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Lisa Curry knows who she wants to play her in a biopic about her life – and the answer will surprise you

''We are friends but also she is blonde.''
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Lisa Curry has shared who she would want to portray her in her own biopic.

From winning 15 gold medals, to starting a family, to enduring unspeakable heartbreak, the former Olympian has lived a varied life so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she has thought about a movie being made about her life.

In fact, she has one of her famous friends in mind.

She wants Miss Universe Australia Tegan Martin to play her.

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Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Lisa confessed that she would like presenter, model, and former Miss Universe Australia Tegan Martin, whom she met in 2017 while filming I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! to take the role.

“We are friends but also, she is blonde, blue-eyed. I don’t know what her butterfly (stroke) is like though,” she joked.

Earlier this year, Lisa released her highly anticipated memoir called: Lisa: A Memoir ­­­­– 60 years of life, love & loss.

The book that detailed much of her life and would make a great base for a classic Aussie movie and Lisa also hopes the biopic would feel “pretty real and a bit of a Queensland bogan [at heart].”

They met during their stint on I’m a Celeb…

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Throughout the 60-year-old’s swimming career, she won several gold, silver, and bronze medals at various competitions. However, she failed to take home any Olympic medals while competing in Moscow, Los Angeles, and Barcelona.

She also welcomed her three children Jaimi Lee, Morgan and Jett with ex-husband Grant Kenny but was touched by tragedy in 2020 when her beloved eldest daughter Jaimi tragically passed away after suffering various health battles.

Lisa also lost her mum Pat in March this year, less than two years after Jaimi.

Lisa embracing her late mum Pat.

(Image: Instagram)

However, she has also found great happiness with her second husband Mark Tabone whom she married in 2018 and now has three grandchildren courtesy of daughter Morgan and her husband Ryan Gruell.

The couple gave birth to their first son, Flynn Melchior Gruell, in March 2018m their second Taj Grant Gruell in November 2020 and their third Kit James Gruell in May this year.

“Morgan my beautiful… look at your gorgeous little family. I love you all so much and Jaimi would so love this too xxxxx Kit James xx,” Lisa gushed on Instagram shortly after the birth of baby number three.

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