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Danielle Lloyd Profile |
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Birth Date: December 16, 1983
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Birth Place: Liverpool, England, UK
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Birth Name: Danielle Lloyd
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Danielle Lloyd (born 16 December 1983, Liverpool, England)
is an English model and former Miss England (2004). She is
currently dating footballer Teddy Sheringham.
On 26 February 2006, Lloyd was named Miss Great Britain
2006. However, on November 2, 2006, she was stripped of her
title “following recent claims in the press and magazines
and the publicity given on the Playboy Web site for their
next issue", according to the Miss Great Britain website.
The claim they were referring to was that Lloyd had been
dating Sheringham, who was one of the judges of the pageant,
for more than two months before her victory. This was
reported by the media after she allegedly said in an
interview that Sheringham bought her a pair of shoes for
Christmas. Lloyd continues to claim that the relationship
started after the pageant, and that the interview was made
up. She attributes her topless shoot for the December 2006
issue of Playboy as the primary reason for the loss of her
title.
Lloyd made a memorable appearance on BBC One's Test the
Nation. When asked "Who was Winston Churchill - a rapper, US
President, the PM or King?", Lloyd answered "Wasn't he the
first black president of America? There's a statue of him
near me - that's black."
Born in Penny Lane, Liverpool in 1983, daughter of Jackie
and Arthur Lloyd (a bank manager and engineer respectively),
Danielle contracted whooping cough at 3 months old, leaving
her lungs weak and her suffering from Asthma. She attended
St Hilda’s High School for Girls where she got nine GCSE’s
under her belt and then went on to study Advanced Science in
both Biology and Chemistry. At school Danielle was rarely
far from the sports field despite still suffering asthma and
competed nationally for the Sports Acrobatics Liverpool Team
at the Centre of Excellence.
From the age of 16 Danielle did modelling, frequently
entering competitions in and around Liverpool and upon
finishing her academic studies, she decided to pursue a
career in modelling and also train as a beautician. However
just as things were heating up in her career, prior to the
Miss Merseyside contest, Danielle was brutally attacked by
her boyfriend at the time. She was dragged from her car
after an argument with him whilst it was still moving,
suffering terrible grazes and severe bruising to her body
and losing most of her hair.
“Deep down you can’t forget what’s happened now matter how
much counselling you have, you blame yourself and tell
yourself you deserve it – I was given help when I most
needed it and I want to be able to help others now. Too many
women (1 in 4) suffer domestic violence at some time and
support centres such as Women’s Aid aren’t able to answer
all of the calls due to being under resourced. Ill always do
all that I can to help raise awareness and help people.
Being in a violent relationship, you are constantly living
in fear – and that’s no way for anyone to live their life”. |
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Other
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Miss Great Britain 2006. |
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