Former Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn dazzled as she became 'Barbie Girl' at Grand National weekend. Sarah looked gorgeous in a pink layered dress by The Real Housewives of Cheshire star Seema Malhotra's fashion brand Forever Unique.
The Hollyoaks turned OnlyFans star shared her latest 'get ready with me video' on Instagram as she dressed up for Aintree Ladies' Day. She teamed her eye-catching dress with giant bow with black heels and black bow hair tie. The mum-of-one looked pretty in pink as the compliments poured in. "I’m in my pink tuelle era," she wrote. And Sarah, 41, used in the hashtags "#barbie" and "#barniegirl."
But a troll brought down the mood by making an 'unkind' remark about her outfit. Trinalou24 told her: "Oh good god no…" Sarah, from Leigh, wasn't going to let them get away with making the comment and replied: "Unnecessary and unkind."
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They told her: "Just my opinion on the dress. Not really being unkind. No one should expect to post on social media and only except positive feedback."
Other rushed to praise her 'princess' dress. Amyr100 said: "Love this look, it has me singing 'girls just wanna have fun' to myself." And motheringtips praised: "My 4 year old just said, is she a princess." im_andra75 told her: "Yes Sarah, you will go to the ball..." And positively_vix exclaimed: "Omg this dress is lush! I need it now!"
Last week Sarah shared a defiant gesture to a man who told her to 'stop parading in her pants' as a mum in her forties. The star is known for her body positive Instagram posts and regularly shares 'get ready with me' videos showing her entire outfits from underwear to the final accessories completing the look.
Sarah, who has a six-year-old son Stanley, posted a picture of herself on her Instagram Stories giving the middle figure as she said she'd blocked the troll who was following her in the first place. She wrote: "To the guy (that was following me on here) that just put a c****y comment on about me being a mother in my 40s and how because of that I shouldn't be parading around in my pants" and she added a stream of middle finger emojis.
She added: "Don't come at me today. I am not in the mood. I will parade in my pants for as long as I like regardless of my age or parental status and you can kindly f*****k off blocked and (bye emoji)."
At the start of this month Sarah shared a beaming snap of herself wearing a pretty pink lingerie set with matching slouchy pink boots. And she provided the message: ''Never apologise for being a powerful woman’, when you step into your power and your true authentic self, you shine so bright that the world tries to keep up, be a beacon for others."
In November 2021 Sarah left Channel Four soap Hollyoaks to continue posting pictures on the subscription site OnlyFans and said it was the 'best decision I ever made.' Last year, in an interview with Naked Beach star and body confidence advocate Jsky on his BBC Radio Manchester show, Sarah said she felt 'more confident than I've ever felt' after 'taking back control.'
She told broadcaster and reality TV star Jsky: "Now what I've found with what I've done in the past few months and taking back control, I feel more confident than I've ever felt. I think that's from going 'actually I'm going to own this and I'm going to do this my way.'"
Sarah, who played Mandy Richardson in the show, said: "I'm 40, I look great and I'm more confident than I've ever been. I think I look better than I did in my twenties."
Sarah, who was one of the long-running soap's biggest stars, was unable to 'reach a resolution' with bosses. A Hollyoaks spokeswoman said that as a 'youth-facing drama with many young viewers' the soap does not allow any Hollyoaks cast members 'to be active on certain 18+ websites.' They said the show had hoped she could remain in the role as mum Mandy but they 'respected' her choice to stay on OnlyFans.
Explaining why she was signing up to OnlyFans she admitted at the time that 'some might find it shocking' but told her Instagram followers: 'I'm simply moving my sexier, racier images to another platform." And she penned on her Instagram: "I’ve done men’s mag upon men’s mag and calendar upon calendar, I’ve enjoyed every shoot but never felt like I had much say in them."
A spokeswoman for the soap said: “Hollyoaks is a youth-facing drama with many young viewers, who follow our cast very closely, both in the soap and outside of it. We take our responsibility to our young audience very seriously and therefore the show does not allow any Hollyoaks cast members to be active on certain 18+ websites.
“We had hoped we could reach a resolution with Sarah that would allow her to remain in her role as Mandy, but we respect her choice to continue to produce content on OnlyFans. In the past four years since her return to the show her legacy character has been an integral part of some our most important storylines and we will be very sad to see her go.”
Sarah, who played Mandy on and off since 1996, told Jsky: "It wasn't my choice," she said. "The best thing that ever happened but it wasn't my choice."
Explaining her departure she said: "I knew what I was doing was right and it felt right and I wasn't happy in the situation I was in. People go 'but you're on TV, it's so glamorous. You must be making so much money.' It's not like that at all and I wasn't happy and so I made the decision to take back control."
She added: "I didn't intend on leaving the show, that wasn't my choice but that's what happened and I stood my ground with what I was doing. I was sort of condemned for doing something that I've been contractually bound to do for my entire career there."
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