Holly Willoughby lets her hair down during night out with Mike Skinner and his wife Claire Le Marquand

HOLLY Willoughby spent Friday night partying with one of her best pals, Mike Skinner’s wife Claire Le Marquand.

The stunning mum-of-three shared pictures of their night out in London, with Claire gushing out “beautiful specimen” Holly.

Clutching their drinks, Holly grinned into the camera as she nuzzled  into Claire’s hair for their first adorable selfie.

Claire captioned the picture: “Friday night smooch with one of the most gorgeous specimens on the planet…”

After their night out Holly re-posted the pictures and shared them with her 1.7 million Instagram followers, telling them:

“The brunette to my blonde... beautiful girl.”

Claire’s husband Mike joined the girls for the night out and posted a picture of him and This Morning star Holly mucking around in the back of a hackney cab in London.

Her big night out came after The Sun revealed the 36-year-old had teamed up with Dragon’s Den star Peter Jones to start and interior design business.

The firm, called Truly Group Ltd, will see Holly running the business alongside Peter’s partner Tara.

A source said: “Holly and her husband Dan have been good friends with Peter and Tara for a long time, and this is a project they’ve been chatting about quietly for a while.

“Now they’ve decided to put their plans into action and are very excited about turning their dream into a reality.

“They can’t wait to get it off the ground, but there’s still plenty of work to do first.”

Fortunately, the new business will not affect Holly’s telly work. I’m told she has cleared the project with ITV, who are more than happy for her to get it off the ground.

Holly and Peter are keeping the full details under wraps until they are ready to formally unveil everything later in the year.

The new company is just the latest string to Holly’s bow.

The busy star already has her own clothing line with Very and co-wrote a series of children’s books, School For Stars, with her sister Kelly.

She also had her own BHS homeware range before they closed their stores last year.

When she last spoke about her wide-ranging projects, Holly said she wanted to emulate her hero CILLA BLACK.

She said: “I’m really happy with where I am at the moment. It’s nice doing a broad spectrum of stuff and I’m fortunate to have that.

“I try not to take fame too seriously. It would be amazing to have a career as long as Cilla Black’s.”

If she and Peter play their cards right, she could have one like RICHARD BRANSON’s too.

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