Today, let;s meet Layla El, a professional wrestler, dancer and glamour model originally from London, England, UK but now living in Miami, Florida. She is employed by World Wrestling Entertainment, and appears on the ECW brand.
Before joining WWE in 2006, Layla El was a dancer/cheerleader for the Miami Heat of the NBA, and she also danced for Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Layla got in to the world of professional wrestling after her trainer suggested she try out for the $250,000 WWE Diva Search contest in 2006. During the contest she won a week's worth of "immunity" on the July 14 edition of SmackDown! after winning Sgt. Slaughter's "Diva Boot Camp" obstacle course - despite having jumped over several tires in the tire hop section of the course and to have not had both of her feet cross the finish line due to her doing a split. She won another competition, the "Diva Search Talent Show," on the August 11 edition of SmackDown!, when she danced dressed as a police officer. She won the entire Diva Search, beating out Jen England in the finals on August 16, making her the oldest woman to win the competition at age 28.
She made her first "official" WWE appearance at the 2006 SummerSlam pay-per-view in a backstage segment with several other divas, during which they initially taunted and teased her before revealing that "it was all in fun" and part of an "initiation" of sorts. Afterwards they dragged her into the showers, fully clothed, where they proceeded to spank her whilst laughing.
The week after SummerSlam, El made her debut as a member of the SmackDown! brand in an interview with Mike "The Miz" Mizanin -- although he didn't allow her the chance to say much, spending most of the time talking about himself. After this she wasn't seen on WWE TV for weeks, reappearing during the September 22 SmackDown! and getting into confrontations with both Kristal and Jillian Hall. She again went missing for a number of weeks, resurfacing at October's No Mercy event and embarrassing The Miz by tricking him into getting a lap dance from Big Dick Johnson while he was blindfolded and expecting it to be from her as a birthday gift.
Layla made her official in-ring debut, a "Diva Trick-or-Treat Battle Royal" on October 24. The match ended in controversial fashion when she was pulled from the ring apron by The Miz, causing her to lose. This led to Miz and Kristal briefly teaming in a feud against Layla.
On January 23, 2007, Layla was moved to the ECW brand. On ECW she joined up with Brooke Adams and Kelly Kelly as Extreme Exposé', performing a weekly dance segment with the group.
Since winning the Diva Search contest El has also done some modeling work. She has been featured in a spread in King magazine and was the covergirl for the first ever issue of Liquid. She has also modeled for JET Magazine and was featured in FHM with Extreme Exposé'. She appeared on the digital cover along with Brooke and Kelly. Layla was also featured on the cover of the September issue of Smooth Magazine.
In April 2007, Layla, along with Ashley, Kelly Kelly, Brooke, Torrie Wilson, and Maryse, filmed Timbaland's new music video "Throw It On Me" featuring The Hives.
Layla appeared in an ********* episode of
Family Feud with Batista, John Cena, Mr. Kennedy, King Booker, Candice Michelle, Maria, Michelle McCool, MVP, and Queen Sharmell. It is scheduled to air in November.
If you would like to know more about this extreme diva, check out her profile at
http://www.myspace.com/laylainc.
10-06-2007, 12:22 PM
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