KERRY Katona tried to give the Essex girls a run for their money by turning up in a bikini in Marbella yesterday.

The reality TV star followed The Only Way Is Essex stars to the Spanish holiday resort days after they started arriving there.

And she seemed to be having a whale of a time at the Buddha Beach Bar in Puerto Banus – on the same day TOWIE cast members including Lucy Mecklenburgh, Mark Wright and James ‘Arg’ Argent were all there.

Kerry, 30, showed up in a frilly pink and white bikini, tiny denim hotpants, wedge heels and a straw cowboy hat.

The mum-of-four flaunted her trim, tanned figure in her skimpy outfit.

She was joined by her pal Danielle Brown, the sister of former Spice Girl Mel B.

The pair, who both share the same management company, looked like they were having a laugh together as they strolled around the resort.

Kerry seemed in better spirits after telling this week of her devastation at being ditched by her recent fling Dan Foden.

She said she was “gutted” at the split, adding to OK magazine: “I had a good cry, rejection is a horrible thing. I honestly believe that I will be a lonely old lady stinking of cat wee with 17 cats and that I’ll never find anybody.”

But she admitted that her first husband Brian McFadden will always be the love of her life.

Source: The Sun