SHE turns 50 tomorrow and, hip, hip, wahey, Denise Van Outen feels sexier than ever. The star of TV and musicals is also back in the dating game, brimful of fun-loving confidence and ready for fun. She says: “With age, you don’t worry so much about what people think, you are more assured of who you are and know what you want.
I feel the sexiest I’ve ever felt.” The Essex-born bombshell has been a regular on our TV screens ever since getting her break co-presenting Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaughan from 1997 to 2001. She has since appeared on some of the biggest shows on telly as well as playing Roxy in hit musical Chicago — and falling in and out of love.
Ever a hopeless romantic, she is now single after splitting with Jimmy Barba, 56, last year following an 18- month relationship with the Italian born model and property developer. She previously dated Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay, from 1998 to 2001, and they were engaged before going separate ways. Denise married Any Dream Will Do talent show winner Lee Mead in 2009 and has a daughter, Betsy, 14, by him but they separated in 2013 then divorced two years later.
She also dated commodities trader Eddie Boxshall from 2014 to 2022 and appeared with him, loved up, on Channel 4’s Celebrity Gogglebox, only to later dump him after he sent Xrated messages to other women. But Denise is far from down about entering her sixth decade of life as a single woman. While dabbling in online dating, she is in no rush t.
