DIDO Sex is great.. I love it.

Byline: FIONA CUMMINS, Ms Showbiz

POP beauty Dido has revealed the greatest love of her life - sex... and lots of it.

The raunchy singer admits: "I think sex is one of the greatest things in the world.

"I do love sex. I'm very open about it, I just love it. It makes you happy."

And in an amazingly frank interview, Dido, 32, reveals how her bedroom exploits seem to get better and better.

"I feel very relaxed about it. And I've got more that way as I've got older. You know what you want and you really enjoy yourself and you feel free and you feel open." She adds: "It's true what they say about women reaching their peak later in life.

"Sex becomes less tied up with emotions and relationships, and more about having a good time."

Dido - real name Florian Cloud De Bounevialle Armstrong - admits that she was adventurous in bed when she was younger.

"You're well up for trying everything at that age, aren't you?" she says. "But practice makes perfect."

Dido had a seven-year relationship with lawyer Bob Page before an on-off fling with record label boss Ferdy Unger- Hamilton. They split recently after a brief reunion in the spring.

Ditching her usual jeans-and-T-shirt look for a sultry pink outfit slashed to the waist, the London-born star insists: "I've always tried to keep people focused on my music, not on me.

"I love this dress, but I can feel sexy in very simple things."

Dido says she has not ruled out motherhood. But she admits: "I see friends who are pregnant and think, 'Wow! This is going to have to be an accident if it's going to happen to me'."

Asked how long she could manage without sex, she replies with a grin: "I've never tried it before... I'll let you know."

-The full interview appears in the July issue of Elle magazine, out tomorrow.

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