In this show actors represented an alternative S Club. In 2000, Willoughby won an audition for a show on CITV featuring S Club 7 called S Club TV. From 1998, at the age of 17, Willoughby started modelling bras, underwear and tights for clients including Pretty Polly, appearing in advertisements and posters.Ĭareer 2000–2005: Children's presenting She appeared in teen magazines for girls such as Mizz, Just Seventeen, Shout, and More!.
In 1995, at the age of 14, Willoughby was spotted by talent scouts at The Clothes Show Live exhibition and signed with the model agency, Storm Management. She was educated at the independent Burgess Hill Girls in the town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex, and The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham. Willoughby was born in Brighton, East Sussex, the younger of two daughters of Brian Willoughby, a sales manager of a double-glazing company, and Linda Willoughby ( née Fleming), a former air stewardess.
