Sophie Anderton

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Sophie Anderton

Anderton in I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.
Birth name Sophie Anderton
Born May 14, 1977
Bristol, England
Notable roles I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, Celebrity Love Island

Sophie Anderton (born May 14, 1977, in Bristol) is an English lingerie model and television personality.

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[edit] Biography

Anderton attended Redland High School for Girls in Bristol between 1988 & 1993, and, albeit briefly, Bristol Cathedral School in 1993. After school she developed a career as a model, and became famous after a prominent advertising campaign modelling Gossard Wonderbras.

Her career since has been largely quiet, with more photographic shoots and glamour, less catwalk. However, she has received coverage mainly due to the tabloid press who have documented her party lifestyle, including: a self-confessed night as a "high-class" call girl [1]; love affairs (particularly with footballer Mark Bosnich); and a cocaine addiction that lasted ten years.

Anderton traces her cocaine addiction back to when she was prescribed morphine after a car accident as a child[2]. In 2006, she was diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder [3].

Anderton's return from "Celebrity Love Island" has resulted in an increase in modelling and promotional work, including:

  • Successfully completed the Flora London Marathon.
  • British Berries summer fruits campaign 2006 - she posed with various fruits in a suggestive manner. Sales of strawberries and raspberries have hit a record £240 million since the campaign was launched, although this is in spite of her fronting the campaign.
  • Appeared on the July edition of Maxim
  • Promoting breast cancer awareness in a promo with Peacocks stores
  • In November 2006 announced as the face of La Senza's Christmas collection

[edit] Reality TV

In 2004 Anderton was a contestant on the fourth series of ITV's I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, where she came fifth and was remembered for having a disagreement with the singer Natalie Appleton [4]

She has also taken part in Simply the Best and a celebrity edition of the UK version of Fear Factor. In 2005 she appeared in the programme Cold Turkey which followed her attempts to quit smoking cigarettes alongside Tara Palmer Tomkinson. She later became the face of the SOS Instant Quit Programme which consists of a mouth spray which makes smokers feel sick at the smell and taste of cigarette smoke. She has since resumed the habit.

In 2006 Anderton was a contestant on the second series of ITV's Love Island in Summer 2006. Known as Me-Me by the show's presenters, Fearne Cotton and Patrick Kielty, she was covered extensively in the press as being emotionally unstable, crying relentlessly and being highly self-absorbed. She fell out with friend Lady Victoria Hervey, after Anderton transferred her affections from ex-boyband member Shane Lynch to Hervey's island interest Chris Brosnan. After a long discussion expressing how upset she was with her former friend's behaviour, Hervey then poured a bottle of wine over Anderton's head. In a task Sophie guessed that Ayers Rock is in Canada and the Falkland Islands are in Europe. Anderton was evicted from Love Island on 25 August.

Anderton appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on the September 22, 2006, and announced that she was about to star in a new TV series. The series was later announced as Sky One's Cirque de Celebrité[5], but had to quit after she sustained ligament damage[6].

[edit] Relationships

Matt Graham, a previous boyfriend, told the press: "I was trapped in a nightmare relationship with the girl. It was simply two years of hell. The sex was amazing, really steamy, some of the best I've ever had. But it wasn't worth having to put up with all her emotional baggage." Graham said that Anderton had lesbian sex behind his back and boasted that the best sex she'd ever had was with a woman[7]

After an early period in her modelling career as muse to the designer Scott Henshall, she dated and lived with footballer Mark Bosnich, before the couple broke up over drug taking problems. She was then engaged to nightclub owner Mark Alexiou, but that broke up soon after her call-girl confession

After returning from Fiji for Love Island, it was reported in the Sunday Mirror's showbiz section "Radar" in September 2006 that she was dating Crystal Palace F.C. chairman Simon Jordan [8] [9]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sophie's sex shame. Lifestyle. Despardes (2004-08-01).
  2. ^ http://www.biogs.com/loveisland/anderton.html
  3. ^ Sophie: Why I'm always moody. Love Island. The Sun (2006-09-11).
  4. ^ Harvey gets himself out of the jungle. I'm A Celebrity Get Me out of Here!. Evening News (2004-11-26).
  5. ^ Model Sophie is highly strung. Cirque de Celebrité. The Sun (2006-11-13).
  6. ^ Sophie quits the telly big top. Cirque de Celebrité. The Sun (2006-11-20).
  7. ^ Sophie Anderton Likes the Ladies. I'm a Celebrity. Rainbow Network (2004-12-02).
  8. ^ Pete to go solo. Radar. Sunday Mirror (2006-10-15).
  9. ^ Sophie dines out on love. Relationships. Sunday Mirror (2006-10-15).

[edit] External links

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