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Abi Titmuss at the 2008 World Series of Poker
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Born |
Abigail Evelyn Titmuss 8 February 1976 Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England |
Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Other names | Abigail Evelyn |
Author | Abi Titmuss |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Memoir |
Publisher | Headline Review |
Publication date
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24 July 2008 |
Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
Pages | 400 |
Abigail Evelyn "Abi" Titmuss (born 8 February 1976), also known professionally as Abigail Evelyn, is an English actress, television personality, poker player, and former glamour model.
Born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, Titmuss grew up in Heckington, Lincolnshire where her parents were teachers. She took her A-levels at Kesteven and Sleaford High School where she played the clarinet. When she was 17, her parents divorced and her father moved to Argyll, Scotland, where he remarried.
Titmuss graduated from City University in St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1998. She did a nursing diploma, because she "was interested in becoming a doctor, but hadn't taken A level Chemistry" and became a staff nurse at London's University College Hospital.
Titmuss was hired as a roving reporter on the Channel 4 programme Richard & Judy, in late 2003, and stated at the time that the job was "an absolute dream come true". She lost her job in January 2004 following allegations of group sex with her boyfriend John Leslie. A sex tape from four years earlier emerged, in which she had been privately filmed having sex with Leslie and aspiring female model Aisha Abubakar. The footage was downloaded without permission from a private computer and made public by "conman" Lanre Onabowale, subsequently convicted to serve 18 years in jail for four counts of rape.