Caprice Comfort (née Bourret; born October 24, 1971), known mononymously as Caprice, is an American socialite and media personality. She is known as an original main cast member on the Bravo reality television series Ladies of London (2014).
Early life Caprice Valerie Bourret was born in Hacienda Heights, California, on October 24, 1971, as the elder daughter of Dale Bourret, a French-Canadian estate agent, and his wife, Valerie Ann (née Pion), an American interior designer. She has a younger sister. Bourret's parents separated when she was four, and divorced in 1977. She was raised by her single mother and has no relationship with her father, who she has called "a good guy". Like her mother, Caprice is Jewish.
Caprice attended the private co-ed Catholic Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente, California, graduating in the class of 1989. At the age of 16, while still in high school, Caprice started her first job, waiting tables.
Career
As a singer In 1999, Caprice was signed to Virgin Records and subsequently released her first single, "Oh Yeah" (UK No. 24), and the 2001 follow-up single, "Once Around the Sun" (also UK No. 24).
As a model Caprice has appeared on more than 250 magazine covers including Vogue, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Maxim, FHM, Playboy and the Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated. She was named the world's sexiest woman by News of the World, GQs Woman of the Year and Maxims International Woman of the Year in three consecutive years. She has also been featured in television ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Pizza Hut.
As a businesswoman In 2000, Caprice entered into a licensing agreement with British department store Debenhams for the use of her name on a lingerie range. Six years later, she bought back the licence and founded By Caprice Products, selling internationally to retailers and department stores. She designs, models and markets lingerie, swimwear and sleepwear.
In 2010, Caprice launched Bedding By Caprice.
In 2023, Caprice launched her production company JJLove Productions Ltd.
Film and television Caprice starred in the films Hollywood Flies, Nailing Vienna and Jinxed In Love, all produced for HBO. In 2019, Caprice starred as Mrs. Ferdi in her first Christmas movie, Christmas in the Highlands. In 2024, Caprice went on to produce and star in two films. A Toast to Love, in which she played the antagonist, Eliza Van Deuzen – and A European Christmas, where she played the lead , Ivy Allen. In 2025, Caprice released her third Christmas movie, A Scottish Christmas Secret – in which she both produced and performed as the lead role of Tiffany Bennett. She is also in pre-production of Love in Ibiza (Working Title).
She also appeared in the British soap operas Hollyoaks and Dream Team and the comedy series Hospital. In 1998, Caprice hosted another British television series, Caprice's Travels. The show followed Caprice's tour through several major holiday destinations. She has appeared on Friday Night's All Wright and several award shows, including the European MTV awards and the World Music Awards, the British National Television Awards in 1996, 1997 and 1998 and several series for the television channels VH1 and E! Entertainment Television. In 2000, she featured in the Channel 4 documentary Being Caprice, in which a hidden camera recorded her life for ten days. Also that year, she hosted an evening at The Oscars and the red carpet event for the American Music Awards both of which were broadcast live on ABC Network.
Caprice was set to take part in the second season of Celebrity Big Brother UK, but pulled out. She later appeared on the third season of Celebrity Big Brother. She continued to make appearances on its companion series Big Brother's Little Brother until 2010.
Caprice was a cast member on the fifth season of the VH1 reality series The Surreal Life and appeared in other reality shows including Celebrities Under Pressure, Celebrities Disfigured, Three Celebrities and a Baby and Road Raja. In June 2006, she starred in the British independent film Perfect Woman. This followed an earlier appearance in the film The Man with Rain in His Shoes alongside Penélope Cruz. In 2007, Caprice was a judge on Sky One's Project Catwalk and Britain's Next Top Model. Three years later, she was head judge on TV3's show Style Wars in Ireland. In 2008, she came joint-second with Jimmy Osmond in a Celebrity Come Dine with Me episode. In 2017, Caprice competed in series 4 of Channel 4's The Jump.
Caprice is an original main cast member on the Bravo reality television series Ladies of London. The first season premiered on June 2, 2014, with Juliet Angus, Marissa Hermer, Annabelle Neilson, Noelle Reno, and Caroline Stanbury. The finale was aired on July 21, 2014. Caprice was dismissed from the cast.
In September 2019, Caprice competed in the second season of the 5Star reality series Celebs on the Farm, in which she finished as a runner-up. In January 2020, she competed in the twelfth season of Dancing on Ice with professional partner Hamish Gaman. Oscar Peter later replaced Gaman as Caprice's partner before they withdrew from the competition a week later.
In the 2019 horror film In2ruders, Caprice played a central antagonist, a manipulative figure in the music industry driving the film’s nightmarish conflict. Directed by Naeem Mahmood, the film featured an ensemble cast including the Bloom Twins, Samuel Anderson, Tony Hadley, Ricki Hall, Paul Chiedozie, and Megan Burns, with music by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
Theatre Caprice played Maureen in the musical Rent at The Prince of Wales Theatre. She also performed in The Vagina Monologues at the Arts Theatre in London's West End.
In 2007, Caprice produced and played the lead role of Lisa, in the off-Broadway production Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical at the Tesson Theatre in Johannesburg.
Personal life Caprice started dating British financier Ty Comfort in 2011. They have two sons together. The first was born via surrogacy in August 2013. The following month, she gave birth to the second child. The children are not twins; however, their parents treat them as such, celebrating their birthdays on the same day. In December 2019, the couple were married quietly at a Register Office in London. They live in the Notting Hill area of London.
Caprice dated a number of public figures including Rod Stewart, David Spade, Dennis Quaid, Lee Ryan, Tony Adams, Prince Andrew, Duke of York (later Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), Calum Best, Fred Durst, Robert Tchenguiz, and Kevin Pietersen.
Filmography As herself YearTitleNotes1992The Big BreakfastGuest Presenter1996Daddy's GirlShort television19962nd National Television AwardsAward Presenter1997An Audience with Elton JohnTelevision special19973rd National Television AwardsPresenter19971997 MTV Europe Music AwardsPresenter1998The Jack Docherty Show2 episodes1998Holiday HeavenEpisode: "Episode #1.3"1998Roy & H.G.'s Planet NorwichEpisode: "Episode #1.1"19984th National Television AwardsTelevision special1998A Royal Birthday CelebrationTelevision film1998Friday Night's All WrightPresenter1998Dreaming Of a Wright ChristmasTelevision special1999Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer2 episode1999An Audience with Lennon LewisAudience Member1999Caprice: Oh YeahShort film1999Fully BookedEpisode: "Episode #5.15"2000Brit Awards 2000Presenter2000TFI FridayEpisode: "Episode #5.34"2000Being CapriceDocumentary series2001American Music Awards of 2001Presenter2001Liquid News1 episode2001Live & KickingEpisode: "Episode #8.22"200173rd Academy AwardsPresenter20012001 World Music AwardsTelevision special2001Pop Goes ChristmasTelevision special2002Open House with Gloria Hunniford1 episode2002Stars in Their EyesEpisode: "Celebrity Christmas Special"2002Men in Black Training Video: UKVideo2003, 2005Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway2 episodes2003RI:SE1 episode2003Loose Lips1 episode2003The Importance of Being FamousTelevision special2004Through the KeyholeEpisode: "Episode #15.13"2004Kelly1 episode2004Sports Relief 2004Television special2004Celebrities Under PressureEpisode: "Episode #3.3"2004Road RajaEpisode: "Episode #1.1"2004The Celebrity Awards 2004Television special2004GMTV1 episode2004Celebrities DisfiguredTelevision film2004Caprice: Making of a SupermodelTelevision special2004–2005, 2015–2017Loose Women5 episodes2005Celebrity Big BrotherBritish third season2005An Audience with Joe PasqualeTelevision special20052nd Meteor Ireland Music AwardsTelevision special2005100 Greatest CartoonsTelevision special2005X-Rated: The TV They Tried to BanTelevision film2005The Late Late Show1 episode2005Jimmy Kimmel Live!Episode: "Episode #4.74"2005Tricky TVEpisode: "Episode #1.3"2005The Surreal Life9 episodes2005Dirty TricksEpisode: "Episode #1.5"20053rd Irish Film & Television AwardsTelevision special2005Avid Merrion's XXXmas SpecialTelevision special2005Party @ the PalmsEpisode: "Episode #1.2"2005, 2015Ireland AM2 episodes2005–2006The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch2 episodes2005–2006Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown2 episodes2006The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: LiveTelevision special2007Britain's Next Top ModelThird season2007–2010Xposé8 episodes2008Cooking the BooksEpisode: "Episode #1.53"2008–2009Come Dine with Me5 episodes2009The Alan Titchmarsh Show1 episode2009The Podge and Rodge ShowEpisode: "Episode #4.32"20099th Meteor Ireland Music AwardsPresenter2009Gumball 3000: Coast to CoastVideo2009Live from Studio FiveEpisode: "Episode #1.48"2009Hole in the WallEpisode: "Episode #2.10"2010Big Brother's Little BrotherGuest Panelist2010The Real HustleEpisode: "Episode #8.3"2010Style WarsJudge2010The King Is DeadEpisode: "Chief of Police"2010–2011Celebrity Juice5 episodes201150 Greatest Wedding ShockersTelevision film2011Al Murray's Compete for the MeatEpisode: "Episode #1.5"2011Daybreak1 episode2012Rally OnEpisode: "Anarchy at the Flag Drop: Los Angeles to Las Vegas"2012, 2014This Week2 episodes2013Splash!Contestant2013, 2019This Morning2 episodes2013Ultimate ShopperGuest2014Ladies of LondonSeries regular; 9 episodes2014Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenEpisode: "Caprice Bourret"2014Who's Doing the Dishes?Episode: "Caprice Bourret"2015BBC BreakfastGuest201520 Moments That Rocked the 80'sModel2015My MixtapeEpisode: "Caprice"201520 Moments That Rocked the 90'sModel2015Gumball 30006 episodes2015Big Brother's Bit on the Side2 episodes201520 Moments That Rocked the 00sModel2016FHM: The Last of the Lads' MagsTelevision special2016The Ray D'Arcy ShowGuest2017The JumpContestant2017Celebrity Money for NothingEpisode: "Episode #1.6"2018Through the KeyholeEpisode: "Gregg Wallace, Scarlett Moffatt, Paddy McGuinness"2019Celebs on the FarmEpisode: "Episode #2.1"2019Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2019Model2019–2020Dancing on IceTwelfth season contestant2019–2020Jeremy Vine2 episodes2020MTV CribsEpisode: "Bradley Simpson, Caprice, Perri & Mike"2023Abbey Clancy: Celebrity HomesContributor
As an actress Film YearTitleRoleNotes1998The Man with Rain in His ShoesCaprice Bourret2001BubblesAmerican womanShort film2002Nailing ViennaCrystal2005Hollywood FliesCherie2005 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of ArabiaMorganaVoice role2009One Upon a Time in Dublin2010The Pinocchio EffectMary2017Sharknado 5: Global SwarmingPolaris2018In2rudersRavana SerpentineShort film2019Christmas in the HighlandsMrs. Ferdi2020The Gift MusicalThe Good Fairy2024Sun, Rosé and RomanceEliza Van Deuzen2024A European ChristmasIvy Allen2025A Scottish Christmas SecretTiffany Bennett2026A Royal Romance in IbizaDylan HarperTBAAn English Christmas WishElise St LawrenceIn production
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1997Hospital!Cheryl ChandlerTelevision film1999The Dream TeamDani West5 episodes2001BaywatchJackie LoveEpisode: "Father Faust"2003Make My DayEpisode: "Karen Cohen"2004Hollyoaks: After HoursSaskia2 episodes2004Top BuzzerWaitressEpisode: "Little Wednesday"2019MyBad!LucyTV pilot
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