She danced for Carnival Cruise Lines, the Miami Heat franchise of the National Basketball Association, and Kanye West during his performance at the MTV Video Music Awards before becoming a contestant on the 2006 edition of WWE's Diva Search, which she won to earn a contract with the company.

She is the first British woman and the first Diva Search winner to hold the championship, and was the final champion when the title was retired in 2010.

In April 2012, she won the WWE Divas Championship upon her return from a year-long absence due to injury, and held it until September that year.

[5] Afterwards, she joined the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat franchise, where she danced for two years beginning in 2004.

[9][10] El's first foray into professional wrestling occurred when her trainer suggested she try out for the $250,000 WWE Diva Search contest in 2006.

[18] At October's No Mercy pay-per-view event, she embarrassed The Miz by tricking him into getting a lap dance from Big Dick Johnson while he was blindfolded and expecting it to be from her as a birthday gift.

[28][29][30] On 1 November, Brooke was released from her WWE contract, and Extreme Exposé dissolved as a group, leaving Kelly and Layla to enter an ongoing rivalry with more active in-ring roles.

[32] In December, Layla formed an alliance with Victoria, which expanded to include Lena Yada in January 2008, and the trio continued to feud with Kelly.

[41] On the following episode of Raw, Layla reinforced her decision, telling Noble that she had finally found a worthy man in Regal.

They began a scripted feud with Mickie James in October, mocking of her weight and vowing to make her leave SmackDown.

[1] At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Layla and McCool defeated Raw's Gail Kim and Maryse in an inter-brand Divas tag team match.

[56] LayCool faced the WWE Women's Champion Beth Phoenix in a two-on-one handicap match on the 14 May episode of SmackDown.

Layla pinned Phoenix to win the Women's Championship for the first time, becoming the first British woman to hold the title.

[60] On 30 July, SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long informed LayCool there was only one Women's Champion, and they had a week to decide who it would be.

[61] The following week, LayCool revealed that they had cut the title belt into two, turning it into a friendship charm and circumventing Long's orders.

[67][68] LayCool invoked their rematch clause in January 2011, prompting the scheduling of a two-on-one handicap match for the Royal Rumble.

At the event however, the anonymous Raw General Manager altered the match to a fatal four-way, also involving Eve Torres who went on to win the title.

[69] Dissension between Layla and McCool began to show following the loss of the Divas Championship, and the two appeared in a series of vignettes in which they were attending couples therapy.

[73] During the 2011 WWE Draft on 25 April, Layla lost a match to Eve and was attacked afterward by McCool, but was able to fight her off.

[75] As a result, the pair faced each other in a no countout, no disqualification, loser leaves WWE match at Extreme Rules on 1 May, which Layla won.

[76] Layla announced that she had suffered a knee injury at Extreme Rules on SmackDown on 13 May, and was interrupted and attacked by Kharma to write her off television.

[77] Later that month, it was confirmed that Layla had legitimately torn both her Anterior cruciate and Medial collateral ligaments, and required surgery.

[82] The following night on Raw, she successfully defended the championship against both Bella Twins in a triple threat match, and retained twice against Beth Phoenix at the Over the Limit and No Way Out pay-per-views in May and June respectively.

[83][84][85] On the 20 August episode of Raw, Kaitlyn won a battle royal to become the number one contender to Layla's Divas Championship.

[91] On 16 December at the Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view, Layla competed in a number one contender's "Santa's Little Helpers" battle royal to face Torres for the championship, but was unsuccessful.

[102] The following week, she replaced Summer Rae as Fandango's dancer and valet, and quickly became embroiled in a feud with Emma and Santino Marella.

[111][112] In their first match as a team, Layla and Rae, now calling themselves the Slayers, lost to Paige and AJ Lee on the 18 July episode of SmackDown.

[132] El resides in Phoenix, Arizona,[133] having previously lived in Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California.