Towie’s Yazmin Oukhellou poses for eye-popping bikini snaps as she spends Christmas in the sun

TOWIE's Yazmin Oukhellou turned up the heat on Christmas Eve in a designer bikini.

The Essex star posed up a storm in the sunshine at her Moroccan mansion today.

The TV siren is of Moroccan heritage as her dad Hamid hails from Morocco in the northwest corner of Africa.

It is where she spent time earlier this year recovering from the crash that killed her boyfriend Jake McLean.

The Towie star was left devastated when Jake, 33, died in a car crash in Bodrum, Turkey, in July.

And Yazmin, who badly injured her arm in the smash, has been spending more time with her parents to help her heal emotionally and physically.

The TV star has looked relaxed and happier in her second home in pictures on Instagram recently, telling fans that she felt like "a princess".

Indeed her parents' mansion resembles a palace fit for royalty with large oak doorways, high ceilings, and gold painted cornice lining the corridors.

In her amazing bedroom Yazmin has marble floors, a giant bed and sofa, a huge television mounted on the wall and an ornate gold dressing table.

She even has her own enormous private balcony that overlooks the family swimming pool.

She opened her balcony doors to reveal an iron statue of a galloping horse next to the olympic size pool lined with palm trees.

Either side of the pool are acres of freshly cut lawn with more palm trees and sprinklers dotted around.

Yazmin shared a clip of her feeding her parents' pheasants in their gardens, and told fans in her videos: "Back to my second home.

"For people asking I'm not at a hotel this time. I'm with my parents in their home where I also run @wellnessretreatworldwide which I also will be doing an intense week of next week."

The reality star told The Sun in July that she was sleeping with her mum every night due to nightmares and flashbacks over the car crash that killed Jake.

She also said she will "miss him always" and "may never get over the pain" of the horrifying accident.