The only stripping I do these days is of wallpaper

WHEN former Page 3 girl Linda Lusardi offers to strip nowadays, she means wallpaper - not taking off her clothes.

- ROSS KANIUK

The ex-glamour model, who posed topless in newspapers for 12 years, is now passionate about DIY.

And Linda reckons that doing up and selling homes is more lucrative than her modelling career.

The 66-year-old has become an online sensation after swapping her make-up bag for a toolbox.

And Linda's practical skills - which include tiling, caulking, wallpapering and woodwork have earned her thousands of followers.

One video of her jetwashing her patio has been viewed an incredible four million times.

Linda says: "Honestly, the interaction I get for the DIY stuff is so much higher than pictures of me all done up going out.

"Over the years, I think I've made and saved more money from doing up homes and selling them at a profit than I did from being a nationally recognised model."

The star, who jokes that her private pension "will probably just about pay for my electricity bill", discovered she had a talent for DIY during lockdown when professional work on her kitchen stopped and she was left to cook on a camping stove.