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She’s no stranger to showing off her figure in scantily clad snaps.
And Ulrika Jonsson gave another glimpse of her svelte frame in a revealing white bikini via Instagram Stories on Monday, when she shared a scantily clad photo.
The 56-year-old presenter made the most of Britain’s unexpected heatwave and donned the tiny two-piece dress with pretty pleated sleeves.
The former Gladiators star appropriately captioned her post: ‘#hotpotato.’
This came after Ulrika revealed she was in line to present Strictly Come Dancing, but lost out to Tess Daly because she was pregnant at the time.
Ulrika Jonsson gave another glimpse of her svelte frame in a revealing white bikini on Monday when she shared a scantily clad photo via Instagram Stories
The presenter who has four children said that despite her enthusiasm, she had to turn down the offer because filming was not due to start for a few weeks, when she was about to give birth.
Write in The sun, She said: ‘I had no choice but to turn the offer down, and it was heartbreaking.’
Tess Daly later presented Strictly Come Dancing, alongside TV veteran Bruce Forsyth, before Claudia Winkleman replaced Bruce as Tess’ co-host when he quit the show in 2014.
Ulrika, who presented Gladiators from 1992 to 2000, also revealed that she had to ‘fight to the limit’ to keep her job while pregnant, during the third season of the entertainment game show.
The Swedish presenter claimed that producers considered a pregnant woman “too risky”.
She wrote: ‘They refused to let me present the last two weeks of international shows and hired a midwife to follow me around with a chair so I could sit between takes.
“I wasn’t sick. I was only six months pregnant.”
Ulrika went on to say that there is never a good time for a woman to take a break from work and have a child.
It comes after Ulrika revealed she was in line to present Strictly Come Dancing but lost out to Tess Daly because she was pregnant at the time
Tess Daly co-presented Strictly with TV veteran Bruce Forsyth, before Claudia Winkleman replaced Bruce as Tess’ co-host when he quit the show in 2014 (pictured in 2004)
Ulrika, who presented Gladiators from 1992 to 2000, also claimed that producers found a pregnant woman “too risky”
She added that raising a child is “not a break” and women worry about returning to work, making the whole thing nerve-wracking.
She said: ‘When we as women take extended periods of ‘off’ work, we run the risk of falling behind on promotions or being considered for other positions. That is, if your employer hasn’t written you off and cleared your desk by the time you get back.’
Ulrika’s column follows Jodie Marsh’s revelation that she felt bullied by the former TV weather girl after she made fun of her appearance.
Speaking to MailOnline, former glamour model Jodie, who has swapped fame for an animal shelter, said she first struggled with trolls over her appearance when Ulrika wrote a ‘nasty’ column about her in the now-defunct News Of The World.
Jodie, 45, recalled: ‘It was the most disgusting thing I’d ever read about my physical appearance. She joked that she and her husband at the time couldn’t figure out if my nose was a trunk because it was so big and ugly.
“I was suicidal because I was being trolled, and I remember crying for days about it. It was the most disgusting thing. I had never met the woman before and it was so inappropriate. It was just straight up harassment.”
Jodie was so shocked by the column that she decided to write to Ulrika, 56, but says she has not received a response.