So the Strictly diet worked then, Denise: TV presenter shows off trim physique after months of training
- Denise Van Outen was enjoying sun while on New Year holiday in Dubai
By EMINE SINMAZ
Fern Britton lost weight and toned up her figure while performing on Strictly Come Dancing.
But it seems she wasn’t the only one. Runner-up Denise Van Outen has also been displaying a distinctly trimmer physique in the wake of months of gruelling training for the BBC competition.
Wearing a purple halter-neck bikini, the TV presenter was seen enjoying the sun and sea while on a New Year holiday with family in Dubai.
Toned: Denise Van Outen looking distinctly trimmer while with friends and family on holiday in Dubai
Wearing a purple halter-neck bikini, the TV presenter looks slimmer in the wake of months of training for Strictly Come Dancing
Stunning: With her slender pins and flat stomach, Denise looks markedly different to how she looked in 2008
It was certainly a different look to that from 2008 when she seemed decidedly less toned while on holiday in Los Angeles.
Miss Van Outen, 38, has previously said she works hard to maintain her figure by boxing and going on long walks. ‘I’m happy with my body and feel confident about getting into a bikini this summer,’ she said in 2008.
‘Like any woman, there are things that bother me. I could do with losing some weight from the tops of my legs and if I over-indulge I do get a bulging tummy.’
Miss Van Outen – who was partnered with James Jordan for Strictly – was criticised by viewers who thought that her stage school training put her at an unfair advantage against fellow contestants.
Densie pictured left while on holiday in Dubai this year and right, in 2008 in LA, when she looked less toned
Sun-kissed: Denise soaking up the sun on a hot day at a Los Angeles hotel in 2008
Denise Van Outen and James Jordan on Strictly Come Dancing. The pair were runner-ups in the BBC competition
Fans complained about the mother of one’s West End experience in musicals Chicago and Legally Blonde. ‘Fantastic jive from James and Denise – and so it should be! She’s had plenty of West End experience,’ fashion journalist Hilary Alexander posted on Twitter,
Miss Van Outen flew to the United Arab Emirates with her parents and daughter Betsy, and saw in 2013 at a star-studded bash.
Meanwhile, her husband Lee Mead, 31, was seen alone at the Tsunami sushi restaurant in Clapham, south London, heading home before midnight.
A spokesman said Mead had to stay behind to finish his pantomime run in Jack And The Beanstalk at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton.
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