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Emma Blocksage, also known as Emma B or Emma Balfour, is an English celebrity model and TV presenter.

Modeling career

Emma began her media career when she won the prestigious "Elite Look of the Year" Model Competition in 1995. This garnered her a lucrative modelling contract with Elite—one of the world's best known agencies. She subsequently embarked on a very high profile path in the industry, becoming one of Elite's top supermodel names, in the category of Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Elle Macpherson, Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss.

As a fashion model, Emma was in high demand and travelled the world, appearing in catwalk shows and ad campaigns for designers such as Chanel, Prada, Valentino, Guess?, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Westwood, Hamnett and Bella Freud.

She has also appeared on the covers of Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire and numerous others.

A lucrative lingerie contract with Debenhams featured Emma as their "lingerie face" for two years. This led to intense media interest and she soon became a favourite celebrity face and glamour model in the British tabloids and gossip pages.

As a result of her celebrity status, Emma became a "name" model, appearing regularly in such publications as FHM, Stuff, Maxim, Front, GQ, News of the World, The Daily Star, The Sun, Closer, Nuts, Zoo and Donna.

In 2003, Emma’s saucy calendar hit the top 5 best selling calendars for the year and sold out in all major outlets. She is currently a celebrity model for the Ann Summers chain of sex shops.

Television career

After taking a break from the limelight to spend time with her mother and sister in Hastings, Emma returned to the media in 2004. As her popularity had risen with modelling, other media projects became available, including a recording contract with East West Records.

Emma has presented for ITV2 (The Mix, Flying Start), Sky One (Babes Behaving Badly), the Disney Channel and MTV. She made her acting debut in Channel 4's It's a Girl Thing, and her own fly-on-the-wall reality TV show Young, Hot and Talented.

After being lined up to star with then-lover, East 17 singer Brian Harvey in ITV1's summer 2004 version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, she took part in ITV1 reality TV flop Celebrity Wrestling.

She then took part Five's celebrity reality show The Farm. Emma was the runner up in Sky One's Cirque de Celebrité in 2006.

She has appeared on ITV Play's phone-in quiz show The Mint.