Patsy Kensit, 58, flaunts abs in fuchsia bikini

showed off her washboard abs in a fuchsia bikini in a new post this weekend - after Sara Cox revealed her 'classy' response to a TV jibe.

The actress, 58, displayed her incredible and youthful figure in the bandeau style swimwear amid the UK's sweltering temperatures. 

She accessorised with blue tinted shades while posing up a storm and flaunting her impressive tan.

star Patsy penned in the caption of her post: 'We are having a heat wave!!'

Her post comes just after Sara Cox said she has a lifelong respect for Patsy after hearing her 'classy' response to a cruel jibe she made about her live on TV. 

The Radio 2 star, who is about to take over the station's coveted Breakfast Show slot, has been reflecting on her three decades of fame, and how much her career – and the media landscape – has evolved.

Sara started her broadcast career after landing an audition for The Girlie Show in the mid-Nineties. She was just 21 at the time and had been focusing on modelling after being scouted during a chance meeting in Paris.

After calling the producers every day, Sara landed a presenting role on the outlandish show, where each week she would nominate a 'W***** of the Week' and then explain why they deserved the accolade. One week she called out Patsy, telling the camera: 'Your lips are like your knees. They never meet.'

'Shortly after that I saw [Kensit's husband at the time] backstage at Top of the Pops and he wasn't overly impressed with me,' she has now admitted. 'I was quietly devastated because I loved Oasis.'

It was a different story when she ran into Patsy herself though, as she told The Sunday Times Magazine: 'I went to Nobu and Patsy Kensit was there and she waved me over.'

'She was so friendly and classy. It was either the ultimate kill-it-with-kindness – or she hadn't seen the telly or she just thought I was young and silly and who cares? I've always really respected her after that.'

She explained that she would never dream of saying anything like that today but she doesn't regret the show that kickstarted her broadcast career and allowed her to leave home in Bolton.

'I wrote my own monologues and I obviously liked getting a laugh, which is something I'd always gone for as the youngest of five. People expect me to recoil and to be embarrassed but I wouldn't be sitting here now if it wasn't for that show.'

She is also not ashamed of the ladette label, awarded to her and pals like Zoe Ball during the hedonism of the nineties and early noughties.