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Bourret was born in Hacienda
Heights, California to working class parents Dale Bourret and Valerie
Pion; her family is Jewish and originates from a French-speaking area of
Canada. After growing up in Whittier, California she moved to the United
Kingdom in 1996 to further her career in modelling. An appearance in a
revealing dress at the 1996 British National Television Awards ceremony
helped gain her public recognition.
Former Wonderbra model. Much more popular overseas than in America,
Bourret has been a resident of the United Kingdom since 1996. Her breasts
are insured for £50,000. The model has taken a scattershot approach to
exploiting her fame. Her most successful venture is a line of lingerie
"Caprice", sold at Debenhams department stores in England. In 2003 she
launched Caprice Ceramic Hair Straightener, with a suggested retail price
of £49.50 but can generally be had for about £18.99. She attempted a
singing career with "Oh Yeah" (1999), "There Goes Your Heart", and "Once
Around the Sun" (2001), but that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. A
travel show, Caprice's Travels, was shown on Sky and ITV1 in 1999.
Bourret became a cheerleader at age 13. Contrary to a popular trivia item,
she never won the title of Miss Teen California,[3] nor even participated
in the pageant. In the years following, Bourret became one of the UK's
better known models. She has had her breasts (now insured for £50,000)
augmented, which may have led to her selection as a model for Wonderbra.
She appeared on the covers of GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Maxim, FHM and
the 1998 Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated. Bourret also posed nude in
the March, 2000 issue of Playboy magazine. She was voted GQ magazine's
Woman of the Year and Maxim's International Woman of the Year in three
consecutive years. She has also been featured in television ad campaigns
for Diet Coke and Pizza Hut.
She continues to be the face of Paradise Poker.com, and also appears on
billboards and advertisements in London.
In 1999, Bourret released her first single as a pop singer, "Oh Yeah",
then follow-up single "Once Around the Sun", which was co-written by '90s
one-hit wonder Chesney Hawkes.
Bourret is also moving into an acting career, having appeared on stage in
London in The Vagina Monologues and Rent. She has also appeared in the
low-budget films Hollywood Flies, Nailing Vienna, and Jinxed In Love, the
soap operas Hollyoaks and Dream Team, and the one-off comedy show
Hospital.
In 1998, Caprice became the host of a UK television series, "Caprice's
Travels". The series involves Bourret's tour through several major holiday
destinations across the world. Bourret has also hosted Friday Night's All
Wright as well as several award shows, including the European MTV awards
and the Monaco World Music Awards in 1997, the British National Television
Awards in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and several series for the television
channels VH1 and E! Entertainment.
In early 2005, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, where
other contestants implied that she was only taking part in order to boost
sales of her products. She also was a cast member on the fifth season of
the VH1 reality series The Surreal Life and has previously appeared in the
reality shows Celebrities Under Pressure, Celebrities Disfigured, Three
Celebrities and a Baby, and Road Raja.
Bourret travelled to Los Angeles, where she played in the World Poker
Championship, coming in at 120th out of 700, beating actors Ben Affleck,
Matthew Perry, Tobey Maguire, and James Woods.
In May 2006 Caprice captained the England Women's team in the Celebrity
World Cup Soccer Six tournament, in which they lost to Brazil in the
final.
In June 2006 she starred in the English independent movie Perfect Woman,
produced by Olympus Productions Limited.
She is currently in South Africa as producer for a run of the hit
off-Broadway musical Debbie Does Dallas at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre
from January 16 to February 18, 2007
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