9th December 2002
Nottingham's modern day Maid Marian | |
|  | | Samantha Thompson - Nottingham born and bred |
| | Nottingham's Samantha Thompson is furthering the city's reputation of being a city of beautiful women - she's been named as one of Britain's top ten 'High Street Honeys'.
Marianne Knowles
An NTU Platform article |
| | | From nearly 7000 hopefuls Nottingham's Samantha Thompson has been named in the top three 'High Street Honey's' in Britain.
The Sociology student, who was first entered into the competition as a birthday surprise by her mum and sister is delighted.
Once Samantha made it to the final 200 she knew that she was onto a good thing, and the magazine asked her for permission to use her photos!
Samantha was included in the next stage of the competition - the public vote!
"It was a big rush to get votes in all ways we could think of. We took posters out to lots of places, but they got stolen. We just hoped it was by mass voting fans!" Samantha says.
When the phone call came, and Sam realised that she was in fact down to the last 30, things really started to become interesting.
As a serious contender she got to go to London to have bikini pictures taken professionally. From the next cut numbers would dwindle to ten.
At this stage, Sams family were as excited as Sam about all of the attention it was attracting. However, Sam felt that it was important to keep her feet on the ground.
Sams older sister Cherry said: "Before the call came, Sam said that if she didnt get through it would be okay because she had so much to get on with at university and that she was still young and had time to have a career."
On 7th October Sam did indeed make it to the top ten! Samanthas elder sister said: "She just burst out crying and almost fell over. Sam wanted to tell the whole world but she was sworn to secrecy along with her close friends."
Naturally, Sam was delighted that she had done so well, and especially looked forward to the other part of being in the top ten - the chance to go to Gran Canaria for another photoshoot and a documentary.
Sam prepared for her trip very quietly: "The morning I went it was all very strange. I was a little nervous and everything seemed to take three times as long, but I was very excited. I really made the most of the experience and met some lovely people from the magazine and TV crew.
The results of the High Street Honey competition was announced at the weekend. Sam was delighted to be named as one of the top three High Street Honey's in the country - a real modern day Maid Marian. | | | |
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