Big Brother beauty Orlaith McAllister has recalled her racy lad mad past and the fortune she earned from posing up a storm.
The Irish bombshell entered the house when she was 25, but now at 45, she has looked back at her glamour girl past having appeared in the likes of Nuts and Zoo magazines.
Speaking to BoyleSports Games, official sponsors of Big Brother on Virgin Media, on behalf of Daily Star: “We went into the meeting and it was just, pound signs. It was crazy what was being offered for photo shoots. I was a model in Belfast getting maybe £100 for a photo shoot. This was thousands.
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“I remember when me and my dad looked at each other and we were just like, ‘What?!’ Instead of thinking and stepping back a bit. But you’re completely in the moment. When I came out of that meeting, I had signed for an exclusive for one of the tabloid newspapers, it was a photoshoot.
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“There were a few lads magazines that I had signed up for out of that meeting, and I’d already signed £250k, in a one hour meeting, my dad was white. I didn’t invest, I thought, let’s just spend, let’s have loads of fun. I didn’t listen to my dad. I didn’t invest in property, just invested in designer shoes and bags.
“That was again about being naive and not taking advice from my parents. Part of me now wishes I’d just given my parents the money. There was a bidding war for Nuts and Zoo Magazines, I can’t even remember which one it was. I want to say it was Zoo, they bid I think 50 grand. It was actually on TV. Nuts and Zoo magazine together.
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“There was this show on, and it was a documentary about the lads magazines. My name had popped up, the most they’d paid for a bidding war. I’d get a private taxi to this photo shoot, and that photo shoot, not even asking the question, ‘Who’s paying for this?’
“So I then got my bill for the month, it must have been a month of photo shoots. The taxi was dropping me off and waiting, could have waited a full day, three and a half grand. I was so stupid, and that was 20 years ago. How stupid was I?! I wasn’t told it was coming out of my wage, and I was so confused. But these things happen, you just get on with it.”
Alongside modelling, Orlaith also starred on a BBC dating show, Beauty Queen and Single, in 2017 which saw a cast of Northern Irish beauty queens underwent dramatic makeunders. However, she now spends her time working as a real estate agent.
Orlaith is now a mum-of-two and got hitched to her husband Neil in 2023, and the pair live in Antrim with their two children. Orlaith now works as a real estate agent.
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