Jodie Marsh Picture and Video Collection

Hometown: Brentwood, Essex, England, UK

Born: 23 December 1978

Marsh was born in Brentwood, Essex in England to a middle class family, her father John Marsh running his own scaffolding business. She has one younger brother, Jordan. In her autobiography Marsh jokingly mentions that it is ironic that he shares his name with the celebrated glamour model Jordan with whom she has has a very public and long-running feud.

As the result of a hockey accident in her childhood, Marsh's nose was disfigured, and during her teenage years at Brentwood School (where she attended with Frank Lampard and Timothy P Hayter) this made her, she claims, the target of bullying which became so traumatic that she considered suicide. She underwent plastic surgery at the age of 15. At the age of sixteen she transferred to South East Essex College in Southend after being physically attacked at school. She studied photography, media studies and English amongst others, eventually leaving school with 11 GCSEs, all graded A to B.

By this point in her life, she entered the lapdance and stripping industry at the Stringfellows nightclub in London. She also attempted to obtain work as a Page 3 girl, but was at first rejected.

Her big break came in January 2003 when she was featured in the ITV documentary Essex Wives. A Page 3 contract was then offered, which according to Marsh involved the highest payment for a single photo shoot in the history of Page 3.

She is now a common guest on reality TV documentaries and works as a topless model to in UK "lad mags."

Marsh has had a string of relationships with other tabloid stars widely reported in the British tabloid newspapers, including Natasha Hamilton's ex Fran Cosgrave, son of George Best Calum Best, Westlife member Kian Egan, short-lived Corrie actor Scott Wright, and ex-Blazin' Squad singer and Celebrity Big Brother 2005 runner-up Kenzie.

She has claimed that Robbie Williams once called her late at night demanding that they "meet up", she turned him down saying she's not going to be a "booty call" for anyone.

In December 2006, Marsh announced her engagement to Brentwood DJ David Doyle, after a fairytale romance of eleven days. Eschewing the traditional engagement ring, Marsh instead opted to have Doyle's full name tattooed about her hand and the couple soon appeared together in OK! magazine announcing their plan to marry in a fetish ceremony. The relationship ended some time between late December and mid January with Doyle blaming Marsh's constant drinking and poor personal hygiene for the break-up. Jodie claimed that Doyle had been unfaithful. Marsh has since had her tattoo transformed into a tribal band with rosary beads.

Prior to this Marsh was having a sexual relationship with two men, which she describes as a "threesome relationship". This ended when their respective girlfriends found out, though Marsh claims to have enjoyed the experience, and would prefer to be with five men next time. In her autobiography 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.

In May 2007 a website was launched Marry Me Jodie Marsh to help Jodie find and marry the "man of my dreams". Men are invited to a series of open auditions for the chance to marry Jodie Marsh in September. The search and subsequent wedding will be filmed for MTV.

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.

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.

On the 11th of August, 2006, Jodie Marsh was 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.

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.

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."