Who is Bianca Gascoigne? Football star's daughter accuses Mohamed Al Fayed of grooming and sexual assault

British model and TV prima Bianca Gascoigne has claimed she was sexually assaulted by Mohamed al Fayed erstwhile she worked at Harrods as a teenager.

She said she had visited the store with her parents increasing up, and Al Fayed would bring them gifts, adding that she initially felt harmless erstwhile she joined Harrods astatine the property of 16.

Gascoigne said she felt trapped by Al Fayed, who 1 nighttime offered her the usage of the Harrods Park Lane flat to enactment successful earlier a flight.

"[Al Fayed] turned up astatine the flat to my shock, I was conscionable gobsmacked, I was benignant of precise shell-shocked,” she said.

"I conscionable didn't truly cognize what to do, helium came successful and past helium sat maine down connected the sofa... helium got his privates retired and got my hands and was trying to manoeuvre them connected his parts.”

She has a member Mason and a half-brother Regan Gascoigne.

She initially joined Harrods arsenic a store level idiosyncratic successful her teens but was aboriginal promoted to a manner purchaser and said that it was erstwhile moving determination that the maltreatment began.

Gascoigne aboriginal became a household sanction successful her ain close erstwhile she started enactment arsenic a glamour model, appearing successful magazines specified arsenic Zoo, Nuts and Loaded.

Gascoigne is besides known for her galore appearances connected assorted world TV shows.

In 2006, she appeared connected ITV’s archetypal mentation of Love Island, filmed successful Fiji, which she won with Calum Best. Her stint connected the amusement and consequent TV appearances arsenic the victor made her a household sanction and paved the mode for her to onshore spots connected different programmes.

In July 2008, she appeared connected Celebrity Gladiators and past went connected to drawback her archetypal presenting job, fronting Big Brother’s Big Mouth - a spin-off amusement for Big Brother.

She has besides appeared connected Celebrity Coach Trip, and the BBC Three amusement Snog, Marry, Avoid?.

The exemplary besides chanced her luck connected the ninth bid of X Factor but did not marque it done to bootcamp. She appeared successful the Channel 5 bid of Celebrity Big Brother successful 2017 and came sixth.

Yes, 1 daughter with her fiancé Arron Wright.

On February 22, 2023, she gave commencement to a babe miss named Blake Sunshine.

The exemplary has said she managed to get distant from Al Fayed but thinks it was lone due to the fact that she was known to him.

In her interview, she added: "He was trying to unit my caput connected to his lap. And I don't cognize however but I managed to wiggle away.

"And I deliberation perchance you know, that him knowing my parents... I don't know, that mightiness person saved maine astatine that moment. But it was horrific."