From turning down a foursome with Amir Khan to a sheep tattooed on her privates – meet The Valleys girl shaking up BB
The sultry brunette has been on a quest for fame for YEARS...
BIG Brother star Lateysha Grace is no stranger to reality TV fans - she once had a sheep tattooed on her privates during an episode of MTV reality show The Valleys.
The programme, which ran for three series before being axed in 2014 due to falling ratings - tracked the antics of a group of Welsh twenty-somethings all determined to swap their dead-end careers in struggling mining towns for the bright lights and glamour of Cardiff.
Proclaiming that she was a Beyoncé lookalike, the then 19-year-old hoped that she and her castmates would enjoy the same success as the stars of Geordie Shore.
The short-lived show, which ran from 2012 to 2014, featured countless shocking scenes including gratuitous nudity and raunchy sexual antics which led to condemnation from politicians, the public and actual residents of the Welsh valleys.
Despite threats to quit the show, the Port Talbot beauty stayed for the entire duration of its run – treating viewers to classic scenes such as getting peed on by another housemate in a group shower session and kissing her love interest’s cousin as an act of revenge.
The wannabe glamour model then ended up getting into a war of words with The Only Way Is Essex star James Locke in 2014 after he dissed the show in an interview.
He told magazine: “With something like The Valleys [the public] are laughing at them, not with them. The Valleys is an absolute joke.
“I don’t mean this in a snobby way but they’re just not the sort of people you to associate with.”
Lateysha retaliated on Twitter writing: “Quite sad when people have to slag other people off for publicity lol. #sleeze #youreacheat.”
She then added: ‘At least our show isn’t scripted and we don’t have to ‘get’ with each other for storylines like you told me on that PA [public appearance].”
After leaving the show, the Beyoncé wannabe attempted to pursue a music career with the single, You Beautiful debuting at number 53 on the iTunes chart on the day of release.
She followed up with the track ‘Out Of Control’ which has only racked up under 22,000 views on YouTube.
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The former hairdresser went on achieve her glamour model dreams with a string of appearance in men’s magazines such as Nuts.
She also chose to celebrate her breast enhancement surgery with a nude photo shoot with Zoo magazine.
However she was left unable to sit down for periods longer than an hour after botched bum injections.
In an attempt to achieve a Kardashian style backside, she got the bottom boosting shots during a trip in Miami.
In March 2015, the reality star released an autobiography which gave a bleak look into her childhood and life before finding reality show fame.
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The reality star admitted that she attempted to commit suicide twice in her teen years after suffering abuse from a man who dated her mother.
She then claimed that she ended up turning to casual sex, alcohol and drugs to try and cope with the trauma.
But it was chapters about alleged sexual advances that truly made headlines news as she claimed that champion boxer Amir Khan offered her £2,000 to take part in a foursome.
Lateysha claimed that Khan made the proposal with a Miami nightclub moments after his wife, Faryal Makhdoom Khan, left the building.
Amir admitted to posing for photos with Lateysha but said he left the club with his wife straight afterwards.
But that wasn’t the only scandalous claims she made as the curvy model also wrote that James Locke had ‘begged’ for a threesome with herself and The Valleys co-star Natalee Harris in 2013
Lateysha claimed that the encounter in Leicester ended with a strip club visit and led to James “banging on the [hotel] door, begging us for a threesome.”
She shocked fans when she announced she was pregnant in May 2015 with a stream of bump revealing selfies.
The starlet gave birth to her daughter Wynter Anna Grace last September following a relationship with her now ex-boyfriend Ben Charles.
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Lateysha made it clear she already has been plans for her first born as she immediately set up an Instagram profile for her daughter, which currently has just over 7,900 followers.
Fans have slammed the new mother for not only leaving her nine-month-old daughter to enter the infamous Big Brother house, but for failing to mention her tot completely in her introduction VT.
But Lateysha is used to polarising opinion and was typically over-confident as she strutted into the house whilst being booed by the crowd on Tuesday.
And she is already up for eviction after becoming an instant Big Brother ‘baddie’ on the launch night of the new series.
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