Sarah Jayne Dunn dazzled in a glittering dress adorned with red hearts as she stepped out in Manchester for a friend's hen party. The former Hollyoaks actress, who left the soap following a row over joining the subscription site OnlyFans, celebrated love in her pretty corset detail dress with mesh skirt.
"Having a Disney princess moment" she told her Instagram followers with a video clip as she made her way to the bar Firefly. And she looked pretty in pink in the £500 dress which she revealed from fashion rental platform Hurr.
She teamed the dress, with red bow-detail ribbon straps, with towering red and white heels and accessorised with plenty of gold bangles on her arm. Sarah, 40, posed with her pals including the bride-to-be as they met up to enjoy their night out, and it sounds like they had a great time as they partied into the small hours.
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Sharing snaps on her Instagram she wrote: "Let’s hear it for the girls. Gorgeous day celebrating @melissajones93 hen do yesterday! Somehow I made it from midday through to 2am."
And she added about her dreamy dress: "I rented this beaut of a dress from @hurr (not an ad) such a great idea to reuse stunning clothes and wear something luxurious for a fraction of the purchase price, I’ll definitely be using again."
Mum-of-one Sarah, from Leigh, recently teamed up with model Rhian Sugden to create an X-rated podcast Hot and Bothered that discusses 'sex, fetishes and roleplay.' Rhian, who is married to former Coronation Street star Oliver Mellor, reached out to Sarah following the controversy as the actress had to leave the Channel Four soap after joining OnlyFans.
Sarah said about launching the podcast: "The last few months have been a whirlwind for me, in the best and most exciting way. I’ve been pushed out of my comfort zone, been made to make unexpected decisions, grown in confidence, started the journey to finding out who I am and what I want and I’ve met some incredible people, specifically women, along the way.
"I’ve found my voice and been given the freedom to have conversations I was too afraid to have previously, therefore this felt like a super natural progression, to help open up the more taboo conversations to others in our new Podcast 'Hot and Bothered'.'"
She said about her friendship with Rhian: "I met Rhian when she reached out to me amongst the controversy that last year brought, she was kind and supportive and we hit it off straight away. It seemed only natural to shoot together and we shared a lot of the same opinions and had so much in common that I knew she was the perfect co-host for the podcast."
Sarah, who was one of the long-running soap's biggest stars, was unable to 'reach a resolution' with bosses over her decision to join OnlyFans. Sarah Jayne, who played Mandy Richardson in the Channel Four soap on and off since 1996, left in November.
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.
Sarah she was 'taking back control' by joining the website and using it to share her 'sexier' images. She wrote about her decision: "This is a decision I’ve thought long and hard about, not one I’ve taken lightly or on a whim, it’s about taking back control, about empowerment and confidence and having full power over my choices.
"I love doing photo shoots, always have always will, it’s how I got into the acting industry, at the tender age of 12 I decided I wanted to be a model and enrolled on a modelling course, joined an agency and had my first professional shoot and I was hooked. I got my first TV audition and the rest is history.
"I’ve been lucky enough to travel to some pretty amazing places for photoshoots since being 17, that being said I’ve never felt in control, of the content or of the finances. 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.
"I’ve been pitted against other girls and felt deflated if not chosen for a shoot or for a cover, I’ve been airbrushed, retouched and ‘enhanced’ without consent and without necessity and I’ve not always been given photo or copy (the wording of an interview) approval, leaving both my image and words distorted. The older I get the more cathartic it is to take back control, to put healthy boundaries in place and to know my worth and my value."
Sarah explained the images shared on OnlyFans are 'no different' to the ones she had already posted on Instagram. "I just decided to switch them over to a different platform, put them somewhere that people who do want to see them can access them and and keep my Instagram more family-friendly," she told GB News.
"I was shocked at the decision and the way that it's gone. I'm not doing anything different to what I've done over the years. I'm not doing anything different to what I've been doing on on my Instagram account for the last four years that I've been back on the show. I've simply just moved the content. This is why I'm struggling to understand why it's become such a big issue for them."
She added: "Obviously OnlyFans has the association of being an over 18 platform, which makes it a safer space because a younger audience can't access it, even though the content I'm doing isn't over 18s. It's not explicit."
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