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Abi Titmuss
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Biography
Born: Abigail Evelyn Titmuss on 8 February 1976, in Ruskington, Lincolnshire.
Abi Titmuss is an English glamour model turned television personality and occasional actress. She graduated from City University in St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1998, and became a staff nurse at London's University College Hospital. 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. After Leslie's well-publicised court trial for rape (he was found not guilty), 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.
Titmuss fully engaged her new image, and undertook a series of interviews promoting her image as a real sex star and Britain's #1 pinup. She took up presenting on pornographic channel Television X, released a risqué fitness video, authored an erotic novel published by Black Lace, and made personal appearances in nightclubs all over the UK and Ireland. 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.
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.
Titmuss used her image and status to join 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.
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.
Titmuss produced a book co-written with Jayne Lockwood, published on July 7th 2005 called Ten Fantasies, by Virgin Books, in which the content is about her ten most secret (sexual) fantasies. She has banned her mother from reading it.
Following her long term and latterly publicly exposed relationship with John Leslie, and her image as a real sex kitten, 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.
