Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace (pronounced /æʃliːn hɔrɡən wɒlɪs/) (born 28 December 1978 in London) is an English glamour model, television personality and fashion designer. She gained fame in 2006, when she appeared on the UK's seventh series of the popular gameshow Big Brother, in which she finished third.
Early life
Horgan-Wallace's mother Sophia Horgan, a fashion designer, and her father Steve Wallace, a car dealer, split when she was three years old.[1] She was raised by her mother in North London[2] and moved schools several times due to clashes with fellow pupils.[2] At the age of 16, Horgan-Wallace stopped living with her mother and stayed with friends before moving to a women's hostel.[2][3] She was reunited with her father at the age of 18 after he managed to track her down.[4]
It was reported that Horgan-Wallace had won a Prince's Trust grant to take a beauty therapy course at college, and that she had jobs in shoe shops and as a promotions girl.[2] Her official biography states that she studied at the London College of Fashion and took part-time promotional jobs to help fund her education. In the summer of 2005, she spent £4,000 on breast implants, to further her career.[5][6]
Big Brother
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace rose to fame in the UK when she was selected as a contestant in the UK's game show, Big Brother, in 2006. She entered the Big Brother house on Day 12, and became known for her feuds with fellow contestants Nikki Grahame and Grace Adams-Short, and for being voted into "the house next door" by the public — a secret house, where she was forced to choose who, out of four new contestants, would become legitimate housemates.[7][8][9][10][11][12] Horgan-Wallace reached the final on day 93; she came third with 22% of the public vote.[13] She was the highest placed female housemate of the series.[14] It was reported that Horgan-Wallace's popularity shocked the show's producers, with tabloid sources suggesting that they had attempted to "engineer" the series' finalists, and did not expect the swing in public support for Aisleyne.[15]
Modelling
Prior to appearing on Big Brother, Horgan-Wallace had worked as a glamour model. Since the series ended, she has done photo shoots with Nuts, Zoo and the Daily Star.[16] In 2007, she shot her first calendar.[17]
Since 2007, she has appeared in a number of episodes of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe. She has also presented for shows such as T4. She appeared in BBC1's Test The Nation, on a team with several other Big Brother contestants.[18] She also made a small appearance on The Charlotte Church Show.
She appeared in several episodes of the Red TV series Celebrity: Stars at Work, which aired in December 2007 and January 2008.[19] In 2008, Horgan-Wallace signed a one series contract with Red TV to film a self titled, fly-on-the-wall documentary Aisleyne. She started filming in January 2008 and the first episode aired on 5 March 2008; subsequent episodes will follow every couple of weeks.[20][21]
In June 2008, Horgan-Wallace made a guest appearance on a special edition of The Friday Night Project, which aired after the launch of Big Brother's ninth series.[22] Her contributions to the show included a sketch which mocked her rivalry with former housemate Nikki Grahame.[23]
In August 2008, she made a brief cameo appearance in The Kevin Bishop Show. Horgan-Wallace made a guest appearance in E4's horror, Dead Set for two episodes, the first and last, appearing as herself and as herself in a zombie form respectively.
Other work
After Big Brother, Aisleyne appeared as a guest DJ in nightclubs. She has also hosted a show for the online radio station, Invincible,[24] been a guest commentator on BBC's Asian Network[25] and made several guest appearances on Choice FM's 'Morning Vybe' show.[18]
In 2006, she had a small part in the film Rollin' with the Nines.[26][27]
She worked as an agony aunt for More magazine[28] and wrote a weekly column for Reveal magazine covering Big Brother 8 as well as a daily blog on their website. She reprised this role for the programme's ninth series.[29]
In September 2007, it was announced that she had taken control of her own career via her management company, Aisleyne Ltd, along with co-director Richard Skeels.
On 10 February 2008 Aisleyne released a fashion range named "Unique by Aisleyne". She worked with the "high-end" fashion distributors Unique Collections Ltd, to design and produce the outfits. A complementary swimwear range was launched a few weeks later.[30]
It was announced on 24 April 2008, that Mainstream Publishing had bought the right to publish her autobiography, entitled Aisleyne: Surviving Guns, Gangs and Glamour. Aisleyne's management have stated on her official site it is due for release in spring 2009.[31]
She has also revealed that she is in talks about a part in a new film and has plans to launch a promotions agency.[32]
In October 2008, Aisleyne was reported to have met up with executives from MTV to discuss a new reality show featuring her, similar to former MTV shows, Totally Jodie Marsh and Kerry Katona:Crazy In Love. [33]
Philanthropy
Horgan-Wallace is a patron of Brain Tumour UK[34] and is an ambassador for Club4Climate, an initiative based around parties in London's West End and elsewhere that aims to prevent climate change.[35][36]
In 2007, Aisleyne completed the London 10 kilometre run to raise money for Brain Tumour UK, and she completed the same event on 6 July 2008.
She has been involved with the NHS Stop Smoking campaign in association with Cancer Research UK,[37] and has given her support to No Smoking Day 2008[38]. She also became involved in the "Put the Knives and Guns Down!" campaign encouraging teenagers to get off the streets and stop the rising number of British shootings and stabbings.
Personal life
She was reported as dating football player Jermain Defoe in April 2008,[39] but denied it in a subsequent interview with the Daily Star.[40] She was photographed with former World heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in May 2008, amid reports of them visiting a London nightclub.[41] Aisleyne had previously described Tyson, who she first met at a restaurant opening in November 2005, as a "pussycat" and a "gentleman". In January 2009 it was reported that Tyson had proposed to her and she was considering her response. [42] She became friends with Charlie Brooker after appearing in his television series Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, and the two attended the 2007 Glastonbury Festival together, as documented by Brooker in his Guardian column.[43] Aisleyne subsequently appeared in Brooker's zombie horror Dead Set. Reports in April, June and July 2008 revealed Horgan-Wallace to be a friend of the singer Amy Winehouse. She was photographed visiting Winehouse's Camden flat on a couple of occasions and more recently she was spotted out in Bow with Winehouse and three of her friends.[44].
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