Mollie Pearce

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Mollie Pearce
Born
Mollie Elizabeth Pearce

(2002-01-28) 28 January 2002 (age 22)
Nailsea, North Somerset, England
Occupations
  • Television personality
  • model
Years active2024–present
Television The Traitors
Dancing on Ice

Mollie Elizabeth Pearce (born 28 January 2002) is an English television personality and model, who was runner-up on the second series of The Traitors in 2024. In 2025, she is set to compete in the seventeenth series of Dancing on Ice .

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Early life

Pearce was born on 28 January 2002 in Nailsea, North Somerset. [1] Pearce was born with no fingers on her right hand. [2] She attended Nailsea School. [2] In 2014, she swam a mile to raise money for Reach, an association for children with upper limb deficiencies. [2] She was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 11, an autoimmune condition causing inflammation in the large intestine. [3] [4] When Pearce was 18, she had her colon removed and began using a stoma. [5] [6]

Career

Prior to appearing on television, Pearce worked as a disability model, working for brands including Kurt Geiger, Zalando and Bodyform, as well as appearing in a campaign for Vogue Portugal . [7] [8] She has also worked as a hospital healthcare assistant. [1] In January 2024, Pearce appeared as a contestant on the second series of the BBC series The Traitors . [9] [10] [11] She was chosen as a faithful and reached the final, finishing as the runner-up behind Harry Clark, who was ultimately a traitor. [12] [13] [14] Following on from the series, she said her "main goal" was to "raise awareness" around stomas, and said she was "so grateful" that [The Traitors] producers had included her story [in the show]. [15] [16] In March 2024, Pearce appeared as herself in a parody of the series, The Traitors: The Movie for Comic Relief, which starred Suranne Jones, David Walliams, Catherine Tate, Jonathan Bailey, Asim Chaudhry, Iain Stirling and Sally Phillips as her fellow contestants. [17] In January 2025, Pearce is set to appear as a contestant on the seventeenth series of Dancing on Ice . [18]

Filmography

As herself
YearTitleNotesRef(s)
2024 The Traitors Runner-up; series 2 [19]
2024 Lorraine Guest; 1 episode [20]
2024 Loose Women Guest; 1 episode [21]
2025 Dancing on Ice Contestant; series 17 [18]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Mollie's mile in aid of Reach". North Somerset Times. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
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