Jodie Marsh

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Jodie Marsh

Birthdate:	December 23, 1978 (age 28)
Birth location:	Brentwood, Essex England
Birth name:	Jodie Marsh
Height:	5 ft. 2 in.
Eye color:	Brown
Hair color:	Blonde
Ethnicity:	Caucasian

Jodie Louisa Marsh (born 23 December 1978) is an English glamour model and television personality.

1 Early life
2 Relationships and sex life
3 Notable television appearances
4 Writing
5 Charity work
6 Other Controversy
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Early life

Marsh was born in Brentwood, Essex in England to a middle class family, her father John Marsh running his own scaffolding business. She has one younger brother, Jordan. In her autobiography Marsh jokingly mentions that it is ironic that he shares his name with the celebrated glamour model Jordan with whom she has has a very public and long-running feud.

As the result of a hockey accident in her childhood, Marsh's nose was disfigured, and during her teenage years at Brentwood School this made her, she claims, the target of bullying which became so traumatic that she considered suicide ^[1]. She underwent plastic surgery at the age of 15.^{[citation needed]}. At the age of sixteen she transferred to South East Essex College in Southend after being physically attacked at school.^{[citation needed]} She studied photography, media studies and English amongst others, eventually leaving school with 11 GCSEs, all graded A to B.^{[citation needed]}

By this point in her life, she entered the lapdance and stripping industry at the Stringfellows nightclub in London.^{[citation needed]} She also attempted to obtain work as a Page 3 girl, but was at first rejected.^{[citation needed]}

Her big break came in January 2003 when she was featured in the ITV documentary Essex Wives. A Page 3 contract was then offered, which according to Marsh involved the highest payment for a single photo shoot in the history of Page 3.

She is now a common guest on reality TV documentaries and works as a topless model to in UK "lad mags."

[edit] Relationships and sex life

Marsh has had a string of relationships with other tabloid stars widely reported in the British tabloid newspapers, including Natasha Hamilton's ex Fran Cosgrave^[2], son of George Best Calum Best^[3], Westlife member Kian Egan^[4], short-lived Corrie actor Scott Wright^[5], and ex-Blazin' Squad singer and Celebrity Big Brother 2005 runner-up Kenzie.^[6]

She has claimed that Robbie Williams once called her late at night demanding that they "meet up", she turned him down saying she's not going to be a "Bootie call" for anyone.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2006, Marsh announced her engagement to Brentwood DJ David Doyle, after a fairytale romance of eleven days.^[7] Eschewing the traditional engagement ring, Marsh instead opted to have Doyle's full name tattooed about her hand and the couple soon appeared together in OK! magazine announcing their plan to marry in a fetish ceremony.^[8] The relationship ended some time between late December and mid January with Doyle blaming Marsh's constant drinking and poor personal hygiene for the break-up.^[9] Jodie claimed that Doyle had been unfaithful. Marsh has since had her tattoo transformed into a tribal band with rosary beads.

Prior to this Marsh was having a sexual relationship with two men, which she describes as a "threesome relationship" [1]. This ended when their respective girlfriends found out, though Marsh claims to have enjoyed the experience, and would prefer to be with five men next time[2]. In her autobiography she wrote about an earlier experience, where she spent five hours having sex with a group of four men and another woman in a barn.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable television appearances

She has taken part in many reality TV shows, including Trust Me I'm A Holiday Rep (with other celebs such as Syd Little), Channel 4's The Games , E4's Fool around...with Jodie Marsh on two occasions, as a house guest in the short lived Five series Back to Reality, Sky One's Celebrity Penthouse and the one off documentary Jodie Marsh: Close up.

In 2004, Marsh appeared as a contestant on Celebrity The Weakest Link.

In January 2006, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. She clashed with a number of other housemates, most notably Pete Burns, Michael Barrymore and George Galloway who grew tired of her endless boasting of sexual experiences,and constant wannabe-victim mentality She appeared, however, to establish a friendship with fellow housemate Chantelle Houghton. This friendship has not continued since the show finished. On Friday 13th January, Marsh was first to be voted out of the Big Brother house - with 8 out of 10 possible nominations (the highest ever margin) from her fellow housemates and 41% of the public vote. She cried during her post-eviction interview with Davina McCall describing the experience as "horrific" and her housemates as "vile jealous bullies". As part of a task in the house, she had to take an unofficial IQ test. Davina told her in the interview that she had scored 136, higher than average.^{[citation needed]}

In autumn 2006 she appeared in a It's Me or the Dog celebrity special where it was revealed she owned at least seven dogs but left five of them with her parents to look after.^{[citation needed]}

Her most recent television appearances to date include a stint on The All Star Talent Show where she performed a ballroom dance. She won her heat, gaining a place in the final where she was placed fourth out of six in a public vote. In November 2006 she appeared on Celebrity Scissorhands.^{[citation needed]}

She has played herself on two occasions in the series A Bear's Tail, and has a small role in the new independent British film Are You Ready for Love? (2006).^{[citation needed]}

Marsh has made appearances in the music videos Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? as part of the Girls of FHM and When You Wasn't Famous by The Streets.

Marsh began presenting her own television series, "Get A Life" for Living TV which commenced 1st March 2007. It was cancelled after two episodes, due to poor viewing figures.^[10]

[edit] Writing

Marsh wrote a weekly column for celebrity gossip mag, Sneak magazine until its closure in August 2006 and was previously Zoo Weekly magazine's Sexpert, advising men on such pressing issues how to get their girlfriends to agree to anal sex, and the best way to convince a reticent girlfriend to try a threesome. Her choice as an agony aunt caused some concern among established professionals. ^[11]

Her website includes an online blog, which she updates almost daily and which has developed a cult following for the unintentional humour it contains. The blog has caused its fair share of controversy too, in particular with the charity BeatBullying (whom she represented).^{[citation needed]}

She has also written her autobiography entitled Keeping It Real which hit the top ten sales chart in the UK. The book was summarised by the Guardian as "I was born into a middle class family in Essex, got bullied at school, appeared on ITV's Essex Wives, got my kit off repeatedly and went out with that bloke from Blazin' Squad."^[12]

[edit] Charity work

Marsh is a vegetarian, and a supporter of PETA.

[edit] Other Controversy

In 2004, Jodie Marsh complained to the owners of the website Digital Spy, threatening libel action if a thread in their forum dedicated to her was not removed. They complied, though a number of 'anti-fan' threads sprung up in the originals' place.^{[citation needed]}

On 28 March 2007, she complained to the host of the site www.jodiemush.co.uk [3] , again threatening legal action but this time over copyright infringement rather than libel. The site was temporarily pulled.^{[citation needed]}

On the 11th of August, 2006, Jodie Marsh as booed by spectators at the annual Jersey Battle of Flowers Parade where she was a celebrity guest. The combined fee for Marsh and the parade's other celebrity guest, Andy Abraham, was estimated as £20,000 and it has been suggested that it was this expense and the quality of the celebrity it bought that contributed to the negative reception.^[13]

On the 24th of March 2006, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesman Phil Willis questioned Schools Minister Jacqui Smith as to whether Marsh should be permitted access to schools in promoting her BeatBullying work, branding her blog as "the language of an appalling bully". Smith responded that it was a decision in the hands of individual headteachers. The BeatBullying website now no longer lists Jodie Marsh as a supporter.^[14]

Marsh's response to Willis' comments was that he was "just a sad, past-it old wannabe trying to get famous off my back". Willis later told the Daily Mail that:

"I just think we are descending really to the lowest common denominator when we are actually putting people on a pedestal like Jodie Marsh to send into our schools. I think we could find better role models." ^[15]