Days of Glam & Glitz

Debee Ashby from Warwickshire had her moments in the sun in the UK during the '80s and early '90s. She began posing in 1984 and was everywhere--in men's magazines, tabloid newspapers and calendars. She met rockers, gangsters and movie stars like Tony Curtis who was 40 years her senior and her boyfriend for a while.

Men's magazine editors often changed the names of models or the spelling of their names so Debee is also known as Debbie or Debby Ashby.

Before British SCORE model Kelly Kay posed nude with her mom in the November 2005 edition of Voluptuous, Debbie and her mother Anne posed topless together for the Page 3 section of the British tabloid The Sun. Debee was sixteen, at that time the age at which British law permitted girls to pose topless. The law was changed and now they must be eighteen.

"When I was on Page Three, I got invited to all the A-list parties. It was different to today. The girls today wouldn't have got a look in," Debee told a Birmingham newspaper reporter… Read More »