Sir Tom Jones says he won’t be slowing down in his twilight years and has vowed to keep on performing until he hits the grand old age of 100 years old.
The music legend is currently 82-years-old - well over the legal age of retirement in the UK - but has no intention of hanging up his microphone any time soon.
Sir Tom - whose career began way back in 1964 - is still living in the limelight and this weekend made his return to The Voice on ITV.
And while the show will be keeping him busy for the next few months as episodes air leading up to a live final, the Welsh wonder says he can’t wait to keep on performing himself.
He told The Sun on Sunday: “I’ll still be performing when I’m 100, if I can.
“When I was young I used to say I’ll be doing it until I was 97, but it’s not that far away now.”
Sir Tom is still performing for fans - and has discovered an unusual new way to help keep motivated and agile as he battles niggling back pain.
He told The Mirror last week: "I have an inversion table in my dressing room, so I lie upside down for a couple of minutes and then you come up and then you can walk.
"You can get off that and think, oh that's great and you can walk because it hasn't settled down yet. I can do four songs like that, then it starts to go, so in my show, I sit down for The Windmills Of Your Mind and then I would get up and do some more.
When it was suggested he could bring the inversion table on stage and sing some songs like that, he quipped back: "I tried singing upside down but all the audience would have to stand on their heads too."
Sir Tom had his fellow The Voice judges in tears as the show returned on Saturday night as he performed a song and dedicated it to his late wife, Melinda, who passed away in 2016 aged 75.
Fellow judge Anne-Marie told The Mirror: "Tom sang one of his songs called Crumble, and I had to walk off. Not because it was bad, but because it was so emotional.
"I think this is a testament to him and why he's been able to stay around so long because he feels every word he says.
"Every song he releases, he means it. He will sing that song and said this is to my wife and it just f***ed me up."
While Olly Murs said: "You could just see someone who loved his wife so much. You could see that pain in his eyes."
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