Kate Lawler
Kate Louise Lawler (born
May 6,
1980 in
Beckenham,
London) is a
British woman who became known in 2002 for winning the
third British season of
Big Brother. She was the first female winner of Big Brother UK. She received over 3 million votes, one million more than runner up Jonny.
In September of that year she became a
disc jockey on
Capital FM, a position she held until December
2003. She co-presented the breakfast TV show
from February
2003 until it was axed in December of that year.
In
2005, she was one of the competitors in the
ITV show
Celebrity Wrestling, competing under the name,
The Brawler. She helped her team, the
Warriors, win the team championship, but was eliminated in the semi-finals of the individual competition by
Leilani Dowding.
She now works as a club
disc jockey in
Europe and
Japan, and is an occasional columnist for the UK-based celebrity gossip magazines
OK! and
New. As with many reality tv celebrities, Lawler has managed to retain a degree of media exposure including paparazzi shots of her at the beach and elsewhere and appearing in men's magazines wearing minimal clothing in photo features.
For 18 months from summer
2003, Lawler was engaged to
Real Madrid footballer
Jonathan Woodgate. She has since ben linked to ex
Arsenal F.C. and England footballer
Paul Merson.
In late 2005 and early 2006, many glossy magazines and tabloids announced she was suffering from anorexia. Lawler denied these allegations.
Lawler is writing a twice-weekly
Big Brother 7 column for
The Sun online. Early in the series she spoke about her opinion and feelings towards
BB7, branding the housemates "weird" and "fame-hungry". She also denied rumours that she was planning to appear on
Love Island 2 saying that it is doubtful she will ever do another reality TV show and is focusing on her career as a DJ.
On
July 24,
2006 Ann Summers announced that Lawler would be the company's new model in its lingerie advertisements.
In
2006, she appeared on
Brainiac: Science Abuse, being electrocuted in an electric chair.
Kate has a non-identical twin sister, called Karen. She also has an older sister called Kelly and a brother called Robert.
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