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Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace is 28-years-old and the most credible spokesperson for what is really going on in Britain’s inner cities. As a child she witnessed drugs, domestic violence and an isolating religious fervour. She was bullied and beaten and ended up living alongside desperate women and predatory men in some of the city’s most frightening hostels. She was building a career as a glamour model when she was picked as a late entrant to Big Brother 7 in 2006 – and she ended up the highest ranked female in the house. The public took time to warm to the prickly, street-wise character in the house. But her honesty and her battles against the bullies turned her profile around.
Since leaving Big Brother Aisleyne has defied expectations and stereotypes. Witness proves just how much more there is to the girl the media called the ‘ghetto princess’.
Today she is the glamour girl who has been on the cover of Penthouse but also writes for the Guardian. She is the patron of the Brain Tumour UK charity (her best friend and her uncle are both fighting the condition) and she defies the party-girl stereotype by tackling 10k runs and half-marathons to raise money for the cause. Very media-aware and very determined she has a Big Brother column in Reveal magazine (345,500 circulation) and also writes a show-business column for More magazine (260,000 circulation). She is still happy to use the glamour industry to boost her profile – she was on the centre spread as on of the six best ‘Big Brother babes’ in Daily Star in August 2007. Her website, www.aisleyne.com, has a hard core of registered users and attracts 2.5 million hits a month. These are people who are already signed up as die-hard fans of Aisleyne and a perfect initial sales base for her book.
She hosts a weekly two hour radio show on the online station Invincible Radio, she has appeared on everything from The Friday Night Project on Channel Four (September 2006) to Test the Nation on BBC1 (August 2007). She has contacts on Richard & Judy and is ready to do any number of interviews and promotions to help sell Witness.
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