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Nell McAndrew (born Tracey Jane McAndrew, 6 November 1973, ¹Belle Isle, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is an English glamour model.

Contents 1 Career 2 Sports 3 Family and personal life 4 Charitable activity 5 References 6 External links

Career

McAndrew started her modeling career as a catalogue and magazine model and as Marilyn Monroe look-a-like. She was required to shave her head for a modeling assignment in Germany. In the UK she was featured as a Page Three girl in the Daily Star and with her bald head was hailed as the 21st century babe. She shot to fame as the official Lara Croft model for the video game Tomb Raider between 1998 and 1999.²³ McAndrew was immediately fired from her stint as Croft in 1999 after posing nude for the cover of Playboy, the first British woman to do so. This was partly due to the fact Playboy printed references to Lara Croft and Tomb Raider on the cover, which were quickly removed when Eidos, the maker of the game, threatened with a lawsuit.⁴

She has since gone on to enjoy a successful career as a glamour model, appearing in FHM, Maxim, and Loaded many times. She has also appeared in fitness magazines, including Shape and Personal Trainer. McAndrew has also released many very popular calendars.

McAndrew, affectionately referred to as a Forces Sweetheart, has visited the UK Armed Forces at bases all over the world.⁵

She has also had a successful television career, as a presenter on Racing Rivals, Born to Fight, It's a Knockout and The Big Breakfast; she has also been a contestant on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Celebrities under Pressure, Family Fortunes and Dancing On Ice.⁶⁷⁸

McAndrew released her first fitness video “Peak Energy” in 2002 which became the number one best seller. It was followed up by “Maximum Impact” in December 2003 and “Ultimate Challenge, Ultimate Results” in December 2004.

McAndrew has supported charities including Breast Cancer Awareness, Help The Aged, the British Heart Foundation, DebRA, Cancer Research UK, The Lymphoma Association and SSAFA

In 2003 she was voted the Yorkshire Woman of the Year and in 2005 she won Rear of the Year.⁹

She has been a part of a number of PR campaigns for Yorkshire Water, including a digital version of herself in their Sewer Raider item on the company website.

She is currently fronting the advertising campaign for Activia yoghurt and for 2009 has had her hair cut very short returning to the look at the start of her modeling career.

In January 2009, Nell helped Benenden Healthcare Society, a mutual not-for-profit healthcare organisation launch their 'Fresh Start, Get on Track campaign' including nationwide radio interviews and online webchats. ¹⁰

Sports

Running in the 2005 London Marathon, as a charity runner, McAndrew completed the event in a time that allowed her to start with the elite athletes in future events.¹¹ And in the 2007 Marathon, she completed the course in a slightly more sedate pace with her mother (after having recently given birth).

For the 2008 Great North Run, she competed with the Fun Runners dressed as Wonder Woman to help raise funds for charities she supports.

2009 Flora London Marathon: 3:10.20.

Family and personal life

She has a brother called Stephen. Her father, Ted, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2003; he is currently in remission.¹²

After announcing their engagement in September 2004, she married property developer Paul Hardcastle twice - first in November 2004 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, then again at a marriage blessing in December 2004 in Dubai. McAndrew gave birth to a baby boy called Devon, in Leeds,¹³ on Thursday 24 August 2006 at 1.10 am.

In March 2009 she revealed that she was still breastfeeding her son, even though he was almost three, and talked about the criticisms she was getting over it.^{14 15}

Charitable activity

McAndrew has taken part in an eye-catching training session for a charity race in which she wore little more than body paint. ¹⁶ Launching the Cancer Research UK Race for Life 2008, she joined a group of other women in London's Regent's Park, whose training outfits were painted on their bodies.

References

External links

• Official website
• Nell McAndrew at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! UK Series 1 Tony Blackburn · Tara Palmer-Tomkinson · Christine Hamilton · Nell McAndrew · Rhona Cameron · Darren Day · Nigel Benn · Uri Geller

Preceded by Vanessa Demouy

Lara Croft model 1998–1999

Succeeded by Lara Weller