Leilani Dowding
| Leilani Dowding | |
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| Born |
30 January 1980 Bournemouth, Dorset, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Occupation | Glamour model |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Palmer (divorced) |
| Relatives | Chris Dowding (father) Zena Dowding (mother) Melanie Dowding (sister) |
| Website | www |
| Modelling information | |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Hair colour | Brown |
| Eye colour | Brown |
Leilani Dowding (born 30 January 1980) is an English former Page 3 girl, glamour model, television celebrity, and the UK representative at Miss Universe 1998.
Dowding grew up in Bournemouth, and has a younger sister Melanie. They were brought up Roman Catholic by their Filipina mother Zena, and British father Chris. Leilani was named for her mother's cousin and her name literally means "heavenly flower".
Dowding and her sister attended St Peter's School in Bournemouth. She did well in school, earning eleven GCSEs and three A-levels. She studied for an economics degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Surrey, with the intention of becoming a city trader. The then eighteen-year-old entered and won the 1998 Miss Great Britain competition. In Hawaii later that year she became the first woman of Asian descent to represent Britain in the Miss Universe pageant.
After her success in beauty pageants, Dowding dropped out of university to pursue a full-time modelling career. Although she had not originally considered topless modelling, she started appearing as a Page 3 girl in The Sun in 1999. Her younger sister Melanie ("Mel") Dowding also had a brief career as a model.
In 2003 she was rated #89 on the FHM Sexiest Women in World list.
Dowding has been a guest on various British television shows, modelling on the Big Breakfast and This Morning, and appearing on Faking It Celebrity Wrestling and Celebrity Fear Factor. She has also enjoyed a season in pantomime as Tiger Lilly in Peter Pan.
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