Abi Titmuss
Born	Abigail Titmuss 8 February 1976 (1976-02-08) (age 32)[1] Ruskington, Lincolnshire, England

Abigail Evelyn Titmuss, best known as Abi Titmuss, (born 8 February 1976 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire) is an English glamour model turned television personality and Actress. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ruskington is a large village in the county of Lincolnshire, in England. ... For other places with the same name, see Lincolnshire (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ruskington is a large village in the county of Lincolnshire, in England. ... For other places with the same name, see Lincolnshire (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Glamour photography is the photographing of a model (usually female) nude or semi-nude, in a way that is intended to be erotic. ... A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Biography

She grew up in Ruskington, where her parents were teachers, and took her A levels at Kesteven and Sleaford High School. She played the clarinet at school. Her parents divorced when she was 17, and her father moved to Argyll, in Scotland, where he re-married. Her mother is secretary of Sleaford Museum Trust. She graduated from City University in St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1998, and became a staff nurse at London's University College Hospital. She also worked at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and while there she was harassed by a senior house officer, Dr. Shibley Rahman, in 2004. After these incidents (which included confronting Titmuss while she showered naked), Dr. Rahman was eventually found guilty of misconduct by a General Medical Council tribunal.^[2] Kesteven and Sleaford High School is an all-female selective state secondary school for ages 11-18, on Jermyn Street in Sleaford in Lincolnshire, close to Sleaford train station. ... Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left, with capped mouthpiece) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... City University London is a British university based at Northampton Square in Clerkenwell, London (). Its official name is The City University. ... The King Henry VIII Gate at Barts, which was constructed in 1702. ... University College Hospital is a teaching hospital in London, part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and associated with University College London. ... The Royal Brompton Hospital, commonly known as The Brompton, is a specialist heart and lung hospital in Brompton, London. ... The General Medical Council (the GMC) is the regulator of the medical profession in the United Kingdom. ...

Titmuss met TV presenter John Leslie at a party in a pub on Fulham Road in London in 1998. The pair quickly formed a relationship, and Titmuss lived between her student nurse accommodation at the hospital and Leslie's home in Barnes, south-west London. John Leslie (born Leslie John Stott on February 22, 1965) is a Scottish former television presenter, best known as a presenter of BBC1s Blue Peter and ITV1s This Morning. ... Fulham Road is a street in London, England, that runs from the A219 road in Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, through Chelsea to Brompton Road and the A4 in Brompton, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... , Barnes is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. ...

In 2002 presenter Ulrika Jonsson released her autobiography, in which she suggested that she had been indecently assaulted earlier in her career by a now well-known TV presenter. Weeks later, the News of the World ran front page pictures of John Leslie snorting cocaine in a cafe. The following week, pictures appeared in the paper of Leslie, Titmuss and other women taking part in sex-sessions at Leslie's home, including Lanre Onabowale, posing as basketball player Jayson Blayde, and his girlfriend. Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born August 16, 1967) is a Swedish-born British television presenter. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... John Leslie (born Leslie John Stott on February 22, 1965) is a Scottish former television presenter, best known as a presenter of BBC1s Blue Peter and ITV1s This Morning. ... For other uses, see Cocaine (disambiguation). ... This article is about the sport. ...

Trial of John Leslie

The following week on Matthew Wright's live Five morning television show, Leslie was named as the anonymous celebrity linked to the rape accusation in Jonsson's autobiography. Matthew Wright (born July 8, 1965 in Croydon, Surrey) is a British journalist and Television presenter. ... Five (often referred as five, as per the logo), formerly, and more commonly known as Channel 5, is the British fifth and final national analogue terrestrial TV channel. ...

Leslie was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Force, and faced a court trial, throughout which Titmuss was present at his side. When Leslie was found not guilty, the assumption was that the couple would continue their relationship. However, Leslie's career had stalled, whereas Titmuss had raised her image to the point where she was offered various television presenting jobs. Her tabloid-friendly looks and ease in front of the camera gained her a part-time post as a reporter for Leslie's friends Richard and Judy, undertaking occasional projects while continuing her job as a nurse. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) (usually just referred to as the Metropolitan Police, its former official name, or the Met) is the territorial police force in Greater London, England, with the exception of the square mile of the City of London, which has its own police force, the City of... This article is about the newspaper size. ... Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are married co-stars of British daytime television programmes. ...

Glamour career

Titmuss undertook a series of interviews promoting her image as a real sex star and Britain's #1 pinup. In her own words to the Sunday Mirror she stated: "I'm not like those glamour girls who say: 'I'm really dirty, I'm really bad', then just pose around. I really am dirty and bad - I love sex."^[3] Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a popular British tabloid daily newspaper. ...

She took up presenting on pornographic channel Television X, released a fitness video, authored an erotic novel published by Black Lace, and made personal appearances in nightclubs all over the UK and Ireland. After a photo shoot opportunity offered by FHM of a two page spread, she eventually was featured in a three page spread and made the cover. In the following year, she made 38 front page appearances in 2004 and 2005 for many UK men's magazines, such as FHM , Nuts, Zoo Weekly, Loaded, GQ and Maxim magazines, others such as The Sunday Times Style and topless on page 3 of several tabloid newspapers including The Sun, The News Of The World, The Daily Mirror, The People and The Daily Star - each photoshot made her a minimum of £20,000 per session. Titmuss was voted by readers as #7 in FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005, and wrote a regular sex advice column for the magazine. In December 2004, Titmuss appeared on the front cover of FHM magazine with Victoria Silvstedt. At the height of her fame in 2004/5, she could command up to £30,000 a day for appearing on the front page of Nuts or Zoo^{[citation needed]}. Porn redirects here. ... Television X is an adult television channel in the UK. It formed in June 1995 and has since expanded into four separate channels: Television X features UK made pornographic shows, including the hottest UK Adult Material Television X Raw shows tapes sent in by viewers in the best amateur footage... A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... FHM or For Him Magazine is an international monthly lads mag. ... This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for men. ... FHM or For Him Magazine is an international monthly lads mag. ... Nuts is a weekly lad mag published in the United Kingdom. ... ZOO is a weekly lads mag in the United Kingdom. ... Loaded may refer to: Loaded language Loaded (album), by The Velvet Underground Loaded (song), by Primal Scream Loaded (magazine), a British mens magazine Loaded (video game) Loaded Records, a record label Loaded Snowboard Shop, a shop in soldeu, andorra ! Category: ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Maxim is an international English language lad mag (mens magazine) based in the United Kingdom and known for its revealing pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, of which none are nudes. ... Page 3 may refer to The Page 3 feature in The Sun newspaper in the UK Page 3, a film by Madhur Bhandarkar Category: ... This article is about the newspaper size. ... This article is about a British tabloid. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. ... The People, formerly known as the Sunday People, is a British red-top Sunday-only newspaper, owned by the Trinity Mirror Group. ... The Daily Star is a British tabloid newspaper. ... A column a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication. ... Victoria Silvstedt [IPA: vɪktuːriːja sɪlvstÉ›t] (born September 19, 1974 in SkellefteÃ¥, Sweden) is a Swedish fashion model and actress. ...

She appeared on ITV1's Celebrity Love Island. Her other television work includes training as a chef on the 2004 series of Hell's Kitchen, and in 2005, she appeared on Channel 4's The Friday Night Project as a regular guest feature, and in "Abi Titmuss: A Modern Day Morality Tale", a fly-on-the-wall documentary for Channel 4. ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... Celebrity Love Island is an ITV reality TV show, in which 1 Irish and 11 single British celebrities go to a Fiji island in hopes of finding love. ... Hells Kitchen is a British cookery-based ITV reality show. ... This article is about the British television station. ... The Friday Night Project is a British comedy-variety show by Princess Productions that first aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 in February 2005. ... This article is about the British television station. ...

In 2005, Titmuss appeared in a high fashion shoot in Pop magazine, which commented on her status as the Face of 21st century celebrity. August 16, 2005 My name is Gregory L Barrett and I believe that the most fashionable people on the earth are the Children of Jesus Christ. ...

After taking a break from modelling work, Titmuss relaunched her glamour career as a brunette with an appearance on the cover of Zoo Weekly magazine and the sale of the official Abi Titmuss Calendar 2007. Brunette is the feminine of French brunet, which is a diminutive of brun, brune, meaning brown or dark-haired, ultimately from Latin BRVNVS (brown). ... ZOO is a weekly lads mag in the United Kingdom. ...

She recently appeared as a celebrity on reality series Deadline with Janet Street Porter as an editor on ITV2. The show followed a number of celebrities as they attempted to produce a celebrity-based magazine each week, published as a supplement to Closer magazine. Titmuss was the fourth celebrity to be sacked from the show. She has previously guest-presented shows on Virgin Radio, MTV and LBC radio. Deadline is a reality television series which is currently airing on ITV2 during April and May 2007. ... Janet Street-Porter (born December 27, 1946) is an outspoken media personality in the United Kingdom. ... ITV2 is a 24 hour a day free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ... Look up closer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the French radio station, see Virgin Radio (France). ... This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ... LBC Radio (originally the London Broadcasting Company) operates two London-based radio stations, with news and talk formats. ...

On April 25, 2007, it was announced that Titmuss had made an appearance for a third year running in FHM's annual 100 Sexiest Women in the World readers' poll, peaking at #80 (#7 in 2005, #95 in 2004), however Titmuss has recently announced her intention to "retire" from the world of glamour modelling. is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... FHM or For Him Magazine is an international monthly lads mag. ...

Acting

After taking a short course at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Titmuss made her West End acting debut in March 2006 playing a prostitute with a multiple personality disorder in Two Way Mirror by Arthur Miller, at the Courtyard Theatre in Kings Cross. Despite her self-confessed nervousness, theatre critics actually praised her first foray into the world of acting, citing that she had great potential and was clearly a capable actress.^{[citation needed]} The Central School of Speech and Drama is a United Kingdom government funded higher education college in London. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... Overview In psychiatry, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Multiple Personality Syndrome. ... Arthur Bob Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. ... Kings Cross refers to a district in two places: Kings Cross, London, England Kings Cross railway station is a major London railway terminus and Kings Cross, New South Wales is a district in Sydney, Australia Kings Cross railway station, Sydney is an underground railway station in Sydney. ...

In 2006, Titmuss filmed a small role in the major motion picture Goal! 2. Goal! 2 is the continuation of the hit movie Goal!. After gaining experience at the English club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez(Kuno Becker) heads off to Spain to take part of one of most traditional and expensive clubs in the world, Real Madrid. ...

Titmuss was due to have been the subject of a theatre production in a musical satire entitled Being Abi, performed by students in her home county of Lincolnshire. Devised by pupils at Boston College in May 2006, it was scheduled for a three-day run before being cancelled by two of the performers' concerned parents, who objected to some of the production's content.^[4] For other places with the same name, see Lincolnshire (disambiguation). ... Boston College is a predominantly further education college in Boston in Lincolnshire. ...

In February 2007, Titmuss won a Fringe Report Award for Best West End Debut for her role in Two Way Mirror.^[5]

Titmuss has most recently appeared in the second series premiere of Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, which aired 30 April, 2007 on BBC Three and as a character called "Gezebelle" in an episode of Katy Brand's Big Ass show, a new Sketch Comedy series forITV2. Rob Brydon (born Robert Brydon Jones, 3 May 1965, Swansea[1]) is a Welsh Actor, comedian and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and its spin-off The Keith Barret Show, as well as the host of panel quiz Rob... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 3. ... Look up Sketch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ... ITV2 is a 24 hour a day free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ...

From 26 February to 23 March 2008, Titmuss appeared in the black comedy Fat Christ at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, London. is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Islington (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

She has been cast in small roles in the new British Independent Film's Do Elephants Pray? and Mixed up. An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced outside of the studio system. ...

Publications

Titmuss produced a book co-written with Jayne Lockwood, published on July 7th 2005 called Ten Fantasies (ISBN 9780753510377), by Virgin Books, in which the content is about her ten most secret (sexual) fantasies. She has banned her mother from reading it. Virgin Books is the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. ...

Her memoir, The secret diaries of Abigail Titmuss will be released by Headline Review on the 8th of May 2008. For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

Personal life

She had her first serious relationship with John Longford, when living in Ruskington. Following her relationship with John Leslie, her personal life is closely followed. She dated comedians David Walliams and Patrick McGuinness post break-up with Leslie, and had a longer term relationship with fellow "Celebrity Love Island" contestant Lee Sharpe. After Sharpe had a series of affairs (including with Big Brother star Lisa Jeynes), the relationship broke up, and Titmuss had a short relationship with dancer Brendan Cole, and was linked to Keeley Hazell and wealthy Greek Kebab shop owner Elias Chrysostomou.^[6]. For other persons named David Williams, see David Williams (disambiguation). ... Patrick Joseph McGuinness (b. ... Lee Stuart Sharpe, (born May 27, 1971 in Halesowen, West Midlands), is an English football player currently playing for Garforth Town. ... Brendan Cole (born in Christchurch real name Tony Beak, New Zealand) is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. ... Keeley Rebecca Hazell (born on 18 September 1986)[1] is an English Page 3 Girl and glamour model noted for her large, natural breasts (UK bra size 32E). ...

References

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External links

• Abi Titmuss official website
• Abi Titmuss at the Internet Movie Database
• Abi Titmuss feature at Maxim magazine
• Article about her in The Independent newspaper
• 2005 interview in the Times - Jasper Gerard
• Article from loaded magazine