TV chef cooks up storm in near-naked Nineties pose

TV pastry chef Lorraine Pascale is turning heads as the star of a photographic exhibition.

A revealing picture of the 38-year-old features in a retrospective of the work of Bob Carlos Clarke at the Little Black Gallery in Chelsea.

Pascale's BBC TV show Baking Made Easy attracts two million viewers. In 1992 she was an aspiring model when the photograph was taken. It is said to have been Carlos Clarke's favourite and he kept it on the wall of his studio for many years.

Gallery owner Ghislain Pascal said the image has caused "much amusement" at the gallery since the exhibition opened last week.

The exhibition, which continues until May, features images, many of them controversial, from Carlos Clarke's 30-year career. He died in 2006. The outside of the gallery has been blacked out to fit with the exhibition's "peep show" theme. By the late Nineties Pascale was one of the most successful models in the world, working alongside Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.

Despite her success, she did a cookery course in 2005 which she said fitted her "like a pair of old jeans". After working at London hotels she established herself as a specialist cake-maker. She now has her own shop in Covent Garden.