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Christmas came early on Thursday as Caprice Bourret gave fans a a very racy hint of what to expect from her forthcoming festive film.
Caprice will make her film debut in A European Christmas, a romantic drama co-starring Philip Boyd, Victoria Ekanoye and Blue singer Duncan James, when it airs on Channel 5 and My5 from December 1.
And ahead of its release she left little to the imagination in two new promotional shots, with the California-born pin-up, 53, wearing only a Santa hat and nude Louboutin heels while sprawled across double bed.
In A European Christmas, Caprice plays Ivy Allen, a struggling, cynical film director who seeks out hunky actor Hunter Williams, the star of her debut movie, in a bid to recapture her old magic.
But after tracking him down in snowy Serbia, Allen - bitter and emotionally wounded after being dumped by a former fiancé over the festive period, gets more than she bargained for.
Caprice Bourret has given fans a a very racy hint of what to expect from her forthcoming festive film, a European Christmas, ahead of its release on December 1
The California-born pin-up wears only a Santa hat and nude Louboutin heels while sprawled across double bed in two new promotional shots, taken on behalf of the Channel 5 film
The model and entrepreneur produced and financed the Channel 5 film herself, but has admitted she would not have had the guts to start making movies on her own without the courage gained from surviving a brain tumour.
She told Weekend magazine: 'It's such a huge blessing. The bull**** doesn't mean anything to me any more. The parties, which I used to love, mean nothing to me. It's all about my family now. I do what I love to do as work, and that's it. I'm not scared any more.'
Caprice was training for the winter sports reality show The Jump seven years ago when a scan revealed the terrible news.
'When somebody says you have a brain tumour you think, "Oh my God, I'm gonna die. I have two three-year-olds and I'm gonna die." That was awful, a tough time.'
She has two sons, Jett and Jax, with her husband, the financier Ty Comfort. 'The doctor said, "It's not cancer but it's a grower."
'That's just as dangerous, evidently. You could wake up one day and the whole left side of your body will never move again, so you've got to get rid of it.'
There were huge risks involved in the treatment for meningioma.
'This is brain surgery,' she explained. 'There's a chance you'll wake up and something won't work, something will have gone wrong.'
In A European Christmas, Caprice plays Ivy Allen, a struggling, cynical film director who seeks out hunky actor Hunter Williams, the star of her debut movie, in a bid to recapture her magic
Caprice raises sons, Jett and Jax, with her husband, the financier Ty Comfort (pictured in 2019)
The operation took seven hours and involved temporarily removing part of her skull to remove the tumour.
'I wasn't aware how extreme it would be. When I woke up there were tubes coming out of everything, I was in the intensive care unit but it looked like the Starship Enterprise.'
Caprice appeared on the covers of hundreds of magazines during the 1990s and Noughties including Vogue, Playboy and Sports Illustrated.
When lad mags were huge in Britain, Caprice was their darling. After a few bit parts in Hollywood she moved to London and acted in Hollyoaks and spy thriller The Dream Team with Roger Moore, and appeared on celebrity versions of Big Brother and Come Dine With Me, and on Dancing On Ice.
She took control of her image at the start of the century, forming her own company and launching a lingerie range with Debenhams.
She later bought back the licence and By Caprice expanded into homeware and other products.
Caprice still models her line of underwear with Peacocks and is said to be worth around £24million.
