SHE maybe Swindon's superbabe but former page three model Melinda Messenger's days as a blonde bombshell are over.

When she turned up for a photocall in London yesterday to launch a bid to raise cash for children's charity Barnado's, she was sporting dyed brown hair.

It has been a year of change for Melinda.

She gave birth to her second son Flynn Jefferson in late February and her Channel 5 game show Fort Boyard was axed last month.