A Madonna fan won tickets to an exclusive concert by baring her flesh to the elements.

Mandy Halsey, 20, braved freezing temperatures to skinny-dip on Southend beach - and earn the prized tickets to Tuesday night's sell-out Brixton Academy gig.

On Monday, Mandy told Essex FM listeners that she was prepared to streak through her workplace - Summerhill Nursery, on the A127 at Basildon - wearing nothing but a flashing Santa hat, to win the tickets.

But after a last-minute change was made by the station, Mandy scooped her tickets by skinny-dipping on Southend beach! Mandy, from Pitsea, said on the call-in that she had been a Madonna fan all her life.

After completing the challenge, Mandy dashed off to London to collect her tickets.

Essex FM presenter Sue Harrison said: "She wanted those tickets badly, but we have to make people do these crazy things to get them!"

A spokesman for Essex FM said: "I think staff at the garden centre were a bit worried that they would be inundated with people coming to watch Mandy's streak.

"So as the weather was mild we offered to change the challenge slightly and let her go skinny-dipping on the beach."

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