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London girl recruited as Lara Croft rep

Published Monday, Feb 20 2006, 09:12 GMT | By Dave West
A London Top Shop sales assistant has been recruited as the new Lara Croft representative.

Twenty-year-old Karima Adebibe will be trained up to appear as the video game action hero across the globe.

"I've had the most amazing yet strangest day possible," she said after winning the race for the role. "I woke up this morning and I was in five or six newspapers and it's just so shocking!"

She will soon start learning the skills required to do justice to tomb raider Lara. "I'm getting a motorcycle license, deportment. I'm really going to become Lara."
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