Picture gallery: Rio Ferdinand scores a beauty with Francoise Boufhal

Last night I was listening to a boxing podcast and they introduced Francoise Boufhal as a guest.

I was certain I had heard that name before and after failing to remember where I googled (also because they said she was going to be in the June edition of playboy).

I found that this young lady is in fact the host’s of Rio Ferdinand’s digital magazine ‘5’. Yet there was an even more interesting story behind her.

Due to her curvaceous figure (she’s a 28H) Boufhal struggled to get work in TV, Theatre and lingerie modelling and it was Rio who threw her a lifeline last year by snapping her up for his magazine.

The lifeline from Rio has opened the door and now she will be the first female UK model to appear in the US magazine ‘Playboy’ without being topless.

This gallery is potentially NSFW (she’s in lingerie).