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Sophie Hannah Gradon (25 October 1985 – 20 June 2018) was an English model. In 2008, she won Miss Newcastle. In 2009, Gradon won the title Miss Great Britain. In 2016, she was a contestant on the second series of ITV2's Love Island. Early life and education Gradon was born in Newcastle. She was educated at Dame Allan's School and she went on to complete her 6th form career at Ponteland High School. GCE Advanced Levels. She obtained a 2:1 degree in media, culture and society from Northumbria University. Career In 2008, Gradon won the Miss Newcastle title. In 2009, she won the Miss Great Britain title. Gradon worked as a marketing manager. She was a promoter of the NE1 campaign in Newcastle City Centre, through which she raised money for charities. In this capacity, Gradon successfully solicited financial support from Calum Best for the Great North Run in 2011. Thousands of pounds were raised to send children with cancer on a trip to Crete. Chronicle Live reported that Calum agreed to support this charity after he saw the work Gradon did for the Sara's Hope Foundation. In 2011, Gradon appeared on Sky Sports in support of the campaign "The Great North Fitness Revolution".She was a contestant on Love Island in 2016. During her time on the reality TV series, Love Island, Gradon began a relationship with barman Tom Powell before coupling up with glamour model Katie Salmon, Love Island's first same-sex pairing. She decided to walk from the villa on Day 39.In 2018, Gradon was part of a talk on social media and its impact on children. In a March 2018 interview with Radio Aire, Gradon revealed that she was the victim of intense cyberbullying and internet trolls. She reported in the interview: "It was horrific. I think when you get so many comments on the scale we did coming out of thousands of followers."She added: "There are fans and positive comments but people would focus on the negatives. Sometimes I would look for it...There would be so many negative comments. They are commenting on the way you look, the way you talk. They would come up with an opinion of you on a TV show where they've watched you for 45 minutes." Personal life In 2008, Gradon dated Wayne Lineker, brother of Gary Lineker. In 2013, Gradon dated rugby player Danny Cipriani. In 2016, reports stated that Gradon was "openly bisexual". She was widely known among the social scene in Newcastle. Death Gradon was found dead at her parents' house in Medburn on 20 June 2018. She was 32. A spokesperson for the Northumbria Police reported that there did not appear to be suspicious circumstances and a cause of death was not initially revealed. Officials later stated the cause of death was likely suicide as Gradon had hanged herself. Her death sparked a response among media outlets, with the organisation of Miss Great Britain and several members of the cast of Love Island expressing condolences. Her funeral was held on 5 July 2018.According to an inquest in April 2019, Gradon died by suicide after taking cocaine and alcohol. About 20 days after her death, Gradon's boyfriend Aaron Armstrong also died by suicide. References External links Sophie Gradon at IMDb. Discover the Sophie Love popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sophie Love books.

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  • The Unhoneymooners synopsis, comments

    The Unhoneymooners

    Christina Lauren

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly Library Journal Named a “MustRead” by TODAY, Us Weekly, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, ...

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    To Wed a Wild Lord

    Sabrina Jeffries

    New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries delights readers with the fourth Regency romance in her sexy Hellions of Halstead Hall series, featuring the dark and dangerous L...

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    I Owe You One

    Sophie Kinsella

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A gem of a novel.”Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great ThingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling&#x...

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    My Favorite Half-Night Stand

    Christina Lauren

    By the New York Times bestselling author who “hilariously depicts modern dating” (Us Weekly), My Favorite HalfNight Stand is a laughoutloud romp through online dating and its many,...

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    Between the Covers Sampler

    J. Lynn

    Presenting Between the Covers, a free eBook sampler from the hottest New Adult books by the most popular authors in this emerging genre. This free eBook sampler is a cura...

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    Tease

    Sophie Jordan

    A young college woman gets schooled in life, sex, and love in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s sizzling New Adult romance serieswhere three Ivy League suitemates t...

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    Love and Other Words

    Christina Lauren

    After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words…how many words...

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    Twenties Girl

    Sophie Kinsella

    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sophie Kinsella's Wedding Night.Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in ove...

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    How to Lose a Bride in One Night

    Sophie Jordan

    He saved her life…When Annalise Hadley is tossed over the side of her honeymoon barge, the newly minted duchess knows she’s been left for deadfor her husband’s only interest is in ...

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    Wild

    Sophie Jordan

    A good girl goes fabulously bad in the final book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s sexy New Adult romance series, in which three Ivy League suitemates seek high...

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    Guarding Sophie

    Julie Brannagh

    Hearts beat and sparks fly when two people find shelter in each otherSeattle Sharks wide receiver Kyle Carlson needs to escape and Noel, Washington, is the perfect place for him to...

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    Twice in a Blue Moon

    Christina Lauren

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite HalfNight Stand comes a modern love story about wha...

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    Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

    Sophie Kinsella

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life . . . “[Sophie] Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You won’t have to shop around ...

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    Foreplay

    Sophie Jordan

    Pepper has been hopelessly in love with her best friend's brother, Hunter, for, like, ever. He's the key to everything she's always craved: security, stability, family. But she nee...

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    Sins of a Wicked Duke

    Sophie Jordan

    She works to live . . .One would think the last place a beauty like Fallon O'Rourke could keep her virtue was in the Mayfair mansion of London's most licentious duke, the notorious...

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    Mini Shopaholic

    Sophie Kinsella

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “frothy fun . . . Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a twoforone coupon, abl...

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    All the Ways to Ruin a Rogue

    Sophie Jordan

    First friends, then enemies . . .Lady Aurelia hasn't always hated Max, Viscount Camden, her brother's best friend. In fact, as a besotted girl, she thrived under his kind attention...

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    The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

    Anna North

    Winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction“I read The Life and Death of Sophie Stark with my heart in my mouth. Not only a dissection of genius and the...

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    Surprise Me

    Sophie Kinsella

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes a witty and emotionally charged novel that delves into the heart of a marriage, and...

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    Love Letters of Great Men

    Ursula Doyle

    Remember the wonderfully romantic book of love letters that Carrie reads aloud to Big in the recent blockbuster film, Sex and the City? Fans raced to buy copies of their own, only...

  • Love Your Life synopsis, comments

    Love Your Life

    Sophie Kinsella

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher, an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italyonly to find...

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    The Undomestic Goddess

    Sophie Kinsella

    Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks ...

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    My Not So Perfect Life

    Sophie Kinsella

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Part love story, part workplace drama, this sharply observed novel is a witty critique of the false judgments we make in a socialmediaobsessed world, fro...

  • Roomies synopsis, comments

    Roomies

    Christina Lauren

    From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Modern love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in New York Times bestselling aut...

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    Secretly Yours

    Tessa Bailey

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and TikTok favorite Tessa Bailey comes a steamy new romcom about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes wit...

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    Wedding Night

    Sophie Kinsella

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life returns with her trademark blend of sparkling wit and playful romance in this pageturning story of ...

  • The Duke Buys a Bride synopsis, comments

    The Duke Buys a Bride

    Sophie Jordan

    A bride wasn’t in his plans . . .The last thing Marcus, the Duke of Autenberry, expects to see after sleeping off a night’s drunken shenanigans is a woman being auctioned in the vi...

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    Shopaholic to the Rescue

    Sophie Kinsella

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life returns with another laughoutloud Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adventure: a hilarious road trip th...

  • Confessions of a Shopaholic synopsis, comments

    Confessions of a Shopaholic

    Sophie Kinsella

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “a hilarious tale . . . hijinks worthy of classic I Love Lucy episodes . . . too good to...

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    The Last Anniversary

    Liane Moriarty

    From Liane Moriarty, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty, comes an unforgettable novel defined by her signature sharp wit, paget...

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    While the Duke Was Sleeping

    Sophie Jordan

    Sometimes the man of your dreams . . .Shop girl Poppy Fairchurch knows it’s pointless fantasizing about the Duke of Autenberry. Still, dreams can’t hurt anyone . . . unlike the car...

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    How Miss Rutherford Got Her Groove Back

    Sophie Barnes

    Emily Rutherford is having a very bad day. Of course, having the man you’ve loved forever announce his engagement to your (now very former) best friend will do that.Emily is sure n...

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    Dream On

    Angie Hockman

    In this fresh romantic comedy from the author of Shipped, heralded as an “absolutely sparkling debut” by Entertainment Weekly, a woman wakes up from a car accident with memories of...