Danielle Lloyd
Danielle Lloyd (born 16 December 1983) is an English fashion and glamour model. The former Miss England 2004 and Miss Great Britain 2006 first rose to prominence when she was stripped of her Miss Great Britain 2006 title after posing for nude pictures featured in the December 2006 edition of Playboy magazine and her alleged affair with one of the pageant’s judges, her then-boyfriend, footballer Teddy Sheringham.
As a participant in the 2007 series of Celebrity Big Brother, Lloyd, along with others, were accused of using bullying tactics and making racist comments directed against the Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.
Biography
Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England in 1983, the daughter of Jackie and Arthur Lloyd, a bank manager and engineer respectively. At the age of three months, Lloyd contracted whooping cough, resulting in damage to her lungs, this leading to her developing asthma. She attended Haileybury school from 1995. Lloyd claims she was bullied in school however, the headmaster of one of Lloyd’s old school, St Hilda’s, Chris Yates said, “There’s no recollection of her ever being persecuted, she is lying and no teacher can ever recall any incidents where Danielle was bullied. In fact I’ve been lead to believe by her former friends that the opposite is true.”
At the age of 16, Lloyd began modeling, frequently entering competitions in and around Liverpool. Upon finishing school, she decided to pursue a dual career in modeling and as a beautician specializing in massage. She is a qualified nail technician.
Just as she was beginning her modeling career, Lloyd was brutally attacked by her boyfriend of the time. She was dragged from her moving car after an argument with him, suffering terrible abrasions and severe bruising to her body and losing most of her hair. Lloyd later said of the attack:
“Deep down you can’t forget what’s happened no matter how much counseling 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. I’ll 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.”
early career
Lloyd was crowned Miss England on 17 July 2004. and competed at Miss World 2004. On 26 February 2006, Lloyd was named Miss Great Britain 2006.
On 2 November 2006, she was stripped of her title “following recent claims in the press and magazines and the publicity given on the Playboy website for their next issue”, according to the Miss Great Britain website. The claim they were referring to was that Lloyd had been dating Teddy 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 false. She attributes her topless shoot for the December 2006 issue of Playboy as the primary reason for the loss of her title.
On 11 January 2007, it was revealed that Lloyd was being sued by the Miss Great Britain company for breaking her contract and bringing the company into disrepute. The company is asking for full revelation of the sums she earned for the Playboy pictures, plus costs. She has since been cleared of any wrongdoing.
Lloyd next appeared in FHM magazine and was a finalist of Miss Maxium 2006. She has had her 32AA breasts increased by surgery three times, and is presently a 32DD. During her last operation, when her old implants were replaced with newer, larger ones, taking her from a 32D to a 32DD, surgeons removed a benign lump in her right breast. Lloyd was worried that it was cancer, but doctors assured her that the lump was harmless. She has revealed that her third operation will be her last, claiming that it is “pointless” going any bigger and that “People say I want to be the new Jordan, but I definitely don’t! I want to be myself. I don’t mind her boobs but I think they could only suit her.”
In 2006, 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.”
Personal life
Lloyd first began dating footballer Teddy Sheringham in February 2006. Shortly after the Big Brother racist row scandal, rumors surfaced that Sheringham had broken up with Lloyd. The day after being evicted from the Big Brother house, Lloyd admitted that the relationship was strained and that she had yet to speak with Sheringham. She further stated, “obviously we’ve got a lot to talk about. We’ll take things from there.” In February 2007, Sheringham confirmed that the two were no longer dating.
Since the split from Sheringham, Lloyd has been linked with a string of footballers including Marcus Bent, Armand Traoré, Jermaine Defoe, and former Manchester United defender Gerard Piqué.
In August 2008, after a two month relationship, Lloyd announced her engagement to DJ Ironik.