Georgina Hobday

[sethii]

Her flawless face caught my attention on Storm's website. Then I discovered she has a rather unusual story about how she was discovered.


ph. Chantelle Dosser

ph. Natasha Bidgood

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[sethii]

The teenager whose party was a model career move... as she's set to be the 'new Lily Cole'

By Richard Simpson
Last updated at 5:15 PM on 12th February 2009

It was her party and she cried because she wanted to.

But the girl whose 16th birthday celebration was wrecked by 400 gatecrashers when she advertised it on Facebook could end up smiling after all.

Georgina Hobday has attracted the attention of leading model agency Storm, the firm behind the careers of Kate Moss and Lily Cole.

Storm also has Cindy Crawford, Emma Watson and Peaches Geldof on its books. Perhaps a lucrative modelling contract would go some way to helping pay for the £5,000 damage caused to Georgina's £1million family home when her Facebook party got out of control.

'We've been in touch and had a conversation with Georgina,' said Paula Karaiskos from the Storm agency. 'From the photographs I have seen, she just looks really photogenic. 'She has the long red hair of Lily Cole, so there are bound to be some comparisons. 'But I do think she has quite a different look. She looks like a quintessential English girl.'

Georgina, a pupil at the £8,394-a-year Brighton and Hove High School, had organised the MTV-style My Super Sweet 16 party last month for around 100 friends.

But within an hour of the party starting, the house in Brighton was 'invaded' by members of the so-called Facebook Republican Army. The uninvited guests rampaged through rooms, smashed up furniture, burned woodwork with cigarettes, turned the garden into a mudbath and smashed shed windows at the four-story townhouse. During the fracas, in which four adult bouncers were brushed aside, 12 police cars turned up and the house was wrecked.

Georgina's parents Michael and Sylvia, who had gone out, returned home to find the uninvited guests had run riot. Mrs Hobday said at the time: 'It was an absolute horror show. When I left there was no alcohol in the house. I'll never have a party for my daughter here again.

'She had no idea who most of the people were and they were rampaging through the house. 'The garden has been ruined, the grass is just mud, people were walking through the pond and I heard one boy was trying to headbutt a mirror. 'My front garden was full and some people were climbing up the balcony and trying to get in through the windows.'

Of Georgina's Facebook notoriety, Miss Karaiskos said: 'It can be useful that she has already been in the newspapers. But that would not necessarily be a guarantee of success for her.'

A scout for the Storm agency recently contacted the Mail asking for contact details for Georgina after details of her nightmare evening were published.

Asked if Georgina has a future with the agency, Miss Karaiskos said: 'When we have properly looked through her photographs, we'll give her another call.

'What we do is arrange to meet Georgina, have a chat and take some Polaroids and if there is further potential there on either side, then we arrange to do some more professional shoots for her with a testing photographer. 'Then we slowly build up her portfolio and we tailor-make her career with a strategy to suit her. 'It depends very much on how she photographs in a professional way as to which type of clients would be interested. We would chose those clients quite carefully and we take it from there.'

dailymail.co.uk

 

[sethii]

Mother's 'horror show' as Facebook gatecrashers invade birthday party

By Tom Pugh
Wednesday, 3 December 2008

A mother told how her daughter's 16th birthday party descended into an "absolute horror show" when about 300 people gatecrashed her luxury home after it was advertised on Facebook.

One hundred people were invited via an online invitation list to the party, inspired by the MTV reality series My Super Sweet 16, which documents wealthy teenagers preparing their coming-of-age parties.

After Georgina Hobday's parents, Michael and Sylvia, left their four-storey townhouse in Brighton, East Sussex, to allow genuine guests to enjoy themselves, Mr Hobday was called by police on his mobile phone, telling him the party was out of control.

Mrs Hobday told the Brighton Argus: "It was an absolute horror show. I will never have a party for my daughter here again. She had no idea who most of the people were and they were rampaging through the house.

"The garden has been ruined, the grass is mud, people were walking through the pond and I heard one boy was trying to headbutt the mirror. Some people were climbing up the balcony and trying to get through the windows. My floor was blackened with dirt and there were cigarette burn marks around the bottom of the door.

"When I left the house, there was no alcohol in the house but when I came back there were beer cans and vodka bottles everywhere. I think Facebook is a major cause, as well as texting. I heard that a Bluetooth alert was going round saying 'hot party close to the Seven Dials'."

Four adult friends of Georgina's parents were asked to keep an eye on the party but it was said they could only watch as the gatecrashers rampaged through the house on Saturday night.

Inspector Andy Richardson, of Sussex Police, said: "There was a sea of people, the place was overrun and it was difficult to move, which was a major safety problem that required a lot of police time and resources.
"We eventually got the unwanted guests out at about 11pm."
No arrests were made, a police spokeswoman said.

"To all intents and purposes, the parents did the right thing by getting adults to, in effect, act as bouncers. They invited a large number of people but as soon as word got out on Facebook that there was a party in the area, the place got overrun with people.

independent.co.uk

 

[RyanF]

Hahaha well definitely a unique find! Just shows how hard the scouts work to find new talent, I really hope it works out for her even if its not with Storm.

 

[jacobs]

She looks like a Lily Cole/Magdalena Frackowiak hybrid.

 

[youarearockstar]

The trick now will be to promote her as a model first, and try as quickly as possible to distance her from the "rich kid, party girl" mentality behind her discovery. That could have worked back in Nov-Jan when Meisel went on that British celebutante kick, but nowadays this one needs to be seen as a model before anything else.

Lucky for Georgina, she actually looks like one. She has a face, but the height does her no favors. Should be interesting to see what happens with her.

 

[papa_levante]

I didn't go on to read what sethii posted above, but it was still so funny to read that she is a "party horror" when I Googled her. What an honorable title to be given.

 

[jacquelineo]

I always liked this photo of her

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[xmodel citizen]

I like her. But mostly because she looks like me

 

[TanyaKiller]

She is very interesting! Like a cross between Jeisa Chiminazzo and Lily Cole. Some pictures i found:

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[TanyaKiller]

More from another series:

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[Starry_Night]

In certain pictures (post #10 in particular) she reminds me of Patricija Zilinskaite. I love her and I hope that she does well, despite her height.

 

[golly]

louie banks

 

[golly]

i love this

eleanor hardwick

 

[golly]

she takes a great picture ....

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[sethii]

Thread nicely bumped

2nd pic is so beautiful - is she working much?

 

[golly]

i guess so- she has new photos at least

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[golly]

polaroids

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[Mea Culpa]

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