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Name: Caprice Bourret  
   
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Date of Birth: 24th October 1974
   
Place of Birth: Hacienda Heights, California, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Caprice Bourret

Caprice Bourret (born October 24, 1974), often known by just her first name, is an American supermodel and actress of French Jewish descent. Her surname "Bourret" is of French origin and pronounced as (Bour-Ray).

Bourret was born in Hacienda Heights, California and had a tough, blue-collar upbringing in a Jewish family. Becoming a cheerleader at age 13, she won the title of Miss Teen California at 16. After growing up in Whittier, California she moved to the United Kingdom in 1996 to further her career in modelling. An appearance in a revealing dress at the 1996 British National Television Awards ceremony helped gain her public recognition. Bourret has become one of the UK's most famous models and is popularly known by just her first name.

Bourret has appeared on the covers of more than 300 magazines published around the world, including GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Vogue, Maxim and FHM. Bourret also posed nude in the March, 2000 issue of Playboy magazine. She was voted GQ Magazine's Woman of the Year and Maxim's International Woman of the Year three years running. She has also been featured in television ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Pizza Hut.

In addition to marketing her image in posters and calendars, Bourret has also developed lines of beauty products, lingerie, and swimsuits. In 2001, she released her first single as a pop singer, "Once around the Sun", which was co-written by '90s star Chesney Hawkes.

Bourret is now moving into an acting career. She has appeared on stage in London in The Vagina Monologues and Rent. She has also appeared in the films Hollywood Flies, Nailing Vienna, and Jinxed In Love. Bourret has hosted the series Caprice's Travels and Friday Night's All Wright as well as several award shows.

In early 2005, she appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. Viewers saw her become agitated when other contestants implied that she was only taking part to boost sales of her products. She also joined Jose Canseco, Bronson Pinchot, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, Janice Dickinson, Carey Hart, and Pepa from R&B trio Salt-N-Pepa on the fifth season of the VH1 reality series The Surreal Life.

Career Profile

After starting out as a teen model in the late 80s,her career received a boost when she arrived in UK.She transformed herself into a top notch model after landing on the other side of the Atlantic.Caprice got her breasts augmented,which opened the world of lingerie modelling for her.Her biggest break came when she was selected as a fresh face for Wonderbra.

Caprice in a still from her tv series "CAPRICE TRAVELS" which was hugely popular in UK in late 90s

She has been featured in the world's finest magazines: Esquire, GQ, New Woman, Woman's Journal, You, Sunday Times Style, FHM, Attitude, Sunday Telegraph, and finally today in AskMen.com. In 1998, she appeared in the Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated

She later moved into the world of TV and film. She began her television role hosting both the European MTV awards and the Monaco World Music Awards in 1997. She went on to host the British National Television Awards in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and presented shows for VH1 (USA) and E! Entertainment.

Caprice later got her own travel series called Caprice Travels, which was screened on Friday nights on ITV.

Quote

"It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'." -Caprice Bourret on her work with Wonderbra

Filmography

  • Nailing Vienna (2002) .... Crystal
  • Bubbles (2001)
  • Pop Goes Christmas (2001) (TV) .... Herself
  • "The Dream Team (1999) TV Series .... Dani West
  • "The Big Breakfast (1992) TV Series .... Guest Presenter
  • "Friday Night's All Wright (1998) TV Series .... Co-Presenter
  • Hospital! (1997/II) (TV) (Guest Star) .... Cassandra

Caprice's Travels

Caprice got her own T.V. show "Caprice's Travels" which became very popular in UK in 1998.The success of the show prompted the producers to do re runs of the show in 2005 as well . The show was telecast on ITV .Caprice takes the viewers to a mesmerising journey through the world's finest holiday destinations in Europe, Australia and the United States.The show showcases not only her fine presentation skills,but she also uses this opportunity to do a bit of modelling of her self-designed bikinis as well.

Caprice in Antigua where she takes the viewers through most stunning beaches in her T.V. show Caprice's Travels
  • Antigua--Despite receiving huge numbers of foreign visitors each year, Antigua remains a largely unspoilt and idyllic holiday destination.Caprice takes the viewers through most fascinating beaches which have been largely unspoilt and idyllic.
  • Hungary--Caprice visits the capital of Hungary where the river Danube separates the two parts of the city - old and hilly Buda on one side and flat modern Pest on the other.
  • Spain-- Caprice had never been to Majorca until this trip and as she admits herself she was pleasantly surprised

Personal Stats

  • Hair-Blonde
  • Eyes-Blue
  • Cup Size-35D(post breast implants): 35B(before implants)
  • Waist-25
  • Hips-34
  • Height-5'11'

Lingerie Range

Caprice in one of her self-created lingerie which has been successful across Europe

Caprice was the first celebrity to launch a range of lingerie in UK. The line, exclusively sold by Debenhams, continues to hit top retail stores and is now in the sixth season already. Due to popular demand, Caprice has decided to expand her designing interest into a thriving industry. Caprice feels her stint in Wonderbra helped her greatly to enhance her designing skills. Her lingerie range has been received well in Europe, especially in the UK. She is now planning to expand her business to cover North America and Australia as well.

The success of the range is due to Caprice's huge passion for lingerie. Each collection has its own distinctive style: cute, fun, colorful and feminine. Quality, comfort and fit are never compromised and only the best and softest laces, embroidery and fabrics make their way into her range. Each garment is cut in a way so as to accentuate the figure. The underwears flatter the bottom shape while the bras are mostly breast enhancing.

The Stripe padded balcony bra By Caprice.It's fashioned in a feminine, striped fabric, embellished with a lace-up side trim and has intricate bow details between the cups and at the base of the straps.

The bras have a good fit to the bust and there is no sagging or drooping of the fabric on the bust as with some bras. They cling well but at the same time do not feel tight or have any pinching under the arms or on the band.The bras have a smooth liner on the inside and help to prevent the nipples from sagging without the need for any padding. The underwires of the bras are well cushioned and do not cause any pinching of the skin or pushing and pulling that some may cause and they do not feel tight. The wire is well positioned and there is no real gap between the breasts unlike some bras which have a larger gap where the cups meet.Caprice has followed the Wonderbra trend of providing push up bras with the best of embroidery.Not only are these bras flattering to the breasts,they also provide the much needed cleavege enhancement to small busted women.


The first step to commercialising herself was a licensing agreement with Debenhams, giving her name to a lingerie range. Not exactly groundbreaking, but it did enable Caprice to test, risk-free, a market that she’s now attempting to exploit much more profitably abroad and which continues to be a major driver in establishing the Caprice brand with consumers: more than two million women in the UK bought her lingerie last year.

Charities

  • Ambassador for the Princes Trust
  • Chairman for ChildLine
  • Committee member of Action on Addiction
  • Committee member of Jewish Blind and Disabled
  • Committee member of Breast Cancer Awareness

Trivia

  • Caprice's breasts are insured for £50,000.
  • She wears contact lenses.
  • Her Official website (www.caprice-online.com) received over one million hits in its first month.

Extra

She still continues to be the face of Paradise Poker.com, billboards and adverts are all over London. She has just returned from LA where she played in the World Poker Championship where she came in the top 120th out of 700 beating Ben Affleck, Matthew Perry, Toby Maguire and James Wood. Following her critical success on stage Caprice signed a two picture deal with a GFT Entertainment and is to co-star with Vinnie Jones and Brad Renfro in the film Hollywood Flies.

Caprice has made a variety of television appearances including hosting the American Music Awards and An Evening At The Oscars, both live appearances on the ABC Network and FYE on the E! Channel in the USA.

The Caprice Brand


Caprice is becoming known as an astute business woman - her name and image have now launched a growing range of licensed products.

She has her own exclusive Caprice Lingerie line, which jumped straight onto the best selling list at Debenhams.

Currently millions of women in the UK are buying Caprice underwear per year. The Caprice Ceramic Hair Straighteners, launched in July 2003 became an instant hit with women and as a result an extended range of beauty products is expected over the coming months.

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