Susanna Reid, Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth broke out the tight lyrca catsuits and platform heels for this year's BBC Children in Need to perform two songs from the ABBA musical Mamma Mia.

It was Susanna Reid's first opportunity to dress up for charity as a member of the BBC News team, but her inclusion was a last minute one as Kate Silverton, a member of the original line-up suffered a slipped disc in her back after falling into a hole during filming in Kenya for Big Cat Live.  Here at Telly Toad we think Susanna's a fantastic presenter and it's about time she was given more of the limelight, so every cloud has a silver lining. As things turned out, she also put in what was quite easily the best, and sexiest performance.

Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth are no strangers to making spectacles of themselves on Children in Need, with Bruce previously dressing in miniskirt and fishnets (2007), and gold hotpants (2006) and Raworth donning fishnets for a Rocky Horror Picture show medley back in 2002.

Sophie Raworth found the tight costume this year difficult to come to terms with.  “It’s actually quite revealing because it clings to every curve. It’s so tight, I can barely raise my arm, and sitting down is virtually impossible” she told the Daily Mail.  By Fiona Bruce's standards however, the costume, replicating the ones ABBA wore around the time of their 1974 Eurovision Song Contest win, was the most demure in recent memory.

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Susanna Reid, Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth perform songs from Mamma Mia! on Children in Need, followed by a short interview with Fearne Cotton.  Interruption by Take That courtesy of the BBC's button-happy production team...

Fiona Bruce raised temperatures with her sexy song and dance routine on BBC Children in Need in November 2007, a performance we celebrate ahead of this year’s charity extravaganza.

Best-known as a BBC newsreader and presenter of Crimewatch and The Antiques Roadshow, Fiona Bruce, dressed in heels and black fishnets for the programme, was quoted as saying that her costumes for the charity event were getting smaller by the year...

Those in the know dubbed her ‘Fifi LaBruce’, as a result of the performance from the musical Chicago.

In 2008, she’ll join Susannah Reid, Sophie Raworth and other members of the BBC News team for a tribute to ABBA, but unfortunately the trend of skimpy constumes won't be continuing, their outfits are said to be straight from ABBA’s Waterloo era, the absolute worst fashion-wise.

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Fiona Bruce performs ‘All that Jazz’ from the musical ‘Chicago’ on Children in Need, BBC One, 16/11/2007.