Denise Welch turned heads in a striking blue swimsuit, sharing a captivating Instagram photo from a sun-drenched beach during her holiday on Wednesday.

The 66-year-old Loose Women star flaunted her remarkable weight loss in the swimwear, while also explaining why her husband was cropped out of the image.

Denise shed 2.5 stone in just over two months after becoming a Celebrity Ambassador for the LighterLife diet plan. She has previously credited therapy for helping her maintain her new figure.

In the latest photo, Denise is seen smiling brightly, donning sunglasses to protect against the sun. She mentioned that her partner, Lincoln, wasn’t fond of his appearance in the picture.

She humorously noted, “The one photo of us together, @lincolntownley wouldn’t let me include him because ‘he didn’t have the right costume’!”

Denise began her relationship with Lincoln in 2011, went public with it in 2012, and the couple married in 2013.

Denise Welch looked sensational in a blue swimsuit as she posed on the beach during a sun-soaked holiday abroad on Wednesday and revealed why she cropped out her husband 

Last September Denise revealed therapy helped her maintain her weight loss. 

She reflected on her weight loss journey with an Instagram post as she compared a picture of herself in a bikini in 2013 compared with a new swimsuit snap. 

Denise looked incredible as she recreated the pose by popping one hand on her hip and another on her sunglasses. 

She penned: ‘Majorca 11 years apart. Thank you @lighterlife for helping me change my bad relationship with food and helping me to maintain weight loss with mentorship and CBT [cognitive behavioral therapy] tools I employ if I feel myself slipping,’

Denise followed the diet plan which includes shakes, daily food packs and cognitive behavioural therapy to try and curb her craving for sugar.

She previously revealed her weight gain was caused by binge eating sugary foods when she quit drinking for good in 2012.

The ITV star and her husband Lincoln gave up alcohol for good at the time in a bid to save their marriage.

She told Broccoli and Brains magazine: ‘Until I gave up drinking, I never really had a weight problem. I’d certainly never had a sweet tooth.

Denise started dating her current husband Lincoln in 2011 – but only went public with their relationship in 2012 and tied the knot in 2013; pictured 2018

The Loose Women star, 66, lost 2.5 stone in just nine weeks after becoming a Celebrity Ambassador for the LighterLife diet plan and has previously told how therapy helped her maintain the weight loss

Denise followed the diet plan which includes shakes, daily food packs and cognitive behavioural therapy to try and curb her craving for sugar

She previously revealed her weight gain was caused by binge eating sugary foods when she quit drinking for good in 2012

‘But once I stopped drinking, I started getting massive sugar cravings and the weight started going on.’

Denise got married to second husband Tim Healy in 1988, but the Loose Women panellist went public with their separation on the ITV show in February 2012.

At the time, the TV personality broke down in tears on the lunchtime programme as she confessed her 23 year marriage to the actor was over, and it had been for ‘some time.’ 

The former flames raise their two children The 1975 frontman Matt, 35, and Louis, 23, together. 

She was was previously married to David Easter from 1985 to 1988.