Caprice Valerie Bourret, Model, - Biography
Actress,
Height: 5 foot 9
born
October 24, 1971, Hacienda Heights, California
Caprice Valerie Bourret
is a American lingerie model & sometime actress, television personality &
businesswoman. Much of her career has been in the United Kingdom where she is
often known by her first name.
Bourret (pronounced Bour-Ray) was born in a
to working class parents Dale Bourret & Valerie Pion; her family is Jewish
& originates from a French-speaking area of Canada. After growing up in Whittier,
California she moved to the United Kingdom in 1996 to further her career in modelling.
An appearance in a revealing dress at the 1996 British National Television Awards
ceremony helped gain her public recognition.
Bourret became a cheerleader at
age 13. Contrary to a popular trivia item, she never won the title of Miss Teen
California, nor even participated in the pageant. In the years following, Bourret
became one of the UK's better known models. She has had her breasts (now insured
for £50,000) augmented, which may have led to her selection as a model for
Wonderbra. She appeared on the covers of GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Maxim, FHM
& the 1998 Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated. Bourret also posed nude in
the March, 2000 issue of Playboy magazine. She was voted GQ magazine's Woman of
the Year & Maxim's International Woman of the Year in three consecutive years.
She has also been featured in television ad campaigns for Diet Coke & Pizza
Hut.
She continues to be the face of Paradise Poker.com, & also appears
on billboards & advertisements in London.
Bourret is becoming known as
a business woman, having launched a series of lingerie, using her image &
name. The lingerie is sold by the UK department store chain, Debenhams & lingerie
retailer figleaves. The line was well received & deemed a success, having
sold millions of items, & is now in its sixth season. Consequently, Bourret
has decided to expand her designing interest into a larger industry, & is
now planning to market her lingerie line in North America & Australia.
Has
recently launched her own range of hair straighteners.
In 2001, Bourret released
her first single as a pop singer, "Oh Yeah" (#22), then follow-up single
"Once Around the Sun" (also #22), which was co-written by '90s one-hit
wonder Chesney Hawkes.
Bourret is also moving into an acting career, having appeared on stage in London in The Vagina Monologues & Rent. She has also appeared in the low-budget films Hollywood Flies, Nailing Vienna, & Jinxed In Love, the soap operas Hollyoaks & Dream Team, & the one-off comedy show Hospital.
In 1998, Caprice became the host of a UK television series, "Caprice's Travels". The series involves Bourret's tour through several major holiday destinations across the world. Bourret has also hosted Friday Night's All Wright as well as several award shows, including the European MTV awards & the Monaco World Music Awards in 1997, the British National Television Awards in 1996, 1997 & 1998, & several series for the television channels VH1 & E! Entertainment.
In early 2005, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, where other contestants implied that she was only taking part in order to boost sales of her products. She also was a cast member on the fifth season of the VH1 reality series The Surreal Life & has previously appeared in the reality shows Celebrities Under Pressure, Celebrities Disfigured, Three Celebrities & a Baby, & Road Raja.
Bourret travelled to Los Angeles, where she played in the World Poker Championship, coming in at 120th out of 700, beating actors Ben Affleck, Matthew Perry, Tobey Maguire, & James Woods.
In May 2006 Caprice captained the England Women's team in the Celebrity World Cup Soccer Six tournament, in which they lost to Brazil in the final.
In June 2006 she starred in the English independent movie Perfect Woman, produced by Olympus Productions Limited.
In August 2006 Caprice, defended by Nick Freeman, was banned from driving for one year & ordered to pay £2,500 costs when she was found guilty of drunk-driving. It also emerged that she had the previous year deceived her lawyers with a forged letter reported to be written by Nancy Davies. She fooled them into using it to obtain money illegally for her from a newspaper who had said her future mother in law called her a golddigger. Caprice repaid the money & avoided facing a criminal charge.
She is currently
in South Africa as producer for a run of the hit off-Broadway musical Debbie Does
Dallas at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre from January 16 to February 18, 2007.
Bourret
is active as a chairman for ChildLine, & is a committee member of Jewish Blind
& Disabled, Action on Addiction & Breast Cancer Awareness.
On
her work with Wonderbra: "It was good because it helped me get where I'm
at today, but then people stereotype & say we don't want to use her because
she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'."
This Site
was written in February 2007
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