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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lydia Spencer-Elliott

The curious reason behind the return of the bushy moustache

New look: Leonardo DiCaprio on the red carpet at the 2025 Academy Awards - (Getty)

Although Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another scooped the best film award at the Oscars last week, there was only one real winner at the biggest night in Hollywood – Leonardo DiCaprio’s big bushy moustache. Loud and proud, it adorned his upper lip, lending the 51-year-old actor an unapologetic swagger we hadn’t seen from him for several years.

“I haven’t found Leo attractive for decades, but with this moustache…” one fan wrote on X/Twitter, alongside a clip of the actor nonchalantly nodding his head at quips fired out at his expense by ceremony host Conan O'Brien, before turning his gaze (The Office-style) straight down the camera lens to look at us thirsting over him at home. “He looks HOT,” another shocked fan assessed. “Probably for the first time since 2001.”

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