EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison showed off her dramatic weight loss as she attended a festival in Cheshire on Friday.
The actress, 56, looked worlds away from launderette worker Heather Trott as she flaunted her slimmer figure in a patterned maxi dress at the Tatton Park Pop Up Festival in Knutsford.
Cheryl oozed confidence as she beamed for the camera in the blue and purple number with her hand on her hip.
She embraced her natural curls and added to her bronzed tan with deftly touches of make-up.
Cheryl took to her Instagram to give a VIP tour. She told her followers: "It's going to be a great evening and festival so come along if you can."
Cheryl played the loveable character for five years from 2007 and she quickly won viewers hearts as Shirley Carter's best friend and an unlucky-in-love legend, before leaving in 2012.
But back in April, the actress hinted at the lack of body diversity in the BBC soap as she shared her desires to see more 'big people' in successful TV careers.
Cheryl is keen to see larger actors in more three-dimensional roles.
"We can identify better when someone looks like you is represented," Cheryl told The Mirror.
"And we do have sex! People like to pretend that we just laugh around being jolly and eating, but we don't. I saw Pierce Brosnan's wife, who's bigger, and was like 'Yeah! Goooo on!'."
Cheryl also branded EastEnders at 'out of touch' and slammed BBC bosses for their decision to kill off her legendary character.
It has now been over a decade since Cheryl's much-loved character was murdered by non-other than Ben Mitchell - and the former soap star still feels as though the writers' decision to kill her off in such a brutal way was rather harsh.
Cheryl described EastEnders as 'out of touch' for choosing to murder Heather as Ben walloped her across the head with a photo frame.
After five years of playing the George-Michael obsessed character, Heather's time on the BBC soap was up.
