Bea Priestley

Bea Priestley is bright and cheerful even at 9am on a Monday morning. A long way from what fans expect from her. To them she is a hard nosed bad girl, but on the other end of a Skype call is a very confident young woman who is keen to talk to James Truepenny about her past, her influences and her immediate future.

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“The battery died in the remote control, and it landed on Raw, I thought it was cool.” Priestly explains as she details what got her started on her wrestling fandom. “Then the next night Chris Jericho was on Smack down getting ready for his steel cage match with Edge, and I just fell in love with Jericho.”

Having grown up in a totally non wrestling household, this was quite a switch for her family to get used to. Priestly moved from fan to participant very quickly. “I badgered my parents to let me do it and they were like ‘No’. At 16 I explained that there was a school I could get to by train, I had a part time job that could pay for everything. So Mum said I could do it, but because they didn’t like it they weren’t going to pay for it. Which was fair enough.”