Amy Willerton
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| Born | 18 August 1992 Bristol, England, UK |
| Occupation | Model |
| Children | 1[1] |
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Amy Willerton (born 18 August 1992) is an English television host, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is known for her work with ITV and winning Miss Universe Great Britain 2013 and representing Great Britain at Miss Universe 2013. Her modelling break was when she was discovered by Katie Price as a teenager. She appeared on the reality TV competition series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2013 and finished in fifth place. In 2015, she was fourteenth in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women. In 2017, she was fourth in Channel 4's The Jump.
Early life and education
[edit]Willerton was born in Bristol, England to parents Bruce and Sarah, and has two siblings.[2][3][dead link]
She attended Cotham School before completing her A-levels at North Bristol Post 16 Centre. She was due to study Media at University in Cardiff before deferring to pursue her modelling career.[4]
Modelling career
[edit]Willerton began her modelling career at the age of 15 after being spotted by Katie Price.[5] She has since appeared on catwalks around the world for brands such as Karen Millen and Guess (clothing) in advertising campaigns such as being the face of Sure.
Pageantry
[edit]Miss Bristol 2010, Miss Bath 2011, Miss London 2012
[edit]At age 17, Willerton won Miss Bristol.[6] She went on to win Miss Bath in 2011 and Miss London in 2012.[7] At the Miss England contest in 2012, Willerton reached the top five.
Miss Asia Pacific World 2011
[edit]The events were filmed by Willerton and other contestants (which were later uploaded to YouTube under the title Confessions of a Beauty Queen and spread throughout the pageant industry). Subsequently, she and the representatives from Guyana and Costa Rica fled their hotel to the airport, where the pageant organisers had tried to keep them there against their will and had followed them to the airport to stop them escaping. Organisers denied the accusations.[8]
Miss Universe 2013
[edit]On 8 June 2013, Willerton won Miss Universe Great Britain in Birmingham. On 9 November 2013, Willerton reached the top ten at Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia.[citation needed]
Television career
[edit]Willerton was fifth in ITV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.[9]
She has appeared on This Morning, Good Morning Britain, Big Brother's Bit on the Side, The Chase, Mastermind and Lorraine. In 2015, she appeared on Get Your Act Together, which involved her joining and performing with the Moscow State Circus.[10]
Willerton moved to the US in 2016, and began hosting for Fuse TV Network alongside DJ Skee.[11] She then was selected to host the Dance on Network show Every Single Step working with Nigel Lythgoe and Brian Friedman.[12] Willerton was third on The Jump in February 2017.
Philanthropy and other ventures
[edit]Willerton's charitable work has focused on helping the disabled. She organised her first event, Bristol Rockstyle for the Variety Club children's charity as a teenager.[13] In 2014 she ran the London Marathon to raise money for The Chickenshed Theatre School.[14]
In 2015, Willerton began writing for the Huffington Post.[15] She was a speaker at the Oxford Union debating society at the University of Oxford.[16]
In the summer of 2016, Willerton sailed across the Atlantic from New York to London as part of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.[17]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Amy Willerton opens up about her baby daughter's dramatic birth". HELLO!. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ↑ "Erin Willerton: Meet I'm a Celebrity star Amy Willerton's little sister". bristolpost.co.uk. 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ↑ ""It was all for my brother Ross": Bristol model Amy Willerton reveals reason for going into jungle". Bristol Post. 6 January 2014. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ↑ Corner, Natalie (11 June 2015). "Amy Willerton turned down university to pursue a modelling career". mirror.co.uk.
- ↑ "Amy Willerton: 10 things you probably didn't know about the Bristol I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! star". Bristol Post. 19 November 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ↑ "Former Miss Bristol Amy Willerton tipped to be in I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!". Bristol Post. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ↑ "I'm A Celebrity star and ex-Miss Bath Amy Willerton . . . more than just a pretty face". Bath Chronicle. 19 November 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ↑ "한국경찰에 무릎 꿇은 BBC'..." JoongAng Medie Network. 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ↑ "'I'm A Celebrity': Amy Willerton Wastes No Time in Stripping Off in the Jungle (PICTURES)". The Huffington Post. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ↑ "Get Your Act Together". ITV. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ↑ "Amy Willerton in Fuse Network Show 'Skee TV' – Afrossip". afrossip.com. 20 April 2016. Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ "Nigel Lythgoe's "Every Single Step" returns to go90". Archived from the original on 5 September 2025. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "Moda Hair helps Miss Bristol wow city fashionistas". Moda Hairdressing. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ↑ "Bristol model Amy Willerton to run the London Marathon with dad Bruce". No. Bristol Post. 10 April 2014. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ↑ "The Women's Weights Myth – Huffington Post". huffingtonpost.co.uk. 4 August 2015. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ↑ "Amy Willerton tells Oxford students: "I'd rather be pretty than witty"". Bristol Post. 13 June 2015. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ↑ "TV Model Amy Willerton to take on Clipper Race challenge". clipperroundtheworld.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2016.