Where is Abi Titmuss now? Star quit her lads' mag career in favour of quiet family life in LA with soap star husband

Daily Mail​

24-05-2025

She was once one of Britain's most famous glamour models, gracing the covers of lads' mags and the first-ever series of Love Island back in 2005.
But Abi Titmuss is living a very different life now than when she first found fame as a TV personality and Page Three girl.
The 49-year-old, who grew up in Lincolnshire, now lives in Los Angeles where she is a married mother-of-one.
Abi has largely retreated from public view in recent years in favour of living a quiet family life.
From Celebrity Love Island to a stint on US soap opera Days Of Our Lives, MailOnline takes a look at where the star is now.
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Abi became a lads' mag favourite after her relationship with disgraced TV presenter John Leslie pushed her into the public eye.
Indeed, at a time when they were flying off the shelves, she famously ranked seventh by FHM in their 2005 list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
Abi and John started dating after they met in a bar in Fulham on April 10, 1999.
She was his girlfriend when he was charged with sexually assaulting another woman in 2003 and was subsequently cleared.
After causing headlines while leaving court with John, Abi went on to feature on the front page of various lads' magazines - including Nuts, Loaded and FHM.
She told Femail back in 2012: 'I didn't think I deserved the attention, so the more money I earned, the worse I felt.
'I could make £30,000 for a shoot but I knew how third-rate I was. I could feel my lack of discernible talent as though I was wearing it.'
She later told the publication: 'Suddenly I was being offered a lot of money to do shoots. I thought I could handle it. But I couldn't.
'They created this caricature of a person that I didn't recognise. I was always the same Abigail inside.
'I studied Latin at school, I'm from a good family. But the image that was created was nonsense.'
After going their separate ways around 2004, Abi then went on to work as a roving reporter for Richard and Judy, before appearing in a selection of reality shows - including Hell's Kitchen, Celebrity Love Island and Come Dine With Me.
Later, Abi decided to focus on an acting career and took courses at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
A short stint in theatre beckoned, where Abi bagged a Fringe Report award for Best West End Debut in Two Way Mirror, before going on to play Lady Macbeth in Lowestoft.
After starring in Hotel Babylon and then Casualty in 2012, she fled to the States, changed her name to Abigail Evelyn, and in 2015 landed the role of Nurse Jackie in long running soap opera Days Of Our Lives.
It was there that she met husband Ari Welkom, 41, an American rock star and actor, who rose to stardom in 2005 following his appearance in Brick, alongside Joseph-Gordon Levitt.
She said that what attracted her to Ari, who plays Aldo in the soap, was his lack of judgement about her saucy former career.
'I wanted to meet somebody who didn't know anything about me so I would know 100 per cent in my heart this person just liked me for me and didn't have any judgement.'
It was around this time Abi admitted that the arc lights of fame drove her into a suicidal depression that took years of therapy and a move to the other side of the Atlantic to break.
Speaking of whether she actually considered killing herself, Abi told Mail Online in 2015: 'Yes, many times. It took me years of therapy to deal with the depression. It was a traumatic experience. I don't think it will ever go away.'
Abi and Ari tied the knot in May 2017, and the media learned she was pregnant in January 2018, when the couple were spotted leaving the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles.
Following their exchange of vows, the blushing bride confessed to Hello! magazine that she was aware of the baby's presence during their big day.
She told the publication: 'I was aware throughout our wedding day that there were three, not two, of us experiencing it together.
'The baby is able to hear now and it was lovely to think he or she could have been listening to us making our vows.
'When the harpist started to play, I could feel him or her moving around.'
The news came after Abi, who previously enjoyed dalliances with David Walliams, footballer Lee Sharpe and actor Marc Warren, revealed she was 'ready to be a mum', in light of her engagement.
It's not known exactly when Abi gave birth to her son but she was seen out with him for the first time in January 2018.
Abi apears to have given up acting with her last credit on IMDB being from 2019.
She has also gone quiet on social media, with her last Instagram post from 2021.
Abi was most recent seen in April 2025 where she stepped out for an afternoon stroll with her husband and son in LA.