Vanessa Feltz, 64, shows off her weight loss in a glamorous pink gown at charity gala after revealing the secrets to her slimmed-down physique

Vanessa Feltz showed off her weight loss in a glamorous pink gown as she attended The Willow Charity Ball at the Dorchester Hotel on Saturday.The presenter, 64, has been candid about her challenges with her weight in the past, having fluctuated dramatically between sizes 10 and 22 over three decades. Vanessa looked out of this world in the figure-hugging feathered dress while posing up a storm for an Instagram snap.Her glitzy night out comes after she revealed the secrets to her slimmed-down physique in an interview with the Daily Mail. Vanessa credited her busy schedule and grandchildren for her active lifestyle – and hinted she is back on the dating scene.She explained: 'I do lots and lots of walking. I do lots and lots of running around. I've got four grandchildren who I see all the time and I'm very busy with them. Vanessa Feltz showed off her weight loss in a glamorous pink gown as she attended The Willow Charity Ball at the Dorchester Hotel on SaturdayThe presenter has been candid about her challenges with her weight in the past, having fluctuated dramatically between sizes 10 and 22 over three decades (pictured in 2009)'In terms of kind of formal exercising I do a bit of weight resisting because everybody says you've got to because of your muscles as you get older, and that is, I'm afraid, the full b****y sum total of it.'Vanessa was asked for her thoughts on NEAT (Non-exercise activity thermogenesis).Despite its fancy name, NEAT refers to the energy used to carry out any daily activity that isn't a strict form of exercise. Vanessa joked: 'I don't wanna lunge or hoover. I don't fancy either of those things. Neither lunging nor hoovering is my favourite thing.'On how she's maintained her weight loss over the years, she said: 'It's not because I've suddenly become virtuous and I'd suddenly really genuinely prefer a stick of celery to an enormous bowl of chocolate mousse.'I wouldn't. I still prefer chocolate mousse. It's just I had a gastric bypass, so that's the reason why I'm slimmer than I was.'The broadcaster spoke about regretting not waiting for the weight-loss jabs: 'I had a massive lifelong weight problem as everybody knows, but my timing really stank because in 2019 I had a very expensive gastric bypass which I paid for.'It cost a tonne of money, and if I just hung in and hung in, I could have just got the b****y fat jabs like everybody else... I'm the idiot that spent all that dosh on a gastric bypass.'Vanessa also shared that the only cosmetic surgery she has ever had is Botox: 'I haven't had anything. 'I've been having Botox since I was 40 or 37, I think, 37. You can see I haven't had any fillers or anything like that, so I'm a bit scared of them.' Vanessa hinted that there is some romance in her life as she teased: 'I have been, let's put it this way, experimenting. Let's put it that way' (pictured with her ex Ben Ofoedu in 2021) Meanwhile, Vanessa hinted at some romance in her life as she teased: 'I have been, let's put it this way, experimenting. Let's put it that way.'But the star, who was in a relationship with Ben Ofoedu for 16 years from 2006 to 2023, was keen to impart her romantic advice to her younger self and to others as she urged: 'Don't be picked.' She explained: 'I think one of the things I would tell my younger self when it comes to romantic relationships is rather than just being absolutely delighted to be picked by some bloke, don't be the one who's pleased to be picked – be the picker, not the pickee.'Be the one who has the confidence to be the b****y one that chooses, not the one that says, 'Oh, you chose me. I'm so grateful, that's so kind of you. Yes, of course I will enter into a full-scale relationship with you.''I mean, just don't be picked to be the picker, I think is what I would say.'The star also revealed how her confidence has grown with age as she confessed: 'Everything's very easy with hindsight. 'When you look back you think, 'Oh I shouldn't have been worried about that. I shouldn't have felt lack of confidence about that. I should have been cool and chilled and just enjoyed…''But obviously at the time you don't know that, so you feel absolutely frenzied and miserable and worried. 'You can't just tell your younger self to be confident because why would you, you're young and you've got nothing to be confident about. You don't feel confident because you're not confident of what you know.'