Denise Welch: 'I don't have a flashing disorder!'

Denise Welch: 'I don't have a flashing disorder!'
Denise Welch: 'I don't have a flashing disorder!'

Denise Welch has insisted her children were unruffled by her flashing antics during her stint on Celebrity Big Brother. The actress was seen to strip off while drunk and romp in a hot tub topless during the Channel Five series, as well as trying to pull down a housemate's pyjama bottoms. She admitted she made a few 'mistakes' as she appeared on ITV1's Loose Women, for which she is a regular host. But the mother-of-two - married to actor Tim Healy - said her family shrugged off her displays of flesh. "To be honest, both my children said 'Mummy, we'd have been more bothered if you'd been horrible to someone in there'," she said. The 53-year-old joked: "I just don't think the nation should be deprived of my natural assets." However she said if she were to relive the Big Brother experience, she 'probably wouldn't' have jumped into the hot tub without her top. "That wasn't my best moment, I have to say," Denise added. She reassured viewers that she has not got 'compulsive flashing disorder', and said it was no secret she liked to drink. She conceded that she went too far during Big Brother when she grabbed at Playboy model Karissa Shannon's pyjamas and tried to tug them down. She said she had misread how close they were, adding: "I made some mistakes and I apologised for them." Denise said her behaviour has not had an impact on her relationship with her husband, who celebrated his 60th birthday this weekend. "Everything's fine at home," she said. But she said she was not keen to see housemate Michael Madsen ever again, following an abrasive three weeks together.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.