Cherri Gilham appeared often on "Page 3" in the Daily Mirror and The Sun from 1972 to 1975.
16 Facts About Cherri Gilham
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Cherri Gilham was a hostess on some TV shows, including Maid of the Month for several months on The Golden Shot and The Sky's the Limit with Hughie Green.
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Cherri Gilham appeared as herself in the 1980 documentary short The Great British Striptease, hosted by Bernard Manning in Blackpool.
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In 1965, Cherri Gilham danced behind a screen on Top of the Pops.
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Cherri Gilham made her first acting appearance in "On the Braden Beat" in a skit with Bernard Braden.
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Cherri Gilham featured in an episode of As Time Goes By in 1992 with Judi Dench.
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Cherri Gilham has appeared in numerous TV and radio programmes and in the media in subjects covering Page 3, mistresses, child abuse and The Fluffy Club.
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Cherri Gilham has taken portraits of Clive Anderson, Oliver Reed, Penn Jillette and Peter Stringfellow for various publications.
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Cherri Gilham photographed the Marquess of Bath for his first inclusion in Hello Magazine and wrote the interview.
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Cherri Gilham's professional writing career took flight in The Guardian newspaper in 1993 when she unceremoniously dumped her then boyfriend, the Marquess of Bath, in a column in that newspaper.
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Cherri Gilham then went on to write further articles for The Guardian, The Observer, Daily Mirror, Sunday People, Evening Standard and became a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, chronicling her former life as a Page 3 girl, her times as a private detective in the 1960s and 1990s, seeing John Lennon smoke his first joint, and her relationships with various comedians.
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In 1997 Cherri Gilham founded The Fluffy Club, a joke women's movement to help women stop being strident and emasculating men.
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Cherri Gilham was severely lambasted by feminists who thought she was damaging their cause and who objected to her suggestion of using feminine wiles to get things from men.
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Cherri Gilham wrote a regular column called "Cherri's Secret Diary" in Hot Gossip e-zine in which she championed the innocence of Colin Stagg, who had been accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992.
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In May 2005, Cherri Gilham stood against Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Sedgefield constituency as a candidate for the Pensioners Party on an anti-war ticket.
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Cherri Gilham is writing her memoirs, which she is entitling Menoirs, as it is about some of the men in her life and their importance to her emotional and spiritual growth.