ESTHER, 78: I STILL GO NAKED IN MY GARDEN!

‘...and if you don’t like it, look away’

GREAT FEEL: Esther is a fan of going naked DAME Esther Rantzen reckons nude sunbathing is great, and has told people who take issue with it to “look at something else”.

And she revealed she still does it now, even though she’s in her 70s.

The TV star said she has been a fan of it for years and said it’s no worse than the skimpy outfits worn on Strictly Come Dancing.

Esther, 78, revealed she whipped off all her clothes to sunbathe on her 50th birthday, and said in a radio interview: “You must try it, it just feels completely different, you haven’t got the sweaty bits where your clothes are overheating you, you haven’t got the bit where the straps cut into your flesh.

“You have got whatever draught or soft breeze there is on every pore and every cell of your body and it really makes you feel wonderful.”

Dame Esther said she had been offered £2,000 for nude photographs by a newspaper but refused to sell them when they would not meet her demand for £6,000.

She said: “I was a bit upset at the time, I thought they had valued me a bit cheaply.”

Last summer, police officers in Reigate, Surrey, were called to a dispute between neighbours over nude sunbathing, but Dame Esther said: “Really, if someone doesn’t like the sight of you in the nude all they have got to do is turn around and look at something else.”

“The CPS says that the wider public has to be protected from harassment, alarm and distress. All that about a few extra inches of flesh!

“Have they seen Strictly Come Dancing? Have they noticed the public enjoys the view?

“Mind you, I don’t look very like the professional dancers these days at 78, but I’m still sunbathing in the nude.”