Ruth Higham (born 1978) is an English former

glamour model A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Though mo ...

from Harwood, Lancashire (a suburb of

Bolton Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area i ...

). She began appearing as a

Page 3 Page 3, or Page Three, was a British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female glamour model (known as a Page 3 girl) on the third page of mainstream red-top tabloids. '' The Sun'' introduced the feature, publishing ...

girl in the '' Daily Star'' and '' The Sun'' newspapers in 1998.

Early life

Higham attended

Canon Slade School ) , established = ''ante'' 1855 , closed = , type = Academy , trust = The Bishop Fraser Trust , religious_affiliation = Church of England , president = , head_label = Headteacher , head = Mrs K ...

Bradshaw, Greater Manchester Bradshaw is a village of the unparished area of South Turton in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It gives its name to the larger Bradshaw electoral ward, which includes Harwood. Historically a part of Lancashire ...

, which

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had also attended several years earlier. She became a beauty consultant for

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Modelling

Higham was a

model from 1998 until around 2004. She first appeared on Page 3 of ''The Sun'' on 17 April 2000 and appeared in the newspaper 30 times. From 2002 to 2006, she was the model for

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-produced Big D peanuts; this caused a 35% increase in sales in 2003. She was also associated with a

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awareness campaign under the slogan "Say nuts to cancer". In April 2005, she starred in a television commercial for BT with

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. She has also appeared in advertisements for

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and Solpadeine. In 1999, she appeared in a web-based 'soap opera' called ''Launderama'' for detergent manufacturer ACDO in Bolton, where she played the part of ''Glo White'' in a tour of UK universities. She also appeared in a short drama series on the former channel

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called ''4Play'', in which she played the role of a TV presenter based in Manchester. In February 2003, she appeared with two other models on ''

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'', becoming the first candidate to be rejected.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Higham, Ruth 1978 births Glamour models Living people Page 3 girls People from Bolton People educated at Canon Slade School