When the hunt begins for contestants on the BBC’s hit show The Traitors, bosses check for anything that might be at odds with its family-friendly image – such as having an account on the raunchy website OnlyFans.
But sources have been stunned to learn that there are nonetheless some very risque pictures of competitor Livi Deane online.
It is understood that efforts were made to get rid of the topless images – but they are still there, now prompting much joviality among Ms Deane’s co-stars in private chats.
One insider said: ‘You would wonder what some of the older Traitors viewers might make of the pictures.
‘She looks amazing but they are not exactly in keeping with the family-friendly image that the show has. It must be very frustrating [for the BBC] that they can’t be removed from the internet.’
Bosses ask every contestant for their social media handles, including if they have an OnlyFans account, so they can head off any inappropriate backstories.
Ms Deane, a 26-year-old beautician from Horsham, West Sussex, isn’t on the platform, but the images out there show the BBC’s approach is less than foolproof.
Ms Deane is a lingerie model and has appeared in the Portuguese edition of Vogue. She has also been the star of a huge advertising campaign for fast-fashion store Primark after they spotted her online.
Livi Deane is a lingerie model and has appeared in the Portuguese edition of Vogue
It is understood that efforts were made to get rid of the topless images of Ms Deane but they are still online
Ms Deane lost her eye to cancer when she was 14 and now wears a prosthetic one but sometimes poses in pictures with her socket empty
Her success is against the odds. Ms Deane lost her eye to cancer when she was 14 and now wears a prosthetic one but sometimes poses in pictures with her socket empty.
Meanwhile, fellow contestant Leanne Quigley – an ex-soldier who is pretending to be a beautician – has revealed if she scoops the £120,000 prize money she would buy another round of IVF with her partner of seven years, Sophie Jones.
The former lance corporal experienced a harrowing birth after carrying their twin boys, Hudson and Harley, who were born three months prematurely and are now aged almost two.
Writing on Instagram at the time, she said: ‘What should have been the best day of my life was actually the scariest.
‘How can my heart be so broken but so full of love simultaneously?’ But Ms Quigley, 28, is determined to try again. She said: ‘I would love the opportunity to have another baby, hopefully have a bit of a better experience.
‘I was very poorly throughout my pregnancy, and then I went into early labour at six months. The boys were only 26 weeks when they were born. Because I was so poorly at the time I feel I missed out on enjoying that newborn stage.
‘When they [the twins] did come home from hospital after three months, they came home on oxygen, and it was a struggle to take them out.
‘I’m so grateful to have them, and I’m so lucky that they’re alive.’ She added: ‘I’ll always have my little boys in the back of my mind’.
