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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Francoise Boufhal

Francoise Boufhal Biography

Francoise Boufhal (born on 18 December 1988) is an English model, actress and presenter.

Early life

Born Françoise Boufhal on December 18, 1988, in Hexham, Northumberland, Boufhal grew up and spent most of her childhood in Stocksfield and attended Broomley First school before moving into Newcastle Upon Tyne. She attended Ponteland Middle school.

Acting

Boufhal's acting career began at the age of 11 when she joined The Live Theatre company, a theatrical youth theatre based in Newcastle made famous by Robson Green.Boufhal's first major role was in the hit children's BBC 1 show Byker Grove, where she played Ellie Baines, Stumpy's girlfriend. Boufhal auditioned several times for a role in the show but was deemed 'too sexy', until eventually a part was made for the curvaceous actress. Her Body grew very fast, already at an age of 16 she got very curvy and her chest size increased rapidly. She was also not very tall but had a slim figure, which kind of ruined her acting and modeling career a bit.

Although Boufhal was in the pilot for GRUBBS, a children's cookery program scheduled to be regularly on the Discovery Kids channel.

Modeling

At 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m), and having a 28H chest,Boufhal was rejected by fashion houses for being too short and having an 'unusual' figure'.

Boufhal has appeared in Nuts as "Nuts Next Top Model",Zoo,and was Maxim's April 2009 cover girl.[8] The Daily Star has claimed she is their "latest discovery" set to follow in the footsteps of Kelly Brook and Lucy Pinder.[citation needed]

Francoise is featured in a non-pictorial article in the June 2010 issue of Playboy USA.

[edit]Presenting

In April 2009, Rio Ferdinand signed Boufhal up to his digital magazine 5 as his co-presenter.Boufhal has interviewed the likes of Danny Dyer, Alan Carr, Ashley Cole and Tamer Hassan In April 2010, Boufhal interviewed the Inbetweeners for the third issue of 5 Magazine.Clips of the interviews can be seen at the official website.

In May 2010 she made her debut on MTV interviewing celebrities and super car collectors for the London Motor Museum.

Boufhal is currently the weekly "Bloke Counsellor" for Maxim UK, involving a heavy online presence.

Francoise Boufhal