Layla El

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Layla El
Layla November 2008.jpg
Layla at a Raw event in November 2008
Ring name(s) Layla[1]
Layla El[2]
Billed height 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)[3]
Billed weight 114 lb (52 kg)[3]
Born (1977-06-25) 25 June 1977 (age 35)[4]
London, England[3][5]
Resides Miami, Florida[3][5]
Billed from Miami, Florida[1]
Trained by Jesse Hernandez
PWA Staff
Dave Finlay
FCW Staff
Debut mid-2006[5]

Layla El (born 25 June 1977)[4] is an English dancer, model, professional wrestler, valet, and actress.[1] She works for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Layla.[1]

After attending a performing arts college,[6] El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines, the Miami Heat franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where Layla received a championship ring,[7] and also danced for P. Diddy and Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards.[2][8] She has also appeared on several television shows, including Family Feud,[9] Project Runway,[10] and Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp.[9]

In 2006, Layla won the 2006 WWE Diva Search, earning a contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment.[11] She appeared on the SmackDown brand, where she would enter a feud with Kristal Marshall. In January 2007, she was moved to the ECW brand, where she formed the Extreme Exposé dance troupe with Kelly Kelly and Brooke Adams.[12] In 2008, she was drafted to the Raw brand, where she began managing William Regal. The following year, she returned to the SmackDown brand, where she formed an alliance with Michelle McCool known as LayCool.[13] In May 2010, Layla won the WWE Women's Championship for the first time, making her the first British woman and Diva Search winner to have won the championship in history; she was also the final recognized WWE Women's Champion as the title was retired in September 2010.[14][15][16][17] At the Extreme Rules pay-per-view in May 2011, the team would split after Layla defeated McCool in a no countout, no disqualification, loser leaves WWE match, but would suffer a knee injury: legitimately tearing both her ACL and MCL and required surgery.[18] After a full year of recovery, Layla returned from an injury in April 2012, and won her first-ever WWE Divas Championship at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view, lasting up to the Night of Champions pay-per-view in September 2012.[19][20][21]

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Early life [edit]

El was born and raised in London, England, and is of Spanish and Moroccan descent. Her father is an English-born Spaniard, and her mother was Moroccan who could speak Arabic.[22]

Dancing career [edit]

El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines.[23] Following that, she began dancing for the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat franchise, where she danced for two years.[24][25] As part of the Miami Heat dance troupe, she received a championship ring.[25] During this time, she appeared on-stage with John Legend as one of his backup dancers.[26] She also danced for P. Diddy and Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards.[2][8]

World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE (2006–present) [edit]

Diva Search (2006) [edit]

El's first foray into professional wrestling occurred when her trainer suggested she try out for the $250,000 WWE Diva Search contest in 2006.[11] After a casting call, she was selected as one of the finalists.[23] During the contest, she won a week's worth of "immunity" on the July 14 episode of SmackDown! after winning Sgt. Slaughter's "Diva Boot Camp" obstacle course[27]—despite having jumped over several tires in the tire hop section of the course and not having both of her feet cross the finish line due to her doing a split.[28] She won another competition, the "Diva Search Talent Show" on the August 11 episode of SmackDown!, when she danced dressed as a police officer.[29] She won the Diva Search on 16 August.[30]

SmackDown and feud with Kristal (2006–2007) [edit]

A close-up shot of a tanned, Caucasian female with curly black hair. She is wearing a red top with a yellow and white pattern visible, and a blue rope from a wrestling ring is visible in the foreground.
Layla at a SmackDown! event in 2007.

She made her first "official" WWE appearance at the SummerSlam pay-per-view in a backstage segment with several other divas. During the segment, the other women initially taunted and teased her before revealing that "it was all in fun" and part of an "initiation" of sorts. Afterward they dragged her into the showers, fully clothed, where they proceeded to spank her while laughing.[8][31] The week after SummerSlam, El made her debut as a member of the SmackDown! brand in an interview with Mike "The Miz" Mizanin—although he did not allow her the chance to say much, spending most of the time talking about himself.[32] Subsequently, she did not appear on WWE television for almost a month, reappearing on the September 22 season premiere episode of SmackDown! on the CW Network greeting the WWE universe with a dance, but was interrupted and attacked by Kristal Marshall, and was afterwards saved by Jillian Hall, who would then strip Layla of her shirt before fleeing the ring.[33]

At October's No Mercy pay-per-view event, she embarrassed The Miz by tricking him into getting a lap dance from Big Dick Johnson while he was blindfolded and expecting it to be from her as a birthday gift.[31] On the October 20 episode of SmackDown!, Layla participated in a dance contest with the other SmackDown! Divas, and was chosen as the winner by the judges, Nick and Aaron Carter, but The Miz, who was acting as emcee, disagreed with their choice and attempted to declare Kristal Marshall the winner, causing all the divas to brawl.[34][35] The following week, Layla made her official in-ring debut in a "Diva Trick-or-Treat Battle Royal". The match ended in controversial fashion when she was pulled from the ring by The Miz, allowing Kristal Marshall to win.[36] On the next episode of SmackDown!, Layla teamed with Big Vito in a losing effort to The Miz and Kristal Marshall in a mixed tag team match.[37] Continuing to feud with Kristal, Layla had her singles match debut on the December 1 episode of SmackDown!, when she lost to Kristal.[38] On the December 22 episode of SmackDown, Layla along with Ashley Massaro competed in a tag team match against Kristal Marshall and Jillian Hall in a winning effort with Ashley pinning Jillian, thus ending Layla's feud with Kristal.[39]

Extreme Exposé; managing William Regal (2007–2009) [edit]

Main article: Extreme Exposé
A man and a woman standing in a wrestling ring with red ropes. The man is standing on the left, and has light brown hair. He is wearing a long black coat with gold detailing, short black wrestling tights, and has a wrestling championship around his waist. The woman is standing beside him, but has her face obscured by the ring ropes. She has shoulder length brown hair, and is wearing a black top and black trousers.
Layla with Intercontinental Champion William Regal in January 2009.

On January 23, 2007 episode, Layla was moved to the ECW brand where she joined Brooke and Kelly Kelly to form Extreme Exposé.[12] The trio performed a weekly dance segment on ECW, which Layla choreographed, for the next several months.[5][9] In June 2007, The Miz was moved to the brand, prompting a storyline in which all three members of Extreme Exposé were attracted to him.[5][40][41] When Kelly shifted her attentions towards Balls Mahoney, Layla, Brooke, and Miz openly mocked her, turning Layla heel in the process.[42][43][44]

On the November 1 episode of ECW, Brooke was released from her WWE contract, and Extreme Exposé dissolved as a group, leaving Layla and Kelly Kelly to enter an ongoing rivalry with more active in-ring roles.[5][45] They were on opposite sides of a 10-Diva tag team match at the Survivor Series pay-per-view, which Layla's team lost.[46] In December, Layla formed an alliance with Victoria, which expanded to include Lena Yada in January 2008, and the trio continued to feud with Kelly Kelly.[5][47][48] At the WrestleMania XXIV pay-per-view, Layla was a lumberjill for the divas tag team lumberjill match.[5] The following month, Layla was part of the winning team in a six-on-six Divas match at the Backlash pay-per-view.[49]

As part of the 2008 Supplemental Draft in late June, Layla was drafted to the Raw brand.[50] On the July 7 episode of Raw, Layla made her debut in a tag team match with Jillian Hall, losing to Mickie James and Kelly Kelly, who had been revealed as the newest member of the Raw brand earlier that night.[51] She soon entered a storyline with Jamie Noble in which Noble attempted to impress her with his matches, only to be squashed—easily defeated—by his opponents.[52][53] On 1 September, Noble was able to defeat William Regal, which impressed Layla.[54] The following week, however, Layla chose to align herself with Regal, after he defeated Noble in a rematch.[55] On the following episode of Raw, Layla reinforced her decision, telling Noble that she had finally found a worthy man in Regal.[56] Over the next few months, Layla competed only sporadically in matches, spending most of her time managing Regal, and was present at ringside when Regal defeated Santino Marella on 10 November to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.[5][57] On April 5, Layla competed in a Divas battle royal at WrestleMania XXV, but the match was won by Santina Marella.[5][58]

LayCool and Women's Champion (2009–2011) [edit]

Main article: LayCool

On April 15, 2009, Layla was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft.[59] She started a scripted rivalry with Eve Torres, and lost both a dance contest and an arm wrestling match to Torres, before losing a match to her on the May 29 episode of SmackDown.[60][61][62] After Torres defeated Layla again on the June 18 episode of WWE Superstars, the two shook hands.[63]

Lay-Cool: Layla (left) with Michelle McCool at Tribute to the Troops in December 2010.

She then formed an alliance with Michelle McCool, later called LayCool, leading to a feud with Mickie James in October, making fun of her weight and vowing to make her leave SmackDown just after her debut for the brand.[5][64][65] At the Survivor Series pay-per-view, McCool's team lost to James' team.[66] At the TLC pay-per-view, Layla interfered in the WWE Women's Championship match between Michelle McCool and Mickie James, helping McCool to retain the championship.[67] In January 2010, at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Layla came out in a fatsuit mocking Mickie James prior to the championship match between Michelle McCool and James; however, the mockery backfired, as James attacked Layla and used that as a distraction to quickly defeat McCool to win the championship.[68] On the February 12 episode of SmackDown, Layla and Michelle McCool defeated Mickie James in a handicap match made by Official SmackDown Consultant Vickie Guerrero, who had been accidentally humiliated by James backstage.[69] Vickie Guerrero then joined the LayCool alliance, accompanying them to the ring and interfering in their matches.[5] At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Layla and Michelle McCool defeated Raw diva Gail Kim and Maryse in an inter-brand Divas tag team match.[70] At WrestleMania XXVI she was on the winning team in a 10 diva tag team match.[71]

On 14 May episode of SmackDown, LayCool faced the WWE Women's Champion, Beth Phoenix, in a two-on-one handicap match in a winning effort when Layla pinned Phoenix to win the Women's Championship for the first time, becoming the first British woman to hold the championship in history.[15][16] She is also the first Diva Search winner to have won the championship.[14] Following her win, Team Lay-Cool began calling themselves the co-Women's Champions.[72] On 1 June, it was announced that Lay-Cool would be mentoring Kaval during the second season of WWE NXT.[73][74] On 18 July, Layla had her first title defense when she defeated Kelly Kelly at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view.[75] On 30 July, SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long informed Lay-Cool that there was only one Women's Champion, and they had a week to decide who it would be.[76] The following week, Lay-Cool revealed that they had cut the championship belt into two, turning it into a friendship charm and circumventing Long's orders.[77] In September, Layla and McCool challenged WWE Divas Champion Melina to a championship unification match at Night of Champions. McCool participated in the match and won with Layla's help to unify both championships into the WWE Unified Divas Championship.[78][79] Layla unofficially became the co-champion, and defended the championship against Melina the following night on Raw.[80] After both members of LayCool had successfully defended the championship against Natalya, they faced her in a two-on-one handicap match at the Survivor Series pay-per-view, which Natalya won to become the new Divas Champion.[81] Following Survivor Series, Natalya and Phoenix formed an alliance to continue the feud with Lay-Cool, and at the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view in December, Lay-Cool lost to them in the first Diva's Tag Team Tables match in WWE history.[82][83] Lay-Cool invoked their rematch clause in January 2011, prompting the scheduling of a two-on-one handicap match for the Royal Rumble. At the Royal Rumble however, the anonymous Raw General Manager changed the match to a fatal four-way, also involving Eve. Eve went on to pin Layla and become the new Divas Champion.[84]

On 11 March episode of Raw LayCool and Dolph Ziggler interfered on Vickie Guerrero's behalf in her match against Trish Stratus which allowed Guerrero to get the win. After the match, they would humiliate Stratus until John Morrison and Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi came to her aid.[5] On March 21 episode of Raw, LayCool, Guerrero, and Ziggler defeated Stratus and Morrison.[5] This set up a six-person mixed tag team match on 31 March at WrestleMania XXVII, where LayCool and Ziggler were defeated by Morrison, Polizzi, and Stratus.[5]

LayCool began to fall out following the loss of the Divas Championship and losing to Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, and began to appear in a series of vignettes in which they were attending couples therapy.[85][86][87] On April 8 episode of SmackDown, dissension in LayCool continued after they were defeated in a diva tag team match against Beth Phoenix and Kelly Kelly after McCool avoided being tagged in Layla, claiming to have a back injury.[88] On the April 15 episode of SmackDown, Layla would face Kelly Kelly in singles competition in a losing effort, leading to Michelle McCool shoving Layla and leaving her in the ring.[89] On the April 22 episode of SmackDown, McCool attacked Layla during one of their storyline therapy sessions.[90] During the 2011 WWE Draft on the April 25 episode of Raw, Layla lost a match to Eve Torres and was attacked afterward by McCool, but was able to fight her off.[91] On April 29 episode of SmackDown, the pair faced each other in a match, which ended in a double countout due to them brawling.[92] As a result, the pair faced each off in a no countout, no disqualification, loser leaves WWE match at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view on 1 May, which Layla won, which forced McCool to leave WWE. On the May 6th episode of Smackdown, Layla defeated Alicia Fox and also during her celebration, Kharma came forcing Layla to flee from the ring and also for Kharma to take out Fox.[93] Layla announced that she had suffered a knee injury at Extreme Rules on the May 13 episode of SmackDown, and was interrupted and attacked by Kharma to write her off television.[5][94] Later that month, it was confirmed that Layla had legitimately torn both her ACL and MCL and required surgery.[18]

Return and Divas Champion (2012–present) [edit]

Layla made her in-ring return at a Florida Championship Wrestling event on March 22, 2012.[95] On April 29, she returned to the main roster at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view as a fan favorite, replacing Beth Phoenix, who was not medically cleared to compete, in a match for the WWE Divas Championship defeating Nikki Bella to win the WWE Divas Championship for the first time.[19][20] The following night on Raw, she successfully defended the championship against both Bella Twins in a triple threat match[96]

On the May 14 episode of Raw, Layla reentered in a feud with Beth Phoenix after Phoenix proceeded to attack Alicia Fox after their match, until Layla saved Fox.[97] Layla retained the Divas Championship against Beth Phoenix at the Over the Limit pay-per-view.[98] On the June 11 episode of Raw Layla teamed up with Santino Marella in losing effort to Beth Phoenix and Ricardo Rodriguez after being pinned by Phoenix,[99] leading to a title rematch six days later at the No Way Out pay-per-view, where Layla again successfully retained her title.[100] Layla then competed at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view in a six diva tag team match along with Kaitlyn and Tamina Snuka against Beth Phoenix, Natalya, and Eve Torres with her team coming out victorious after Layla pinned Phoenix.[101]

On the August 20 episode of Raw, Kaitlyn won a diva battle royal to become the number one contender to Layla's Divas Championship.[102] However, at the Night of Champions pay-per-view, Kaitlyn was injured following an attack by a masked person, thus forfeiting her title shot to Eve Torres, who took her spot in the match and went on to defeat Layla to win the Divas Championship.[21] On the September 27 episode of WWE Superstars, Layla defeated Eve Torres in a non-title match to earn a shot at the Divas Championship.[103] Layla received her title opportunity on October 15 episode of Raw, however, would be unsuccessful in regaining the title from Eve.[104] Layla received another shot at the Divas Championship on 28 October at Hell in a Cell, but was again defeated by Eve in a three-way match, also involving Kaitlyn.[105] On the 12 November episode of Raw, Layla was defeated by Kaitlyn in a number one contenders match for the Divas championship.[106] On 16 December at the TLC pay-per-view, Layla competed in a number contender "Santa's Little Helpers" diva battle royal to face Eve for the championship, but was unsuccessful in winning the match.[107]

On both the January 4 and February 15 episodes of SmackDown, Layla lost to Tamina Snuka in a singles matches.[108][109] However she got revenge over her at the February 22 episode of SmackDown, when teaming with Kaitlyn against Aksana and Tamina. During their entrance and after the match, Layla showed signs of jealousy over Kaitlyn for the championship.[110]On the 7 March episode of WWE Superstars, Layla finally defeated Tamina in a singles match after reversing her "Samoan Drop" into a roll-up.[111] On the March 8 episode of SmackDown, Layla accompanied Kaitlyn to a match against Tamina Snuka, but would accidentally distract Kaitlyn after Snuka attacked her, causing Kaitlyn to lose the match.[112]On the March 15 episode of Smackdown Layla once again teamed with Kaitlyn in a winning effort against Aksana and Tamina Snuka. Layla tagged herself in to pin Aksana after she was hit by Kaitlyn's spear. [113] On the April 22 episode of Raw Layla participated in a #1 contender match. She eliminated Aksana and Tamina Snuka, before finally being eliminated by AJ who faked unconsciousness after being kicked in the head by Tamina.[114]

Modeling [edit]

Since winning the Diva Search contest El has also done some modelling work. She has been featured in the magazines King, Smooth, and was the cover-girl for the first issue of Liquid.[115][116][117] She also posed for FHM with the other members of Extreme Exposé.[118] Layla, along with Beth Phoenix and Candice Michelle, appeared in the February 2009 issue of Flex Magazine.[9][119]

Other media [edit]

In April 2007, Layla and other WWE Divas (Kelly Kelly, Brooke, Torrie Wilson, Ashley and Maryse) were filmed for Timbaland's music video "Throw It On Me" featuring The Hives.[120] During the second week of November 2007, Layla appeared on five episodes a part of one of Family Feuds special weeks with other WWE Superstars.[9] In February 2008, she appeared on Project Runway with several WWE Divas as part of the week's challenge.[10] In April 2008, Layla also appeared on an episode of Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp as a trainer.[9] In 2012, Layla ranked number 95 in Maxim's Hot 100.[121][122][123]

Music Videos
Year Title Role Notes
2007 "Throw It On Me" Herself Music video by Timbaland ft. The Hives[120]
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2007 Family Feud Herself "WWE Superstars vs Divas" (5 episodes)[9]
2008 Project Runway "Raw Talent" (Season 4, episode 10)[10]
2008 Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp Season 6; Trainer[9]

Personal life [edit]

El was born and raised in England, and is of Spanish and Moroccan descent.[116] El's mother died in August 2008 after battling two decades of breast cancer. She has two sisters one named Lea, aswell as one brother.[22] She attended a performing arts college in London.[6] She has previously lived in Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles, California.[124]

In wrestling [edit]

A dark-haired, tanned Caucasian female straddles the top rope of a wrestling ring with blue ropes. She is wearing a red patterned crop top, and matching shorts and kneepads. She is holding a wrestling championship above her head with both hands.
Layla as WWE Women's Champion.

Championships and accomplishments [edit]

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