Abi Titmuss

Abigail Evelyn Titmuss, best known as Abi Titmuss, (born 8 February 1976 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire) is a former English nurse turned glamour model, television personality and actress. 

Abi Titmuss grew up in Heckington, Lincolnshire where her parents were teachers, and she took her A-levels at Kesteven and Sleaford High School where she played the clarinet. She briefly dated cartoonist BP Perry before moving to Ruskington. Her parents divorced when she was 17, and her father moved to Argyll, Scotland, where he re-married. Her mother is secretary of Sleaford Museum trust.

Titmuss graduated from City University in St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1998. She did a nursing diploma because her A levels were not good enough to be a doctor,and became a staff nurse at London's University College Hospital.

Titmuss abandoned her career as a nurse and became a glamour model. In her own words to Sunday Mirror. 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.                ”

 

She took up presenting on pornographic channel Television X, released a fitness video, authored an erotic novel published by Black Lace and made personal appearances in nightclubs in UK and Ireland. After a photo shoot opportunity offered by FHM of a two-page spread, she was eventually featured in a three-page spread and made the cover. In 2004 and 2005, she made 38 front page appearances on British men's magazines, such as FHM , Nuts, Zoo Weekly, loaded, GQ and Maxim magazines. She also appeared in The Sunday Times Style and in glamour pictures in of several tabloid newspapers including The Sun, News Of The World, Daily Mirror, The People and Daily Star. Titmuss was voted by readers as #7 in FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005, and wrote a regular sex advice column for the magazine. In December 2004, Titmuss appeared on the front cover of FHM magazine with Victoria Silvstedt. At the height of her fame in 2004/2005, she could command up to £30,000 a day for appearing on the front page of Nuts or Zoo.[6] In 2005, Titmuss appeared in a high fashion shoot in Pop magazine, which commented on her status as the face of 21st century celebrity.

She appeared on 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. She has also starred on Channel 4's Come Dine With Me with Paul Ross, Lesley Joseph, Linda Lusardi and Rodney Marsh but did not find it a happy experience.

After taking a break from modelling work, Titmuss relaunched her glamour career as a brunette with an appearance on the cover of Zoo and the sale of the official Abi Titmuss Calendar 2007. On 25 April 2007, it was announced that Titmuss had made an appearance for a third year running in FHM's annual 100 Sexiest Women in the World readers' poll, at #80 (#7 in 2005, #95 in 2004).

After announcing in late 2007 that she would take a break from her glamour modelling career to concentrate on acting, Titmuss returned with a new Nuts shoot in April 2009.

Titmuss first acted during her university studies, and then took part-time acting courses at the Central School of Speech and Drama, paid for from her nursing work. After reducing her glamour model work, Titmuss took a further short course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Titmuss made her London theatre 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 dated former footballer Lee Sharpe after they both appeared on Celebrity Love Island, but split after Sharpe dated other women and then returned to a former girlfriend. In mid-2008 on the Richard & Judy talk show, Titmuss revealed that she had been dating actor Marc Warren for about a year.The couple split in mid-2009, after Warren had an affair exposed by the Titmuss first acted during her university studies, and then took part-time acting courses at the Central School of Speech and Drama, paid for from her nursing work. After reducing her glamour model work, Titmuss took a further short course at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

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