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Part 1 - Jo herself

 

 

Who is she?

Jo Guest is a British model of the type known as the "glamour girl", a group generally best known for their topless work in Britain's tabloid newspapers, appearances at various events, singing aspirations, and being caught out on the town canoodling with married footballers, politicians, foreign ambassadors, and each other.

Jo herself however had a more universal appeal, and a more professional approach. Her agent (Samantha Bond - an ex-glamour girl herself) once stated in a Loaded interview, "she's the one girl that's changed the rules slightly. Everyone wants her."

She became famous [1] initially for her regular Mens World (UK) and Picture (Australia) appearances which started in 1993 (and, it must be said, more than a few appearances on Page 3 of The Sun between 1993 and 1998). However her popularity showed a significant rise when she started appearing in Loaded magazine in 1995 - Jo herself acknowledged that Loaded were partly responsible for her fame amongst the "new lads" movement in the UK.

From 1996, Jo made a number of appearances on UK TV in a variety of programmes and interviews (her TV skills included being able to remove her bra with one hand only whilst keeping the microphone steady in the other...) and even tried her hand at radio.

Despite announcing her retirement from modelling in October 2001, she still makes the occasional TV and magazine appearance, and has expressed rallying aspirations.

 

[1] The phrase "much lusted after" may be substituted for the word "famous".

 


 

Jo's Vital Statistics

Born: 22 Feb 1972
Birthplace: Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Height: 5'5" (165cm)
Weight: 8.5 Stone / 119 pounds / 54kg
Bust: 34B
Waist: 24
Hips: 34
Hair: Blonde (well it is now anyway... )
Eyes: Brown (very short sighted, known to wear glasses when not preening in front of the camera).
Dress size: 10
Shoe size: 5
Distinguishing features: All-round goddess-like beauty, amazing flexibility, and a mole at the base of her spine (known as "The Holy Mole").
No silicone implants or plastic surgery.
Chemical Symbol: Jo
Drinking Habits: By the gallon apparently. Her favourite tipple is supposedly Budweiser.
Favourite food: Bacon butties.
Favourite aphrodisiac: "A crate of beer.... maybe two."
Known weaknesses: Pernod.   :)

 

Confused by some of the terms used? Check the glossary.

 


 

For Contacting Jo

  1. Jo's fan club

    The Jo Guest Private Members Club costs £40 for 1 year's membership. To join the club, send a cheque payable to "Annie Walker business account" together with your name, address, and your date of birth (for some strange reason <grin>), to:

    Annie Walker
    P.O.Box 139
    Rochester
    ME1 3JW

    An online version of the club appears to have fallen by the wayside.

     

  2. Professional enquiries

    Jo's agent (Samantha Bond) can be reached via her website, or as follows:

    Samantha Bond Management
    326 Upper Richmond Road West
    London
    SW14 7JN
    Tel: 020 8487 1333

    Anyone planning to write to the above address should remember that letters covered in drool are unlikely to be taken seriously :-)

 


 

Where can source material on her be found?

 

Newspapers and Magazines

Her magazine appearances are many and varied, but I will make special note of her appearances in Mens World, who featured a pictorial every issue in which the regular girl dressed up (and then stripped) according to a reader's fantasy. Jo originally held this appointment from MW 5.3 (1993) to MW 10.5 (1998) (that's a grand total of 68 pictorials) - this was an amazingly long run bearing in mind that MW usually hires the "regular" girl for only one year.

In September 2002, Jo started a second stint at Mens World magazine. Originally intended to last for one year, it was extended to run through to August 2004, with one final appearance in the Xmas 2004 issue. Jo does still have a special section on their website (sexclub.co.uk). See Part 4 for more details.

Jo herself had the following to say about the MW gig (from Loaded Jan 1996): "I get dressed up, pretend to be a nurse or whatever. I get a bit naughty, pretend I get horny on the job. I get my kit off and then I have a bacon sandwich. That's all there is to it!"

Starting with the June 2002 issue, Jo did a monthly advice column in "Front" magazine. This wasn't her first foray into this genre, as she had previously appeared in a weekly "agony babe" advice column in the Daily Star newspaper (from November 1998 to March 2000).

 

Television

Jo has made many appearances on UK TV. The most memorable include:

  1. a boiling potato impression on "Shooting Stars"
  2. an accidentally(?) revealing appearance on "The Big Breakfast",
  3. the Playboy TV 'Babefest' (oh, to be a pool table...)

Starting in late 1997, she has appeared in a long string of shows (as either participant or host) on Granada's "Men and Motors" cable/satellite channel (UK). Her shows have included "Jo Guest's Private Parts" (Nov 1998), "Undressed with Guest" (the second series was shown in Spring 1999) "Jo Guest in Jamaica" (Jan-Feb 2000), "Hot Sauce" (Jan-May 2001), "Blonde Babes" (Nov 2001), "Capital Exposed" (May 2002) and "The Steam Room" (Oct 2004).

In October 1999 she appeared in every edition of "Sweet Talk", a short-lived programme on Channel 4 (UK); and in March 2000 she was also seen in the programme "Bravado" on the cable/satellite channel "Bravo".

Many of these appearances have been converted into MPEG files by both St. DB and St. Noodles and posted (and reposted and reposted) to the Jo newsgroup.

She won a Golden Joystick on the Gamesmaster Celebrity Challenge by scoring 10000 points in under 90sec on the Playstation version of "Rampage". As one sad person noted (he shall remain nameless) "She really knows how to handle a joystick!".....

     

Other appearances

Jo has a walk-on part (i.e. blink and you'll miss it) in "Hell To Pay", a British gangster movie released in early 2003. For details of her other movie appearances, see her entry at IMDB.

Also in 2003, Jo has been seen in the newspapers on a number of occasions, extolling the virtues of... wait for it... watercress!

As for regular online appearances, Jo engaged in a long series of Monday evening webchat sessions (with a live video feed) hosted by the Megastar website - these ran from April 2000 to June 2001. Starting in 2003, Jo has been doing monthly webcam sessions on the Mens World website (sexclub.co.uk) - see Part 4 for more details.

For 12 months from April 2000, Jo tried her hand at being a DJ on the (Net-only) radio station "Storm Live" http://www.stormlive.com/ - originally this was a recorded programme every weekday evening, but in February 2001 this switched to a weekly live show on Thursday nights. The shows came to an abrupt end: an announcement was made on the morning of 5 April 2001 that Jo wouldn't be doing a show that night. But this almost certainly wasn't Jo's "fault", because four weeks later (on 4 May 2001) Storm Live sacked all their other DJs and many of their technical staff, citing financial difficulties.

The Blur music video "Country House" saw her prance around while dressed as a nurse and take a bath. Two QT mov clips of the Blur video have been posted to the Jo newsgroup - the larger file was DB's capture of the entire video, while the smaller file is just a short excerpt and appears to have come from the MTV website.

Jo also did advertising for several computer games, including Assault Rigs, Onside Soccer, Tetris Plus and Battlecruiser 3000 AD. Needless to say all the ads could be termed as somewhat 'suggestive' (e.g. the BC3K ad stated "She really wants it!!").

She also made personal appearance at exhibitions (the Road Racing and Superbike Show 1998, the ECTS 1996 and 1998, Max Power 2000 and 2001, among others) and events such as store openings, awards ceremonies... the list goes on and on.

Jo's rallying aspirations are covered below.

 

Details of commercially available items (videos, CD-ROMs etc.) featuring Jo can be found in part 2 of this FAQ.

 

Confused by some of the terms used? Check the glossary.

 


 

How did she get involved in nude modelling?

She started in 1989 [2] with some local amateur photographers where she progressed to the full £40 an hour for modelling fully nude. From there it was a short step to the professional shoots; in so doing she escaped a career in either hairdressing or hotel management.

The dates for the early events can be a bit difficult to pin down: depending on which interview you believe, her first "top shelf" picture shoot happened anywhere from 1990 to 1992. However it is worth noting that she wasn't accepted for Page Three of The Sun until after her first "top shelf" shoot.

I believe her first published glossy magazine appearance was in June 1992 (Mayfair Vol. 27 No. 7). Some pictures that appeared in other magazines (such as Razzle and Fiesta) in mid/late 1992 had clearly been taken before the Mayfair pics, but I believe Mayfair published first.

Jo herself has the final say in an International Express article: "I thought to myself, 'I can't sing and I can't act so I'll just be a Page 3 girl'." Nice. :)

 

[2] Note for the over-cautious: Since her first "top shelf" shoot happened no earlier than 1990 (by which time she was 18 years old) she was of legal age in every magazine picture you're ever likely to see.

 


 

What about Jo's private life?

There is one important thing to remember about someone's private life: it is, well, private. In other words, anything I say here could best be regarded as mere speculation.

 

Confused by some of the terms used? Check the glossary.

 


 

What about that mole on her lower back? Won't she get it removed?

You! Filthy! Heathen! Swine! Why don't you run off back to your plastic Playboy type models if your mind can't handle anything other than silicone appendages on your women! The Holy Mole stays - besides it makes identifying her easier in some of her more 'athletic' pics.

 


 

"Jo Guest Rallying" - that's a joke, right?

It's no joke: in December 2001 she really did announce plans to compete in the 2002 Open Rallying Championship.

At first sight, it did appear extremely odd. Jo hasn't got a driving licence, so she couldn't actually drive the car. However she could compete as co-driver (i.e. navigator) in some of the competitions.

She did in fact take part in one rally (in Wales) in April 2002. Unfortunately, in May 2002 an announcement was made that "Due To Insufficient Funds, This Project Has Been Cancelled"

 


 

Has Jo REALLY retired?

She did make an announcement to that effect in October 2001. But she has since been sighted "getting her bits out" on TVso perhaps we haven't reached the end just yet.

This isn't the first time Jo has made a statement of this sort. On 31 March 1998, she appeared on the front page of the Daily Star wearing a "Free Deirdre Rachid" T-shirt [3] and announced that the Chesterfield Two would be staying inside until the Wetherfield One was released. This was presumably intended as a publicity stunt but despite the adage "Never believe anything you read in the newspapers" it would appear that many people did believe the story, and modelling assignments disappeared faster than a snowman in the Kalahari Desert [4].

In mid-2001, Jo's career suffered a double-whammy: Storm Live went bust (ending her DJ appearances), and Megastar was sold off (the new owners subsequently ceased her webchats). With modelling assignments few and far between, it looked to be time to throw in the towel.

It should be remembered that Jo started modelling in 1989, and 12 years is a long time to be a glamour model. In other words, all good things must come to an end.

 

[3] Deirdre Rachid is a character in the UK soap opera "Coronation Street" - "Free Deirdre" was a reference to a storyline then running in the programme. It is of course possible that Jo may have originally intended to retire in 1998 and the "Free Deirdre" campaign could have arrived at just the right time. However when given a choice between a carefully-planned (but inscrutable) proposition and the "cock-up theory", I'll go for the cock-up every time.

[4] For those of you that don't know, "Snowman in the Kalahari" was a very short cartoon from the 1980s. Not quite as short as Bambi Meets Godzilla but much shorter than most adverts.
Right, I reckon I've explained that one to death by now...

 


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