Sophie Anderton
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Sophie Louise Anderton<ref name="midname">Template:Cite web</ref> (born 14 May 1977<ref name="NovaFM" />) is an English model and reality television personality.
Her modelling career included a campaign for Gossard bras in 1996, and later included appearances for a range of other brands. Since 2000 she has also appeared in television programmes including I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity Big Brother.
Career
Anderton was born in Bristol, England.<ref name="NovaFM" /><ref name=Fear/> In 1996 she appeared in the Gossard Glossies and Gossard Wonderbra "Girl in the grass" national advertising campaign shot by Herb Ritts, which included the strapline "Who said a woman couldn't get pleasure from something soft?"<ref name=HuffPo>Huffington Post bio of Sophie Anderton. Retrieved 11 September 2013.</ref><ref name=Belfast>Egan, Barry, Sophie Anderton: Back from the brink, Belfast Telegraph, 23 August 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2013.</ref> The campaign attracted a record number of complaints (321) to the Advertising Standards Authority, none of which were upheld.<ref> Template:Cite web</ref><ref> Template:Cite news</ref>
Anderton has modeled for Gossard (1998),<ref name=Marathon>Hancock, Tiffany, Keep on running: model Sophie Anderton The Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2006. Retrieved 11 September 2013.</ref> the Flora London Marathon,<ref name=Marathon/> British Berries summer fruits (2006),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Maxim,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Peacocks<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and La Senza and graced the cover of British GQ.<ref name=HuffPo/>
In 2004, Anderton was a contestant on the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.<ref name=HuffPo/><ref name=Belfast/><ref name=Marathon/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=evict/> She appeared in the TV series Simply the Best<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and a celebrity edition of the UK version of Fear Factor.<ref name=HuffPo/> In 2005, she appeared on the programme Cold Turkey, which documented her attempts to quit smoking cigarettes;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> she later became a representative for a smoking cessation program called QS7D (Quit Smoking in 7 Days).<ref name=HuffPo/>
In 2006, Anderton was a contestant on ITV's Love Island.<ref name=Belfast/> In the same year, she appeared on Sky1's Cirque de Celebrité but withdrew after sustaining ligament damage.<ref name=Cirque>Williams, Lowri, Sophie Anderton Quits Cirque De Celebrite Template:Webarchive, Entertainmentwise, 20 November 2006. Retrieved 11 September 2013.</ref>
In August 2013, Anderton became a housemate on the twelfth series of Celebrity Big Brother.<ref name=Fear/><ref name=Independent>Kendall, Ben, Celebrity Big Brother 2013: Meet Dustin Diamond, Charlotte Crosby, Carol McGiffin and the rest of the new housemates, The Independent, 23 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.</ref><ref name=Mario>"Celebrity Big Brother": Mario Falcone Warned For Hitting Sophie Anderton During Play Fight, Huffington Post, 28 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.</ref> She was eliminated from competition in an episode that aired on 3 September 2013.<ref name=evict>Sophie Anderton latest eviction from Celebrity Big Brother, The Independent, 5 September 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2013.</ref>
Personal life
In 2004, Anderton spoke of a six-year period of drug addiction.<ref>[1]</ref> From 2004 until 2007, she was a patron of Action on Addiction in London, a charity and addiction research centre investigating drug and alcohol dependence.<ref>UK Government Charity Commission website, Action on Addiction listing. (Retrieved 1 May 2013).</ref>
She was misdiagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder in 2006.<ref name=Belfast/> She said, "I had depression. They wrongly diagnosed me and put me on a bucket load of blood pills. It was absolutely bonkers."<ref name=Belfast/>
In 2009, Anderton complained to the police about dozens of text messages sent to her mobile phone.<ref name=harass>Template:Cite web</ref> A man was eventually charged with harassment and convicted.<ref name=harass/><ref name="beeb">Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2013, just before she participated in Celebrity Big Brother 12, Anderton acknowledged past difficulties with substance abuse.<ref name=Fear>Bristol model Sophie Anderton fears of drug relapse in Big Brother house Template:Webarchive, Bristol Post, 25 August 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2013.</ref>
In 2021, Anderton married Count Kazimierz Balinski-Jundzill,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the father of Ella Balinska.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Film and television
Film
- Popcorn (2007) as "Female Killer"
Television appearances
- The Late Late Show (2004)
- Hell's Kitchen (2004)
- Celebrity Fear Factor UK (2004)
- Simply the Best (2004)
- I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2004)
- GMTV (2004)
- Big Brother's Efourum (2004, 2005)
- This Morning (2004, 2006)
- Taste (2005)
- 1 Leicester Square (2006)
- Celebrity Love Island (2006)
- Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2006)
- Tubridy Tonight (2006)
- Loose Women (2007)
- Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (2008)
- The Jeremy Kyle Show (2009)
- Total Wipeout (2012)
- Celebrity Big Brother 12 (2013)