken neck,” tightening his jaws, injecting a little bit of fat from his belly button into his face, lasering under his eyes to get rid of eye bags, and lasering on top of his head to get rid of extra skin.

“And that’s it,” Curley stated.

Watch the full discussion in the video above.

Listen to John Curley weekday afternoons from 3 – 7 p.m. on KIRO Newsradio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.

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