Sheila Vogel-Coupe

Sheila Vogel-Coupe (1928/1929 – 25 November 2022) was the oldest sex worker in the United Kingdom. Some reports from 2014 stated that, at the age of 85, she was the oldest sex worker in the world.

Born in 1928 or 1929, She was widowed twice. Her first husband was Jimmy Vogel. Her second husband, Noel Coupe, an aeronautical engineer who died in 2001. She was the grandmother of The X Factor contestant Katie Waissel.

Twice-widowed, Vogel-Coupe started escorting in 2010 at the age of 81.

In 2014, she was entertaining up to ten clients per week at £250 an hour. Channel 4 released a documentary about her entitled My Granny the Escort, about Vogel-Coupe and two other elderly sex workers.

Vogel-Coupe died on 25 November 2022, aged 93. She had been diagnosed with dementia.