Sheryl Gascoigne is a British television personality and author.
Sheryl Gascoigne is the former wife of footballer Paul Gascoigne and the mother of glamour model Bianca Gascoigne.
However, the marriage was a turbulent and ultimately short-lived one, ending in divorce in August 1998. Paul Gascoigne had experienced difficulties with alcoholism and had been abusive towards his wife.
In a July 1994 interview with a Sunday newspaper Paul Gascoigne admitted beating Sheryl on a regular basis for two years. The couple later tried to reconcile but without success.
Following her divorce in 1998 Sheryl Gascoigne campaigned for victims of domestic violence, and became a television personality.
Among her credits include presenting role on ITV1’s Loose Women and appearances in numerous television documentaries. In 2010 she appeared on series ten of I’m a Celebrity Get…Me Out of Here!
In November 2011 Sheryl Gascoigne gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, established to examine the activities of the media following the News International phone hacking scandal.
Sheryl Gascoigne told the inquiry she had been portrayed as a gold-digger by the press, but that her former husband’s advisers had urged her not to take legal action.
In furtherance, Sheryl Gascoigne said the media had “constantly” followed her while she was pregnant and that on another occasion she had been forced to crawl around her house on her “hands and knees” to avoid press taking photographs of her through the windows.