The pictures posted in News of the World are in no way recently taken.

They’re reprinted by various tabloids nearly every time Keeley Hawes is in a new TV role — Spooks, Tipping the Velvet, Ashes to Ashes, and now, Upstairs Downstairs.

This was originally for the January 1997 issue of German Vogue.

The one on the right was taken on 2 May 1998 by Uli Weber and printed in Elle Magazine(?).

When you remind an established star of the erotic pictures they once posed for while trying to break into the business, you usually risk getting skewered by a killer look.

But Keeley can’t wait to tell me that when a newspaper marked the launch of Ashes to Ashes’ first series by running semi-clad pictures of her that had been taken for German Vogue and GQ magazines when she was 18, she was delighted rather than affronted. ‘People thought I had just had them done. Three children and the body of an 18-year-old!’ she laughs.

‘I’m not self-conscious about my body, but I think I will keep it covered up after having three children. There comes a time when you have to say, “Hmm, that’s it, I think I’ll save it for indoors.”

‘You’ Magazine (The Daily Mail) 5 April 2009

P.S. Keeley Hawes in suspenders!

(Source: From my own research when putting together this site)