Lauren Pope
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Lauren "Popey" Pope (born 29 September 1982) is an English glamour model, disc jockey, music producer and entrepreneur. She appears in the ITV2 show The Only Way Is Essex with BFF Lauren Goodger .[1]
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[edit] Education
Pope went to Audley Park secondary school in Torquay Devon.
[edit] Career
[edit] DJ
In 2007, Pope established herself as a DJ. In 2008, she landed weekly residencies in Ibiza, Majorca & Dolce in London.[citation needed]
As well as Nuts magazine naming her the "world's sexiest DJ", Pope has become a favourite for numerous London celebrity parties, playing for the likes of Ne-Yo, T-Pain, Jenna Jameson and Lindsay Lohan.[citation needed]
[edit] Producer
Since becoming a DJ, Pope has also become involved in producing. In 2009 she worked with Heatwave to remix Broken by UK artist Pierre Lewis which reached number six in the Club Charts.[citation needed] She is due to release more of her own material in 2011.[citation needed]
[edit] Entrepreneur
In 2007, Pope designed and launched her own brand of clip-in hair extensions, Hair Rehab London, appearing on the ITV reality television series Tycoon.[2] The show saw Peter Jones search for entrepreneurs with ideas that he helped turn into profit-making companies, while the eventual winner was chosen by the public. Pope came fourth out of the six contestants but continued to work with Jones after the show on expanding her business.
Hair Rehab London was soon picked up and endorsed by celebrity hairdresser Alex Foden and is currently sold worldwide.[citation needed]
[edit] Music videos
She appears in Ready for the Weekend by Calvin Harris.
[edit] Television
Since October 2010, she has appeared in the ITV2 award-winning structured reality programme The Only Way Is Essex. To date she has appeared in 4 series of the programme, and is one of the remaining original characters.
[edit] References
- ^ "Lauren's Pope-ing for success". The Sun (London). 2007-07-26. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/248683/Laurens-Pope-ing-for-success.html. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
- ^ http://www.tycoon.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=showContent&i_id=43
