How Demi Rose Mawby went from a middle class home in Sutton Coldfield to dating Tyga

She was just a shy bank manager’s daughter who grew up in a middle class family in the West Midlands.

She loved to cook and play with her cat Raggles and her big white Samoyed dog Leo, at her parents’ £300,000 home in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, and generally kept a low profile.

But after completing a college course in health and beauty, Demi Rose Mawby grew in confidence and decided to head to the U.S. to take up a career in lingerie modelling.

It was a journey that has seen her caught up in the seedy side of the showbiz world – posing for racy shoots in her underwear and joining an American ‘escort’ group run by the ‘black Hugh Hefner’.

The 21-year-old British model now seems to have replaced Kylie Jenner as rapper Tyga’s girlfriend. 

She said she ‘loves being in front of the camera and striking a pose’ and has ‘made her dream a reality’

She loved to cook and play with her cat Raggles and her big white Samoyed dog Leo, at her parents’ £300,000 home in Sutton Coldfield (pictured), Birmingham, and generally kept a low profile

British model Demi Rose has been spotted out and about in Cannes with rapper Tyga, left and right

Demi Rose, left, was previously a member of Taz’s Angels. Taz, centre, has been described as the ‘black Hugh Hefner’

The Instagram favourite, who has more than two million followers, has become the talk of the globe after being pictured in a very revealing outfit on her way to a party with the American musician in Cannes. 

Her parents Barrie, 78, and Christine, 61, said she is a very different person at home and insisted they were proud of her.

Former NHS wheelchair advisor, Christine, who is disabled said: ‘Her friend had a modelling book. 

‘Demi Rose didn’t think she was quite good enough but she excelled in beauty school and it her made her ambitious to pursue her dreams.  

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‘We don’t mind at all. She always said she wouldn’t do nudity not that we’ve told her not to, her pictures are racy and suggestive but she shows them all to us.

‘We’re right behind her. She’s such a beautiful girl, why shouldn’t she? If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

‘She’s very kind and a really down-to-earth girl – nothing like what we are seeing in the press.

‘When she’s at home she’s perfectly normal. She loves her cat Raggles and her big white Samoyed dog Leo. She’s a great cook and is a homebody.’

Demi Rose has replaced Kylie Jenner in Tyga’s affections after he split with the American last week

Déjà vu: Pouty lips are not the only thing Kylie (L) and Demi (R) have in common, as the stars pose for similarly risqué shots on their Instagram accounts

Bottom’s up! Demi certainly dressed to impress as she joined Tyga on a night out on Thursday

The model, pictured left and right during a calendar shoot, has won fans thanks to provocative poses

Former bank manager Barrie revealed that it was a three-year health and beauty course at Walsall College that changed Demi’s life and she went into modelling two years ago.

He said: ‘She was always interested in beauty and a good-looking girl to boot.

‘I could always see it coming as she’s very ambitious.’

Demi Rose, who was born in 1995, went to New Oscott Primary School before going to John Willmott School in Sutton Coldfield.

She then went to Walsall College where she studied health and beauty and it was then, after her course finished that she went out to the USA as part of Taz’s Angels.

The Angels are a group of pretty young women who live together in a rented mansion in Miami, apparently mentored by a man known simply as ‘Taz’.

Instagram followers can watch the girls twerk in skimpy costumes, work out in skimpy clothing, or pose for semi-naked selfies. 

Taz, aka Michael Williams, is described as being the ‘black Hugh Hefner’, although he has previously been accused of being a pimp and running the girls as escorts – reportedly sparking an FBI investigation into prostitution. 

She left the group in November 2015, saying she was going back to the UK to look after her mother.

Demi Rose, full name Demi Rose Mawby, grew up in Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham and has modelled for Zoo UK and Nuts Magazine

They were spotted together earlier this week attending a party at the Gotha nightclub in Cannes, pictured

On her personal website she revealed it had been her dream to model ‘ever since she was a little girl’

Barrie and Christine are adamant she only did promotional work as part of the controversial group.

Barrie added: ‘One of the promotional events she was invited to was in Miami with four girls and guy called Taz, they were known as Taz’s Angels.

‘She was invited there for three weeks but ended up staying there for seven months until her visa ran out and she decided to come home and help her mum.’

Her parents learned of their daughter’s relationship with Tyga by reading a MailOnline story.

Tyga, 26, recently split with Jenner but wasted no time finding a new date in lookalike and lingerie model Demi Rose. 

He was pictured getting close to the beauty on Snapchat on Thursday and the pair were later spotted at Gotha nightclub in the French resort.

Barrie admitted he’d never heard of the rapper before she was pictured with him a few days ago and believes it could be more serious than he first thought.

The couple were in there for a couple of hours and Tyga was seen picking out outfits and shoes for Demi

The 21-year-old, pictured, said she feared she would never be a model because of her 5ft 2in height

Tyga and Demi Rose, pictured, have since been pictured enjoying a day out in luxury shops in Cannes

Demi Rose, pictured, is a big hit on Instagram with more than 2.2million followers and counting

He said: ‘It might be a mutual publicity thing but it would now appear that it’s something more serious.

‘Demi hasn’t had a boyfriend since her three-year relationship with a boy she met at Fuerteventura ended three years ago.

‘With regards to Tyga she’ll tell us one of two things, either “he’s a nice guy, we’re just friends” or “he’s a nice guy and I like him very much” – that’s as far as it goes.’

Christine added: ‘She has lot of male friends but nothing more serious – she’s a very private girl who likes spending time with her close friends.’

Despite being down to earth, Barrie revealed that Demi Rose also has some high-profile friends.

They include Transformers director Michael Bay who she became firm friends with through her promotional work with Taz’s Angels has even enjoyed lunch with Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio. 

Tyga and his English girlfriend Demi Rose Mawby were seen out shopping in Cannes at Saint Laurent

Demi Rose was once named the ‘hottest new girl on the planet’ by Zoo Magazine in 2014. 

According to her website, Demi Rose ‘always dreamed of becoming a model’ but feared she would be too short to break into the industry.

In a statement on the site she said: ‘Since I was a little girl I always dreamed of becoming a model. I loved being in front of the camera and striking a pose, now, my dream is reality.

‘At 5’2 I never thought I would be able to break into modeling as I thought I was too short but I gave it a shot, applied to an agency and after 24 hours my modeling career began.

‘I started modeling a year ago now and it’s been the best year of my life. I love what I do and feeling glamorous and I love creating beautiful images to be proud of whilst treating my fans!’

She added: ‘I really enjoy meeting and receiving all messages from my fans and appreciate all the support I am given, it means so much to me! I love that you’re all so kind and complimentary… you make what I do so much better!’

The Birmingham-born brit, left, poses alongside DJ Khaled in the video for How Many Times featuring Chris Brown

She said she started modelling a year ago and has described this as the ‘best year of her life’ 

Tyga’s new girl, left, starred in sleazy Chris Brown video and was a club girl in Miami … before gathering 2.2m followers with her sexy Instagram posts

Her looks have drawn comparisons with Tyga’s ex Kylie Jenner, left, whom she is the spitting image of

The racy British model previously starred in a sleazy Chris Brown video and lived as a club girl in Miami.

Last year, she also briefly appeared in DJ Khaled’s video for How Many Times, which featured twerking models covering one another in champagne.

She has also modelled for publications including WorldStar HipHop, FHM Magazine, Nuts Magazine and Zoo UK.

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The Neon Demon review: Nicolas Winding Refn makes Zoolander 3, but erotic and evil

Nicolas Winding Refn brings the cinéma du choc to Cannes with a movie which is fantastically preposterous and objectionable, but expertly varnished with a sheen of pure evil. It features the excellent Elle Fanning whose insouciant freshness is a reason to keep watching: a quality which oddly survives her inevitable journey to the dark side. There is a very great deal of Bret Easton Ellis in this story of vampirism and cannibalism in the LA fashion scene — a world which shocks no-one by turning out to be shallow and vicious. If Andy Warhol wanted to remake Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction it might turn out like this. Or maybe if Ferrara wanted to do Zoolander 3.

Exasperating though this film can be, Refn shows real visual style and a willingness to protract wordless scenes into a nightmarish state beyond narrative. An LA movie featuring an empty swimming pool incidentally shows that he is stubbornly unafraid of cliché. He stabs the soundtrack amusingly with Italian-horror synth: throbbing chords for the scary stuff and tinkly xylophone figures for the little-girl corruptible innocence moments. However, I have to say that it does not have the power of his earlier movies, the potency/absurdity balance is a little off, and unlike his much-mocked and little-understood Only God Forgives it does not satisfyingly stay the course with its central character, and is in fact almost uninterested in what Fanning has to offer as a performer.

The story is simple and obvious enough: a lovely young teenager, Jesse (Fanning) comes to Los Angeles, wanting to be a fashion model. The portfolio she sends out to agents is horror chic, and Refn kicks off with a grossout tableau showing Jesse as a murder victim swathed in couture and blood. The person who took those shots is a really nice normal guy who wants to be her boyfriend, and is incidentally rather revolted by the charmless unpleasantness of fashion — but wait! He was the one who took the horrible photos, wasn’t he?

Well, we won’t get far with logic. Jesse’s pristine beauty fascinates the creepy parasites of the Los Angeles fashion scene: Jan (Christina Hendricks) puts Jesse on her books; a makeup artist called Ruby (Jena Malone) wants to be her single-white-female BF and takes her to a party in a sinister dungeon-style club where she meets two glacially beautiful but dead-eyed Giacometti-proportioned models called Sarah (Abbey Lee) and Gigi (Bella Heathcote) who instantly prickle with robot hostility. Jesse entrances the male elite of designers and photographers and the satanic, blood-slurping sisterhood are far from happy.

Only someone in Refn’s league can create something so ridiculous and then stare you down with it. There is an outrageous scene where the women are made to parade around in their underwear so that an elaborately callous designer (Alessandro Nivola) can assess their runway “walk”. It reminded me a little of the 90s TV show Veronica’s Closet, about a lingerie company based on Victoria’s Secret: a premise which allowed them to get away with showing attractive young women in their bra and pants.

Like so many others, Nivola does that predator-connoisseur nose-wrinkle of suppressed delight when he sees Jesse’s exquisite young flesh. He makes her his new star and when he does, there is a brilliant moment when Jesse smiles for the first time like all the others: smiles with conceit, vanity and cruelty, relishing the other models’ defeated envy. She becomes infinitesimally less beautiful in that instant: it is something to compare with the first wrinkle that appears in Dorian Gray’s portrait. Fanning conveys it superbly.

There is little however in the way of a character arc for Jesse, and the movie turns out to be more generally about that mysterious occult world of wickedness which exists in the endless Californian sunshine, which for the beautiful and the damned here is what the night is for Transylvania’s undead. When Fanning is off screen, we are marooned in a fashion shoot in a hell of silliness. Yet her star quality gives The Neon Demon what substance it has, and Refn’s film-making has self-belief and panache. Take it or leave it.

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