Biography of Debee Ashby (a.k.a.: Debbie Ashby)

Big boob British Page 3 and glamour model legend Debee Ashby was one of that heady band of buxom models like Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi who emerged from the ranks of nude modelling to become household names during the 1980s. Debee made a controversial splash right from her first-ever modelling shoot for Men Only magazine in December 1983. She was just 16 years old at the time, posing topless in her school uniform together with her naked mother Anne Ashby.

National newspaper The Sun heard about the shoot and quickly booked Debee and her mum to repeat it for its Page 3 readers. When news reached Debee's headmaster, she was immediately expelled from Coventry's King Henry VIII School before having the chance to sit her O-level exams. Her mother Anne gave up modelling, but the notoriety of her story instantly launched top-heavy teen Debee Ashby into a full-time modelling career from which she never looked back. She was soon hitting the headlines too for far more than just modelling. Only a year later, at age 17, Debee found herself in a relationship with Hollywood movie legend Tony Curtis, who was then 42 years her senior. The gossip columns naturally went wild. It wouldn't be her last high profile relationship either. Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt also famously fell for her curvaceous charms.

At the same time as shooting raunchy videos for franchises like Electric Blue, and baring her all for magazines like Penthouse, Partner and Gent, Debee got regularly called on to make mainstream TV appearances, either as herself or in acting roles as the cheeky buxom blonde. A simple girl at heart, however, through all the dizzy heights of her fame, Debee claimed the only thing she'd ever wanted to be was a barmaid. In 1994, looking towards a time when she'd be hanging up her kinky modelling boots, she set about living that dream by taking a pub management course. "When I was younger I owned a place called Ibiza's in West London but I dished out free drinks left, right and centre. I didn't realise I was pouring money down the drain. I was just too inexperienced," Debee admitted at the time. She wouldn't make the same mistake a second time.

She retired from modelling in the late 1990s, and moved to the Isle Of Man, where, married with kids, she opened and ran her own pub. A restaurant and property development company have also since been added to her business portfolio. How many of her regulars admit to recognising one of the biggest British sex symbols of the 1980s, Debee is too modest to mention.