Gail McKenna

About Gail McKenna

Gail McKenna (born 30 December 1968 in Liverpool) rose to fame in the 1980s as a Page 3 girl. She subsequently became a theatre and television actress, a sports presenter for L!VE TV and Five, and a presenter of children's programmes for CITV.

McKenna was a glamour model doing full frontal nudity for softporn magazines and a Page 3 girl. She was Penthouse Pet of the Month for the December 1987 (Vol 22 No. 12), English Edition when she was 18 years old. She made her first Page 3 appearance at 17 years old on May 21, 1986 in the Sun Newspaper, and her last at 22 years old on July 18, 1991. Her last 12 months of topless modelling were notable for the dramatic decrease in the size of her breasts. She had an uncredited role of a waitress in Consuming Passions (1988), and became a regular television presenter.

On 21 May 1986, aged 17, McKenna made her Page 3 debut in the tabloid newspaper The Sun. She went on to become one of the most popular glamour models of her era, with her photographs appearing regularly in tabloid newspapers and men's magazines. In 1988, she appeared in a Playboy magazine pictorial with a number of other Page 3 models, including Maria Whittaker and Suzanne Mizzi.

McKenna gave up topless and nude modelling in the early 90s after becoming a born-again Christian.