Diana Vickers makes musical comeback with steamy video for new single

Diana Vickers is forging ahead with her musical comeback as she released a steamy new video on YouTube for her latest single Ice Cream on Thursday.

The singer, 34, set pulses racing in yellow hot pants and a tiny gold bralette as she filmed the raunchy video in an ice cream parlour. 

For the first time in 12 years, the former X Factor star, who last released music in 2013, returned to the spotlight with a hopeful hit.

Diana previously described the single as ‘a musical love letter to the gays and the girlies’, after years of focusing on acting, comedy and podcasting. 

‘It feels very satisfying and exciting and the right time. I’ve been away for a long time but I did a gig a couple of years ago and it just reignited this fire in me where I was like, I just love being on stage. 

‘I thought, “You know what, I think there is an audience for me still there”‘, she told Attitude magazine.

The video comes after Diana jumped to the defence of pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter after the chart-topper sparked controversy with her saucy new album artwork.

Sabrina, 25, ruffled feathers over the summer with the cover for her seventh studio album, titled Man’s Best Friend.

The cover artwork shows the Espresso singer wearing a black mini dress while crawling on her hands and on the floor while a man grabs her long blonde hair. 

Another photo of a dog with a collar and tag around its neck featured as the back of the cover, with the sexualised images causing quite a stir online.

However Diana jumped to the defence of Sabrina and praised her for being ‘sexy’.

Admitting to being ‘obsessed’ with the singer, Diana told The Sun: ‘Women should be able to be sexy and do whatever they want with their bodies, without judgement.’

The Once hitmaker slammed online trolls who dished out harsh opinions on social media and lauded Sabrina as a modern icon.

She went on: ‘You think that you’re taking a step forward but people are so quick to… judge about female bodies and being over sexual, but then people say if you’re not sexual enough then they judge you as well, it’s like women sometimes just can’t get it right and it’s hard.’

Diana, who rose to fame on the reality singing show in 2008 and bagged a No1 single and album, is now a stage star and podcast queen. 

Most recently, she launched a brand new podcast, Just Between Us, alongside relationship expert Alice Giddings, where the pair dive into the highs and lows of modern dating.