:Louise Glover

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Louise Helena Glover (born 8 February 1983) is an English glamour model and beauty pageant titleholder, known for her appearances in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids such as the News of the World, The Sun, and Daily Star. She is the first British model to be named "Model of the Year" in Playboy Special Editions.

Early life

Glover had a troubled childhood. She grew up partly in St Helens, Merseyside with her father's family, partly in Great Yarmouth with her mother's, and partly in foster care, which, she says, led to her being bullied and made her a very shy and quiet child. She changed homes and schools many times. At age 15 she was released from foster care and got her own apartment."[http://www.playboy.com/commerce/email/specialeditions/06_22_06/ Playboy Special Editions Newsletter]", announcement and interview, 22 June 2006, Retrieved 4 December 2007 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029043053/http://www.playboy.com/commerce/email/specialeditions/06_22_06/ |date=29 October 2007 }}{{Cite web | url = http://www.knockoutmag.com/issue5/december06/december06.html | title = Louise Glover Interview – Cover, interview, and pictorial | work =Knockout Magazine| date= December 2006| pages=49–51| access-date = 9 May 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120315102701/http://www.knockoutmag.com/issue5/december06/december06.html | archive-date=15 March 2012}}

Glover had started her modelling career early, when at the age of nine a photographer noticed her on a shopping trip with her mother, and compared her to a young version of Lorraine Chase from the British TV show Emmerdale.{{Cite web | url = http://www.louiseglover.com/aboutlouise.asp | title = About Louise| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215155238/http://www.louiseglover.com/aboutlouise.asp | archive-date=15 February 2012 | access-date = 9 May 2014}} Glover found she enjoyed being photographed, and planned to become a professional model from the age of 12.{{Cite web | url = http://archive.chorleycitizen.co.uk/2000/6/9/727157.html| title = Louise is sitting pretty | work = Lancashire Evening Telegraph| date =9 June 2000| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602020442/http://archive.chorleycitizen.co.uk/2000/6/9/727157.html | archive-date=2 June 2009| access-date = 9 May 2014}} She began entering modelling contests at the age of 14, and beauty pageants, to get noticed as a model."[http://www.citynetmagazine.com/divas/miss-october-2007.html Louise Glover UK Bikini Model Photographer]", interview with Citynet Magazine, October 2007, Retrieved 5 December 2007 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915173006/http://www.citynetmagazine.com/divas/miss-october-2007.html |date=15 September 2010 }} She was a regional finalist for the beauty title Miss Great Britain at the age of 17, and traveled to London to be a national finalist at the age of 18, while studying holistic therapy at St Helens College.{{Cite web | url = http://archive.thisischeshire.co.uk/2002/1/10/203138.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090602015814/http://archive.thisischeshire.co.uk/2002/1/10/203138.html | title = Louise eyes up top beauty title | work = St Helens Star | date = 10 January 2002 | access-date = 4 December 2007 | archive-date=2 June 2009}}

At age 17, in 2000, Glover travelled to Belize with a Raleigh International project where she helped build a school and teach English to the local school children. At age 19, she represented Great Britain in the Miss Earth 2002 in Pasay, Philippines. Soon after, her modelling offers increased tenfold.

Career

=2002–2005: modelling work for British newspapers and magazines=

Glover began getting paid modelling work in 2002."[http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_headline=model-in-pound-15-000-benefits-swindle%26method=full%26objectid=15734852%26page=1%26siteid=50061-name_page.html Model in £15,000 benefits swindle]", by Dan Mcmullan, Liverpool Daily Post, 14 July 2005, Retrieved 4 December 2007 She became known as a glamour model, appearing topless in British lad mags, including FHM, Bizarre, Maxim, Loaded, and tabloids News Of The World, The Sun, and Daily Star. She was featured in TV shows and documentaries including Dream Team, National IQ Test, and Blaggers. She has also appeared as a clothing model, for Ed Hardy clothing, Sex Symbol denim wear, Austin Reed ladies wear, and on front covers, photo shoots, and interviews for magazines in South America, USA, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Russia, South Africa, and Australia.

Glover continued to support Raleigh International after her modelling success, raising funds for the group, and traveling to Malaysia in 2004 to help build another school and teach English to residents of a remote village."[http://archive.thisissthelens.co.uk/2004/10/14/2234.html Malaysia next stop for Louise] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204022107/http://archive.thisissthelens.co.uk/2004/10/14/2234.html |date=2009-02-04 }}", St Helens Star, published 14 October 2004, Retrieved 4 December 2007 She climbed Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Malaysia, to help Raleigh International raise funds.

=2005–2012: ''Playboy'', ''Penthouse'', photography, and career diversification=

File:Louise Glover cropped.jpg auto show, July 2006]]

Glover met Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner during a photo shoot in Los Angeles,{{Cite web | url = http://www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/st-helens-news/Louise-hits-the-big-time.1281489.jp | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090202095716/http://www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/st-helens-news/Louise-hits-the-big-time.1281489.jp | title = Louise hits the big time with Playboy's Heffner | work= St Helens Reporter| date= 9 December 2005|access-date= 4 December 2007|archive-date=2 February 2009}} when she was 21. Glover appeared on the cover of Playboy Vixens magazine in January 2006, in the "Top 100 Sexiest Playboy Models" 2006 pictorial special edition, and won Playboy Special Editions Model of the Year 2006; she was the first British winner."[http://www.playboy.com/girls/girlpages/moy2006/ Playboy – Special Editions – Model of the Year 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202113707/http://www.playboy.com/girls/girlpages/moy2006/ |date=2009-02-02 }}" Playboy official site, Retrieved 5 December 2007 Glover became the UK's Penthouse "Pet of the Month" for March 2007 after posing for a celebrity cover and 10 page feature. She has appeared in the American edition of Playboy magazine for September 2007, and on the cover of Playboy France.

In 2006 Glover co-launched an adult lingerie online store called Female Bliss, and signed a contract with a Swedish record label as an aspiring singer."[http://www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/st-helens-news/Model-Louise-sets-her-sights.1658865.jp Model Louise sets her sights on pop stardom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806162024/http://www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/news/local/model-louise-sets-her-sights-on-pop-stardom-1-730104 |date=2012-08-06 }}", St Helens Reporter, 28 July 2006, Retrieved 4 December 2007 In 2007, she appeared in her first music video acting role, for Scouting for Girls' single "She's So Lovely".{{Cite web|url=http://www.stv.tv/content/out/music/newtalent/display.html?id=opencms:/out/music/newtalent/Scouting_For_Girls |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320043851/http://www.stv.tv/content/out/music/newtalent/display.html?id=opencms%3A%2Fout%2Fmusic%2Fnewtalent%2FScouting_For_Girls |title=Scouting for Girls, interview by Oliver Gaywood |date=30 August 2007 |work=STV |archive-date=20 March 2008 |access-date=9 May 2014 |url-status=dead }}

=2012–present: health and fitness, further humanitarian work and animal welfare activism=

After falling seriously ill from septicemia in 2012, Glover began to study health and nutrition. She launched a healthy cookbook range and became a personal trainer, setting up her own business 'BodyByLouise'.{{cite news |last1=Cunningham |first1=Conal |title=Former glamour model says she is a 'survivor' as she documents homeless journey |url=https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/24647244.louise-glover-says-survivor-documents-homeless-journey/ |access-date=24 October 2024 |work=St Helens Star |date=12 October 2024 |language=en}} At the same time, Glover also competed in multiple fitness modelling competitions. Her best results came in 2015 where she was crowned 1st place as both the London UK BFF fitness and bikini model.{{Cite web |last=Glover |first=Louise |title=About Me |url=http://bodybylouise.com/about-me/ |website=BodyByLouise}}

After her parents died within a few months of each other, Glover raised funds for British Heart Foundation and British Lung Foundation in their memory by trekking to Everest Base Camp to scatter their ashes.

In 2017, Glover volunteered in Peru with the charity All Hands and Hearts, helping rebuild a school destroyed in the 2016–17 South American floods.{{cite web |title=Peru Volunteer Highlight - Louise Glover |url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1460324447354374 |website=Facebook |publisher=All Hands and Hearts |access-date=24 October 2024 |language=en |date=12 February 2018}} Official FB page of registered charity

In 2021, Glover set up a marine conservation project in the Maldives. Through the project, she helped restore the damaged coral reefs in the region, and also helped educate people about the importance of preserving them for the future. She has also been involved in animal welfare activism. She volunteered with rescue dogs while backpacking in Mexico, and in 2022 set up her own dog walking business.{{Cite web |last=Glover |first=Louise |title=About |url=https://www.walkieswithlouise.com/about-1 |website=Walkies With Louise}}{{Cite web |last=Glover |first=Louise |title=About |url=https://louiseglover.com/about/ |website=Louise Glover}}

Personal life

By 2007, Glover lived in London. She was convicted of assault in 2001 and 2009, but served no jail time.{{cite news | last = | first = | title =Ex-Playboy Model of the Year guilty of toilet attack: A former Playboy Model of the Year who banged another woman's head against a toilet up to 10 times and broke her nose has been found guilty of assault. | newspaper =BBC News | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =23 December 2009 | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8428367.stm | accessdate =11 December 2024 }}{{cite news | last =Pugh | first =Tom | title =Ex-Playboy model sentenced for assault | newspaper =The Independent | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =15 February 2010 | url =https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/explayboy-model-sentenced-for-assault-1899811.html | accessdate =11 December 2024 }}{{cite news | last = | first = | title =Ex-Playboy model guilty of toilet assault | newspaper =9News | location =North Sydney, New South Wales | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =23 December 2009 | url =https://www.9news.com.au/world/ex-playboy-model-guilty-of-toilet-assault/dd7292da-4e4f-4179-940b-57691fe2f35d | accessdate =11 December 2024 }} In August 2005, Glover was ordered to perform 240 hours of community service after claiming welfare benefits while being paid for posing for newspapers and magazines.{{cite news| title=Benefit cheat model is sentenced| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4140126.stm| date=10 October 2005| access-date=31 December 2006| publisher=BBC News}}