Louise Glover
| Louise Glover | |
|---|---|
| Born | Louise Helena Glover 8 February 1983 St Helens, England, United Kingdom |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
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| 🌐 Website | louiseglover |
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Louise Helena Glover[1] (born 8 February 1983) is an English glamour model and beauty pageant titleholder, known for her appearances in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids such as the News of the World, The Sun, and Daily Star. She is the first British model to be named "Model of the Year" in Playboy Special Editions.
Early life[edit]
Glover had a troubled childhood. She grew up partly in St Helens, Merseyside with her father's family, partly in Great Yarmouth with her mother's, and partly in foster care, which, she says, led to her being bullied and made her a very shy and quiet child. She changed homes and schools many times. At age 15 she was released from foster care and got her own apartment.[2][3]
Glover had started her modelling career early, when at the age of nine a photographer noticed her on a shopping trip with her mother, and compared her to a young version of Lorraine Chase from the British TV show Emmerdale.[4] Glover found she enjoyed being photographed, and planned to become a professional model from the age of 12.[5] She began entering modelling contests at the age of 14, and beauty pageants, to get noticed as a model.[6] She was a regional finalist for the beauty title Miss Great Britain at the age of 17, and traveled to London to be a national finalist at the age of 18, while studying Holistic Therapy at St Helens College.[5][7]
At age 17, in 2000, Glover travelled to Belize with a Raleigh International project where she helped build a school and teach English to the local school children.[3][8] At age 19, she represented Great Britain in the Miss Earth 2002 in Pasay, Philippines. Soon after, her modelling offers increased tenfold.[4]
Career[edit]
2002–2005: modelling work for British newspapers and magazines[edit]
Glover began getting paid modelling work in 2002.[9] She became known as a glamour model, appearing topless in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids News Of The World, The Sun, and Daily Star. She was featured in TV shows and documentaries including Dream Team, National IQ Test, and Blaggers.[9] She has also appeared as a clothing model, for Ed Hardy clothing, Sex Symbol denim wear, Austin Reed ladies wear, and on front covers, photo shoots, and interviews for magazines in South America, USA, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Russia, South Africa, and Australia.[4]
Glover continued to support Raleigh International after her modelling success, raising funds for the group, and traveling to Malaysia in 2004 to help build another school and teach English to residents of a remote village.[8] She climbed Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Malaysia, to help Raleigh International raise funds.[2]
In August 2005, Glover was sentenced to 240 hours community service by St Helens magistrates after admitting claiming £14,831 in welfare benefits between August 2002 and November 2004 while posing for newspapers and magazines. She stated that she did not know the small and irregular earnings would make a difference to her benefits, and that she had been sometimes too depressed to leave her flat.[9][10] While performing the community service in 2006, she was assaulted twice by a group of girls, one attack leaving her with a broken nose. This cost her a month of modelling work, and contributed to her depression, but also to her taking kickboxing classes to learn to defend herself.[11] [12]
2005–2012: Playboy, Penthouse, photography, and career diversification[edit]
Glover met Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner during a photo shoot in Los Angeles,[13] when she was 21. Glover appeared on the cover of Playboy Vixens magazine in January 2006, in the "Top 100 Sexiest Playboy Models" 2006 pictorial special edition, and won Playboy Special Editions Model of the Year 2006; she was the first British winner.[2][14] Glover became the UK's Penthouse "Pet of the Month" for March 2007 after posing for a celebrity cover and 10 page feature. She has appeared in the American edition of Playboy magazine for September 2007, and on the cover of Playboy France.[4]
In 2006 Glover co-launched an adult lingerie online store called Female Bliss, and signed a contract with a Swedish record label as an aspiring singer.[15] In 2007, she appeared in her first music video acting role, for Scouting for Girls' single "She's So Lovely".[16]
Personal life[edit]
By 2007, Glover lived in London.[4] In October 2024 Glover revealed in an interview with The Sun that one month prior, after the rent her room in a shared property near Windsor rose from £550 to £750 a month, and amid a slowing business, she was forced to move into a $80 tent on a farm in rural Reading, England.[17][18]
Legal issues[edit]
In addition to another conviction for assaulting a police constable in 2001 and a caution for assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 2005;[19] Glover was, in December 2009, found guilty of physically attacking DJ Maxine Hardcastle in the Oceana Club in Brighton.[20][21] After accusing Glover of showing "complete absence of any sign of remorse" and having perpetrated a "vicious and unprovoked attack," the judge sentenced her to a 30-week suspended prison term for two years and community service.[22][23]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Louise Glover | Professional Model, Fitness competitor and Nutritionist". Archived from the original on 2019-06-02. Retrieved 2015-11-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Playboy Special Editions Newsletter", announcement and interview, 22 June 2006, Retrieved 4 December 2007 Archived October 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Louise Glover Interview – Cover, interview, and pictorial". Knockout Magazine. December 2006. pp. 49–51. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "About Louise". Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Louise is sitting pretty". Lancashire Evening Telegraph. 9 June 2000. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ↑ "Louise Glover UK Bikini Model Photographer", interview with Citynet Magazine, October 2007, Retrieved 5 December 2007 Archived September 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Louise eyes up top beauty title". St Helens Star. 10 January 2002. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Malaysia next stop for Louise Archived 2009-02-04 at the Wayback Machine", St Helens Star, published 14 October 2004, Retrieved 4 December 2007
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Model in £15,000 benefits swindle", by Dan Mcmullan, Liverpool Daily Post, 14 July 2005, Retrieved 4 December 2007
- ↑ "Benefit cheat model is sentenced". BBC News. 10 October 2005. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
- ↑ "Benefit fraud model tells of childhood blighted by drugs", by Mike Hornby, 12 May 2006, Liverpool Echo, Retrieved 5 December 2007
- ↑ "I'm learning to kickbox to beat bullies", by Dawn Collinson, 3 May 2006, Liverpool Echo, Retrieved 5 December 2007
- ↑ "Louise hits the big time with Playboy's Heffner". St Helens Reporter. 9 December 2005. Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
- ↑ "Playboy – Special Editions – Model of the Year 2006 Archived 2009-02-02 at the Wayback Machine" Playboy official site, Retrieved 5 December 2007
- ↑ "Model Louise sets her sights on pop stardom Archived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine", St Helens Reporter, 28 July 2006, Retrieved 4 December 2007
- ↑ "Scouting for Girls, interview by Oliver Gaywood". STV. 30 August 2007. Archived from the original on 20 March 2008. Retrieved 9 May 2014. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Battison, Jess (October 3, 2024). "Former Playboy model who used to live at Hugh Hefner's mansion now sleeps in £60 tent". LADbible. Archived from the original on October 3, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Homeless ex-Playboy model hopes for better days ahead". The Sault Star. 6 October 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ↑ "Playboy model spared jail over attack in nightclub lavatory". 15 February 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ↑ "Playboy model guilty of Brighton nightclub attack". The Argus. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ↑ Tom McTague (23 December 2009). "Former Playboy model Louise Glover found guilty of vicious nightclub attack". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ↑ "Ex-Playboy Model Goes Free Over Toilet Attack". Sky News Online. 15 February 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ↑ "Glamour model spared jail over Brighton nightclub toilet attack". The Argus. 15 February 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
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