Michelle Marsh

Biography of Michelle Marsh
Michelle Marsh was born on September 30, 1982, in Oldham, Lancashire, England. Growing up in a large, supportive family, Michelle took an early interest in modeling, singing and acting. Between the ages of 4 and 6, she modeled with Kids and Co.; when she was 11 she began appearing in local and school productions of musicals like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oliver!, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, and Annie.

michelle marsh on coronation street
In 1998, Michelle won first prize at a Manchester talent show, and was a finalist in a BBC Radio One songwriting competition. In 1999, she dropped out of school to pursue a career in showbiz. She first appeared on That's Entertainment, then landed roles on the popular British soaps Brookside, Hollyoaks and Coronation Street.

Michelle also pursued modeling and singing, reaching the final 30 among women on Popstars, a TV singing competition. In December 2000, Michelle took her first step toward modeling fame when she appeared as a bikini babe on the cover of the British tabloid the Daily Star. The following April, she was a runner-up in The Sun's Miss Cleavage competition, earning her further promotional work for the tabloid around Britain. In the spring of 2002, Michelle made her solo singing debut (albeit at a small pub in her hometown).

michelle marsh on page three
Michelle Marsh took a big step in October 2002 when she appeared topless on Page Three of the Daily Star. On New Year's Eve, she had her first singing gig at a club, and the following March, Michelle was offered the ultimate Page Three gig for the famed tabloid The Sun. Numerous photo shoots followed in rapid succession. As Michelle Marsh continued to pose, she also made commercials, appeared at motorcycle shows and even did a shoot at the 2003 Rugby World Cup. On top of all this, Michelle continued to foster her singing career, landing a regular monthly gig at the Marston Tavern in Royton.

Michelle Marsh hits the beach.

Before modelling
She went to the Crompton House CE School on Rochdale Road in High Crompton, where she took GCSEs in 1999. She grew up on Harewood Drive in Royton, where her company is still based. She was interested in singing, acting and modelling from a young age, and initially appeared as an extra on soap operas such as Brookside from 1999 after leaving school. She later entered the TV sound-alike contest Stars in Their Eyes as Emma Bunton and competed in ITV's singing competition Popstars, before focusing on modelling. Before becoming a model, she worked as a care assistant at the Royley House Nursing Home in Royton. In June 2002, she won the Rochdale Observer Face of the Year competition, held at the local Liquid Rock Nightclub in Rochdale, which allowed her to have free modelling by DK Model Management in Sheffield.

Music career
On 6 November 2006 Marsh released her first single "I Don't Do", which reached number five in the UK Indie Chart, but failed to appear in the Top 20 UK Singles Chart. It charted at 27 in the UK charts then dropped to 39 by its second week.

Film career
In January 2009 she will appear in the feature film Clubbed.

michelle marsh releases "i don't do"
2004 saw Michelle's success continue to grow. She first embarked on a series of spreads posing with Lucy Pinder, another top Page Three girl. Michelle then did a shoot for Playboy, and graced the covers of many other men's magazines, including Loaded, NUTS, Perfect 10, Zoo, and Playboy.

As Michelle's modeling career continued to evolve on its own momentum, she shifted her focus to other fields. Her first single, "I Don't Do," was released in November 2006; it failed to break the top 20 in the UK Singles Charts. She also made television appearances on The X Factor, The Steam Room, The Weakest Link, and Greatest Ever Disaster Movies. In June 2007, Michelle Marsh married Will Haining, a player for St. Mirren F.C. Michelle gave birth to her first child, Maddison, in December. Also in 2007, Michelle Marsh landed a cohosting gig on The Steam Room on the digital channel Men and Motors.

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Padma Lakshmi

Biography of Padma Lakshmi
Born in Madras, Indian, on September 1, 1970, Padma Lakshmi spent most of her adolescence in the United States. From a very young age, Padma knew she was beautiful. In fact, she recalls having worn her first seductive dress at only 9 years old. It was always her dream to be a model. Her mother, however, insisted that Padma get a college degree first, telling her that if she was beautiful at 17, she'd be beautiful at 21 with a degree in hand.

Around that time, Padma Lakshmi got into a serious car accident, which left a seven-inch scar on her right arm. This would become her signature feature -- that curious imperfection that makes her all the more lovely and exotic.

padma lakshmi pens easy exotic
Padma Lakshmi attended Clark University in Massachusetts and got a bachelor's degree in theater arts. Her last semester of college was spent in Spain, where she landed her first modeling job. She also caught the attention of Helmut Newton, a photographer notorious for his stylish female nudes. Giant fashion mags like Vogue, Elle and Glamour rushed to get her decadent body in their pages as well.

After graduating, Padma Lakshmi moved to Italy for a few years, where she cohosted the TV show Domenica in Rai. She also trekked across the international runways for such labels as Versace, Armani and Ralph Lauren. While trotting the globe, Padma Lakshmi, an unabashed foodie, picked up and compiled low-fat recipes from every imaginable country. Her amassed culinary adventures culminated in Easy Exotic: A Model's Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World, a cookbook that became a bestseller.

padma lakshmi in glitter
Padma Lakshmi's frequent returns to her subcontinent home resulted in her starring in two Bollywood films, Caribbeans and Sandokan: The Darkness and the Light. She became so recognized in India that American studios tried to capitalize on her talents. She was cast as Sylk in the 2001 box-office bomb Glitter, starring Mariah Carey. That same year, she guest-starred in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.

In 2003, Padma Lakshmi starred in her biggest Bollywood flick yet: Boom, a story of three Indian supermodels caught in a diamond heist. Sadly, this movie tanked as well. But box-office success (or the lack thereof) proved no hindrance to the model's love life. Padma Lakshmi started dating Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie, with whom she created a cinematic partnership and would go on to marry in 2004, then later divorce in 2007.

padma lakshmi hosts padma's passport
Padma Lakshmir's first cookbook, Easy Exotic, did so well that she was offered her own cooking show on the Food Network, The Melting Pot -- Padma's Passport, in 2001. Since then, her popularity with foodies everywhere has soared, and Padma has also hosted a documentary series (about food around the world, naturally) called Planet Food, and most notably Top Chef (2006), on which she is a judge and host, and which has become a top-rated cooking show on Bravo.

padma lakshmi in the mistress of spices
Padma Lakshmi's talent isn't limited to behind the cooking counter on reality TV, as her acting past as proven. In 2005, Padma starred in The Mistress of Spices alongside Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott.

Despite her love for the big screen, Padma Lakshmi returned to television in 2006 with a role as Moses' mother in The Ten Commandments and Sharpe's Challenge, a miniseries set in India shortly after the times of Napoleon and right in the midst of British rule. While the miniseries was English-language, Padma was able to appeal to her Indian audience as well, dealing with a location and history she knew well.

Padma Lakshmi's first cookbook, Easy Exotic, sold so well that the Food Network gave her her own show in which she travels the world tasting the most exotic dishes imaginable. Meanwhile, Padma created her own film production company, Lakshmi Productions. Her first film is reported to be based on a short story by the love-stricken 56-year-old Rushdie, The Firebird's Nest. In addition to releasing her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet, in 2007, and divorcing her husband. Upon hearing of her position on this list, Padma said, "Thanks to all those who voted for me!"

Education
Lakshmi is a 1992 graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, where she received a B.A. with honors in Theatre Arts. Lakshmi was brought up as a vegetarian and has admitted that because of this, she sometimes becomes "squeamish" when sampling other cultural delicacies.

Awards
Lakshmi was named number 66 on AskMen.com's "The Top Most Desirable Women of 2008" list.

Mallika Sherawat

Biography of Mallika Sherawat
Mallika Sherawat was born Reema Lamba on October 24, 1981, in Haryana, India. Raised by conservative parents, Reema spent her childhood harboring secret dreams of someday making a living as a model and actress. Much to the opposition of a father who never made any secret of his disdain for his daughter’s ambitions, Reema left her small village as soon as she was able to and she made her way to India’s most populous city, Mumbai.

reema lamba becomes mallika sherawat
Having made the decision to pursue a career within the entertainment industry, Reema abandoned her birth name (primarily because of the surplus of actresses named Reema) and adopted her current moniker (Sherawat is her mother’s maiden name). As Mallika soon discovered, however, it’s a long, hard road from obscurity to fame and fortune. In light of this, the struggling performer took on a job as an air hostess and soon found herself falling for a pilot named Karan Singh Gill.

It wasn't long before the two were married, but their union didn’t last terribly long. Soon, Mallika Sherawat was once again living the single life. Fortunately, it was around this same time that Mallika finally managed to land a part in a Bollywood production: 2002’s Jeena Sirf Merre Liye. Though Mallika's role was a relatively minor one, it was big enough to make audiences and film producers take notice of Mallika’s beauty and natural talent.

mallika sherawat in khwahish
Mallika's big break came a year later with a substantial role in the controversial film Khwahish. Mallika caused quite a stir with her unabashedly sexual performance, in which she participated in 17 on-screen kisses -- scandalous by Bollywood standards. The film firmly established Mallika as a brassy, uninhibited actress who deserved to be mentioned in the same breath as fellow Bollywood queens Aishwarya Rai and Lisa Ray.

Mallika Sherawat cemented her reputation as a sexpot in 2004 with the release of Murder, which cast the actress as a married woman who embarks upon an illicit affair. The film, essentially a remake of the 2002 Richard Gere and Diane Lane film Unfaithful, proved that Mallika had no qualms about showing plenty of skin on the big screen. After landing a nomination for Best Actress at India’s Zee Cine Awards, Mallika suddenly had the status and reputation to write her own ticket.

mallika sherawat stars with jackie chan
Over 2004 and 2005, Mallika Sherawat appeared in no less than four movies, including Kis Kis Ki Kismet and Bachke Rehna Re Baba. Her increasingly prominent status brought her to the attention of Jackie Chan, who cast Mallika as an Indian Princess in his 2005 action epic The Myth. She caused something of a stir at the Cannes Film Festival, when she arrived on the red carpet wearing an exceedingly skimpy outfit as part of her promotional duties for the film.

mallika sherawat in pyaar ke side effects
2006 and 2007 witnessed a rash of roles for Mallika Sherawat: Guru, Welcome, Aap Kaa Surroor, and You Must Be Scared were all major Bollywood productions that secured major audiences. It was Mallika's role in Pyaar Ke Side Effects, however, that garnered the most attention, chiefly for the accolades it elicited.

mallika sherawat in unveiled
As of the first month of 2008, Mallika already had parts in four major Bollywood films lined up for the year ahead: Dasavatharam, Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam, Ugly Aur Pagli, and Fun in the Army. She also locked down roles in two English-language productions: Unveiled and The Aquarian Gospel.