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Kate Louise Lawler (born 7 May 1980
in Beckenham, London) was the first female winner of Big Brother UK,
winning the 2002 third British season of Big Brother. Since leaving Big
Brother, she has worked as a television presenter, part time glamour model
and disc jockey.
Lawler has a non-identical twin sister Karen, an older sister called Kelly
and a brother Robert.
Lawler was engaged to footballer Jonathan Woodgate, they split due to the
"pressure of being apart" when he played in Spain for Real Madrid. She has
been linked to Russell Brand, though she maintains they are just friends.
She admitted to having a stalker in the summer of 2006. Lawler suffers
from anorexia, and her weight has been debated in many glossy magazines.
On January 26, 2007 she was banned from driving for six months after being
caught speeding at 92mph in a 60 zone in Ugley, Essex. She received a
£1,100 fine and three points, pushing her over the 12-point limit
resulting in the ban.
In September 2002, she became a DJ on Capital FM, a position she held
until December 2003. She co-presented the Channel 4 breakfast TV show
RI:SE from February 2003 until it was axed in December of that year. In
2005, she was one of the competitors in the ITV show Celebrity Wrestling,
competing under the name The Brawler. She helped her team, the Warriors,
win the team championship, but was eliminated in the semi-finals of the
individual competition by Leilani Dowding.
Kate has modelled clothing for Arsenal FC, of which she is an avid
supporter.
Lawler wrote a twice-weekly Big Brother 7 column for The Sun online for
the duration of the series. Early in the series she spoke about her
opinion and feelings towards BB7, branding the housemates "weird" and
"fame-hungry".
Although she previously denied rumours that she would participate, on
August 14, 2006, Lawler entered Love Island 2 as a new arrival. Fellow
contestant Sophie Anderton was not impressed as she had had it written
into her contract for the show that Lawler, along with three other unnamed
celebrities, would not also appear. Sophie had been rude to Kate at a
party in London, to which Kate retaliated; this had caused Sophie's
animosity towards Kate. However once on Love Island Sophie and Kate made
up, and became friendly. Kate came third top female in the final of Love
Island.
In 2006, she appeared on Brainiac: Science Abuse, being electrocuted in an
electric chair. She was a presenter on Playdate, a late-night dating
programme on ITV2.
She currently works as a club disc jockey in Europe and Japan, and is
monthly resident at Manchester club Sankeys, and an occasional columnist
for the UK-based celebrity gossip magazines OK! and New. As with many
reality tv celebrities, Lawler has managed to retain a degree of media
exposure including paparazzi shots of her at the beach and elsewhere and
appearing in men's magazines wearing minimal clothing in photo features.
On July 24, 2006 Ann Summers announced that Lawler would be the company's
new model in its lingerie advertisements.
In 2007 she appeared on the BBC comedy Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive. |
