Kathy Hill

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Kathy Hill (* 1956 in the United Kingdom ) is a British model who made her lasting fame especially for her appearance in Wham! Video clip Last Christmas owes.

Live and act

Kathy Hill began modeling at the age of 19 and occasionally worked as a singer. She signed to an agency in Manchester, and Kathy Hill was hired for commercials and advertising campaigns. Commissions took her to Milan, Paris, Tokyo and London, among others. In 1984 she applied to a casting for the video for the music track "Last Christmas". There she had to play the pretty, black-haired, curly friend from last year, George Michaels , who left him a little later and at this year's meeting of the mutual circle of friends at Christmas in the snow-covered mountains with her new boyfriend and brings back painful memories in her ex. The five days of filming with Wham! led them to Saas-Fee in Switzerland in November 1984 and had an enormous influence on the further course of Hill's modeling career.

The regular repositioning in the international charts of Last Christmas never let Kathy Hill be forgotten in the following years and her face in the Bacardi Rum brand advertising did the rest. Kathy Hill made other commercials and advertising campaigns for the Procter & Gamble products Pantene , Max Factor and Oil of Olaz . She also does teleshopping and models for catalogs. However, she never appeared in another music video. Even at an advanced age, the British woman was never completely out of business. Fortunately, women over 50 are in great demand these days. They are an important target group because they have money and also spend it ”, as the later bleached model stated in an interview at the end of 2009. In 1991, Kathy Hill became the mother of twins, and in 2012 she appeared in a British television music documentary about the most popular English Christmas carols under the title "The Nation's Favorite Christmas Song".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau from December 21, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Kathy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British photo model
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH United Kingdom