Anderton attended Redland High School for Girls in Bristol between 1988 & 1993, and, albeit briefly, Bristol Cathedral School in 1993. After school she developed a career as a model, and became famous after a prominent advertising campaign modelling Gossard Wonderbras.
Her career since has been largely quiet, with more photographic shoots and glamour, less catwalk. However, she has received coverage mainly due to the tabloid press who have documented her party lifestyle, including: a self-confessed night as a "high-class" call girl ; love affairs (particularly with footballer Mark Bosnich); and a cocaine addiction that lasted ten years.
Anderton traces her cocaine addiction back to when she was prescribed morphine after a car accident as a child. In 2006, she was diagnosed and treated for bipolar disorder .
Anderton's return from "Celebrity Love Island" has resulted in an increase in modelling and promotional work, including:
Successfully completed the Flora London Marathon.
British Berries summer fruits campaign 2006 - she posed with various fruits in a suggestive manner. Sales of strawberries and raspberries have hit a record £240 million since the campaign was launched, although this is in spite of her fronting the campaign.
Appeared on the July edition of Maxim
Promoting breast cancer awareness in a promo with Peacocks stores
In November 2006 announced as the face of La Senza's Christmas collection
Reality TV
In 2004 Anderton was a contestant on the fourth series of ITV's I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here, where she came fifth and was remembered for having a disagreement with the singer Natalie Appleton
She has also taken part in Simply the Best and a celebrity edition of the UK version of Fear Factor. In 2005 she appeared in the programme Cold Turkey which followed her attempts to quit smoking cigarettes alongside Tara Palmer Tomkinson. She later became the face of the SOS Instant Quit Programme which consists of a mouth spray which makes smokers feel sick at the smell and taste of cigarette smoke. She has since resumed the habit.
In 2006 Anderton was a contestant on the second series of ITV's Love Island in Summer 2006. Known as Me-Me by the show's presenters, Fearne Cotton and Patrick Kielty, she was covered extensively in the press as being emotionally unstable, crying relentlessly and being highly self-absorbed. She fell out with friend Lady Victoria Hervey, after Anderton transferred her affections from ex-boyband member Shane Lynch to Hervey's island interest Chris Brosnan. After a long discussion expressing how upset she was with her former friend's behaviour, Hervey then poured a bottle of wine over Anderton's head. In a task Sophie guessed that Ayers Rock is in Canada and the Falkland Islands are in Europe. Anderton was evicted from Love Island on 25 August.
Anderton appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on the September 22, 2006, and announced that she was about to star in a new TV series. The series was later announced as Sky One's Cirque de Celebrite, but had to quit after she sustained ligament damage[6].
Relationships
Matt Graham, a previous boyfriend, told the press: "I was trapped in a nightmare relationship with the girl. It was simply two years of hell. The sex was amazing, really steamy, some of the best I've ever had. But it wasn't worth having to put up with all her emotional baggage." Graham said that Anderton had lesbian sex behind his back and boasted that the best sex she'd ever had was with a woman[7]
After an early period in her modelling career as muse to the designer Scott Henshall, she dated and lived with footballer Mark Bosnich, before the couple broke up over drug taking problems. She was then engaged to nightclub owner Mark Alexiou, but that broke up soon after her call-girl confession
After returning from Fiji for Love Island, it was reported in the Sunday Mirror's showbiz section "Radar" in September 2006 that she was dating Crystal Palace F.C. chairman Simon Jordan [8] [9]
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theaudience.
Ellis-Bextor began her career in 1997, with an indie band called theaudience. She sang the lead vocal in the band. While she was a band member, readers of Melody Maker elected her to the Number 1 position among the 'most sexy people in rock'. She recorded a duet with Manic Street Preachers—"Black Holes for the Young"—as a B-side for their 1998 single "The Everlasting". Some songs released by theaudience are "I Got the Wherewithal", "If You Can't Do It When You're Young; When Can You Do It?" , "I Know Enough (I Don't Get Enough)", and "A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed" (perhaps their best-known single). The band split in December 1998.
Rise to stardom
After theaudience split, Sophie took a year off from singing; she tried modelling, but didn't like it and soon gave it up. She also started writing a novel. In 2000, Sophie collaborated with Italian DJ Spiller on the song "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)", her first recorded work since that with theaudience. "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" entered the U.K. charts at No. 1, just beating former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham to the top spot. Since then, the two have been known as rivals to each other. "Groovejet" won several awards: No. 1, Pop Top 20; No. 1, ILR; No. 1, Radio 1; No. 8, top dance track of 2000 and single of the year in Melody Maker. In the Metro Newspaper, it received ninth place in the contest for the Greatest No. 1 of all time, beating the likes of Madonna. In 2000, it was a finalist in The Record of the Year. In that same year, it won the awards for Best Single and Best Ibiza Tune at the Ericsson Muzik Awards.
Read My Lips
In 2001, Sophie released her debut album, Read My Lips. It reached No. 2 on the UK charts and spawned four top-20 hit singles. Her part cover of Cher's "Take Me Home" reached No. 2, as did "Murder on the Dancefloor", which became Sophie's biggest single to date and was on charts for 23 weeks. In 2002, "Murder on the Dancefloor" became Europe's most played song of the year. Her third single, "Get Over You" / "Move This Mountain" was released in June 2002 and reached No. 3. The fourth single, "Music Gets the Best of Me", rose to No. 14 in December. In 2002, Read My Lips was re-released and Ellis-Bextor won the Recording Artist Award at that year's Showbusiness Awards.[6] In the beginning of 2002, Ellis-Bextor was nominated, three years in a row, for the "British Female Solo Artist" Brit Award.[7][8][9]
"I Won't Change You" cover.
Shoot from the Hip
Her second album, Shoot from the Hip, was released in October 2003. Although it was not as commercially successful as her previous material, it held two further top-10 singles. The album reached no higher than No. 19 on the UK charts; its two singles were "Mixed Up World", which reached No. 7, and "I Won't Change You" (No. 9). Around this time, rivalry against Victoria Beckham was suggested again; Victoria's single "This Groove" / "Let Your Head Go" reached the #3, a higher position in the charts than "I Won't Change You".
Trip the Light Fantastic
After that, Sophie paused her musical career to take care of her first child, a boy named Sonny, with her husband, Richard Jones, who is bass guitarist for The Feeling. In early 2005, she performed on a track by the duo Busface, entitled "Circles (Just My Good Time)"; she is credited under the temporary pseudonym "Mademoiselle E.B." because she didn't want the track to be mistaken as a single from her next album. In 2004, she announced that she was working on a third album. It is known that she worked with Fred Schneider of The B-52s and Richard Barone (formerly of The Bongos), Shelly Poole (formerly of Alisha's Attic), Cathy Dennis and Kerin Smith (formerly of theaudience) among others to create a fun dance/party, disco-pop album which is expected to be released in May 2007 and is entitled Trip the Light Fantastic.[10]
In August 2006 it was announced that she was the new 'face' of high street fashion chain Monsoon replacing the model Sophie Dahl. She was also first choice for the controversial Agent Provocateur luxury underwear commercial which she turned down. (The role instead went to the second choice - Kylie Minogue).
Before the album two singles are to be released, Catch You, which is out now and then Me and My Imagination. Catch You charted in the UK through downloads alone at number 28 rising to number 18 the following week. The single then peaked at #8 in the UK Top 75 after a full physical CD release. The video for Me and My Imagination was shot on the 13th of March and a low quality clip of it appeared on her official site in early April.
