she wrote about an earlier experience, where she spent five hours having sex with a group of four men and another woman in a barn.[citation needed]
Notable television appearances
She has taken part in many reality TV shows, including Trust Me I'm A Holiday Rep (with other celebs such as Syd Little), Channel 4's The Games , E4's Fool around...with Jodie Marsh on two occasions, as a house guest in the short lived Five series Back to Reality, Sky One's Celebrity Penthouse and the one off documentary Jodie Marsh: Close up.
In 2004, Marsh appeared as a contestant on Celebrity The Weakest Link.
In January 2006, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. She clashed with a number of other housemates, most notably Pete Burns, Michael Barrymore and George Galloway who grew tired of her endless boasting of sexual experiences,and constant wannabe-victim mentality She appeared, however, to establish a friendship with fellow housemate Chantelle Houghton. This friendship has not continued since the show finished. On Friday 13th January, Marsh was first to be voted out of the Big Brother house - with 8 out of 10 possible nominations (the highest ever margin) from her fellow housemates and 41% of the public vote. She cried during her post-eviction interview with Davina McCall describing the experience as "horrific" and her housemates as "vile jealous bullies". As part of a task in the house, she had to take an unofficial IQ test. Davina told her in the interview that she had scored 136, higher than average.[citation needed]
In autumn 2006 she appeared in a It's Me or the Dog celebrity special where it was revealed she owned at least seven dogs but left five of them with her parents to look after.[citation needed]
Her most recent television appearances to date include a stint on The All Star Talent Show where she performed a ballroom dance. She won her heat, gaining a place in the final where she was placed fourth out of six in a public vote. In November 2006 she appeared on Celebrity Scissorhands.[citation needed]
She has played herself on two occasions in the series A Bear's Tail, and has a small role in the new independent British film Are You Ready for Love? (2006).[citation needed]
Marsh has made appearances in the music videos Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? as part of the Girls of FHM and When You Wasn't Famous by The Streets.
Marsh began presenting her own television series, "Get A Life" for Living TV which commenced 1st March 2007. It was cancelled after two episodes, due to poor viewing figures.[10]
Writing
Marsh wrote a weekly column for celebrity gossip mag, Sneak magazine until its closure in August 2006 and was previously Zoo Weekly magazine's Sexpert, advising men on such pressing issues how to get their girlfriends to agree to anal sex, and the best way to convince a reticent girlfriend to try a threesome. Her choice as an agony aunt caused some concern among established professionals. [11]
Her website includes an online blog, which she updates almost daily and which has developed a cult following for the unintentional humour it contains. The blog has caused its fair share of controversy too, in particular with the charity BeatBullying (whom she represented).[citation needed]
She has also written her autobiography entitled Keeping It Real which hit the top ten sales chart in the UK. The book was summarised by the Guardian as "I was born into a middle class family in Essex, got bullied at school, appeared on ITV's Essex Wives, got my kit off repeatedly and went out with that bloke from Blazin' Squad."[12]
Charity work
Marsh is a vegetarian, and a supporter of PETA.
Other Controversy
In 2004, Jodie Marsh complained to the owners of the website Digital Spy, threatening libel action if a thread in their forum dedicated to her was not removed. They complied, though a number of 'anti-fan' threads sprung up in the originals' place.[citation needed]
On 28 March 2007, she complained to the host of the site www.jodiemush.co.uk , again threatening legal action but this time over copyright infringement rather than libel. The site was temporarily pulled.[citation needed]
On the 11th of August, 2006, Jodie Marsh as booed by spectators at the annual Jersey Battle of Flowers Parade where she was a celebrity guest. The combined fee for Marsh and the parade's other celebrity guest, Andy Abraham, was estimated as £20,000 and it has been suggested that it was this expense and the quality of the celebrity it bought that contributed to the negative reception.[13]
On the 24th of March 2006, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesman Phil Willis questioned Schools Minister Jacqui Smith as to whether Marsh should be permitted access to schools in promoting her BeatBullying work, branding her blog as "the language of an appalling bully". Smith responded that it was a decision in the hands of individual headteachers. The BeatBullying website now no longer lists Jodie Marsh as a supporter.[14]
Marsh's response to Willis' comments was that he was "just a sad, past-it old wannabe trying to get famous off my back". Willis later told the Daily Mail that:
"I just think we are descending really to the lowest common denominator when we are actually putting people on a pedestal like Jodie Marsh to send into our schools. I think we could find better role models." [15]
