Debs is back - and bare!

Jools Long

Debbie could learn a lot from X-Tina
Debbie Gibson, the Britney Spears of the 1980s, is launching her pop comeback by shedding her togs for Playboy. Take note, Christina.

No, there's none of that Kylie-esque targeting of the gay market for Miss Gibson.

Gibson, who is unbelievably still just 34-years-old, has decided that dropping her knick-knacks is the best way to promote her comeback tune, Naked.

We're not sure what came first, the song title or the desire to be photographed in the buff.

Back when Britney and Christina were still in nappies, Debbie was belting how hits like Shake Your Love and Only In My Dreams.

Without wearing chaps or a tight air hostess outfit or anything.

Now it seems she's got with the programme and learned from Britters and Xtina that a bit of flesh-bearing shifts records.

According to the New York Post, the Playboy pics are "very sexy, feminine".

Not grubby and attention-seeking? Shame.