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Can we go and sit in a pub beer garden? I want to drag out wearing this dress for as long as possible!’, says Charlotte Hawkins, laughing. It’s just a few days after the second easing of government restrictions and, after lying low in lockdown, the popular broadcaster is revelling in her first editorial photo shoot in months.

Charlotte, a vision in floor-length peach tulle, isn’t the the only one in good spirits. In between camera flashes, her Classic FM colleague, Moira Stuart, can’t resist shimmying to the vintage jazz and funk playing over the studio stereo. She also has the crew in stitches – thanks to her deliciously cheeky sense of humour.

‘You’ve rescued me from house arrest,’ admits Moira later, while inspecting shots of herself looking resplendent a black gown – her own. She adds, ‘After a year of Zooms, I was ready for this!’

Margherita Taylor, too, is

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