Martine McCutcheon reveals she posted cheeky nude selfie after a few glasses of wine and a ‘sod it’ moment
After posting her red hot selfie revealing her bum wearing just a thong this week, singer and actress Martine McCutcheon discusses her body confidence even though it was unintentional.
MARTINE McCUTCHEON had her own KIM KARDASHIAN moment this week when a picture of her bum broke the internet.
The sexy “belfie”, was a mistake, the star has revealed, after a couple of glasses of wine.
But the exposure will do her chart comeback no harm.
In an exclusive chat, she said: “I don’t really post anything like that very often. It’s very rare you’ll even see me in a swimsuit.
“But I’d had a couple of glasses of wine, I’d been to see Dreamgirls and I was in bed in The Savoy.
“I took a picture of my face and I saw my bum in the background and I thought, ‘Actually, that looks really nice’.
“I said to my husband, ‘Shall I post it?’ I’m normally a bit of a prude and don’t post things like that.
“He said, ‘Sod it, why not?’ So I did. I thought no one would take any notice of me.
“You’ve got all these super-models like GIGI HADID doing it and being a mum and my age, I didn’t think I would get that response.”
That picture might spawn a few more, with Martine saying there could be another 30 years of raunchy snaps to come.
Good news for her singer hubby JACK McMANUS.
Martine gave a live performance of music from her new album Lost And Found on my Facebook page yesterday — 18 years after she topped the singles charts with Perfect Moment.
And she revealed her big pop comeback was sparked after beating health problems.
The Love Actually star said: “I battled with Lyme disease and M.E. and wanted to have a baby.
"That took longer than I thought it would and it was a really difficult time.
“But I wrote it all down during that time and some of it was really hard. But I brushed myself down and I felt better so I wanted to go out and kick a**e again.”
As well as her music, Martine is fondly remembered for playing one of EastEnders’ most popular characters, Tiffany Mitchell, until 1998.
She says that being in the BBC1 soap was the hardest thing she has ever done and can understand why stars such as DANNY DYER have struggled with the stress.
She said: “You would do 22 scenes in one day and you’d literally be put in a golf buggy and they’d run you over to the next set.
“You had to remember all your lines in your head all day then you’d go home and do it all over again.
“You were constantly on call. You might have the day off, then you’d be called in at a moment’s notice.
“I remember us saying it was like we were doctors and nurses constantly on call.”
Martine has just finished work on a new movie called The Bromley Boys with Game Of Thrones’ BRENOCK O’CONNOR and now has big ideas of taking her most famous screen role to the West End.
She said: “Love Actually would be really quite lovely onstage. I’ll have to tell (writer) RICHARD CURTIS that.”
I hope that Martine can convince him.
Pricey ringing off
KATIE PRICE has already been divorced twice – and she had fans asking if a third marriage split was on the cards after stepping out minus her wedding ring.
The ex-glamour model went on Loose Women yesterday with a bare ring finger, having earlier posted a snap on Instagram with no wedding band.
A source close to Katie says she’s struggled with hubby KIERAN HAYLER’s cheating being brought back up on her TV series My Crazy Life.
This week Katie launched into an explosive Twitter rant about infidelity, saying cheating was “a choice, not a mistake”.
No to wonderwear
KATE BECKINSALE has had no problem wearing a rubber catsuit for five Underworld films, which makes her reason for turning down Wonder Woman all the more surprising.
The Brit actress opted not to take the lead part in a proposed film in the mid-Noughties because she didn’t fancy wearing a tight Lycra outfit.
She revealed: “I don’t know if I was desperate to be in a leotard. I’d already done the rubber trousers.
“You have to take in that you have a child at some point and how much you could possibly embarrass them.”
The project, which was set to be directed by JOSS WHEDON, never materialised.
But GAL GADOT donned the character’s famous tiara to rave reviews in May.
LOTTIE MOSS didn’t need sun, sea and sand to catch the eye of Love Island’s ‘MUGGY’ MIKE THALASSITIS.
The half-sister of supermodel KATE MOSS worked her charm on the reality star at London’s Mahiki nightclub on Thursday night, just weeks after The Sun told how she had her eye on Mike during his stint on the reality show.
The pair were spotted partying together into the early hours following newly-single Lottie’s split from Made in Cheslea lothario ALEX MYTTON.
After hearing of her interest, Mike confirmed the feeling was mutual last month, saying: “She’s fit, she can slide into my DMs.”
Sounds like Lottie took him up on that offer.
TOWIE’S AMBER DOWDING came back from her romantic holiday in Antigua with co-star CHRIS CLARK having caught more than just the love bug.
The reality star, was taken to hospital after falling violently ill while filming the new series of Towie in Marbella this week.
A source said: “Amber caught a bug while on holiday in Antigua with Chris.
“She had been really suffering and struggling to keep anything down so production rushed her to hospital after seeing the state she was in.
“She was hospitalised for a few days, which was really worrying for Chris. Thankfully she’s on the mend now but is having to take tablets every day to keep the sickness at bay.”
Chris and Amber went to the Caribbean to rekindle their love following his brief romance with LITTLE MIX’s JESY NELSON earlier this year.
The couple got back together in April after he ended his fling with the pop star.
They were joined in Marbella by Towie’s other power couples, MEGAN McKENNA and PETE WICKS and COURTNEY GREEN and MYLES BARNETT.
They’ll probably be keeping their distance from Amber for a little while.
Khan-fusion
THEIR bitter breakup played out in explosive fashion on Twitter last week but yesterday boxer AMIR KHAN and wife Faryal Makhdoom appeared to make peace – then apologised to heavyweight champion ANTHONY JOSHUA for dragging him into their mess.
But the friendly apology may not have been all it seemed.
It has emerged that Anthony’s legal team had stepped in to set the record straight.
Amir had accused his wife of exchanging flirty messages with “AJ”.
Anthony quickly responded by posting a clip from SHAGGY’s 2001 chart-topper It Wasn’t Me.
But behind the scenes, the boxer’s team were furious his name had been dragged into the messy domestic.
Yesterday Faryal tweeted saying screenshots sent to Amir with the offending messages were fake.
Amir responded: “I got angry like any man would. No truth to it.”
The couple still plan to separate.
And something tells me this won’t be the last we hear of this mess.
CHAD JOHNSON has SARAH HARDING in his sights after failing with AMELIA LILY.
He said in the CBB Diary Room: “I like hanging out with Sarah, we flirt.
"I want to keep hanging out with her and see what happens.”
THE last time DAVID BECKHAM was on a film set, he got panned.
Despite the reaction to his cameo in King Arthur, Becks crashed the set of Modern Family on Thursday with wife VICTORIA and the kids.
They spent a day at the LA studio with JESSE TYLER FERGUSON, who stars in the show.
Luckily the cameras weren’t rolling this time.
Biz meter charts
- CALVIN HARRIS lands the top spot with his Feels collaboration. The DJ’s eighth chart-topper means only CLIFF RICHARD, way ahead on 14, has more No1s among British male solo artists.
- SECOND to ED SHEERAN’s Divide is GLEN CAMPBELL’s 64th and final studio album, Adios, following his death earlier this week. The album charted at No3 when it first came out in June.
- THE highest new album entry goes to DEF LEPPARD, whose 30th anniversary re-issue of Hysteria is at No14. Close behind are BLACK GRAPE, at 15 with their first album for 20 years, Pop Voodoo.