THE 18-year-old Bewdley student voted the sexiest "girl next door" in the UK by readers of a men's magazine is back home and getting used to her "surreal" new life.

Kayleigh Pearson, who switches on the town's festive lights on Saturday, returned from a fantasy photo shoot in Miami on Monday with £10,000 in her pocket and the prospect of a modelling career.

She scooped the first prize in FHM magazine's "High Street Honeys" poll - which pitted her against 6,000 other beauties - and said she is only just getting over the shock.

"It still seems really surreal. It doesn't seem like it has happened, I have been looking at all the papers and it just hasn't hit me.

"I have got a meeting coming up with an agency interested in me for TV commercials and other agencies are also interested."

Kayleigh's hectic schedule has seen her defer her sports studies degree at University College Worcester until next September to pursue her ambitions.

The former Bewdley High School pupil said: "I will see how it goes - I want to continue with sport and hopefully combine it with modelling."

A sizzling photo shoot on South Beach, Miami, hits news stands in January, although Kayleigh said she found it an unusual experience.

"It was an amazing trip. I had a brilliant time just chilling out and going shopping. But I almost got a complex on the beach because it was all 6ft skinny models. They looked like they were going to blow away!"

But the Bewdley babe came back to Britain with a thud.

"I'm sitting waiting for the boiler man to come - it's so cold back here!" she laughed.