--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Live: World's Ugliest Dog Peanut Gets a Makeover description: The two-year-old rescue mutt got the help of a team of stylists canonical: https://time.com/2928497/ugliest-dog-makeover-jimmy-kimmel-live/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-26T19:12:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:12.652Z og:title: Here's What the World's Ugliest Dog Looks Like After a Makeover og:description: The two-year-old rescue mutt gets help from a team of stylists og:url: https://time.com/2928497/ugliest-dog-makeover-jimmy-kimmel-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e7622727f70f383/698698aff983e74e1e04e830/49cb79d35e3640a1b005287de39f1754-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1384 og:image:height: 779 og:image:alt: APTOPIX World's Ugliest Dog og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What the World's Ugliest Dog Looks Like After a Makeover twitter:description: The two-year-old rescue mutt gets help from a team of stylists twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e7622727f70f383/698698aff983e74e1e04e830/49cb79d35e3640a1b005287de39f1754-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What the World's Ugliest Dog Looks Like After a Makeover > Sponsored content. 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Jimmy Kimmel decided to enlist a team of hair, makeup and clothing specialists to the dog, who previously suffered from abuse and had been injured in a fire. It’s a nice gift, but after the makeover, Peanut still looks … pretty ugly. It’s okay, your fans still love you, Peanut. **WATCH:** [Jimmy Kimmel Gets Parenting Advice from a Child](http://time.com/2904914/jimmy-kimmel-gets-parenting-advice-from-a-child/) **WATCH:** [Jimmy Kimmel’s 2013 Clip of the Year](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/19/watch-jimmy-kimmels-2013-clip-of-the-year/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2928497/ugliest-dog-makeover-jimmy-kimmel-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2928497/ugliest-dog-makeover-jimmy-kimmel-live/"},"headline":"Here's What the World's Ugliest Dog Looks Like After a Makeover","datePublished":"2014-06-26T19:12:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:12.652Z","description":"The two-year-old rescue mutt got the help of a team of stylists","url":"https://time.com/2928497/ugliest-dog-makeover-jimmy-kimmel-live/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Dogs","viral","Jimmy Kimmel","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e7622727f70f383/698698aff983e74e1e04e830/49cb79d35e3640a1b005287de39f1754-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e7622727f70f383/698698aff983e74e1e04e830/49cb79d35e3640a1b005287de39f1754-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"APTOPIX World's Ugliest Dog","caption":"APTOPIX World's Ugliest Dog","creditText":"George Nikitin—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2928497/ugliest-dog-makeover-jimmy-kimmel-live/","name":"Here's What the World's Ugliest Dog Looks Like After a Makeover"}}]}] ```