Layla El

Layla El
A close-up headshot of a tanned, Caucasian woman with brown hair, slightly past shoulder length, who is wearing a black top.
Layla in late 2008
Ring name(s) Layla[1]
Layla El[2]
Born 25 June 1978 (1978-06-25) (age 32)[3]
London, England[3]
Resides Miami, Florida[3]
Billed from Miami, Florida[1]
Debut mid-2006[3]

Layla El (born 25 June 1978)[3] is an English dancer, model and professional wrestler of Moroccan descent. She is employed by World Wrestling Entertainment as a WWE Diva and appears on the SmackDown brand as Layla.[1] She is the reigning WWE Women's Champion.[4]

After attending a performing arts college, El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines, the Miami Heat franchise of the National Basketball Association, and also danced for Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards. In 2006, she was a contestant in the 2006 WWE Diva Search, which she won to earn a contract with the company.

Initially appearing on the SmackDown brand, she was moved to the ECW brand in January 2007, where she formed the Extreme Exposé dance troupe with Kelly Kelly and Brooke Adams. In 2008, she was drafted to the Raw brand, where she began managing William Regal. The following year she returned to the SmackDown brand, where she formed an alliance with Michelle McCool known as Team Lay-Cool. In May 2010, Layla won the WWE Women's Championship for the first time, marking her first championship in WWE.

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Dancing career

El was a dancer for Carnival Cruise Lines.[5] Following that, she began dancing for the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat franchise, where she danced for two years.[6][7] As part of the Miami Heat dance troupe, she received a championship ring.[7] During this time, she appeared on-stage with John Legend as one of his backup dancers.[8] She also danced for P. Diddy and Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards.[2][9]

World Wrestling Entertainment

Diva Search and early appearances (2006–2007)

A close-up shot of a tanned, Caucasian female with curly black hair. She is wearing a red top with a yellow and white pattern visible, and a blue rope from a wrestling ring is visible in the foreground.
Layla on SmackDown! in 2007.

El's first foray into professional wrestling occurred when her trainer suggested she try out for the $250,000 WWE Diva Search contest in 2006.[10] After a casting call, she was selected as one of the finalists.[5] During the contest, she won a week's worth of "immunity" on the 14 July episode of SmackDown! after winning Sgt. Slaughter's "Diva Boot Camp" obstacle course[11]—despite having jumped over several tires in the tire hop section of the course and not having both of her feet cross the finish line due to her doing a split.[12] She won another competition, the "Diva Search Talent Show" on the 11 August episode of SmackDown!, when she danced dressed as a police officer.[13] She won the Diva Search on 16 August.[14]

She made her first "official" WWE appearance at the 2006 SummerSlam pay-per-view in a backstage segment with several other divas. During the segment, the other women initially taunted and teased her before revealing that "it was all in fun" and part of an "initiation" of sorts. Afterward they dragged her into the showers, fully clothed, where they proceeded to spank her while laughing.[15][9] 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 did not allow her the chance to say much, spending most of the time talking about himself.[16] Subsequently, she did not appear on WWE television for almost a month, reappearing on the 22 September episode of SmackDown! and getting into a confrontation with both Kristal and Jillian Hall.[17]

At October's No Mercy pay-per-view event, she embarrassed 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.[15] On 20 October, Layla participated in a dance contest with the other SmackDown! Divas, and was chosen as the winner by the judges, Nick and Aaron Carter. Despite this, The Miz, who was acting as emcee, declared Kristal the winner.[18] The following week, Layla made her official in-ring debut in a "Diva Trick-or-Treat Battle Royal". The match ended in controversial fashion when she was pulled from the ring by The Miz, allowing Kristal to win.[19] On the next episode of SmackDown, Layla teamed with Big Vito in a loss to The Miz and Kristal in a mixed tag team match.[20] Continuing to feud with Kristal, Layla had her singles match debut on the December 1 episode of SmackDown!, when she lost to Kristal.[21] In her final match for the SmackDown! brand, Layla teamed with Ashley Massaro to defeat Kristal and Jillian Hall in a tag team match on December 22.[22]

Extreme Exposé; managing William Regal (2007–2009)

A man and a woman standing in a wrestling ring with red ropes. The man is standing on the left, and has light brown hair. He is wearing a long black coat with gold detailing, short black wrestling tights, and has a wrestling championship around his waist. The woman is standing beside him, but has her face obscured by the ring ropes. She has shoulder length brown hair, and is wearing a black top and black trousers.
Layla with Intercontinental Champion William Regal in January 2009.

On 23 January 2007, Layla was moved to the ECW brand where she joined Brooke and Kelly Kelly to form Extreme Exposé.[23] The trio performed a weekly dance segment on ECW, which Layla choreographed, for the next several months.[3][24] In June 2007, The Miz was moved to the brand, prompting a storyline in which all three members of Extreme Exposé were attracted to him.[3][25][26] When Kelly shifted her attentions towards Balls Mahoney, Layla, Brooke, and Miz openly mocked her.[27][28][29] On 1 November, Brooke was released from her WWE contract, and Extreme Exposé dissolved as a group, leaving Kelly and Layla to enter an ongoing rivalry with more active in-ring roles.[3][30] They were on opposite sides of a 10-Diva tag team match at Survivor Series, which Layla's team lost.[31] In December, Layla formed an alliance with Victoria, which expanded to include Lena Yada in January 2008, and the trio continued to feud with Kelly.[3][32][33] At WrestleMania XXIV, Layla was a 'lumberjill' for the Divas' tag team lumberjill match.[3] The following month, Layla was part of the winning team in a five-on-five Divas match at the Backlash pay-per-view.[34]

As part of the 2008 Supplemental Draft in late June, Layla was drafted to the Raw brand.[35] On the 7 July episode of Raw, Layla made her debut in a tag team match with Jillian Hall, losing to Mickie James and Kelly Kelly, who had been revealed as the newest member of the Raw brand earlier that night.[36] She soon entered a storyline with Jamie Noble in which Noble attempted to impress her with his matches, only to be squashed—easily defeated—by his opponents.[37][38] On 1 September, Noble was able to defeat William Regal, which impressed Layla.[39] The following week, hoever, Layla chose to align herself with Regal, after he defeated Noble in a rematch.[40] On the following episode of Raw, Layla reinforced her decision, telling Noble that she had finally found a worthy man in Regal.[41] Over the next few months, Layla competed only sporadically in matches, spending most of her time managing Regal, and was present at ringside when Regal defeated Santino Marella on 10 November to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.[3][42] On 5 April Layla competed in a Divas battle royal at WrestleMania XXV, but the match was won by Santina Marella.[3][43]

Team Lay-Cool (2009–present)

On 15 April 2009, Layla was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft.[44] She started a scripted rivalry with Eve Torres, and lost both a dance contest and an arm wrestling match to Torres, before losing a match to her on the 29 May episode of SmackDown.[45][46][47] After Torres defeated Layla again on the 18 June episode of WWE Superstars, the two shook hands.[48]

She then formed an alliance with Michelle McCool, later called Team Lay-Cool. Team Lay-Cool began a scripted rivalry with Mickie James in October, making fun of her weight and vowing to make her leave SmackDown just after her debut for the brand.[3][49][50] At the Survivor Series pay-per-view, McCool's team lost to James' team.[51] At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs Layla interfered in the WWE Women's Championship match between McCool and James, helping McCool to retain the championship.[52] In January 2010, at the Royal Rumble, Layla came out in a fatsuit mocking James prior to the championship match between McCool and James; however, the mockery backfired, as James attacked Layla and used that as a distraction to quickly defeat McCool to win the championship.[53] On the 12 February episode of SmackDown, Layla and McCool defeated James in a handicap match made by Official SmackDown Consultant Vickie Guerrero, who had been accidentally humiliated by James backstage.[54] Guerrero then joined the Lay-Cool alliance, accompanying them to the ring and interfering in their matches.[3] At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Layla and McCool defeated Raw's Gail Kim and Maryse in an inter-brand Divas tag team match.[55] At WrestleMania XXVI she was on the winning team in a 10-Diva tag team match.[56]

On the 14 May episode of SmackDown, Team Lay-Cool faced the WWE Women's Champion, Beth Phoenix, in a two-on-one handicap match. Layla pinned Phoenix to win the Women's Championship for the first time, becoming the first British woman to hold the championship.[4][57] She is also the first Diva Search winner to have won the championship.[58] Following her win, Team Lay-Cool began calling themselves the co-Women's Champions.[59] On 1 June, it was announced that Lay-Cool would be mentoring Kaval during the second season of WWE NXT.[60][61] On 18 July, Layla had her first title defense when she defeated Kelly Kelly at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view.[62] On 30 July, SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long informed Lay-Cool that there was only one Women's Champion, and they had a week to decide who it would be.[63] The following week, Lay-Cool revealed that they had cut the championship belt into two, turning it into a friendship charm and circumventing Long's orders.[64]

Other media

Since winning the Diva Search contest El has also done some modeling work. She has been featured in the magazines King, Smooth, and was the cover-girl for the first issue of Liquid.[65][66][67] She also posed for FHM with the other members of Extreme Exposé.[68] Layla, along with Beth Phoenix and Candice Michelle, appeared in the February 2009 issue of Flex Magazine.[24][69] In April 2007, Layla and other WWE Divas, Kelly Kelly, Brooke, Torrie Wilson, Ashley and Maryse, were filmed for Timbaland's music video "Throw It On Me" featuring The Hives.[70]

During the week of 5 November 2007, Layla appeared on five episodes of Family Feud with other WWE superstars.[24] On 6 February 2008 she appeared on Project Runway with several WWE Divas as part of the week's challenge.[71] She also appeared on the 13 April 2008 episode of Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp as a trainer.[24]

Personal life

El was born and raised in England, and is of Moroccan descent.[66] Her grandparents on her father's side were Spanish.[66] El's mother died in August 2008.[72] She attended a performing arts college in London.[73] She has previously lived in Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles, California.[74]

In wrestling

A dark-haired, tanned Caucasian female straddles the top rope of a wrestling ring with blue ropes. She is wearing a red patterned crop top, and matching shorts and kneepads. She is holding a wrestling championship above her head with both hands.
Layla as WWE Women's Champion.

Championships and accomplishments

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