Hope Hicks, President Donald Trump's third communications director, is one of his most loyal and hard-working members of his staff. She was one of the very first people to join his fledgling presidential campaign.

Miss Hicks, 28, who the president has sometimes called "Hopester," is from Connecticut and graduated from Southern Methodist University.

She was briefly a model, appearing in a Ralph Lauren advert and on the cover of a book called The It Girl.

She once told a local magazine that if modeling and acting didn't lead anywhere she "could really see myself in politics. Who knows?"