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DIANA Vickers has been branded “unreal” by adoring fans as she stripped to a bright red bikini.

The X Factor alum, who recently revealed to The Sun the impact of celibacy on her life, was seen soaking up the sunshine on a beach holiday to Portugal.

She flashed a smile as she crouched down on the sands in her two-piece, with her blonde locks blowing in the sea breeze.

Diana, 35, went make-up free for the sizzling snaps, which captured her toned figure and glowing holiday tan.

She added a simple red Emoji love heart for her caption, though fans were quick to comment.

One wrote: “Hahahaa yes babe,” as a second simply put: “Unreal”.

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A fan then added: “You’re so fit,” as another gushed: “Looking amazing and so gorgeous”.

One follower then put: “Always flawless”.

Recently, The Sun exclusively reported how she celebrated her 12 months of celibacy by having sex with a colleague.

Opening up about her sex journey, Diana – who has appeared in BBC sitcoms Josh and Not Going Out – says she swore off sex to concentrate on her career and social life.

“I went celibate for a year just to see what would happen and I really thrived,” she says.

“I had such a great year with work and got every job I went up for.

“And then it got to the year mark, which I wanted to reach and I celebrated it by sleeping with someone I worked with.

“I was like (mimes pointing): ‘You! You have won the competition.’ And it was great.

“It was a really lovely experience with a really lovely guy, who I’ve stayed friends with since”.

Relations begin to thaw as both countries reinstate ambassadors and reopen airspace closed to each other since April 2025.

More than a year after a diplomatic fallout, relations between Algeria and Mali are beginning to thaw, with both countries reinstating their ambassadors and reopening their airspace to one another.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced on Saturday that the country’s ambassador would return to Mali, a day after Algiers fully reopened its airspace to civilian and military aircraft travelling to and from its southern neighbour.

Issa Ousmane Coulibaly, spokesperson for Mali’s military government, confirmed in a statement that Bamako had taken reciprocal measures.

Relations between the two African nations deteriorated in April last year after Algeria said it had shot down a Malian surveillance drone for violating its airspace. Bamako disputes this, saying the drone was downed within its own borders.

The fallout between Algeria and Mali has jeopardised security in the Sahel region. Mali is a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), along with Burkina Faso and Niger. Both Ouagadougou and Niamey also withdrew their ambassadors to Algeria in April last year in solidarity with their ally.

The AES has experienced a surge in attacks by armed groups linked to the ISIL (ISIS) group and al-Qaeda in recent years. Many analysts argue that such groups were able to establish a foothold in the Sahel partly because of the NATO-backed overthrow of longtime Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

The ousting of Gaddafi left a power vacuum that has been exploited by armed groups. Vast stockpiles of weapons belonging to forces loyal to him were looted and are believed to have been used by those groups.

Algeria has previously mediated peace talks between the Malian government and Tuareg separatist rebels waging an armed rebellion there.

However, last year’s diplomatic fallout led Algiers to step back from its role as mediator, raising concerns about Mali’s security and territorial integrity while also posing a threat to Algeria’s own internal security.

This April, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf reaffirmed Algiers’s support for Mali’s territorial integrity, rejecting what he described as all forms of “terrorism”.