After losing almost a stone on Dancing On Ice, Denise Welch has celebrated by stripping into something a little more comfortable, and possibly on loan from Carol McGriffin, for this week's Closer magazine. Dita Von Teese who?

And on rumours that she and Alex Reid were recently sent packing after attempting to get into a Brits afterparty, she told the magazine:

"I heard rumours that I’d been turned away from the Brits. But it’s not entirely true – I had a ticket for me and one other person and then I went to see my son Matthew’s band play in east London.

 

"After that I tried to get 27 other people into the Brits, but they weren’t having it!”

The mental party animal. And on the sexy snaps for Closer, Denise said:

"I do feel sexy. That doesn’t mean I don’t feel sexy when I’m bigger, but I’m getting a lot of attention at the moment. I’ve gone from 10st 5lbs to 8st 12lbs – and if I was ever going to do a photo shoot in my underwear, it would be now.”

She added:

"I’ve lost weight mainly from having very little time to eat, and because I’m working so hard. It’s been the most dramatic weight loss of my life! I still pull my old fat jeans out of the wardrobe and look at them and I do think about my figure because TV makes you look huge  – I’ve still got a very round face. But that works in my favour because it doesn’t show the effects of all those late nights!”

Like this classic night out!

The full feature appears in this week's Closer magazine, on sale now (Tuesday).