Georgia Toffolo

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Georgia Toffolo
Born
Georgia Valerie Bennett

(1994-10-23) 23 October 1994 (age 29)
Torquay, Devon, England
Education Torquay Girls' Grammar School
Occupation(s)Media and television personality
Years active2014–present
Television Made in Chelsea (2014–2018)
Celebs Go Dating (2017)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2017)
This Morning (2018–)
Political party Conservative

Georgia Valerie Toffolo [1] (born 23 October 1994 [2] ), also known as Toff, is a British media and television personality. She is best known for appearing on E4 reality television series Made in Chelsea from 2014 and winning the seventeenth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2017. She also released her first book Always Smiling on 6 September 2018.

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Personal life

Toffolo was born on 23 October 1994 in Torquay, Devon to scrap-metal dealer Gary Bennett and property manager Nicola Toffolo. [3] [4] [5] Raised in Devon and London, she attended Stoodley Knowle Independent School for Girls, Torquay Girls' Grammar School, The Maynard School, and Blundell's School. [6] She has revealed that she was bullied at school and, after telling her father, was moved to Blundell's as a boarder. [7] She then started an LLB degree in law and politics at the University of Westminster, with an ambition to work in commercial law, but dropped out (although several newspapers have reported that she managed to complete a law degree). [8] She then worked in a charity shop, an old people's home, a family-run firm of solicitors in Devon, and London law firm Family Law in Partnership. [2]

Toffolo has been a member of the Conservative Party since she was in secondary school. [9] Toffolo has stated with regard to her political views, "I believe that the traditions of our country should be upheld and I'm a real advocate of business. I can't comprehend why someone my age would support the Labour Party." [9] In 2024, she attended the 60th birthday party of Brexit Party founder Nigel Farage. [10] She has been in a relationship with Brewdog co-founder James Watt since 2023.

Career

From its seventh series in 2014, Toffolo has appeared on reality television show Made in Chelsea . In September 2017 she appeared in the third series of Celebs Go Dating . [11]

In November 2017, Toffolo was announced to be a contestant on the seventeenth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! . [12] On 10 December, she won the series, beating Jamie Lomas and Iain Lee in the final. [13] On 20 December, she announced she was joining This Morning . [14]

In October 2019, she appeared in Celebrity Hunted – Stand Up to Cancer, partnering with Stanley Johnson (Boris Johnson’s father). Toffolo and her spaniel dog, Monty, appeared in 2020 on Channel 4's Celebrity Snoop Dogs (series one, episode two) which also gave an insight into her home near central London.

In 2018, Toffolo published her autobiography/memoir, titled Always Smiling.[ citation needed ]

In 2020, Toffolo revealed that she was writing a four-part series for the British romance publisher Mills & Boon: [15]

In 2021, she appeared on the BBC One quiz show The Weakest Link. [17]

ITV2 aired a 60-minute documentary film called In Search of Perfect Skin (2022), produced by ITN Productions. Toffolo, "who has previously taken a well-known but controversial prescription acne medication called Roaccutane", investigates how the drug has affected some users. [18]

In 2023, she appeared in I'm a Celebrity... South Africa . [19]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNote
2014–2018 Made in Chelsea HerselfCast member
2017 Celebs Go Dating Series 3 cast member
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Series 17 winner
2018–2019 This Morning Reporter
2018 National Television Awards Backstage presenter
2018 The Grinch Mrs. Toffee AppleFilm debut
2019 Would I Lie to You? HerselfSeries 12, Episode 7
2019 Celebrity Gogglebox With Stanley Johnson
2019 Celebrity Hunted With Stanley Johnson
2019My Famous BabysitterSeries 1, Episode 3
2019 Supermarket Sweep 1 episode
2020 I'll Get This Series 2, Episode 4
2022Georgia Toffolo: In Search of Perfect SkinDocumentary [20]
2023 I'm a Celebrity... South Africa Herself

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  2. 1 2 Clark, Daniel (10 December 2017). "Who is Georgia Toffolo? All you need to know about the Made in Chelsea and I'm a Celebrity winner". Devon Live. Trinity Mirror . Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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  4. ↑ Clarke, Lewis (25 November 2017). "I'm a Celeb star Georgia Toffolo's humble roots revealed by her scrap metal trading dad Gary". Devon Live. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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  9. 1 2 Ailes, Emma; Harrison, John (31 May 2017). "Election blind dates: Georgia Toffolo and Jack Monroe". BBC News . Retrieved 11 December 2017.
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  15. 1 2 Chandler, Mark (17 April 2020). "Georgia Toffolo pens four-part Mills & Boon romance series". The Bookseller . Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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