Strictly Come Dancing 2017’s Mollie King strips to underwear for sex scene in racy video

With enough public support to unseat frontrunner Alexandra Burke last week – proving she must have finished near the top of the public phone poll – Mollie may be able to use her renewed profile to revive her solo music career.

To date the star has released only two singles since The Saturdays went on hiatus, and both struggled to set the charts alight.

In her debut Back To You, released in the summer of 2016, she was seen in an explosive relationship; in scenes that involved her making love to her boyfriend one moment before being on ice-cold terms with him the next.

She was also seen in her underwear charging through her lavish house, and in a field in the aftermath of a crash.

That track only just peeped inside the Top 100, with follow-up Hair Down – released just days before her Strictly debut – failing to chart altogether.

The song is a peppy floorfiller produced by Xenomania, who also helmed the vast majority of Girls Aloud’s back catalogue and a couple of The Saturdays’ greatest hits.

Mollie signed to Island Records for her solo work but is no longer listed on their Artists page, indicating that she may have parted ways.

But in the wake of her Strictly stardom, can she have another crack of the pop whip?

She’s not the only Saturdays star to have released music this year: Una Healy unveiled her debut album The Waiting Game in the Spring, while Vanessa White has also independently released a string of singles.

She also recently took part in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

Strictly Come Dancing continues tonight on BBC One.