Actress Claire Sweeney says she went skinny dipping on holiday - but was shocked to find a class full of schoolchildren staring at her. The embarrassed Brookside star had been 'training' with some friends - who were all wearing swimming costumes - on the Spanish island of Mallorca when the girls decided to take a morning dip.
But the 50 year old was the only one of the group without a costume, and after deciding to swim in the nude she emerged blushing to find a 'school party' staring at her from the shore. The mother of one told comedian Alan Carr's Life's a Beach podcast: "I've been skinny dipping once, and I had a bit of a bad experience...
"I'd been training with my friends and they decided to have a swim at eight o'clock in the morning. I didn't have a swimming costume with me because I didn't realise that was part of the thing that they do.
"So I go in naked with the girls, and I come out onto the beach and there's a school party on the beach. My clothes are at the back of the beach, and I had to walk out in front of all these schoolboys.
"It was just so wrong... It was like half eight in the morning in Mallorca. I'd probably keep me clothing on now."
Sweeney is best known for playing Lindsey Corkhill on Channel 4 soap opera Brookside.
