Antia Rani looked worlds away from her comfy Countryfile tweed as she turned heads in a racy dress at the Raw Mango show amid London Fashion Week on Monday.
The TV host, 48, appeared to go braless beneath the daringly plunging cream number which also boasted a black ruffled neckline.
Shielding her eyes behind shades she completed the look with a leather biker jacket that fell casually down her shoulders.
Anita, who has presented the BBC country life show since 2015, added extra height to her frame with pointed patent heels and posed up a storm ahead of taking her seat in the front row.
Her appearance comes after she condemned Jacob Elordi for tortured anti-hero Heathcliff in the new Wuthering Heights, because the Australian actor is white.
The Celebrity Race Across The World star claims that Emily Bronte wrote Heathcliff as a non-white character in her 1847 gothic masterpiece.
Antia Rani, 48, looked worlds away from her comfy Countryfile tweed as she turned heads in a racy dress at the Raw Mango show amid London Fashion Week on Monday
The TV host appeared to go braless beneath the daringly plunging cream number which also boasted a black ruffled neckline (Pictured right on Countryfile)
‘At the time, Britain was at the height of the colonial expansion,’ says Yorkshire-born Rani. ‘This tiny island was getting very rich from doing some very dark things around the world.
‘Meanwhile in West Yorkshire, Emily and her two sisters were almost certainly not sitting around crocheting and dreaming of handsome princes.
‘They knew all about this because they were educated, they were reading the papers, they were thinking, they were writing and they were raging, and it’s in the characters in their books.
‘They’re women, they are independent, they’re clever, they’re passionate, they defy convention and they are questioning everything, particularly Victorian morality, which is why it’s important that Heathcliff isn’t white. It’s on the page, and what it does it changes everything. Think about it.’
Heathcliff is described as ‘dark-skinned’ or ‘gypsy in aspect’, and as having ‘black eyes’ by Bronte, who also writes at one point that his ‘face is as white as the wall behind him’.
Director Emerald Fennell, who won an Oscar for Promising Young Woman, has stressed that Wuthering Heights is her personal interpretation of how she imagined the novel as a teenager.
Anita and new boyfriend Alex Lavery made their public debut in September last year during London Fashion Week, where they were spotted beaming at each other.
Anita’s new relationship comes two years after she ended her 14-year marriage to technology executive Bhupinder Rehal in September 2023.
Anita usually more comfortable dressed on the BBC show, which she has hosted since 2015
Rishi Sunak’s wealthy wife Akshata Murty cut a stylish figure
Kirthanaa Naidu put on a leggy display in a pink mini dress
Model Simran Randhawa cut a more causal figure for the runway show
A year on, in September 2024, she said that ‘life is good’ and that she felt like she was entering ‘chapter two’ of her life.
She told Love Sunday Magazine: ‘Life is good, I’m in a good place. I’m focusing on myself and my own wants.
‘It’s nice to be able to think about the second phase of my life. I’ve been calling it Chapter Two.’
Anita met her former husband at a rave in east London and married in a Sikh ceremony back in 2009, before splitting last September, believed to be as a result of their hectic schedules.
A source told The Mirror at the time: ‘It’s really sad but they’ve decided to separate. Their hectic schedules over the past couple of years have sadly meant they’ve drifted apart over time’.
Anita admitted she’d found ‘freedom’ after getting divorced in a candid piece for The Sunday Times, and explained how she has been navigating single life in her forties.
Anita, who was born and raised in Bradford, West Yorkshire by an Indian-born Hindu father and an Indian-born Sikh mother, also revealed how her upbringing had impacted her approach to life.
She confessed that her family believed divorce to be a ‘cardinal sin’, and while she admitted it ‘isn’t easy to talk about’, she wanted to detail how she feels about her life now so ‘that I am answerable to no one’.
