Showing off her killer bikini body, Nicollette Sheridan spent her afternoon on the beach in Malibu on Sunday (August 2) with her boyfriend Steven Pate.

The 45-year-old former Desperate Housewives star hit shore in a tiny white string bikini which revealed a body that would put women half her age in the shade.

Miss Sheridan looked lean and toned as she strutted along the sand yesterday with her trademark confidence and pooch by her side.

Though she’s currently an unemployed actress, Desperate Housewives boss Marc Cherry recently heaped praise on Wisteria Lane’s resident temptress — and denied claims the actress was axed from the show because of her catfights with the rest of the cast.

“Edie was fantastic for the show and I do not have a negative word to say about her,” he says of Nicolette. “Her character was actually not supposed to have as long a run in the show but she was so good in the pilot I had to keep her in. Part of my job is knowing when the end has come for any character and it was just Edie’s time. There is no animosity and there was no falling out.”