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The Irish Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
The rise and downfall of 90s glamour models after the lads' mag industry went bust – from Katie Price to Kelly Brook
THESE days, you can find and even chat to with hotties on Instagram and the notorious subscription site OnlyFans. However, long before social media had become such an integral part of our daily lives, you'd find heaps of admirers legging to their local corner shop - where they'd snap up a Advertisement 20 With envious curves, it's no wonder that Kelly Brook was once crowned FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 20 Leilani Dowding claimed the title of Miss Great Britain before becoming a hit on lads' mags Credit: Getty - Contributor From FHM to Loaded, to Nuts and Zoo, the options were practically endless, filled with after page of sexy and busty bombshells. Then arrived the 2000s. The global internet boon and changing views on glamour modelling hit the industry hard, leaving many faces - once plastered across bedroom walls all over the country - hunting for fresh gigs. From homelessness and Advertisement read more on celebrities Keeley Hazell 20 Keeley was skyrocketed into fame when she won the Daily Star's Search for a Beach Babe contest aged just 17 Credit: Alison Webster - The Sun 20 Keeley was voted No 3 in the FHM Sexiest Woman in the World poll 2008 Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd Hailing from Lewisham, in southeast London, and born to a dinner lady mum and window-fitter dad, The young beauty quickly won hearts with her playful attitude and comments, such as: "If I'm swimming in a pool and my bikini pops off, I'm not bothered – I'll just carry on.'' Advertisement The Londoner soon became a fan favourite, landing gigs with Loaded, Nuts, Zoo, and FHM, which dubbed her Kentish melon farmer. At the peak of her Most read in Celebrity ''I was earning a lot of money. At the time you don't realise and I look back and think 'that was crazy','' said the former Page 3 girl who turned 38 last September. Keeley once topped the list as the glamour model with more racy snaps than anyone else - but she hung up her bikini in 2009 when her earnings plummeted from a whopping £30,000 a shoot to a measly £1,000 due to dipping magazine sales. Advertisement Katie Price reveals the truth about her dramatic weight loss after sparking concern Keeley then invested in acting lessons in Los Angeles, going on to appear in the acclaimed 2011's Like Crazy, British gangster flick St George's Da,y and the Hollywood hit Horrible Bosses 2. On the set of Horrible Bosses, Keeley met fellow actor Jason Sudeikis, who was dating actress and director Olivia Wilde at the time. Then, in 2020, 20 Keeley played Bex in Ted Lasso on Apple TV Credit: APPLE Advertisement 20 All that time spent on Page 3 of The Sun has rubbed off on Keeley Hazell as she loves a pun on Instagram Credit: 20 Keeley on Instagram recently Credit: Instagram Keeley was reunited with her Horrible Bosses co-star, Jason, 49, as he played Ted, and the two were briefly dating from 2021 to 2022. On Keeley's Instagram, her bio pokes fun at her previous career, reading: ''Livin' my breast life''. Advertisement Her debut memoir, Everyone's Seen My T**s, will be released on August 26, 2025. Gail Porter 20 The Scottish lass had her naked rear projected onto the Houses of Parliament to promote FHM magazine's 100 sexiest women poll in 1999 Credit: Getty Gail, from Edinburgh, Scotland, initially made a name for herself after she hosted Fully Booked and Top of the Pops. The Scottish TV personality soon expanded her career to become a favourite of the lads' mags in the late 1990s and even had her naked rear projected onto the Houses of Parliament to promote FHM magazine's 100 sexiest women poll in 1999. Advertisement The glamour model tied the knot with Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave in 2001 and welcomed daughter Honey a year later. It was absolutely terrifying, I didn't know what was going on Gail Porter 54 But life outside the glossy magazines was different - Gail was privately battling post-natal depression and after her marriage ended in 2005, she was 20 In 2017, the former glamour model found herself homeless, resorting to sleeping on a park bench in Hampstead Heath Credit: Getty "It was absolutely terrifying, I didn't know what was going on," she later bravely recounted. Advertisement "We didn't have any therapy, we just sat there. People were crying and acting quite strangely, obviously. ''I was drugged up to my eyeballs and found it all very distressing." Then in 2017, Gail, who is now 54, faced the darkest time of her life when she declared bankruptcy and found herself "Those were the scariest nights of my life. There were lots of terrifying noises. I had no idea what they were. Advertisement ''I was freezing and I didn't know who was coming for me," she Back in 2017, the Scot exclusively told The Sun how She was declared "bankrupt" during that year and lived off £200 a month - and credited "Losing my hair was a big thing. I was OK with it and people around me would say it was fine but people stopped booking me for TV work," she explained. Advertisement "The jobs that were coming so freely during the nineties weren't there for me any more. By then I was renting a place and my savings started to dribble away. In 2015, Gail agreed to appear on Celebrity Big Brother in an attempt to solve her cash woes. Yet she has now turned a corner and claimed she is "no longer ashamed" of her body following a life-changing breast reduction. Now back on track, in 2024 we reported how Advertisement Abi Titmuss 20 Abi famously ranked seventh by FHM in their 2005 list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World Credit: Rex Features The ex-lads' mag favourite, now 49, first came to the public's attention when the then-nurse was pictured alongside Leslie as he attended court in 2003, when a sexual assault case against him collapsed. At a time when lads' mags were flying off the shelves, she famously ranked seventh by FHM in their 2005 list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World. Advertisement 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. They created this caricature of a person that I didn't recognise Abi Titmuss 49 ''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. Advertisement ''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.'' Abi left her pin-up career behind in the mid-noughties to study the craft of acting at the renowned Central School of Speech and Drama, subsequently bagging a role on BBC's Casualty in 2012. Her next big leap took her stateside, landing the role of Nurse Jackie in hit soap Days of Our Lives, where she found love with Ari Welkom. Advertisement In a January 2015 revelation on Loose Women, Abi declared she had rebranded herself as Abigail Evelyn, stepping away from her former glamour modelling past. Two years later, in May 2017, she tied the know with Ari while she was 21 weeks pregnant with their first child. "I met Ari when I was 38 and got pregnant naturally at 40," Abi told to the Loose Women panel. Kelly Brook 20 Kelly was graced FHM's Sexiest countdown with her presence annually until its closure in 2015 Credit: Rex Features Advertisement 20 Kelly regularly modelled during her 20s With envious curves, it's no wonder that Having burst onto the glamour scene in 1997, Kelly soon became adored by readers as a Page 3 icon, and graced FHM's Sexiest countdown with her presence annually until its closure in 2015. Now aged 45, Kelly had a tragic stint presenting the Big Breakfast in 1999 before quitting just a few months later, amid claims she stumbled over the pronunciation of bigger words. Advertisement Kelly bounced back, hosting Celebrity Their engagement came to an end and the pair eventually parted ways in 2008. 20 Kelly back in 2020 as Fabulous Magazine's front cover star Credit: FABULOUS 20 Kelly at a recent film premiere Credit: GETTY Advertisement Unfortunately, Kelly faced more heartache when, in 2011, she experienced devastating loss – a miscarriage five months into her pregnancy with then-boyfriend, rugby ace Thom Evans, followed by yet another later that same year. Their relationship couldn't weather the storm, with the rugby legend relocating to Los Angeles for his modelling gig soon after. "When I brought up the subject of marriage and children, the colour drained from his face," Kelly revealed in her autobiography. She claimed: "He wanted to focus on his 'new life' in LA - a wife and children would slow him down. He didn't want to be in a relationship anymore. It was obvious." Advertisement Nowadays, she lives in Kent alongside Leilani Dowding 20 Leilani ditched it all for a life in Los Angeles in the mid-noughties Credit: Rex Features However, she ditched it all for a life in Los Angeles in the mid-noughties, where she later married Raquel Welch's ex-husband, restaurant mogul Richie Palmer. Advertisement Despite the love they shared, they struggled with the 26-year age gap - which ultimately led to divorce due to conflicting views on starting a family. I was the one who wanted to get divorced from my ex Leilani Dowding 45 Speaking out against accusations of being a gold digger on VH1's Tough Love Miami, Leilani hit back: "I was the one who wanted to get divorced from my ex. ''He just assumed I would want something from it and offered me a huge settlement. ''Because it was my choice, I didn't ask for anything." Advertisement Tackling assumptions, she went on: "Because he is a lot older, people assume that yes, I was a gold digger. My ex husband was amazing and such a gentlemen. 20 The former pin-up star joined The Real Housewives of Cheshire in series nine Credit: Getty - Contributor "But he didn't want kids and I did. That is why we didn't work out. We are still friends and if he ever thought I was just out for money, he would probably never speak to me again." Leilani, now 45, Advertisement But after just one series, Leilani confirmed she would be departing the popular show. Katie Price 20 Katie, aged 18, appearing in The Sun in 1996 Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd 20 Fans were introduced to Katie Price in 1999 under the pseudonym Jordan Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd Perhaps Advertisement The photos were then sent to a modelling agency in London and in 1996 we were introduced to Jordan, her pseudonym, on Page 3 - and the rest is history. As Jordan, Price was famed for Katie also regularly appeared in the Daily Star , FHM , the British edition of Playboy , Nuts , Maxim , Loaded , Vogue and Esquire and also more bizarrely, attempted to have a career in politics. When Katie ran as a candidate in Stretford and Urmston during the 2001 UK general election, the pin-up received a measly 713 votes - or a shocking 1.8% of the votes cast. Advertisement Since then, Katie - who's had almost 20 boob jobs - has also appeared on TV screens in shows such as Footballers' Wives and I'm a Celebrity where she met Aussie pop star Peter Andre. 20 Katie Price pictured at The Gossies 2025 at the RDS Concert Hall, Dublin Credit: SUNIRISH 20 Katie's most recent modelling campaign was for Diesel Credit: HULU/TNI PRESS LTD The jungle romance resulted in Katie marrying the Mysterious Girl hitmaker in 2005, before they eventually divorced in 2009 after having two kids, Junior and Advertisement Katie's love life has been just as exciting as her career - fresh from her break-up with Peter, Katie enjoyed a whirlwind relationship and marriage with cage fighter The Page 3 legend and former Loose Women panellist has also briefly dated model Danny Cipriani and got engaged to Argentinian model Leandro Penna in 2011. Wedding bells rang once more after Katie met Kieran Hayler in 2013. They had two kids together, Jett and Bunny, before their break-up and divorce. Between 2018 ans 2019, Katie moved on quickly with Kris Boyson. They had an on-off romance for one year and even got engaged. The pair split for good in 2019. Advertisement Following a brief stunt with Charles Drury, car salesman As of now, the mum-of-five is in a relationship with Married At First Sight star, Katie Price's Surgery: A Timeline 1998 - Katie underwent her first breast augmentation taking her from a natural B cup to a C cup. She also had her first liposuction 1999 - Katie had two more boob jobs in the same year, one taking her from a C cup to a D cup, and then up to an F cup 2006 - Katie went under the knife to take her breasts up to a G cup 2007 - Katie had a rhinoplasty and veneers on her teeth 2008 - Katie stunned fans by reducing her breasts from an F cup to a C cup 2011 - Going back to an F cup, Katie also underwent body-contouring treatment and cheek and lip fillers 2014/5 - Following a nasty infection, Katie had her breast implants removed 2016 - Opting for bigger breasts yet again, Katie had another set of implants, along with implants, Botox and lip fillers 2017 - After a disastrous 'threading' facelift, Katie also had her veneers replaced. She also had her eighth boob job taking her to a GG cup 2018 - Katie went under the knife yet again for a facelift 2019 - After jetting to Turkey, Katie had a face, eye and eyelid lift, Brazilian bum lift and a tummy tuck 2020 - Katie has her 12th boob job in Belgium to correct botched surgery and a new set of veneers 2021 - In a complete body overhaul, she opts for eye and lip lifts, liposuction under her chin, fat injected into her bum and full body liposuction 2022 - Katie undergoes another brow and eye lift-and undergoes 'biggest ever' boob job in Belgium, her 16th in total 2023 - Opting for a second rhinoplasty, Katie also gets a lip lift at the same time as well as new lip filler throughout the year 2024 - Katie has her 17th boob job in Brussels after revealing she wanted to downsize. She performed at Dublin Pride just days later and surgeons warned the lack of recovery posed a risk of infection Back in March this year, Katie was discharged from her second bankruptcy - and has now vowed to claw back her lost £100million fortune. It brings to an end six years of Advertisement The star thanked fans for their support following a Zoom call with her lawyer, telling The Sun: "I'm so happy. "I can finally move on and put these bankruptcies behind me and now only focus on the positive. 'Thank you to everyone that has supported me through this process." Once reported to have made £20million from her books, Katie has now unveiled plans to make £500MILLION in the next three years, and turn her financial situation around. She declared: "New year's resolution, if that's the right word, is I want to make about 500 million in about three years." Advertisement
The Sun
5 days ago
- Business
- The Sun
The rise and downfall of 90s glamour models after the lads' mag industry went bust – from Katie Price to Kelly Brook
THESE days, you can find and even chat to with hotties on Instagram and the notorious subscription site OnlyFans. However, long before social media had become such an integral part of our daily lives, you'd find heaps of admirers legging to their local corner shop - where they'd snap up a glossy lads' magazine. 20 From FHM to Loaded, to Nuts and Zoo, the options were practically endless, filled with after page of sexy and busty bombshells. Then arrived the 2000s. The global internet boon and changing views on glamour modelling hit the industry hard, leaving many faces - once plastered across bedroom walls all over the country - hunting for fresh gigs. From homelessness and post-natal depression to a 26-year age gap marriage, here's where the 90s glamour models are now, decades after their racy stints. Keeley Hazell 20 Hailing from Lewisham, in southeast London, and born to a dinner lady mum and window-fitter dad, Keeley was skyrocketed to fame when she won the Daily Star's Search for a Beach Babe contest aged just 17. The young beauty quickly won hearts with her playful attitude and comments, such as: "If I'm swimming in a pool and my bikini pops off, I'm not bothered – I'll just carry on.'' The Londoner soon became a fan favourite, landing gigs with Loaded, Nuts, Zoo, and FHM, which dubbed her Kentish melon farmer. At the peak of her career, Keeley was living out her wildest dreams, '' travelling all the time'' ''I was earning a lot of money. At the time you don't realise and I look back and think 'that was crazy','' said the former Page 3 girl who turned 38 last September. Keeley once topped the list as the glamour model with more racy snaps than anyone else - but she hung up her bikini in 2009 when her earnings plummeted from a whopping £30,000 a shoot to a measly £1,000 due to dipping magazine sales. Keeley then invested in acting lessons in Los Angeles, going on to appear in the acclaimed 2011's Like Crazy, British gangster flick St George's Da,y and the Hollywood hit Horrible Bosses 2. On the set of Horrible Bosses, Keeley met fellow actor Jason Sudeikis, who was dating actress and director Olivia Wilde at the time. Then, in 2020, she began starring in Ted Lasso, a sports comedy-drama, staying in the role until the show's finale three years later and even co-writing an episode. 20 20 20 Keeley was reunited with her Horrible Bosses co-star, Jason, 49, as he played Ted, and the two were briefly dating from 2021 to 2022. On Keeley's Instagram, her bio pokes fun at her previous career, reading: ''Livin' my breast life''. Her debut memoir, Everyone's Seen My T**s, will be released on August 26, 2025. Gail Porter Gail, from Edinburgh, Scotland, initially made a name for herself after she hosted Fully Booked and Top of the Pops. The Scottish TV personality soon expanded her career to become a favourite of the lads' mags in the late 1990s and even had her naked rear projected onto the Houses of Parliament to promote FHM magazine's 100 sexiest women poll in 1999. The glamour model tied the knot with Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave in 2001 and welcomed daughter Honey a year later. But life outside the glossy magazines was different - Gail was privately battling post-natal depression and after her marriage ended in 2005, she was also hit with alopecia and lost all her hair. "It was absolutely terrifying, I didn't know what was going on," she later bravely recounted. "We didn't have any therapy, we just sat there. People were crying and acting quite strangely, obviously. ''I was drugged up to my eyeballs and found it all very distressing." Then in 2017, Gail, who is now 54, faced the darkest time of her life when she declared bankruptcy and found herself homeless, resorting to sleeping on a park bench in Hampstead Heath. "Those were the scariest nights of my life. There were lots of terrifying noises. I had no idea what they were. ''I was freezing and I didn't know who was coming for me," she previously shared with The Sun. Back in 2017, the Scot exclusively told The Sun how she was left homeless for a year - and lived off Marmite on toast. She was declared "bankrupt" during that year and lived off £200 a month - and credited being left penniless to her alopecia battle. "Losing my hair was a big thing. I was OK with it and people around me would say it was fine but people stopped booking me for TV work," she explained. "The jobs that were coming so freely during the nineties weren't there for me any more. By then I was renting a place and my savings started to dribble away. In 2015, Gail agreed to appear on Celebrity Big Brother in an attempt to solve her cash woes. Yet she has now turned a corner and claimed she is "no longer ashamed" of her body following a life-changing breast reduction. Now back on track, in 2024 we reported how she "loved being blonde again" after donning a wig for the very first time. Abi Titmuss Abi Titmuss shot to fame in the noughties as John Leslie's girlfriend, appearing in a threesome sex tape with the disgraced ex-Blue Peter host, before going on to start a new life in the US. The ex-lads' mag favourite, now 49, first came to the public's attention when the then-nurse was pictured alongside Leslie as he attended court in 2003, when a sexual assault case against him collapsed. At a time when lads' mags were flying off the shelves, she famously ranked seventh by FHM in their 2005 list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World. 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.'' Abi left her pin-up career behind in the mid-noughties to study the craft of acting at the renowned Central School of Speech and Drama, subsequently bagging a role on BBC's Casualty in 2012. Her next big leap took her stateside, landing the role of Nurse Jackie in hit soap Days of Our Lives, where she found love with Ari Welkom. In a January 2015 revelation on Loose Women, Abi declared she had rebranded herself as Abigail Evelyn, stepping away from her former glamour modelling past. Two years later, in May 2017, she tied the know with Ari while she was 21 weeks pregnant with their first child. "I met Ari when I was 38 and got pregnant naturally at 40," Abi told to the Loose Women panel. Kelly Brook 20 20 With envious curves, it's no wonder that Kelly Brook was once crowned FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World. Having burst onto the glamour scene in 1997, Kelly soon became adored by readers as a Page 3 icon, and graced FHM's Sexiest countdown with her presence annually until its closure in 2015. Now aged 45, Kelly had a tragic stint presenting the Big Breakfast in 1999 before quitting just a few months later, amid claims she stumbled over the pronunciation of bigger words. Kelly bounced back, hosting Celebrity Love Island in the early 2000s and getting engaged to 90s heartthrob Billy Zane. Their engagement came to an end and the pair eventually parted ways in 2008. 20 Unfortunately, Kelly faced more heartache when, in 2011, she experienced devastating loss – a miscarriage five months into her pregnancy with then-boyfriend, rugby ace Thom Evans, followed by yet another later that same year. Their relationship couldn't weather the storm, with the rugby legend relocating to Los Angeles for his modelling gig soon after. "When I brought up the subject of marriage and children, the colour drained from his face," Kelly revealed in her autobiography. She claimed: "He wanted to focus on his 'new life' in LA - a wife and children would slow him down. He didn't want to be in a relationship anymore. It was obvious." Nowadays, she lives in Kent alongside her model hubby Jeremy Parisi, 39 and hosted the drive time show on Heart London. Leilani Dowding Leilani Dowding didn't have just stunning looks - the brainy beauty studied economics at the University of London and claimed the title of Miss Great Britain before becoming a hit on lads' mags. However, she ditched it all for a life in Los Angeles in the mid-noughties, where she later married Raquel Welch's ex-husband, restaurant mogul Richie Palmer. Despite the love they shared, they struggled with the 26-year age gap - which ultimately led to divorce due to conflicting views on starting a family. Speaking out against accusations of being a gold digger on VH1's Tough Love Miami, Leilani hit back: "I was the one who wanted to get divorced from my ex. ''He just assumed I would want something from it and offered me a huge settlement. ''Because it was my choice, I didn't ask for anything." Tackling assumptions, she went on: "Because he is a lot older, people assume that yes, I was a gold digger. My ex husband was amazing and such a gentlemen. 20 "But he didn't want kids and I did. That is why we didn't work out. We are still friends and if he ever thought I was just out for money, he would probably never speak to me again." Leilani, now 45, joined The Real Housewives of Cheshire in series nine following the departure of original Housewife, Lauren Simon. But after just one series, Leilani confirmed she would be departing the popular show. Katie Price 20 Perhaps Katie Price wouldn't be the household name she is now if it hadn't been for her pal who suggested Katie to have professional snaps taken of her. The photos were then sent to a modelling agency in London and in 1996 we were introduced to Jordan, her pseudonym, on Page 3 - and the rest is history. As Jordan, Price was famed for her surgically enhanced breasts, after first increasing her natural 32B to a 32FF when she was just 20. Katie also regularly appeared in the Daily Star, FHM, the British edition of Playboy, Nuts, Maxim, Loaded, Vogue and Esquire and also more bizarrely, attempted to have a career in politics. When Katie ran as a candidate in Stretford and Urmston during the 2001 UK general election, the pin-up received a measly 713 votes - or a shocking 1.8% of the votes cast. Since then, Katie - who's had almost 20 boob jobs - has also appeared on TV screens in shows such as Footballers' Wives and I'm a Celebrity where she met Aussie pop star Peter Andre. 20 20 The jungle romance resulted in Katie marrying the Mysterious Girl hitmaker in 2005, before they eventually divorced in 2009 after having two kids, Junior and Princess. Katie's love life has been just as exciting as her career - fresh from her break-up with Peter, Katie enjoyed a whirlwind relationship and marriage with cage fighter Alex Reid that lasted almost two years. The Page 3 legend and former Loose Women panellist has also briefly dated model Danny Cipriani and got engaged to Argentinian model Leandro Penna in 2011. Wedding bells rang once more after Katie met Kieran Hayler in 2013. They had two kids together, Jett and Bunny, before their break-up and divorce. Between 2018 ans 2019, Katie moved on quickly with Kris Boyson. They had an on-off romance for one year and even got engaged. The pair split for good in 2019. Following a brief stunt with Charles Drury, car salesman Carl Woods took a shining to Katie in 2020. Their tremulous relationship was up and down for three years. They broke for a final time in 2023. As of now, the mum-of-five is in a relationship with Married At First Sight star, JJ Slater, 32. Katie Price's Surgery: A Timeline 1998 - Katie underwent her first breast augmentation taking her from a natural B cup to a C cup. She also had her first liposuction 1999 - Katie had two more boob jobs in the same year, one taking her from a C cup to a D cup, and then up to an F cup 2006 - Katie went under the knife to take her breasts up to a G cup 2007 - Katie had a rhinoplasty and veneers on her teeth 2008 - Katie stunned fans by reducing her breasts from an F cup to a C cup 2011 - Going back to an F cup, Katie also underwent body-contouring treatment and cheek and lip fillers 2014/5 - Following a nasty infection, Katie had her breast implants removed 2016 - Opting for bigger breasts yet again, Katie had another set of implants, along with implants, Botox and lip fillers 2017 - After a disastrous 'threading' facelift, Katie also had her veneers replaced. She also had her eighth boob job taking her to a GG cup 2018 - Katie went under the knife yet again for a facelift 2019 - After jetting to Turkey, Katie had a face, eye and eyelid lift, Brazilian bum lift and a tummy tuck 2020 - Katie has her 12th boob job in Belgium to correct botched surgery and a new set of veneers 2021 - In a complete body overhaul, she opts for eye and lip lifts, liposuction under her chin, fat injected into her bum and full body liposuction 2022 - Katie undergoes another brow and eye lift-and undergoes 'biggest ever' boob job in Belgium, her 16th in total 2023 - Opting for a second rhinoplasty, Katie also gets a lip lift at the same time as well as new lip filler throughout the year 2024 - Katie has her 17th boob job in Brussels after revealing she wanted to downsize. She performed at Dublin Pride just days later and surgeons warned the lack of recovery posed a risk of infection Back in March this year, Katie was discharged from her second bankruptcy - and has now vowed to claw back her lost £100million fortune. It brings to an end six years of financial hell for the 46-year-old model, and she has now been discharged from her second bankruptcy, relating to an unpaid tax bill of over £750,000. The star thanked fans for their support following a Zoom call with her lawyer, telling The Sun: "I'm so happy. "I can finally move on and put these bankruptcies behind me and now only focus on the positive. 'Thank you to everyone that has supported me through this process." Once reported to have made £20million from her books, Katie has now unveiled plans to make £500MILLION in the next three years, and turn her financial situation around. She declared: "New year's resolution, if that's the right word, is I want to make about 500 million in about three years."
The Sun
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Where your favourite Page 3 girls are now…Ted Lasso star to freak health battle & legend with ‘best boobs in the world'
IT launched the careers of Sam Fox, Kelly Brook and Katie Price - and led many more women to bright futures. But the Page 3 glamour girl has been officially consigned to history as the last UK newspaper to feature topless pics calls it a day. 27 27 27 Ten years after The Sun ditched its own iconic Page 3, The Daily Star has announced it is pulling the pin-ups from its paper. While the world has moved on since its introduction in 1970, the girls who found fame through The Sun's glamour shoots have gone on to successful lives in many different fields, as well as suffering their fair share of heartache. From a successful Hollywood actress to a devastating health battle and a new life on a farm, we look at where your favourite page 3 models are now. Ted Lasso Star Keeley Hazell began her career as a model, working with The Sun as well as magazines such as FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo Weekly, before transitioning to writing and acting. She was just 17 when she won a national "Search for a Babe" competition, and fast became one of Britain's top glamour models during the Noughties. There was a time when she commanded up to £30,000 for one photo shoot, and her final appearance on Page 3 was in 2009. She then turned to Hollywood, most recently landing the role of Bex in the Apple TV's mega-hit Ted Lasso - and even co-writing one of the episodes. She also starred in Horrible Bosses 2, in 2014. The star, who also campaigns on environmental issues and breast cancer awareness, has dated Joe Cole, David Walliams and most recently Jason Sudeikis. They split in 2022. 'PE With Joe' star When Rosie Jones appeared on Page 3 she won the heart of her future husband, Joe Wicks, eight years before they met in 2016. Jodie Marsh gives health update after saying she's 'fat but happier than ever' now she's quit glamour modelling 27 27 The gym legend set his sight s on his 'dream girl' and they finally came face to face at a rave where his pal was DJing. The couple wed in 2019 and share four kids - Indie, seven, and Marley, five,Leni, two and 11-month-old Dusty. Rosie was dubbed the"hottest supply teacher ever" after taking over Joe 's YouTube PE lessons during lockdown, while he was recovering from surgery on a broken hand. And she sent viewing figures rocketing with her #PEWithJoe appearance. Wag with a children's boutique 27 27 Dubbed "the new Samantha Fox", former Page 3 beauty Michelle Marsh became a regular in lads' mags including Playboy, Loaded, Maxim and Nuts. She was famed for her 32FF natural boobs in the early noughties, but quit modelling in 2006. Instead, she tried to make it as a pop star - but her debut single I Don't Do flopped at number 89 in the charts. Michelle, now 42, went on to perform on The X Factor 's Battle of the Stars in 2008. She also appeared on The Weakest Link and Celebrity Big Brother. The former glamour model - who once worked as a care assistant at a nursing home - opened a children's boutique, TillyFlops, in Oldham, Manchester in 2012. She married Scottish footballer Will Haining in 2007, and the couple have three children. In 2022, she opened up about her daughter's rare medical condition, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). The chronic nerve disease left Maddison, now 17, 'screaming in pain' and Michelle revealed the traumatised teen even 'begged to have her leg amputated.' Lara Croft model 27 27 Nell McAndrew hosted dating show Man O Man in 1996 and modelled as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike before becoming the face of Tomb Raider's Lara Croft in the late Nineties. Now aged 47, she went on to model for all of the top men's mags. She later moved to TV and hosted The Big Breakfast in the early noughties, before signing up for her first marathon in 2005. She has run several more since and has set a personal best of 2hours and 54minutes. Leeds-born Nell - who has penned a book about running - has appeared on a series of reality shows including I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Family Fortunes and Dancing On Ice. She is married to property developer Paul Hardcastle and they have two children. High-flying actress 27 27 Lucy Pinder was famously voted as having 'the best boobs in the world' by Ralph Magazine in 2007 and reached number 16 in FHM's Sexiest Women list. Lucy, now 41, went into the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2009 but was booted off in only the first week. She has since become an actress starring in a series of films, including Age of Kill with former EastEnders actor Martin Kemp in 2015, as well as 2017 supernatural thrillers Suburban Fairytale and Fanged Up. The actress - whose Instagram page captures her love of photography - has also been involved with charities over the years, including Cats Protection and Help for Heroes. She currently hosts a podcast called Smashing Sundays. Last year Lucy, who was previously linked to Marvel actor Chris Evans, confirmed her relationship with Southampton manager Russell Martin. Electronic DJ 27 Jakki Degg was crowned The Sun's "Best Ever Page 3 Girl" in 2001. She's since graced the covers of hundreds of lads' mags, and has even starred as a TV actress. She appeared in Is Harry On The Boat? a film based on the lives of holiday reps in Ibiza, alongside Danny Dyer, Ralf Little and Caroline Flack. In 2004, she won ITV's Celebrity 24 Hour Quiz, with her winnings going to the RSPCA. Now aged 47, Jakki quit the modelling industry after a successful decade. She later went off-the-radar to become an electronic DJ, mostly in local UK nightclubs. Health battle 27 27 Starting out as a Page 3 girl, Joanne Guest starred in photoshoots with Katie Price and became a favourite with lads' mags, thanks to her quirky short blonde hair and tomboyish style. Now aged 53, Jo has since starred in a few documentary-style shows for the Granada Men & Motors channel, such as UK Babes Exposed and Undressed with Guest. In 2007, she was devastatingly struck down with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia. With a bloated stomach and in constant pain, Jo gave up sex for more than a year and was forced to sell her used knickers on eBay because she couldn't work. She told This Morning at the time: 'One day I tried to put on my favourite boots and couldn't zip them up - I realised my calves were swollen. "I thought maybe it was down to the change in my lifestyle." Jo - who was eventually diagnosed with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) and fibromyalgia - has since re-joined Men & Motors, and stars on their YouTube channel. The bodybuilder 27 27 27 Former Page 3 girl Jodie Marsh started her career at the world-famous Stringfellows nightclub. She went on to star in a number of reality TV shows, even marrying her model ex-husband, Matt Peacock, as part of a reality series to find a husband. They split within months. In 2015, she wed James Placido but the couple split after two years and she went on to swear off men, staying celibate for four years. Years after debuting her famous outfit of just two studded straps over her breasts, Jodie, now 46, decided to turn her attention to fitness and bodybuilding. She won contests in LA and featured in TV shows about her bodybuilding. Since 2020, she has devoted herself to the care of our furry friends, buying Fripps Farm in Essex and opening it as an animal sanctuary. Professional show jumper 27 27 Leilani Dowding, who grew up in a Catholic household in Dorset, competed in Miss Universe and other pageants before becoming a Page 3 model in 1999. In 2005, she starred in a gladiators-style TV show alongside Big Brother's Kate Lawler. She moved to LA in 2007 and featured on dating show Tough Love Miami. She was briefly married to American actor and restaurateur Richie Palmer, a former husband of actress Raquel Welch. The horse-mad model, 45, has since competed in professional show-jumping competitions and spends a lot of her spare time at the stables. She also ran a clothing boutique and a real estate company in the Hollywood Hills. Most recently, Leilani - who is engaged to The Cult rocker Billy Duffy - was seen on Real Housewives of Cheshire, but she quit in 2020 when production shut down. The couple have since moved back to the UK. Reality star 27 27 Stunning blonde Nicola McLean appeared regularly on Page 3 between 1999 and 2004, but chose to retire after giving birth to her first son in 2006. In a poll, readers voted her as their fourth favourite Page 3 girl of all time, ahead of the likes of Samantha Fox and Katie Price - with whom she had a tense rivalry. After throwing the towel in for glamour modelling, Nicola became a reality TV star, starring with Joe Swash in the I'm A Celeb jungle in 2008 and Big Brother in 2012 and 2017. She has also been a regular panellist on the Jeremy Vine show, on Channel 5. The 44-year-old, who is an avid supporter of animal charity PETA, married footballer Tom Williams in 2009 and they have two sons - Rocky and Striker. They briefly split when Tom cheated on her in Las Vegas in 2014, but reunited a year later. £50m fortune 27 27 Before she found fame with hit girl band Spice Girls, Geri Horner, dubbed Ginger Spice, posed for a series of racy glamour shots. She also posed for Page 3 in 1990 - just four years before she was discovered by music label Heart Management and joined the Spice Girls. The group became the most successful British pop band since The Beatles, with their first album selling more than 30 million copies. In later years, the band split and Geri launched a solo career. Now 52, she had a string of high-profile relationships with stars like Robbie Williams and David Walliams before meeting her husband, Formula One boss Christian Horner. The couple have a son, eight-year-old Montague, and a daughter, Bluebell, 19, from Geri's previous relationship with screenwriter Sacha Gervasi. In recent years, the once-outspoken Spice has enjoyed spending time at home in her and Christian's lavish mansion with her children, often sharing snaps of her bakes in her family kitchen. Their relationship was rocked last year when Christian was embroiled in a sexting scandal. The Red Bull boss was found to have sent a slew of inappropriate messages to a female employee - who he pestered for raunchy snaps - behind Geri's back. But the pair worked through the problems. Geri is said to have amassed a personal fortune of more than £50 million. TV presenter and Love Island winner 27 27 Model-turned-TV-presenter Jayne Middlemiss landed a spot on Page 3 in the nineties. She then struck the big time after landing a presenting gig on Top of the Pops and on Radio 1. Already a hit on mainstream TV, Jayne went on to famously star in 2005's Celebrity Love Island alongside Calum Best and Rebecca Loos. She won the show, despite crying 27 times during the series. Jayne, 54, also won Celebrity MasterChef in 2009 - but has been off-the-radar since. Read More on The Sun TRAGIC STAR Paul Danan 'found dead on sofa with TV still on after taking cocktail of drugs' i don't 'Gutted' Amy Childs 'cancels wedding' after fan backlash over extreme weight loss On Twitter, she details her love of yoga, and has described herself as a "music obsessed spiritual junkie" and "a yogini", whatever that means... Our Page 3 girls really have gone on to do great things!
Daily Record
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Inside lives of 90s glamour models from homelessness to Hollywood fame
The 1990s were the golden age for glamour models, who were catapulted to fame by men's magazines like FHM and Loaded - but what happened to the women who graced the pages of those publications? Today, sliding into the DMs of enticing Instagram models might be the norm for a bit of flirtation, but rewind to the early 2000s, and those looking for an eyeful would have to physically purchase magazines from the shops. FHM, Loaded, Nuts, and Zoo were the prime choices, with pages adorned with the models who hung on the walls of young men across the country. As the end of the decade approached, however, the lads' mags industry faced a decline. With the internet's rise and changing views on glamour modelling, the magazines had a tough time, causing their cover girls to seek different routes in life – some finding success, others not so much, as noted by the Mirror. Gail Porter One such lads' mag icon is Scots star Gail Porter. Known initially for her roles on Fully Booked and Top of the Pops, she became quite the sensation on the scene, candidly talking about orgasms and even having her bare backside beamed onto the Houses of Parliament as part of a cheeky stunt for FHM magazine's '100 sexiest women' poll in 1999. The Edinburgh-born presenter tied the knot with Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave in 2001 and gave birth to their daughter Honey a year after. Despite her public persona, Porter was battling post-natal depression in private, and her marriage breakdown in 2005 coincided with a diagnosis of alopecia that resulted in her losing all of her hair. "It was absolutely terrifying, I didn't know what was going on," she would later share about the ordeal. "We didn't have any therapy, we just sat there. People were crying and acting quite strangely, obviously. I was drugged up to my eyeballs and found it all very distressing." By 2017 the now 54-year-ols's most challenging period came when she was declared bankrupt and ended up homeless, spending nights on a bench in Hampstead Heath. "Those were the scariest nights of my life. There were lots of terrifying noises. I had no idea what they were. I was freezing and I didn't know who was coming for me," she recounted to The Sun. She linked her financial woes to her experience with hair loss. "Losing my hair was a big thing. I was OK with it and people around me would say it was fine but people stopped booking me for TV work," she said. "The jobs that were coming so freely during the nineties weren't there for me any more. By then I was renting a place and my savings started to dribble away." Keeley Hazell Keeley Hazell, originally from Lewisham, London, saw her fortunes change after winning the Daily Star's Search for a Beach Babe competition at the age of just 17. Famed for her down-to-earth quotes, such as: "If I'm swimming in a pool and my bikini pops off, I'm not bothered – I'll just carry on," Keeley became an instant hit, securing deals with publications like Loaded, Nuts, Zoo, and FHM, which affectionately dubbed her a 'Kentish melon farmer'. Reflecting on her career peak, she said: "I was travelling all the time, and financially my situation changed a lot. I was earning a lot of money. At the time you don't realise and I look back and think 'that was crazy.'" Now 38, Keeley once reigned as the glamour model with more sultry snaps than anyone else in her prime but retired her bikini in 2009 when her earnings dropped from £30,000 a shoot to a mere £1,000 due to dwindling magazine sales. Cleverly, she turned her financial fortunes around by investing in acting lessons in Los Angeles, subsequently appearing in the acclaimed 2011's Like Crazy, British gangster film St George's Day, and the Hollywood blockbuster Horrible Bosses 2. While filming Horrible Bosses, Keeley met actor Jason Sudeikis, who was dating actress and director Olivia Wilde at the time. Then, in 2020, she began starring in Ted Lasso, a sports comedy-drama, remaining in the role until the show's finale and even co-writing an episode. Keeley was reunited with her Horrible Bosses co-star, Jason, 49, as he played Ted, and the two were romantically involved from 2021 to 2022. On Keeley's Instagram, her bio humorously references her previous career, stating: 'Livin' my breast life', but lists her current occupation as 'writer'. Her debut memoir, Everyone's Seen My T**s, is set for release on July 15. Leilani Dowding Leilani Dowding may have initially turned heads with her looks, but she also boasts a sharp intellect, having studied economics at the University of London before clinching the Miss Great Britain crown and becoming a prominent figure in various lad mags. She ultimately uprooted her life, moving to Los Angeles in the mid-2000s where she would go on to marry Raquel Welch's former husband, restaurant mogul Richie Palmer. Their love was real, yet the significant age gap of 26 years proved challenging, and their differing opinions on starting a family led them down the path to divorce. Coming out strong against being branded a gold digger on VH1's Tough Love Miami, Leilani stood firm in her values, saying: "I was the one who wanted to get divorced from my ex. He just assumed I would want something from it and offered me a huge settlement. Because it was my choice, I didn't ask for anything." In response to sceptics, she addressed them directly, saying: "Because he is a lot older, people assume that yes, I was a gold digger. My ex husband was amazing and such a gentlemen. "But he didn't want kids and I did. That is why we didn't work out. We are still friends and if he ever thought I was just out for money, he would probably never speak to me again." At 45, Leilani plunged into reality TV, joining The Real Housewives of Cheshire in its ninth series after Lauren Simon's exit. However, following a brief stint, she announced that she would not be returning to the ITVBe show after just one series. Six years after her departure, as the show celebrated its 10th anniversary, original stars such as Tanya Bardsley, Leanne Brown, Dawn Ward, and Magali Gorre made a comeback to "The Real Housewives of Cheshire." They were joined by newer faces like Hanna Kinsella, Ester Dee, and Nermina Pieters-Mekic. However, Leilani disclosed on social media that she wasn't invited to the anniversary series. Engaged to Billy Duffy of The Cult, she suspects her absence is due to her often controversial social media remarks. Leilani shared in a video post: "A few of my friends and some people I don't know who follow me or the show have asked if I'll be going back on The Real Housewives of Cheshire as it's the tenth anniversary and they're bringing back a lot of the previous cast members. But no, I haven't been asked." She continued: "It's possible because I've been very outspoken about political and social things that no-one on mainstream TV should ever talk about. Also, I think it's more likely because there would be no storyline for me. I live south of Cheshire now, just a little bit, south of the border. I haven't spoken to or hung out with any of the women since I left the show." Abi Titmuss Abi Titmuss became a tabloid sensation when she supported her then-partner John Leslie during the collapse of his 2003 sexual assault case. The former nurse switched careers to become a reporter for Richard and Judy. However, her career took a hit in 2004 when a sex tape involving herself, John and model Aisha Abubakar was leaked, resulting in her dismissal from the show. Abi then left modelling behind in the mid-2000s to study acting at the prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama, eventually landing a role on BBC's Casualty in 2012. Her next major move took her across the pond, where she secured the role of Nurse Jackie in popular soap Days of Our Lives, and fell in love with Ari Welkom. In a January 2015 appearance on Loose Women, Abi announced that she had rebranded herself as Abigail Evelyn, distancing herself from her glamour modelling past. She and Ari got married in May 2017 while she was 21 weeks pregnant with their first child. "I met Ari when I was 38 and got pregnant naturally at 40," Abi revealed to the Loose Women panel. Kelly Brook With a figure to die for, it's no surprise that she was once named FHM's 'Sexiest Woman in the World'. Having made her debut in the glamour industry in 1997, Kelly quickly became a favourite among readers as a Page 3 icon, and regularly featured in FHM's Sexiest countdown until its closure in 2015. Now aged 45, Kelly had an unsuccessful stint presenting the Big Breakfast in 1999 before she resigned after just a few months, amid allegations that she struggled with pronouncing complex words. She faced tremendous personal challenges, from hosting Celebrity Love Island to ending her engagement with Hollywood actor Billy Zane in 2008. She endured profound sorrow in her private life when, back in 2011, she suffered a miscarriage five months into her pregnancy with then-partner and rugby player Thom Evans, before facing another miscarriage later the same year. The relationship with Thom ultimately failed to survive these hard times. After moving to Los Angeles for his modelling pursuits, he expressed a reluctance to settle down, as Kelly shared in her autobiography: "When I brought up the subject of marriage and children, the colour drained from his face." She added: "He wanted to focus on his 'new life' in LA - a wife and children would slow him down. He didn't want to be in a relationship anymore. It was obvious." Now settled in Kent, Kelly enjoys life with her model spouse Jeremy Parisi, with the couple appearing together in the most recent series of Celebrity Race Across the World. In recent years, Kelly has achieved not only professional success but also a health transformation by losing two stone and shrinking four dress sizes. Embracing her role as a SlimFast brand ambassador, she successfully dropped from a size 16 to a size 12, attributing the remarkable health achievement to the weight management programme. Opening up about her previous struggles with weight during the 2010s, she previously said: "I wasn't feeling happy in my body. I wanted to lose weight, and now I've lost it. I'm maintaining it and feel really good." Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. 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