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The Apprentice star Karren Brady looked loved-up with her husband Paul Peschisolido as she celebrated her 57th birthday at a swanky Mayfair restaurant over the weekend.
The businesswoman showed off her slimmed-down figure in a white shirt as she headed to Lilibet’s in central London for a family meal.
Taking to her Instagram she shared a picture with Canadian former footballer Paul, 54, as they clinked their glasses of red wine in a cheers and stared adoringly at each other.
She penned in the caption of her post: ‘My birthday was perfectly spent this weekend with family at @lilibetsmayfair.
‘Surrounded by the people I love, and that lobster pasta… absolutely heavenly!’
It comes after Karren addressed the speculation surrounding her newly slimmed-down figure, after being hit by accusations that it was the result of weight loss medications.
She denied using the jabs and insisted her body transformation was achieved the old-fashioned way, through a controlled diet and regular exercise.
Speaking to The Sun about her weight loss, she claimed that asking questions about how she’d shed the pounds was an effort to ‘belittle’ her or ‘make her feel insecure’.
‘I’m not on Ozempic, but questions about women’s weight come up far more often than they should,’ she said. ‘I’d much prefer the conversation to be focused around my work.’
Karren went on: ‘Anyone can do anything they want to their own body. I have no problem with it at all. But people think they know something they don’t know, or they just presume.
‘And so what if I was? And what if I wasn’t? It would be my choice. I think the way people talk about women’s bodies is certainly an effort to belittle them or make them feel insecure.
‘I’ve been called too fat, too thin and everything in between. I’ve had a lifetime of it. All I want is to feel strong, physically and mentally.’
She previously admitted to losing as much as five kilograms before every Apprentice launch, ‘so I look my normal weight and I don’t look huge next to Alan [Sugar] as he’s so fit and healthy’.
But Karren, who is the vice chairman of West Ham United, says Lord Sugar has been something of a health kick buddy.
‘He is great, he is very fit. He and my husband cycle when we go away on holiday. He is super fit himself, so if anyone is giving tips, it is him to me.’
‘We went around Italy, which was lovely, on Lord Sugar’s boat. It was incredible. He is really lovely and has a wonderful family.’
A regular gym-goer, the mother of two insists she’s worked hard to incorporate frequent exercise into her hectic lifestyle.
‘You have to find the time to go, particularly as you get older,’ she said. ‘I have a very set routine that I do, but it’s mainly cardiovascular and weights, and I don’t mind the odd swim.
‘I go three or four times a week. I never have set days, because I’ve got a full-time job, then I have to go to the House of Lords often to vote, so I fit it in where I can.’
The businesswoman recently revealed that her weight loss was triggered by becoming a grandmother, after her daughter, Sophia Peschisolido welcomed sons, Leo, 22 months, and George, four months.
Karren said: ‘I have been on a health kick, I became a grandma, and I wanted to be a fit, healthy grandma, so I started eating healthy and exercising.
‘I haven’t joined [the Ozempic Club] – bloody hard work. It is okay losing it, it is keeping it off.
‘I have lost quite a bit – I don’t know, though, as I don’t weigh myself. I feel better for it. It is good because everything you put on fits.’