Joanne Guest (born 22 February 1972) is an English former

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and media personality.

Glamour career

Born and raised in Chesterfield, north east

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, England, she grew up on Poplar Drive in

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. She attended the former Heath School (open from 1963-91) on Main Street in

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, then studied Hotel Management at

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. Guest started in modelling after she saw an advertisement while on a catering course at her local college. She appeared as a

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girl in ''

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'' and has appeared in the magazines '' Loaded'' and '' FHM''. Her ''Loaded'' cover shot was projected onto the

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in May 1998. Guest appeared in the ''

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'' video ''Shagalicious British Babes''. Guest appeared in a wide range of British "top shelf" magazines, including, '' Escort'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Men's World'', '' Razzle'' and ''Whitehouse''. From 2000 she was a television host for the

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cable/satellite channel in the UK, operated by

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. Guest appeared in an interactive erotic magazine for PC called ''Interactive Girls''. She starred in an erotic PC game called ''Jo Guest in the Milk Round'', released by Interactive Girls Club in 1994.

Other media work

In 1995 Guest appeared in the

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directed music video for Blur song "

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" together with

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, Keith Allen and

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. In 2002 Guest promoted her proposed move into competitive rally driving. Starting with the June 2002 issue, Guest had a monthly advice column in ''

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'' magazine. She had previously appeared in a weekly "agony babe"

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in the '' Daily Star'' newspaper from November 1998 to March 2000. Guest hosted a number of television programmes on the

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cable/satellite channel in the UK. Shows include: * ''Jo Guest's Private Parts'' (Nov 1998) * ''Undressed with Guest'' (the second series was shown in Spring 1999) * ''Jo Guest in Jamaica'' (Jan-Feb 2000) * ''Jo Guest’s Capital Exposed'' (Nov 2002) * '' The Steam Room: with Jo Guest'' (Oct 2004) * ''Jo Guest UK Exposed'' (Nov 2004) * ''British Babes Exposed'' (included ''The Steam Room: with Jo Guest'') (Oct 2008) Guest appeared in the third series of the British TV show, ''

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'' and in the seventh series, episode one of the British show ''

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''. On 21 January 2008, she was a guest on the television show '' This Morning'', during which she discussed a mystery illness she had been suffering from for the past 14 months that had left her unable to work and that doctors had been unable to diagnose. On 10 April 2008 she returned as a guest on ''This Morning'' and confirmed that, as a direct result of help from viewers that had seen her previous appearance, she had been diagnosed with

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