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Helen Wood (born 1986) is an English television personality, author, columnist, podcaster and former escort. She is known as the winner of Big Brother 15 and for her regular column in the Daily Star newspaper until March 2017.
Oct 28, 2023 · HELEN Wood claimed victory in the fifteenth and final season of Big Brother UK, making her one of the most controversial winners in the show's history. Find out what the former housemates...
Feb 10, 2022 · In 2019's A Man's World, Helen revealed she’s ditched sex work and has been caring for her mother who suffers from dementia. She also took part in the non-celebrity version of Big Brother in...
Oct 18, 2023 · As Coleen Rooney opens up about her marriage troubles in her new Disney+ docuseries, we take a look at where former escort Helen Wood is now, after an infamous threesome with Wayne Rooney and a...
- Miami, January 1972
- New York, Early 1970s
- Early Years, 1935 – 1949
- Broadway, 1949 – 1952
- Hollywood and Las Vegas, 1952 – 1958
- Return to New York, 1958 – 1970
- New York, Adult Film Years, 1970-1973 – The Creation of Dolly Sharp
- The Missing Years, 1974-1998
For once Helen Wood was pleased with herself – which was unusual for such someone as tough and uncompromising as she was. New York was cold and unforgiving at this time of year, and she’d jumped at the chance of leaving the city for a couple of weeks, and getting paid for it too. She’d been making adult films and loops on and off over the previous ...
Who was Dolly Sharp? When ‘Deep Throat‘ hit big after its release in June 1972, the lives of those involved were never the same. Linda Lovelacebecame America’s first porn star celebrity before turning into porn’s first victim, co-opted by feminism as human proof of porn’s damaging effect on women. Harry Reems’ dreams of a mainstream acting career d...
Dolly Sharp was born Helen Wood on April 25th 1935, in Port Arthur, Texas. Her Irish father, Michael, was a seaman who skippered a tanker, The Gulflube, which traveled between Port Arthur and Philadelphia. The long absences from her father resulted in close bonds with her German mother, a tough, demanding woman with exacting standards. After Helen ...
‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in December 1949 and starred Carol Channing. This was four years before the release of the film version directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, and it was a huge hit. The New York Times described it as a “vastly enjoyable song-and-dance antic put on with humoro...
In September 1952, 20th Century Foxoffered Helen a seven year contract. She was 17, and due to the fact that she was underage, the contract had to be approved by a Santa Monica court first. The court obliged specifying only that Helen had to set aside 20% of her earnings in savings bonds. The contract itself offered her $500 a week which would incr...
Throughout her appearances around the country, Helen maintained links with New York and frequently traveled back for dancing engagements and regular television appearances on the Eddie Cantor, Dave Garroway, Jackie Gleason, and Milton Berleshows. Her most frequent guest spots were on the Ed Sullivan Show. In just over a year, she appeared with Burt...
In 1970, Helen responded to a newspaper ad that was looking for talent for ‘Low budget and independent films – nudity required’. She turned up at the door of Tallie ‘Chick’ Cochrane, a pocket-sized, fiery Southerner, sometime actress and make-up artist, who ran her own agency for sexploitation films out of her apartment in the Camelot building on 4...
Helen was fearful of returning to Port Arthur fearing exposure in her home town, so she settled in Winchester, Virginia with her son. She became a waitress and lived a quiet life. Eventually she re-married and then got divorced again. By all accounts she rarely spoke to anyone about her stage career. She certainly never mentioned ‘Deep Throat’. The...
Oct 10, 2021 · What happened to Helen Wood, decades after her stage and screen career, and her time in adult films, ended? Oral history, audio, photo, and documentary archives from the golden age of adult film in New York, and beyond
Helen Wood (June 4, 1917 – February 8, 1988) [1][2] was an American actress active in film and radio primarily during the 1930s. She is not to be confused with the actress and performer Helen [Ann] Wood (1935–1998), who later appeared in Deep Throat and other adult films as "Dolly Sharp".
