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Sophie Anderton
Born
Sophie Anderton

(1977-05-14) 14 May 1977 (age 47)
Bristol, England
NationalityBritain
OccupationModel
Years active1996–present
Modelling information
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Hair colourBrown
Eye colourGreen

Sophie Anderton (born 14 May 1977 in Bristol) is an English model and reality television personality.

Early life

Anderton attended Redland High School for Girls[citation needed] in Bristol between 1988 and 1993. In 1993 she briefly attended Bristol Cathedral Choir School before becoming a model at age 16.[1]

Career

She became famous in 1996 after appearing in the Gossard Glossies "Girl in the grass" national advertising campaign shot by Herb Ritts, with the strapline "Who said a woman couldn't get pleasure from something soft?". The campaign attracted a record number of complaints (321) to the Advertising Standards Authority, none of which were upheld. The ASA later found out that the majority of complaints came from women who had never seen the ads, and had been encouraged to write in by an outraged newspaper columnist.[2][3][4]

Earnings of £30,000 per week propelled her into the ranks of the it-girls and allowed her to lead a lifestyle of parties, drugs and sex. The UK tabloid press reported this in detail, even more so when she became addicted to cocaine, had a tumultuous affair with footballer and fellow addict Mark Bosnich.[5][6]

She traces her cocaine addiction back to when she was prescribed morphine after her car accident as a child[7] –

The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

— Sophie Anderton, BBC Real Story, May 2004

In 2006, she was diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder[8] and made a minor return to modelling as the frontperson for that year's National Egg Awareness Campaign.

Campaigns

Sophie Anderton

Reality Television

In 2004, Anderton was a contestant on the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, where she came fifth and was remembered for having a disagreement with singer Natalie Appleton.[9]

She has also taken part in Simply the Best and a celebrity edition of the UK version of Fear Factor. In 2005, she appeared in the programme Cold Turkey which followed her attempts to quit smoking cigarettes alongside Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. She later became the face of the SOS Instant Quit Programme which consists of a mouth spray which makes smokers feel sick at the smell and taste of cigarette smoke.

In 2006, Anderton was a contestant on the second series of ITV's Love Island. She fell out with friend, Lady Victoria Hervey, after Anderton transferred her affections from Shane Lynch to Hervey's island interest Chris Brosnan. After a long discussion expressing how upset she was with her former friend's behaviour, Hervey then poured a bottle of wine over Anderton's head. Anderton was evicted from the show on 25 August.

Anderton appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 22 September 2006, and announced that she was about to star in a new TV series. The series was later announced as Sky One's Cirque de Celebrité,[10] but had to quit after she sustained ligament damage.[11]

On 22 August 2013, Anderton entered Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother.

Charitable work

From 2004 until 2007, Anderton was a Patron of the original Action on Addiction in London, a charity and addiction research center investigating drug and alcohol dependence. In 2007, the original Action on Addiction (established in 1989) merged with two other addiction-focused charities. The new single charity, dedicated to the research and treatment of drug and alcohol dependence, took on the name Action on Addiction.[12]

Personal life

On 4 June 2009, a 58-year-old man from the Borough of Enfield in North London was charged with harassment without violence after Anderton complained to police about dozens of text messages left on her mobile phone; he was bailed to appear at West London Magistrates Court on 17 July 2009,[13] and was convicted of harassing the model on 25 March 2010.[8]

Film and television

Sophie Anderton, London 2007

Film

Television appearances

References

  1. ^ "Who Are We ?". The Cathedralians Society. Bristol Cathedral School Cathedralians Society.
  2. ^ "Gossard" (PDF). Superbrands 2007/2008. Superbrands UK.
  3. ^ "Gossard" (PDF). Superbrands. Superbrands UK.
  4. ^ Rickey, Melanie (10 May 1997). "Ad Watch". The Independent. UK: findarticles.com.
  5. ^ "Sophie's story". BBC. 19 May 2004.
  6. ^ "Sophie's sex shame". Lifestyle. Despardes. 1 August 2004.
  7. ^ "Drugs and sex on the catwalk". BBC. 23 May 2004.
  8. ^ a b "Man convicted of harassing model Sophie Anderton". BBC News. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
  9. ^ Caroline Gammell (26 November 2004). "Harvey gets himself out of the jungle". The Scotsman. UK. Archived from the original on 30 January 2005. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
  10. ^ "Model Sophie is highly strung". The Sun. London. 13 November 2006.
  11. ^ "Sophie quits the telly big top". The Sun. London. 20 November 2006.
  12. ^ UK Government Charity Commission website, Action on Addiction listing. (Retrieved May 1, 2013).
  13. ^ "Man faces Sophie harassment charge". This Is London. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2009.

External links

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