Myleene Klass nails edgy chic as she arrives at Global Radio studios


She’s been keeping busy by heading to work every day amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

And Myleene Klass appeared as fashionable as ever as she made her way to host her Smooth Radio show at Global Studios in central London on Monday morning.

The presenter, 42, ditched her signature feminine style in favour of an edgy appearance as she sported a graphic T-shirt, which she dressed up with a black blazer.

Turning heads: Myleene Klass appeared as fashionable as ever as she made her way to host her Smooth Radio show at Global Studios in central London on Monday morning

Maintaining her grunge-inspired look, the musician teamed a pair of baggy trousers with platform biker boots.

The media personality added a touch of glamour to her appearance as she accessorised with a baker boy hat and carried her essentials in a red, chain-strap designer handbag.

Last week, the honey-blonde beauty detailed the shocking physical and verbal racial abuse she experienced in her childhood and the prevalent prejudice she still witnesses. 

Style savvy: The presenter, 42, ditched her signature feminine looks in favour of an edgy appearance as she sported a graphic T-shirt, which she dressed up with a black blazer

Style savvy: The presenter, 42, ditched her signature feminine looks in favour of an edgy appearance as she sported a graphic T-shirt, which she dressed up with a black blazer

Strutting her stuff: Maintaining her grunge-inspired outfit, the musician teamed a pair of baggy trousers with platform biker boots

Strutting her stuff: Maintaining her grunge-inspired outfit, the musician teamed a pair of baggy trousers with platform biker boots

All in the details: The media personality added a touch of glamour to her appearance as she accessorised with a baker boy hat and carried her essentials in a chain-strap designer handbag

All in the details: The media personality added a touch of glamour to her appearance as she accessorised with a baker boy hat and carried her essentials in a chain-strap designer handbag

The TV and radio star, who was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to an Austrian father and a Filipino mother, revealed she is struggling to explain racism to her children amid the Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd.

Floyd died last month after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis, prompting a wave of protests. 

In her impassioned post, the mother-of-three listed some of the horrendous slurs she has faced over the years, with a shocking list reading: ‘Chink. Slit eye. Number 69, Fried rice. Mongrel. Ping pong. Slut. All Tai girls are sluts. Banana’.  

Myleene is a parent to Ava, 12, Hero, nine, from her relationship with her ex Graham Quinn and Apollo, 10 months, with her current partner Simon Motson, 45. 

She attended Notre Dame High School, Norwich, but transferred to the Cliff Park Ormiston Academy in Gorleston-on-Sea, to complete secondary school.  

The former Hear’Say singer opened the post with explaining what she is working to do by revealing the struggles she has faced in her past. She wrote: ‘I’m trying so hard to explain the complexities of racism to my children. How it happens…

‘How whilst I don’t understand the struggles a black person living in America might be experiencing, how I do understand and know my own experience of being a mixed race Filipino girl growing up in Norfolk…’ 

Shocking: Her outing came after she detailed the horrific racial abuse she experienced in her childhood and the prevalent prejudice she still witnesses

Shocking: Her outing came after she detailed the horrific racial abuse she experienced in her childhood and the prevalent prejudice she still witnesses

‘I had those words thrown at me. On other occasions, it wasn’t just words, it was rock filled snowballs by a group of boys as I walked home, I had my hair cut in the school cloakrooms by some girls, later they threatened a lighter…

‘There was spitting. “Why does your mum speak like that? Why don’t you have an accent?” I was born here. “Yeah, but you don’t belong here”…  

‘I also remember the pride and relief I felt when a bus of school children, aged 10 pulled up next to my own bus and the children opposite all started making “Chinese eyes and buck teeth” to then have my own bus retaliate with fist signs and fingers…

‘It was small “victory”, I felt embarrassed, hot, shamed but I remember it so well because for the first time, I didn’t feel alone, I had a small token of solidarity that gave me courage.’

Heartfelt: The songstress admitted she is struggling to explain racism to her children amid the Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd

Heartfelt: The songstress admitted she is struggling to explain racism to her children amid the Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd