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Anderton attended Redland High
School for Girls in Bristol between 1988 and 1993. It was during this
time, aged 11, that she sustained serious injuries in a road accident
necessitating some 18 operations from which she took four years to
recover. In 1993 she briefly attended Bristol Cathedral School before
becoming a model, aged 16.
She became famous in 1999 after appearing in revealing underwear for the
provocative Gossard Glossies "Girl in the grass" national advertising
campaign shot by Herb Ritts, with the strapline "Who said a woman couldn't
get pleasure from something soft?".
At their height, earnings of £30,000 per week propelled her into the ranks
of the it-girls and allowed her to lead a decadent lifestyle of parties,
drugs and sex. This proved irresistable to the UK tabloid press who
reported in detail, even more so when she became addicted to drugs, had a
tumultuous affair with footballer and fellow addict Mark Bosnich, and
became involved in prostitution.
She traces her cocaine addiction back to when she was prescribed morphine
after her car accident as a child
In 2006, she was diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder.
Anderton's return from "Celebrity Love Island" has resulted in an increase
in modelling and promotional work, including:
Successfully completed the Flora London Marathon.
British Berries summer fruits campaign 2006 - she posed with various
fruits in a suggestive manner. Sales of strawberries and raspberries have
hit a record £240 million since the campaign was launched.
Appeared on the July edition of Maxim.
Promoting breast cancer awareness in a promo with Peacocks stores.
In November 2006 announced as the face of La Senza's Christmas collection
In 2004 Anderton was a contestant on the fourth series of ITV's I'm a
Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, where she came fifth and was remembered
for having a disagreement with the singer Natalie Appleton.
She has also taken part in Simply the Best and a celebrity edition of the
UK version of Fear Factor. In 2005 she appeared in the programme Cold
Turkey which followed her attempts to quit smoking cigarettes alongside
Tara Palmer Tomkinson. She later became the face of the SOS Instant Quit
Programme which consists of a mouth spray which makes smokers feel sick at
the smell and taste of cigarette smoke. She has since resumed the habit.
In 2006 Anderton was a contestant on the second series of ITV's Love
Island in Summer 2006. Known as Me-Me by the show's presenters, Fearne
Cotton and Patrick Kielty, she was covered extensively in the press as
being emotionally unstable, crying relentlessly and being highly
self-absorbed. She fell out with friend Lady Victoria Hervey, after
Anderton transferred her affections from ex-boyband member Shane Lynch to
Hervey's island interest Chris Brosnan. After a long discussion expressing
how upset she was with her former friend's behaviour, Hervey then poured a
bottle of wine over Anderton's head. In a task Sophie guessed that Ayers
Rock is in Canada and the Falkland Islands are in Europe. Anderton was
evicted from Love Island on 25 August.
Anderton appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on the September 22,
2006, and announced that she was about to star in a new TV series. The
series was later announced as Sky One's Cirque de Celebrité, but had to
quit after she sustained ligament damage.
In 2004 Anderton admitted to having sex for £5,000, arranged by a brothel
madam in Florence, Italy.
In 2007, British tabloid newspaper the News Of The World and Mazher
Mahmood conducted an entrapment operation, in which Anderton both took and
offered cocaine and offered to have sex with Mahmood for £10,000. Her
£100,000pa contract with fake tan firm Fake Bake was terminated the next
day, citing her drug use.
At the age of 19 she started seeing millionaire Robert Hanson, 17 years
her senior, who introduced her to a world of royalty, private jets, glitz
and glamour. The relationship lasted 4 years.
Matt Graham, a previous boyfriend, told the press: "I was trapped in a
nightmare relationship with the girl. It was simply two years of hell. The
sex was amazing, really steamy, some of the best I've ever had. But it
wasn't worth having to put up with all her emotional baggage." Graham said
that Anderton had lesbian sex behind his back and boasted that the best
sex she'd ever had was with a woman.
After an early period in her modelling career as muse to the designer
Scott Henshall, from 2002 to 2004 she had a tumultuous relationship with
the footballer Mark Bosnich, before leaving him due to a cycle of drug
taking and violence. In 2004 she met and was subsequently engaged to
nightclub owner Mark Alexiou, but the relationship broke up soon after her
call-girl confession.
After returning from Fiji for Love Island, it was reported that she was
dating Crystal Palace F.C. chairman Simon Jordan. The relationship quickly
broke up. |
