Eunice Olumide MBE is a Scottish fashion model and actress.
34 Facts About Eunice Olumide
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At 15, Eunice Olumide was spotted shopping in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, and later scouted by Select models while visiting family in London.
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Eunice Olumide took a break from modelling to go to university.
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Eunice Olumide has done fashion weeks and shoots in Japan, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Poland, Germany, UAE, USA, Africa and the UK.
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Eunice Olumide has worked with Zandra Rhodes, Myleen Klass, Gio Pomodoro, Caryn Franklin, NKWO, JJ Noki, and designers including Swarovski, Christopher Kane, Jil Sander, Adidas, Evisu, Kswiss, Henry Holland, Jacob Kimmie, Prada, Georgina Harding, Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Tom Ford, Alexander Wang and Jacob Birge.
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Eunice Olumide has modelled for Top Shop, Mulberry, Tommy Hilfiger, Ugg, Lee Jeans, Toms, The Body Shop, Alexander Wang, Vivienne Westwood, Bunmi Koko, New Look and Harris Tweed.
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Eunice Olumide is as an ambassador for Fashion Targets, Adopt an Intern, FAD and worked with Climate Revolution.
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In 2019, Eunice Olumide produced an On-Schedule show for the British Fashion Council at London Fashion Week.
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Eunice Olumide used the event to draw attention to the plight of the Windrush Generation illegally deported from the United Kingdom in 2018, after a mistake by the then Prime Minister Theresa May and Amber Rudd.
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Eunice Olumide is a DJ touring with Grace Jones, Damian Marley and Nas.
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Eunice Olumide supported Police Academy's Michael Winslow in the US and UK.
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In 2018, Eunice Olumide was involved in a charity Christmas song called "Rock With Rudolph", written and produced by Grahame and Jack Corbyn.
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In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Eunice Olumide returned to join The Celebs which now included Frank Bruno and X Factor winner Sam Bailey to raise money for both Alzheimer's Society and Action for Children.
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In 2021, Eunice Olumide re-joined The Celebs to record a cover of The Beatles classic "Let It Be", in support of the Mind charity, released on 3 December 2021.
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Eunice Olumide was part of a choir of celebrities including Georgia Hirst, Anne Hegerty and Ivan Kaye, who were backing EastEnders actress Shona McGarty.
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Eunice Olumide was the second Assistant Director and played a role in BAFTA award winning short called Trouble Sleeping.
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Eunice Olumide produced and directed a show Metamorph through Open Art Surgery at the Traverse Theatre and founded the brief existence of The Official Youth on the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and starred in The Chicken Trial at the Pleasance courtyard.
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Eunice Olumide made online comedy shorts titled "Afrish" for the BBC off the back of her Fringe show, "Afropoliticool," with Verona Rose and Ricardo P Lloyd as supporting leadsa.
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Eunice Olumide has appeared on BBC, Channel 5, ITV and Sky television.
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Eunice Olumide presented an online video from the 2012 BAFTA Awards and at Cannes Film Festival.
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Eunice Olumide produced an exclusive online interview for Vice on Reincarnated starring Snoop Dogg.
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Eunice Olumide has interviewed comedians Doc Brown and Stephen K Amos.
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Eunice Olumide presented an episode of BBC Radio Scotland's late night music show Music Match.
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Eunice Olumide produced a variety of youth groups across the UK in Brixton London and at Hillhead High School, Granton and Muirhouse's G-Code in Edinburgh.
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Eunice Olumide regularly fund raises for charities including Children's Hospice Association Scotland, The Well Foundation, Love Music Hate Racism and is a global ambassador for Graduate Fashion Week.
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Eunice Olumide is a patron for Best Beginnings, and Adopt an Intern, helping to get women who have had a career break back into work.
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In 2015, Eunice Olumide founded her own art gallery representing artists including Richard Wilson, Tim Nobel, and Nick Walker.
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Eunice Olumide delivered a key note speech at the Houses of Parliament which chimed with an investigation on the impact of the textile industry on the environment.
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Eunice Olumide participated in an initiative with union Equity to develop a framework and strategy to support fashion models in the UK.
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Eunice Olumide set up Enigmatic Production and Promotion, through the Prince's Business Youth Trust,.
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Eunice Olumide was nominated for the Model of the Year in the Scottish Fashion Awards, sponsored by Vogue in 2011,2013,2015.
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Eunice Olumide won Model of the Year in 2018 at the BBE Awards.
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Eunice Olumide appeared on the Front Cover of The Evening Standard with supermodel Adwoa Aboah.
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In November 2017, Eunice Olumide was awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting, the arts, and charity.