offered his followers an insight into the progression of his alopecia in an honest post on Tuesday.
The 53-year-old documentary maker explained that and was now taking hold of his eyebrows.
He snapped a very close-up selfie and drew attention to one of his brows that appeared to be thinning more than its counterpart.
Revealing he was taking supplements in a bid to ‘keep [his] eyebrows’, the TV star penned a lengthy caption sharing his feelings amid the hair loss.
Louis began typing: ‘Oh jeez it looks like the alopecia has migrated up to my eyebrow [sic].’
He continued in a chatty tone, saying: ‘I realise you aren’t all awaiting every update on its progress but I want people to acclimatise to the new partially depilated me and not freak everyone out by suddenly appearing in public like a half-plucked elephant bird with no forewarning.
‘So this is where we’re at. I’d really like to keep my eyebrows, but it’s out of my hands at this point… tho I have started taking vitamin d and something called biotin [sic].’
Fans were quick to offer the filmmaker their well wishes and praised him for his vulnerability in the comment section.
One reassured him: ‘Eyebrows are overrated. What do they even do? If Madonna doesn’t need them, neither do you [sic].’
Another posted: ‘Happened to me mate. You’re still beautiful big L, don’t worry! X [sic].’
‘Just as long as you don’t lose your flair and charisma as well [sic],’ a separate social media user chimed in underneath the upload.
His latest offering came after he initially alerted his fans to the disease that causes hair loss – as the immune system attacks hair follicles – via a similarly structured picture and caption.
In his note to followers, he outlined: ‘Nature has played a cruel trick on me. Thanks to my alopecia barbae (“of the beard”) I can now only grow a weird little Hitler moustache.
‘This is what I look like after three days not shaving. I have given up on my beard ever growing back to its luxuriant former glory but is too much to ask for it to ALL fall out instead of having a tiny remnant in a potentially offensive configuration?
‘And now a bald patch has appeared on the back of my head making me wonder if my proper hair-hair might be next to go. In two years or less I may be bald! [sigh] [sic].’
