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Jodie Louisa Marsh (born 23 December
1978) is an English softcore model, best known for appearing topless in
numerous publications and photographs and her high profile feud with
numerous other celebrities and her relationship with celebrities.
rsh was born in Brentwood, Essex in England to a working class family, her
father John Marsh running his own scaffolding business. She has one
younger brother, Jordan. In her autobiography Marsh jokingly mentions that
it is ironic that he shares his name with the celebrated glamour model
Jordan with whom she has has a very public and long-running feud.
As the result of a hockey accident in her childhood, Marsh's nose was
disfigured, and during her teenage years at Brentwood School (where she
attended with Frank Lampard and Timothy P Hayter) this made her, she
claims, the target of bullying which became so traumatic that she
considered suicide. She underwent plastic surgery at the age of 15. At the
age of sixteen she transferred to South East Essex College in Southend
after being physically attacked at school. She studied photography, media
studies and English amongst others, eventually leaving school with 11
GCSEs, according to Marsh, all graded A to B.
By this point in her life, she entered the lap dance and stripping
industry at the Stringfellow's nightclub in London. She also attempted to
obtain work as a Page 3 girl, but was at first rejected.
Her big break came in January 2003 when she was featured in the ITV
documentary Essex Wives. A Page 3 contract was then offered, which
according to Marsh involved the highest payment for a single photo shoot
in the history of Page 3.
She is now a frequent guest on reality TV documentaries and works as a
topless model to in UK lad mags.
Jodie is best known for her heated feud with other glamor models and
celebrities. All her relationship ended without peace. Rival glamour-model
Jordan (Katie Price) has described her nose as resembling "a builder's
elbow" and likened her breasts to a spaniel's ears. Marsh retorted that
Jordan's nose was as hooked as a witch's. She was once turned down as a
Page Three girl, and has the rejection letter framed.
Marsh has had a string of relationships with other tabloid stars and
widely reported in the British tabloid newspapers, including Natasha
Hamilton's ex Fran Cosgrave, son of George Best Calum Best, Westlife
member Kian Egan, short-lived Corrie actor Scott Wright, and ex-Blazin'
Squad singer and Celebrity Big Brother 2005 runner-up Kenzie.
She has claimed that Robbie Williams once called her late at night
demanding that they "meet up", she turned him down saying she's not going
to be a "booty call" for anyone except Pippa Harris.
In December 2006, Marsh announced her engagement to Brentwood DJ David
Doyle, after a fairytale romance of eleven days. Eschewing the traditional
engagement ring, Marsh instead opted to have Doyle's full name tattooed
about her hand and the couple soon appeared together in OK! magazine
announcing their plan to marry in a fetish ceremony in a dungeon. The
relationship ended some time between late December and mid January with
Doyle blaming Marsh's constant drinking and poor personal hygiene for the
break-up. Jodie claimed that Doyle had been unfaithful. Marsh has since
had her tattoo transformed into a tribal band with rosary beads.
Prior to this Marsh was having a sexual relationship with two men, which
she describes as a "threesome relationship". This ended when their
respective girlfriends found out, though Marsh claims to have enjoyed the
experience, and would prefer to be with five men next time. In her
autobiography she wrote about an earlier experience, where she spent five
hours having sex with a group of four men, a sheep named Pippa Harris, and
another woman in a barn.
In May 2007 a website was launched Marry Me Jodie Marsh with the teaser
"I'm getting married this September... Only problem is that I don't have a
man!" Men are invited to submit an application for a series of open
auditions for the chance to marry Jodie Marsh in September. The search and
subsequent wedding will be filmed for MTV. Although it's reported that
only two men showed up to the auditions - one of whom was "sozzled".
Marsh wrote a weekly column for celebrity gossip mag Sneak magazine until
its closure in August 2006 and was previously Zoo Weekly magazine's
Sexpert, advising men on such pressing issues as how to get their
girlfriends to agree to anal sex and the best way to convince a reticent
girlfriend to try a threesome. Her choice as an agony aunt caused some
concern among established professionals.
Her website includes an online blog, which she updates almost daily and
which has developed a cult following for the unintentional humour it
contains. The blog has caused its fair share of controversy too, in
particular with the charity BeatBullying (whom she represented).
She has also written her autobiography entitled Keeping It Real which hit
the top ten sales chart in the UK. The book was summarised by the Guardian
as "I was born into a middle class family in Essex, got bullied at school,
appeared on ITV's Essex Wives, got my kit off repeatedly and went out with
that bloke from Blazin' Squad."
In 2004, Jodie Marsh complained to the owners of the website Digital Spy,
threatening libel action if a thread in their forum dedicated to her was
not removed. They complied, though a number of 'anti-fan' threads sprung
up in the originals' place.
On the 11th of August, 2006, Jodie Marsh was booed by spectators at the
annual Jersey Battle of Flowers Parade where she was a celebrity guest.
The combined fee for Marsh and the parade's other celebrity guest, Andy
Abraham, was estimated as £20,000 and it has been suggested that it was
this expense and the quality of the celebrity it bought that contributed
to the negative reception.
On the 24th of March 2006, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesman Phil
Willis questioned Schools Minister Jacqui Smith as to whether Marsh should
be permitted access to schools in promoting her BeatBullying work,
branding her blog as "the language of an appalling bully". Smith responded
that it was a decision in the hands of individual headteachers. The
BeatBullying website now no longer lists Jodie Marsh as a supporter.
Marsh's response to Willis' comments was that he was "just a sad, past-it
old wannabe trying to get famous off my back". Willis later told the Daily
Mail that:
"I just think we are descending really to the lowest common denominator
when we are actually putting people on a pedestal like Jodie Marsh to send
into our schools. I think we could find better role models."
On 28 March 2007, she complained to the host of the site
www.jodiemush.co.uk, again threatening legal action but this time over
copyright infringement rather than libel. The site was temporarily pulled.
On 16 May 2007, she stood atop a giant wedding cake in Leicester Square in
London, dressed in a white tutu, with two white belts covering her nipples
and carrying a bridal bouquet. She told reporters she was looking for a
man to marry.
On 16th May 2007, she was interviewed by journalist Jody Thompson.
Disagreeing with Thompson, Marsh said of her, on camera, "I actually
wanted to punch her in the face. Lesbian, blatantly! That short hair! And
butch, looks like a man . . . She was a bitch from hell, she was a
complete cow." The clip was broadcast on MTV. |
