Sarah Harding's wedding workout is paying off as she shows off her flat tummy in crop top

She's known for being the wildest member of Girls Aloud due to her hard-partying.

But it appears Sarah Harding has turned over a healthy new leaf as she prepares to get fit for her upcoming nuptials.

The singer, 29, showed off the results of her recent workouts as she flashed her toned stomach in a crop top as she headed home from the gym yesterday.

Wearing her gym ensemble of leggings, trainers and Run DMC retro top, Harding looked full of energy as she bounced along the pavement.

The brunette star is preparing for her upcoming summer wedding to DJ fiance Tom Crane.

And she's enlisted the help of a personal trainer so she can look her best for the big day.

She told More! magazine: 'I could definitely be slimmer, but I’m working on it with a trainer.

'I want to crack nuts with my a**e.'

As well as slimming down, it is likely Harding will return to her blonde colour after dyeing it black earlier this year, before changing to her current brunette 'do.

She explained: 'The general consensus is that I'm preferred blonde. People know me for being blonde, so I'm slowly going back to that. I just wanted a change.'

Harding admitted on This Morning this week she had booked the venue, but declined to give a place or date.

However, reports last month claimed the pair were planning to wed at Cliveden House in Berkshire.

Aside from planning her nuptials, Harding has also been promoting her new TV show Dating In The Dark, which sees prospective couples going on dates in dark rooms without getting to see what each other looks like.

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Supermodel looks thinner than ever in see-through lace dress on red carpet : Claudia Schiffer

Like many model mothers, Claudia Schiffer would have felt the pressure to lose weight after having a baby.

But as she stepped onto the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival tonight, the German beauty, 40, looked skinnier than ever.

The mother-of-three, who gave birth to baby Cosima a year ago, looked gaunt in a sheer lace Dolce & Gabbana dress at the premiere of This Must Be The Place.

The revealing dress gave onlookers a clear view of her razorsharp collarbone and shoulderblades as she posed for the cameras.

Her modelling agency card gives her statistics as 34-24-36 - making her a UK size 6 (US size 10) - but her slender frame may suggest she's even thinner.

While the 5ft 11 model obviously has to be thin for her job, her super-skinny appearance suggests she may have a bit too much weight.

Schiffer has previously admitted the pounds just fall off her while breastfeeding, but also enlisted a personal trainer to get her back into shape for work following her three pregnancies.

She told Vogue magazine last year: 'Before my pregnancies, I was someone who had to watch their weight.

'I had a personal trainer, I was working out, I would never eat anything sweet. Anyway, I got pregnant and when I was breastfeeding it just came off. I can eat whatever I want. If I don't eat enough, I will lose weight.'

When she leaped to fame in the Nineties alongside fellow supermodels Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, they were much curvier than what we're used to seeing on the catwalk in 2011.

In an interview five years ago, Schiffer criticised some of her younger contemporaries for being too thin.

She told Germany's Bunte magazine: 'I was one of the fattest when I started.

'Fashion looks good on thin models, but when you look at today's models you cannot help but think there's something wrong.

'They are way too thin. It is only bones that stick out. Models have always been thin, but today, they are even thinner, which is unbelievable.'

Schiffer, who has a son Caspar, eight, and two daughters Clementine, six, and one-year-old Cosima with film-maker husband Matthew Vaughn, started doing pilates last summer to regain her pre-baby figure.

Her trainer David Higgins said at the time: 'She's been training with me at my Ten Pilates studio in Notting Hill. After the baby she was coming three times a week, but now she comes here every day. It's really high-intensity Pilates and she loves it, as opposed to the gym, which she absolutely hates.

'Obviously, a huge motivation for her is work: she knows she has to get herself back together. She has one of those amazing bodies that can do anything very quickly; she heals well, she gets the results fantastically quickly.'

Also at tonight's premiere was Rosario Dawson showing off her ample cleavage in a red strapless number and Gwen Stefani, who went for a quirky peep-hole Armani Prive gown.

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The lace Bandeau knickers are flush with skin and right, the vanishing act, which shows no lumps of lines

It can be the most eye-catching part of a woman’s outfit – but for all the wrong reasons.

Now the dreaded visible panty line, or VPL, could become a thing of the past thanks to knickers specially designed to be worn under clingy summer dresses and tight trousers.

But unlike traditional big briefs – which give no VPL but can resemble the unattractive flesh-coloured briefs sported by Bridget Jones – the lacy underwear looks good when the dress is off, too.

The knickers, called the Bandeau, have a wide band of lace which sits snugly on the hips but will not dig in – unlike thongs, which not every woman finds comfortable to wear.

They are also cut higher on the leg than boy-short style pants, giving a feminine look which flatter legs by making them appear longer.

The knickers, which cost £5 each or £10 for three at Marks & Spencer, come in black, white, nude, hot pink and marine blue and go on sale next month.

Soozie Jenkinson, head of lingerie design at M&S, said: ‘It’s time to chuck out those greying Bridget Jones big pants and say hello to the newest knicker on the block, the Bandeau.

‘Using stretch lace and slinky microfibre, we’ve designed this new knicker to be not only flattering and stylish but incredibly comfortable to wear.’

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Paula Hamilton lost her virginity to Simon Cowell at 16

Model Paula Hamilton, one of the most famous faces of the 1980s, has revealed that she lost her virginity to Simon Cowell.

Miss Hamilton, 50, star of the  decade’s iconic Volkswagen Golf  TV commercial, says she was 16 at  the time.

She says in today’s Daily Mail Weekend magazine that she lost her virginity to ‘a boy called Simon’ – the man who grew up to be the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent Svengali whose fortune is valued at £200million.

She and Cowell were childhood sweethearts while growing up in leafy Hertfordshire in the 1970s, she said.

She also claimed that, in contrast to his Mr Nasty image on TV, he was ‘very, very protective’ and stopped teachers vilifying her.

She went on: ‘I couldn’t read or write until I was 11. So I was called stupid and bullied by teachers. Simon was really important to me because he stopped them picking on me.’

As well as being her adolescent knight in shining armour, Cowell could also be a rebel. According to Miss Hamilton – a reformed alcoholic and cocaine addict – the first time she was ever drunk was with Cowell.

‘He was funny and rebellious like me,’ she said. ‘Alcohol made the feelings inside me go away.’

Discovered by photographer David Bailey, Miss Hamilton became one of the modelling stars of the 1980s.

Her role in the 1987 VW Golf ad symbolised the growing economic independence of British women. In it, she is seen leaving a house, flinging off her pearls and her wedding ring, but keeping the keys to the car.

‘If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen,’ ran the tagline.

In the intervening years, Miss Hamilton has struggled with her addictions and a complicated personal life.

She had a brief marriage to a cameraman in 1987 as well as a disastrous affair with the billionaire former Conservative party vice-chairman Lord Ashcroft. In the 1990s she was  engaged to film-maker Henry Cole.

Miss Hamilton also tells Weekend how she had an affair with cricketer Ed Giddins, who played four Test matches for England and is more than ten years her junior. The pair met while filming the new Channel 4 show Celebrity Five Go To… South Africa.

Miss Hamilton – who has been diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia – said she had her first ‘grown-up’ relationship with Giddins, 39, although they are now just friends.

Cowell, 51, was engaged to singer Sinitta and had a six-year relationship with TV presenter Terri Seymour. He is engaged to make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy, 37. His spokesman was unavailable for comment.

Now read the interview in full

Paula Hamilton was 16 when she lost her virginity to ‘a boy called Simon’. They’d known one another from the age of 12 and he was, she says, ‘very, very protective of me’. ‘I couldn’t read or write until I was 11,’ she explains. ‘So I was called stupid and bullied by teachers. Simon was really important to me because he stopped them picking on me.’

What she neglects to mention, though, is that this Simon is, in fact, Simon Cowell. Why? Well, it just hasn’t occurred to her. That first love was 34 years ago now, but Paula still lights up when she talks about Cowell. ‘He was funny and rebellious like me,’ she says. ‘The first time I got drunk was with Simon. Alcohol made the feelings inside me go away.’

Paula was the ‘face of the Eighties’ who powered through that decade on drugs, drink and outrageous behaviour, throwing away a successful modelling career as carelessly as she chucked away her pearls, fur and wedding ring (but not the car keys) in a memorable advert for a VW Golf.

Today, aged 50, she’s been sober for five years and, for the first time in her life, actually likes being in her flawless skin. So much so that she’s happy to chat openly about Cowell and any other lover I mention.

Yet Paula doesn’t get the art of conversation. In truth, she doesn’t get people at all. One moment, her bikini bottoms are around her ankles to show me she doesn’t have a single grey hair – ‘anywhere’; the next she’s juggling her surgically enhanced breasts, boasting, ‘These are cash and carry.’ In short, the Paula I meet is just as I expect: still stunningly beautiful but totally exasperating, with a mind spinning in different directions like a whirling dervish.

I expected this because, beforehand, I’ve spoken to the dyslexia assessment specialist Katherine Kindersley. Four years ago, following exhaustive tests, she diagnosed Paula as suffering from severe dyslexia and dyspraxia (an impairment that affects the ability to organise one’s thoughts). While her verbal reasoning skills place her in the top five per cent of her age group, her ability to control her language
and thinking is like a child’s.

Astonishingly, despite the many years she’s spent in therapy, her condition went undetected until the age of 47. Instead, she was said to be bipolar, stuffed full of heavy-duty antidepressants and sent on her way. Today Paula manages her condition through the techniques Ms Kindersley has taught her, combined with a healthy diet. ‘When I was diagnosed I was euphoric. I thought, “Now I understand why I’ve never felt normal.”

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