Stripped Miss GB 'to be sued' over Playboy shots
Danielle Lloyd is currently in the Big Brother house
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Thursday, 11, Jan 2007 04:43
The disgraced former Miss Great Britain and current Celebrity Big Brother contestant Danielle Lloyd is to be sued, reports suggest.
According to the Sun newspaper, the 23-year-old is being sued for £100,000 by bosses of the pageant who claim she brought the competition into disrepute through her behaviour.
Lloyd, who is in the Channel 4 reality TV series alongside other celebrities such as Jermaine Jackson and Leo Sayer, was stripped of her title last November after it emerged she had posed nude for Playboy magazine.
She was also accused of failing to disclose her relationship with West Ham footballer Teddy Sheringham, who was one of the judges on the contest.
A writ said to have been lodged at the high court claims that the Liverpool-born glamour model had "damaged" the reputation of the competition.
It added that she had failed to fulfil the role of competitors who have to "comport themselves as ambassadors in relation to the beauty pageant".
Lloyd's nude shots appeared in the glamour magazine last month and showed her in various poses by a swimming pool.
She also unintentionally revealed in a magazine interview that former England star Sheringham had given her a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes as a Christmas present, before the February contest.
The 40-year-old footballer was the only one of 12 judges, who also included Christine Hamilton, John McCririck and Lord Brocket, to give Lloyd top marks.
At the time of the decision to remove her title, the organisers said: "Following recent claims in the press and magazines and the publicity given on the Playboy website for their next issue, we have sadly decided to strip Danielle Lloyd of her title as Miss Great Britain 2006 effective immediately.
"We are very sad that this action has been necessary and we wish her the best for the future."