Debee Ashby (1967)

There is a gallery of Debee Ashby magazine covers at the bottom of this listing

British Page 3, pin-up, softcore video, and glamour model legend Debee Ashby was one of a group of buxom models – including Samantha Fox and Linda Lusardi – who rose from the ranks of nude modeling for U.K. British Tabloid The Sun, to become household names in the United Kingdom during the 1980s.

Ashby – who was born in Meriden, Warwickshire, just outside of Coventry – began her career with a controversial modeling shoot for the December 1983 issue of British adult magazine Men Only. She was 16 years old at the time, posing topless in her school uniform together with her completely nude mother Anne Ashby. National newspaper The Sun heard about the magazine shoot and booked Ashby and her mom to repeat it for the tabloid’s Page Three readers. Because of the controversy, Ashby was immediately expelled from the independent grammar school King Henry VIII School, Coventry, before having the chance to sit for her O-level exams. Her mother Anne gave up modeling, but the notoriety of her story launched top heavy teen Debee Ashby into a full-time modelling career.

She was soon hitting making headlines for more than just modeling. Only a year later, at the age of 17, Debee found herself in a relationship with Hollywood movie legend Tony Curtis, who was 42 years her senior at the time. This wouldn’t be her last high profile relationship. Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt also famously fell for her curvaceous charms. Ashby has also been connected with U.K. gangster Reginald Kray, of the infamous Kray Twins, who were the foremost perpetrators of organized crime in the East End of London, England during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

At the same time as shooting raunchy videos for franchises like Electric Blue, and baring her all for magazines like Penthouse, Partner and Gent, Debee got regularly called on to make mainstream TV appearances, either as herself or in acting roles as the cheeky buxom blonde. Ashby married session musician Richard Mead in 1992, but the marriage ended two years later.

Debee Ashby retired from modeling in the mid 1990s, and moved to Douglas, on the Isle of Man, where she married Dave Wookey in 1999. The couple had a baby boy in 2000, but they later divorced. Ashby then lived with Johnny Mills.

As of 2023, the former model continues her business ventures on the Isle of Man, opening her own restaurant called Coasters. Ashby also operates a home development company called Jobee. How many of her regulars admit to recognizing one of the biggest British sex symbols of the 1980s? Debee is too modest to mention.

Birthplace: Coventry, United Kingdom

Also Known As: Debbie Ashby, Debbie Ashley, Debbie Ashby, Debby Ashby

Height: 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m)

Debee Ashby Filmography

• Boobwoman (1999)
• Breast of Britain: The Page 3 Girls #8 (1990)
• Breast of Britain: The Page 3 Girls #5
• The Very Best of Breasts Vol. 3 [Compilation Video]
• The Zeta Sexy Video Show (1988)
• Electric Blue 57 (1987)
• Electric Blue 44 (1986)
• Sexy Secrets of the Sex Therapists [Character: Debee Phunnyphunny] (1986)
• Electric Blue 33 (1985)
• Electric Blue 26 (1985)
• Electric Blue 20 (1985)

Partial List of Debee Ashby Adult and Men’s Interest Magazine Photography Appearances, Articles and Headlines

• Electric Blue Special Magazine (UK – British)
  1994, Volume 2, Issue Number 132
• Celebrity Skin Magazine Number 30 (US – American)
  December 1993
• Penthouse Magazine (UK – British Edition)
  1992, Volume 27, Issue Number 5
• Men’s Collection Magazine (UK – British)
  1991, Volume 7, Issue Number 8
• Fling Magazine (US – American)
  January 1991, Volume 32, Issue Number 3
• Penthouse Magazine (UK – British Edition)
  1990, Volume 25, Issue Number 8
• The Best of Cheri Magazine: Girl-On-Girl Number 41 (US – American)
  February 1990, Volume 13, Issue Number 6
• Cheri Magazine (US – American)
  January 1990, Volume 14, Issue Number 6
• The Best of Cheri Magazine Number 31 (US – American)
  Summer 1989, Volume 12, Issue Number 1
• Penthouse Magazine (UK – British Edition) [Debee Ashby Pet of the Year Nude]
  1989, Volume 24, Issue Number 4
• Club International Magazine (UK – British)
  1989, Volume 7, Issue Number 7
• Cheri Magazine (US – American)
  January 1989, Volume 13, Issue Number 6
• Cheri Magazine (US – American) [Best Breasts Explosion; Covergirl Debee Ashby and Her Bosom Buddies]
  October 1988, Volume 13, Issue Number 3
• Partner Magazine (US – American)
  July 1988, Issue Number 102
• Cheri Magazine (US – American) [Covergirl Debee Ashby and Her Mom Nude – Big Boob Combo]
  June 1988, Volume 12, Issue Number 11
• Penthouse Magazine (UK – British Edition)
  1988, Volume 23, Issue Number 7
• Best of Cheri Magazine Collector’s Edition Number 26 (International Edition)
  Spring 1988, Volume 11, Issue Number 1
• Razzle Magazine (UK – British) [Debee Ashby’s Witch Report]
  December 1987, Volume 5, Issue Number 12
• Razzle Magazine (UK – British) [Debee Ashby’s Little Bo-Peep Show]
  December 1987, Volume 5, Issue Number 4
• Razzle Magazine (UK – British) [Debee Ashby Goes Like the Devil]
  December 1987, Volume 5, Issue Number 2
• Cheri Magazine (US – American)
  December 1987, Volume 12, Issue Number 5
• Gent Magazine (US – American)
  September 1987, Volume 28, Issue Number 9
• Cheri Magazine (US – American) [11th Anniversary Edition]
  August 1987, Volume 12, Issue Number 1
• The Best of Cheri Magazine Number 22 (US – American)
  Summer 1987, Volume 10, Issue Number 2
• Cheri Magazine (US – American) [Get Wet With Covergirl Debee Ashby]
  May 1987, Volume 11, Issue Number 10
• Penthouse Magazine (UK – British Edition)
  1987, Volume 22, Issue Number 4
• The Very Best of High Society Magazine: Collector’s Edition Number 12 (US – American)
  1987, Volume 3, Issue Number 4
• High Society Magazine (US – American)
  July 1987
• Sexy Magazine (UK – British)
  June 27, 1987
• Mayfair Magazine (UK – British)
  April 1987, Volume 22, Issue Number 4
• Razzle Magazine (UK – British)
  December 1986, Volume 4, Issue Number 25/26
• Cavalier Magazine (UK – British)
  October 1986
• High Society Magazine [British Bombshell Debee Ashby Returns]
  August 1986, Volume 11, Issue Number 4
• Parade Magazine (UK – British)
  1986, Volume 3, Issue Number 3
• High Society Magazine (US – American)
  January 1986, Volume 10, Issue Number 9
• Top Models Magazine (UK – British) [Debee Ashby shares cover with Samantha Fox]
  Premiere Issue Number 1
• Cavalier Magazine (UK – British)
  December 1984
• Men Only Magazine (UK – British)
  December 1983