Leilani Dowding

Leilani Dowding

Female adult bio
photo=
birth= birth date and age|1980|1|30|
location= Bournemouth, Dorset, England
death=
birthname=Leilani Anne Dowding
measurements= 34B-24-35
height= height|m=1.68
weight= 112 lb (51 kg)
eye color=Brown
hair color= Brunette
natural bust= Yes
ethnicity= English/Filipina (British)
alias=
homepage= http://www.leilanifanclub.co.uk
imdb= 1304709

Leilani Dowding (born 30 January, 1980 in Bournemouth, Dorset) is an English Page Three girl, glamour model, television celebrity, and former beauty queen.

Biography

Early life

Dowding did well in school, earning eleven GCSEs and three A-levels.cite web|url= http://www.leilanifanclub.co.uk/biography.asp|title= Biography|accessdate= 2008-06-13|publisher= Leilani Dowding's Official Site] While studying for an economics degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Surrey, the eighteen-year-old entered and won the 1998 Miss Great Britain competition. In Hawaii later that year she became the first woman of Asian descent to represent Britain in the Miss Universe pageant.

Career

After her success in beauty pageants, Dowding dropped out of university to pursue a full-time modelling career. Although she had not originally considered topless modelling, she started appearing as a Page Three girl in "The Sun" newspaper in 1999. Her younger sister Melanie ("Mel") Dowding also had a brief career as a Page Three girl, and the sisters have posed together for topless photo shoots.

Dowding has been a guest on various British television shows, modelling on the "Big Breakfast" and "This Morning", and appearing on "The Weakest Link", "Faking It" and "Celebrity Wrestling" and Celebrity Fear Factor. [imdb name|1304709] She has also enjoyed a season in pantomime as Tiger Lilly in "Peter Pan".

She has travelled to Bosnia, Kosovo. Iraq and Cyprus on morale-boosting trips for British troops abroad.

Personal life

She dated footballer Anwar Uddin in 2002. [cite web|url= http://archive.thisisdorset.net/2002/5/17/89870.html|title= Leilani sings for England|accessdate= 2008-06-13|date= 2002-05-17|publisher= Dorset Echo] She has also been in relationships with former Wimbledon and Northern Ireland defender Mark Williams [cite web|url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article788752.ece|title= The top 10 footballers' Page 3 playmates|accessdate= 2008-06-13|author= John Aizlewood|date= 2006-01-15|publisher= The Times] and was engaged to Middlesbrough footballer Jérémie Aliadière.cite news|title= Celeb Q&A: Leilani Dowding|url= http://www.inside-edge-mag.co.uk/theplayers/playerinterviews/975/celeb_qa.html|publisher= InsidePoker|date= 2007-06|accessdate= 2007-07-13] She became engaged to American Richie Palmer, the owner of Mulberry St Pizza, and former husband of Hollywood siren Raquel Welch [cite web|url= http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/1002_leilani.shtml|title= Page 3 Leilani to wed Raquel's fast food millionaire ex|accessdate= 2008-06-13|author= James Weatherup|publisher= News of the World] in February 2008. [cite web|url= http://www.lovetripper.com/bridalstars/2008/02/21508-model-leilani-dowding-engaged.html|title= Model Leilani Dowding Engaged|accessdate= 2008-06-13|date= 2008-02-10|publisher= lovetripper.com]

References

External links

* [http://www.leilanifanclub.co.uk Official website]


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