Model Tabby Brown who starred in The Bachelor and dated footballers Raheem Sterling as well as Mario Balotelli has died aged 38.
Tributes have poured in for Tabby from South London, who also worked for Playboy and appeared in advertisements for Canon, Virgin Atlantic, AXE and Lynx as well as Channel 5‘s reality TV show. She also featured in music videos for Snoop Dogg, Dizzee Rascal and B.O.B.
The model’s former manager confirmed her tragic death to The Sun. MailOnline has contacted her management team. Her cause of death remains unclear.
Devastated friends and shocked fans took to social media to pay tribute to the star, with NayNay writing: ‘What a light you were, your outer exterior matched your insides, so beautiful. I’m genuinely shocked and saddened you’re gone. Rest in eternal peace Tabby.’
Influencer and The Only Way is Essex Star Vas J Morgan added: ‘My heart is broken’.
Just six weeks ago the beautiful model made her final movements online, seen in an Instagram video happily posing in a public bathroom. Bereaved friends and family are now paying tribute to the star under her last Instagram photo, posted in February 2022.
Model Tabby Brown has died aged 38, with tributes pouring in for the beloved actor and dancer
Throughout her career Ms Brown, who was born in South London , modelled for Cosmopolitan and dated footballers Raheem Sterling and Mario Balotelli
The model dated footballers Raheem Sterling and Mario Balotelli
The model and Sterling were seen leaving the same hotel in Manchester in 2016
Tabby, pictured in 2016 after leaving a hotel with Sterling, dated a number of footballers, including Mario Balotelli
Tabby pictured at a launch party in Westfield, London, in July 2013
One wrote: ‘Heartbroken. A true angel – love you tabs – sending you love and light as you transition.’
Another said: ‘Rest in peace beautiful, this definitely came as a shock. My sincere condolences to your family and friends.’
A third added: ‘RIP Tabby, you will be truly missed. You were one of a kind.’
‘You were generous, beautiful, intelligent and a go getter, nothing could stop you from reaching your goal. Love you Tabby RIP, proud of you, another said, while a fifth added: ‘RIP Tabby, you will be truly missed. You were one of a kind.’
Tabby previously dated Chelsea star Raheem Sterling. The pair were seen at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester back in 2016.
She also dated Italian football player Mario Balotelli for seven months in 2011 after first meeting in a nightclub.
The Adana Demirspor striker added her on Facebook before convincing her to go on a date with him.
Devastated friends and shocked fans took to social media to pay tribute to the model. NayNay wrote: ‘Rest in eternal peace Tabby’
Tabby also starred on Channel 5 ‘s The Bachelor and appeared in advertisements for Canon, Virgin Atlantic, AXE and Lynx
Tributes have poured in from fans and music stars following the tragic news of her death
‘I really fell for Mario – against my better judgment. He told me he wanted us to settle down and have a family,’ she told the Mirror two years later.
‘Then I found out he was having a baby with his ex, there were constant stories about him partying with other women, and all the ‘she’s just a friend’ texts.
‘So I ended it in November. Mario couldn’t believe it and thought he could sweet-talk me into going back to him.’
In 2012, the model was interviewed by Snoop Dogg, where she spoke about how she began her career, switching from the ‘business world’ to modeling.
Snoop Dogg described her as more than a ‘video vixen’, calling her a woman with ‘the mind, the body, the experience, the soul, the struggle, the hustle’ and an inspiration to younger women.
She said during the interview: ‘I have been modelling for six years and presenting in Europe, the UK, Taiwan and America, but before that I was studying. All I did was study.
‘I got my BA, then I got my masters and then I worked as business manager and then one day I got a commercial for Virgin Atlantic and ever since then I thought there is so much money to be made in commercials, why not.
‘I can always go back to the business world. You have to set a foundation for yourself first and foremost. I am not going to be able to model when I am 50.’
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