Caprice Bourret Biography

Caprice Valerie Bourret (born October 24, 1971) is an American model and actress. Much of her career has been in the United Kingdom where she is often known by her first name.

Bourret (pronounced Bour-Ray) was born in Hacienda Heights, California to working class Jewish American parents Dale Bourret and Valerie Pion; her family originates from a French-speaking area of Canada. 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

In the years following, Bourret became one of the UK's better known models. She has had her breasts (now insured for £50,000) augmented, which may have led to her selection as a model for Wonderbra. She appeared on the covers of GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Maxim, FHM and the 1998 Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated. 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 in three consecutive years. She has also been featured in television ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Pizza Hut.

She continues to be the face of Paradise Poker.com, and also appears on billboards and advertisements in London.

Bourret is becoming known as a business woman, having launched a series of lingerie, using her image and name. The lingerie is sold exclusively by the UK department store chain, Debenhams. The line was well received and deemed a success, having sold millions of items, and is now in it's sixth season. Consequently, Bourret has decided to expand her designing interest into a larger industry, and is now planning to market her lingerie line in North America and Australia.

In 2001, Bourret released her first single as a pop singer, "Once around the Sun", which was co-written by '90s star Chesney Hawkes.

Bourret is also moving into an acting career, having appeared on stage in London in The Vagina Monologues and Rent. She has also appeared in the low-budget films Hollywood Flies, Nailing Vienna, and Jinxed In Love.

In 1998, Caprice became the host of a UK television series, "Caprice's Travels". The series involves Bourret's tour through several major holiday destinations across the world. Bourret has also hosted Friday Night's All Wright as well as several award shows, including the European MTV awards and the Monaco World Music Awards in 1997, the British National Television Awards in 1996, 1997 and 1998, and several series for the television channels VH1 and E! Entertainment.

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

Bourret has just returned from Los Angeles, where she played in the World Poker Championship, coming in at the top 120th out of 700, beating actors Ben Affleck, Matthew Perry, Tobey Maguire and James Woods.

In May 2006 Caprice captained the England Women's team in the Celebrity World Cup Soccer Six tournament. She was arguably the best player on the team and lead them to the final, in which they lost to Brazil.

Bourret is active as an ambassador for the Prince's Trust, a chairman for ChildLine, and is a committee member of Jewish Blind and Disabled, Action on Addiction and Breast Cancer Awareness.