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Leigh-Anne Pinnock stunned in a bright green bikini as she enjoyed a girls’ weekend in Malta after playing Hoopla festival.
The singer, 33, relaxed with friends following her performance at the event, and soaked up some sun on the beach.
In the update, which she shared to her Instagram, Leigh-Anne kicked back on boat while wearing a snake print bikini.
She was also seen partying with her pals on the island and catching up with Spice Girl Mel C.
Leigh-Anne captioned the update: ‘What a PERFECT way to end my festival run!
‘Hoopla Malta you gave me everything and more, one thing I’m always going to give you is a SHOW hunny!’
Leigh-Anne Pinnock stunned in a bright green bikini as she enjoyed a girls’ weekend in Malta after playing Hoopla festival
The singer, 33, relaxed with friends following her performance at the event, and soaked up some sun on the beach
She added: ‘So grateful for my beautiful dancers and band, you’re all the best! P.S….you’ll be seeing us again very soon.’
It comes after Leigh-Anne recently said that the ‘pressure and expectation’ that came from being in a successful girl band stopped her from ‘enjoying’ her work as a solo artist.
The former Little Mix star embarked upon her solo career in 2022 and admitted that she initially felt the weight of ‘impossible’ expectations.
After joining the group on the X-Factor, the former Pizza Hut waitress went on to have an impressive 19 top-ten singles and five number ones with the band.
She told Capital XTRA Breakfast: ‘The pressure is what stopped me enjoying it as much.
‘Obviously, coming from such a massive group and having the pressure to do just as well as that massive group did is kind of impossible to do overnight.
‘That took 10 years. It takes work. And also, I’m not doing music like the group did.
‘Like, I’ve gone down a different route, and I just think those expectations kind of like weighed on me and it was like, “This is just not fun!”.’
In the update, she was also seen partying with her pals on the island and catching up with Spice Girl Mel C
Leigh-Anne captioned the update: ‘What a PERFECT way to end my festival run! Hoopla Malta you gave me everything and more, one thing I’m always going to give you is a SHOW hunny!’
The singer said that as a solo artist, she wanted to make music without feeling like she was under the same kind of pressure she felt in a girl band.
Leigh-Anne signed with Warner as a solo artist in 2022 and released her EP, No Hard Feelings, the following year.
But her solo career stalled after Warner ‘wouldn’t pay for a music video’ for her last single after she reportedly ‘failed to impress’ with her other tracks.
More than a year later, Leigh-Anne revealed she is returning to music this summer. In a TikTok she posted in June the singer revealed that the start of the year had been ‘a weird one’.
She told her followers: ‘It’s a whole thing. I couldn’t really say anything or explain what was happening.
‘Obviously I left my label and now I’ve signed with Virgin. I’m fully independent guys, but honestly it’s been the most amazing thing for me. I think I feel like it just needed to happen to be honest.
‘I’ve been in this industry for how long? What’s the point in doing it if I’m not doing it my way? It doesn’t make any sense, so that’s all positive now and I feel really excited and really good.’
