Facts
Caprice was 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 appeared on the
covers of more than 300 magazines published
around the world, including GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Vogue,
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 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.
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, inclduing
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.
