page three girl

page three girl

A woman who poses in little or no clothing for photographs featured in magazines or tabloid newspapers. Named for the particular page on which such a feature appeared in The Sun, a British tabloid. The former page three girl is now active in charities supporting girls and young women grappling with body image issues.
See also: girl, page, three
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

page three girl

a model whose nude or semi-nude photograph appears as part of a regular series in a tabloid newspaper.
This sort of photograph is featured on page three of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun.
See also: girl, page, three
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • not have a stitch of clothing (one)
  • without a stitch of clothing (on)
  • with not a stitch of clothing (on)
  • make the papers
  • it's no skin off my nose
  • no skin off my nose, it's/that's
  • civvies
  • the gutter press
  • cover girl
  • Minnehaha
References in periodicals archive
1970: The Sun pictured its first Page Three girl, Stephanie Rahn.
ON THIS DAY
There was the knee first, then an elbow to the face" Actress and former model Samantha Fox, the first Page Three girl.
THEY SAID WHAT?
Former Page Three girl Sam Fox (above) has been made to look relatively normal, surrounded as she is by a sea of half-wits.
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After all, wasn't she the sub-editor who mourned the retirement of the most famous Page Three Girl, Samantha Fox, with a cracked gravestone bearing the words: In Loving Mammary Samantha Fox 1981-1988 Breast In Peace They don't pen pithy obituaries like THAT any more!
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LIVERPOOL Pride has announced more acts to play on August 2 including the internationally renowned Kylie Minogue tribute act Kylie A Like, ABBA Gold and 80s page three girl turned pop star Sam Fox.
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Fast-forward to 2013 and the page three girl is now a more demure, modest creature, usually fully-clothed (or so I'm told).
When 1,000s turned out to see Sam Fox
They were joined by former Loose Woman and chart star Coleen Nolan, an Olympic judo competitor, a Page Three girl and stars of US reality shows.
Celebs enter BB house
She felt under pressure because her rivals were so skinny and said top Welsh designer Julien Macdonald told her to become a Page Three girl instead.
Miss England... from Beddau! Welsh beauty beats 63 to the prize
The High Court in London was also told that, among others, he dated a Page Three girl, a Pop Idol contestant, two Israeli models and even had sex with a woman on his stag night.
TEAM RIO; Ferdinand played away with TEN other women
I can say I'm smarter than a few of the housemates in Celebrity Big Brother, especially Page Three girl Nicola T.
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Viewers saw cleaning star Kim enter the Australian jungle on Sunday night along with former Page Three girl Sam Fox and a host of other personalities.
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When the traps opened the omens were good for Legal Moment as she hit the ground a fraction in front of Graigues Echo on her immediate inner and Page Three Girl on her outer.
Legal's moment comes at last with Oaks joy
Working-class hero Sheridan has for years sported a bronzed appearance that many a page three girl would be proud of.
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His tendency has always been down-market, but he understood that the bare-breasted "Page Three Girl" of his tabloids would never do for the Sunday Times, unless she was Mrs.
Murdoch
Morley, 72, was evicted for using "unacceptable language", O'Neal quit after rows with Perez Hilton, and Jackson was booted out after former Page Three girl Chloe Goodman claimed he tried to look at her breasts.
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