STYLE QUEEN - I've always loved playing around with fashion'

As actress and presenter Denise Van Outen marks a milestone birthday, she tells OK! she still loves to dress to impress, shares her favourite vintage pieces and celebrates a fabulous new edit for JD Williams

- MITVA UNDERWOOD

A good section of Denise Van Outen's wardrobe is a homage to 90s fashion, with vintage designer clothes, sentimental dresses and a very special tiara. As she A approaches her 50th birthday, Denise talks to OK! about how her style has changed over the years, what her teenage daughter Betsy "steals" from her wardrobe and why she'll never airbrush her selfies.

"I think it's nice to keep certain clothes because they evoke certain memories, so I've got loads," Denise says, laughing. "I always thought, 'I'll keep these in case I have a girl.' I've got a little shift dress I bought from Vivienne Westwood that I wore on TFI Friday around 1997.

"I've kept it and I really wanted my daughter to be into it because it would fit her perfectly now, but she's like, 'It's not really my thing.' But there are some other things she takes out of my wardrobe. I've got a really old vintage Vivienne Westwood necklace from the 90s and she keeps stealing that to wear. I'm like, 'Please don't wear it to the school disco in case you lose it!""

Another of Denise's treasured pieces is a tiara she wore on The Big Breakfast, which she presented from I 1997 to 2001 alongside Johnny Vaughan. While not especially valuable in monetary terms, it's hugely important to Denise. "When I used to do The Big Breakfast I always used to wear a tiara and Johnny would call me Princess Denise of Basildon," she grins.