SWINDON’S own blonde bombshell has said she can’t wait until the day her hair turns grey.

Melinda Messenger said that she is looking forward to getting older so she can relax and not have to worry about what she looks like when she is being beamed into the nation’s living rooms.

“I can’t wait to have really long grey hair like an old lady. I genuinely can’t. It is about not having to care about how I look,” she said.

“If I wasn’t on TV I would dread to think what I would look like. I don’t make much effort with myself. The only effort I do make is when I know I have got to appear in people’s living rooms.

“I don’t like wearing make-up and when I’m at home I don’t care what I look like.

“People say young is beautiful. I don’t think so. There is such a beauty in a mature person. Something else shines through.“ The 41-year-old mother of three shot to fame as a Page 3 Girl after being spotted in an advert for local company Glevum Windows in the mid-1990s and said she has fond memories of her glamour modelling days.

“It was a really brief amount of time but it made a big impact,” she said.

“It feels like another age. It is so different to my life now but I wouldn’t change it for the world – but I also wouldn’t do it again.”

She told The Sun newspaper website that if daughter Evie, eight, decided to try and enter the world of modelling, she would back her all the way.

“I wanted to do glamour modelling and nobody was going to stop me at that time. If Evie really feels that is what she wants, I am behind her 100 per cent.

“I don’t measure success by status or money or job titles. I measure success by how fulfilled you are. That’s what success is.

“If my kids can find what they love and do it, I will be the happiest mum on earth. That is all I want for all three.”

Melinda and husband Wayne Roberts married in Bali in 1998 and despite an eight month separation in 2008, she said things were now good at home.

However, she wanted people to know that nothing is perfect and the couple have to work at keeping their relationship strong.

“We have still been working through a lot of stuff but it is good now. I am still constantly gobsmacked we are still together after what we have been through,” she said.

“It is amazing. It is something I really value but a relationship needs constant work.

“Who knows where we will be in the future but I like to think we will be together.”

Melinda is back on our screens in Cowboy Traders, on Channel 5, on Tuesdays at 7pm.