Georgia Salpa Penna ( el, Γεωργία Σάλπα; born 14 May 1985) is a Greek-Irish

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Personal life

Georgia Salpa was born in

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to an Irish mother and Greek father. When Salpa was five years old, her family moved to

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, where she was raised in the suburb of

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. In March 2014, Salpa became engaged to millionaire

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hedge-fund manager Joe Penna, and was married in

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, Italy, in May 2015. They have three children.

Career

Salpa began modelling before leaving secondary school, and has undertaken modelling assignments for various publications. She has made TV appearances on such programmes as ''

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'', ''

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'' (as herself), ''Celebrity Salon'', and ''Catwalk to Kilimanjaro''. In August 2009, after posing in a

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for a controversial photoshoot for '' Food & Wine'' magazine, the magazine apologised after complaints on ''

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''. Salpa later moved to

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, and participated in the 2012 season of ''

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'' where she was the third housemate evicted. Also in 2012, Salpa was listed 5th in FHM's "100 sexiest women" poll, and increasingly featured in the magazine including on covers of the French, Czech and Indonesian editions, and as "cover girl" for FHM's 2013 "100 sexiest women" publication.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salpa, Georgia 1985 births 20th-century Irish women 21st-century Irish women Living people Irish female models Greek people of Irish descent Glamour models Participants in Irish reality television series Models from Dublin (city) Greek emigrants to Ireland

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