Sentence examples for star aged from inspiring English sources

· 10 West Temple Street, Sheen, London; 020 8876 4238; thevictoria.net; doubles from £115 Ex-head chef at Cliveden, Robert Thompson won his first Michelin star aged 23.

Multiple Olympic champion Laura Trott met her idol Bradley Wiggins, who had just won gold in Athens, in 2004 when she was a budding junior cycling star aged 12. "It felt amazing," she told Cyclist magazine last year.

Tom Sellers exploded on to the capital's dining scene like a cocky comet, opening his much-praised Restaurant Story (yes, me, too) and winning a Michelin star aged just 26.

Johnny Hallyday, 69, the indestructible French rock star, revealed in a book published on Thursday that Piaf tried to seduce him when he was a 16- or 17-year-old pop sensation and she was a declining international star aged 44.

Cyrus, the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, the wholesome country and western singer with the "Achy Breaky Heart", has been raising eyebrows for the last four years as she moves further and further away from the teenage Disney channel character that set her on the way to becoming a $150m star aged just 20.

Ronaldo is the oldest hat-trick scorer in World Cup history, with the Portuguese star aged 33 years and 130 days - the previous oldest was Rob Rensenbrink in June 1978 for the Netherlands against Iran (30y 30yd).

NATHALIE BAYE, now 62, is a luminous example of a French star aging gracefully and sexily with no expiration date of desirability.

But Jordan isn't the only NBA star aging well -- former dunk phenom Dominique Wilkins is still able to throw it down going into his 50s.

My choice is Rhum Barbancourt 5-star, aged 8 years, from Haiti, a delicious bargain at about $25 a bottle.

And every voodoo priest and priestess in Haiti knows that soaking the ground with the golden rum -- not the three-star version, mind you, but the five-star, aged twice as long -- can raise the spirits of the dead.

V.S.O.P.: "Very Superior Old Pale" or 5-Star, aged at least five years in wood.