Jessica Linley is a university student and commercial model who was crowned Miss England

Miss England

The Miss England competition is an annual beauty pageant targeted at young females aged 17–24 years living in England. Entrants must hold a British passport to enter....

 on 1 September 2010. She is originally from Norwich

Norwich

Norwich is a city in England. It is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. During the 11th century, Norwich was the largest city in England after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom...

. She represented Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

 at the Miss England competition and England at Miss World 2010

Miss World 2010

Miss World 2010, the 60th Miss World pageant was held on October 30, 2010, in Sanya, People's Republic of China; after Vietnam backed out of the hosting contract. Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar crowned her successor Alexandria Mills of the United States as Miss World 2010.-Vietnam backed out:On June...

.

Biography

Linley was born at the Reading and Wokingham hospital on 28th March 1989 to Michael and Rosemary Linley. She moved from Reading to Norwich in 1991. Linley attended Brundall Primary School, and Thorpe St Andrew High School. At Sixth Form in Norwich she obtained 3 Alevels in History, English Literature and Religious Studies.She used to work at Mercy Nightclub in Norwich. At University she was Treasurer of the Law Society and Finance Officer for the Athletic Union. Linley has suspended her studies at University of Nottingham

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

 while she focuses on being Miss England. She will return to University in September of this year but hopes to continue both modelling and presenting.

Hobbies

She enjoys photography, having been taught by her father Mike Linley, a senior wildlife producer known for his years on award-winning series Survival

Survival (TV series)

Survival is one of television's longest-running and most successful nature documentary series. Originally produced by Anglia Television for ITV in the United Kingdom, it was created by Aubrey Buxton , a founder director of Anglia TV, and first broadcast in 1961...

Linley is also a trained live and auto cue presenter, having made two programs set for release in the UK later this year.

External links

Website