# Jilly Johnson

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{{short description|British model and actress}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
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| name = Jilly Johnson
| birth_name = Jilly Gosden
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|11|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Queensland](/source/Queensland), Australia
| education =
| occupation = Model, actress, writer
| years_active = 1975–present
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| height = 1.73 m
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| children = 1
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'''Jilly Johnson''' ({{née}} '''Gosden'''; 17 November 1953) is a British former model, actress, musical artist and [Page 3](/source/Page_3) girl.

== Biography ==
Johnson was born Jilly Gosden on 17 November 1953 in  Australia. Her family moved back to [Surrey](/source/Surrey), England when she was eight, and she attended Horsell Primary School and [Sheerwater Secondary School](/source/Bishop_David_Brown_School) in [Woking](/source/Woking), [Surrey](/source/Surrey).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2995056/My-School-Sport-Jilly-Johnson.html |work=The Telegraph |title=My School Sport: Jilly Johnson |date=20 December 2000 |accessdate=30 December 2016}}</ref>

In the 1970s and 1980s together with [Nina Carter](/source/Nina_Carter), she was in the girl group [Blonde on Blonde](/source/Blonde_on_Blonde_(girl_group)).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/blonde_on_blonde_that_time_two_topless_models_released_a_disco_cover_versio|title=Blonde on Blonde: That time two topless models released a disco cover version of 'Whole Lotta Love'|date=7 July 2016|newspaper=DangerousMinds|access-date=5 January 2017}}</ref> Johnson was also featured on the album cover for the album ''[Moontan](/source/Moontan)'' by Dutch hard rock band [Golden Earring](/source/Golden_Earring) in 1973.

In 1975, she became the first model to appear topless in the ''[Daily Mirror](/source/Daily_Mirror)''.

She has written two novels: ''Double Exposure'' (1994) and ''Playing for Love'' (1997).<ref>{{cite news |title=Angel is a centrefold |work=[The Independent on Sunday](/source/The_Independent_on_Sunday) |date=26 November 2006 }}</ref>

Johnson has been married twice and has one daughter from her first marriage, to company director Brian Johnson. She is now a housewife and grandmother.{{cn|date=June 2020}} She is also noted for her love of [Great Danes](/source/Great_Danes).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmhJZMgj-4 | title=THE GREAT DANE - THE TALLEST DOG IN THE WORLD / Animal Watch - YouTube | website=[YouTube](/source/YouTube) | date=7 April 2018 }}</ref>

==Filmography==

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1979
| ''[The Golden Lady](/source/The_Golden_Lady)''
| Herself
| Blonde on Blonde (musical duo) with [Nina Carter](/source/Nina_Carter)
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1980
| ''Star Games''
| Herself
| Game show
|-
| 1986
| ''Auf Wiedersehen Pet''
| Model
| Comedy drama
|-
| 1994
| ''Digging the Dancing Queens''
| Herself
| Television documentary
|-
| 2003
| ''[Loose Women](/source/Loose_Women)''
| Herself
| 
|-
| 2006
| ''[It's Me or the Dog](/source/It's_Me_or_the_Dog)''
 |Herself
|
|}

==Published books==
* ''Playing for Love'', published by Simon & Schuster (1997)
* ''Double Exposure'', published by Smith Gryphon (1994)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name | nm0425375}}

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Category:1953 births
Category:British women singers
Category:Living people
Category:Page 3 girls
Category:Actresses from Woking
Category:Models from Surrey

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