Brit cheeky! Denise Welch and Alex Reid try to gatecrash glitzy Brit Awards aftershow bash - but are turned away at the door

Opportunistic: Dancing On Ice and Loose Women star Denise Welch and a young friend decided to try their luck on the door at the Universal Brits afterparty at the Savoy, despite not being on the guest list
It was the hottest ticket in town - the Universal Records Brit Awards aftershow bash at London's newly-refurbished Savoy Hotel, where Cheryl Cole rubbed sequin shoulders with winners Rihanna,Take That and Tinie Tempah in five-star glamour on the banks of the Thames. 

So it was hardly surprising that lesser celebrities thought it was worth trying their luck and gatecrashing the star-studded bash at the legendary hotel.
Bouncers for the do on the Strand certainly had their work cut out - and managed to stop Dancing On Ice and Loose Women star Denise Welch entering the fray.

Denise Welch strips off for Closer magazine, looks like Dita Von Teese

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.

It's cougar time! Denise Welch and Dancing On Ice partner Matt recreate scenes from The Graduate after star sheds a ston

She's lost more than a stone since beginning training on Dancing On Ice - and now Denise Welch feelings so confident, she's baring her new-found curves by recreating famous scenes from movie The Graduate. 

The Loose Women panellist  has posed between the sheets with skating partner Matt Evers, 34, in this week's Woman's Own, and joked: 'It's cougar time!'

She added: 'I'm 52 and have had more attention in my fifties than in any other decade in my life.'

While snapping the scenes made famous in the 1967 movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, Denise however said her husband Tim didn't have anything to worry about, saying: 'Matt's my fantasy man.'