Student Gail Trimble is being pursued by a lads' magazine for a "tasteful photoshoot", it emerged today.

The star of the Corpus Christi College, Oxford University Challenge team has caught the attention of Nuts magazine after the side won the final of the TV show last night.

The 26-year-old told BBC Breakfast: "Would you believe it, my brother received a Facebook message from Nuts yesterday morning saying 'can we have your sister's email address, we want her to do a tasteful shoot'.

"So of course he sent them an answer saying, 'seriously mate, would you give your sister's contact details to Nuts?'"

Corpus Christi beat Manchester University to be crowned winners of the competition, achieving victory by 275 points to 190 in the grand final of the BBC2 show broadcast last night.

Much of the team's success has been down to Ms Trimble, who scored two-thirds of her team's 1,200 points before the final.

She said: "Suddenly there's this thing that involves being in the public eye, and I find all this reaction to me, and I'm sure this wouldn't be the case if I wasn't a woman."

It did not appear that Latin scholar Ms Trimble would be taking up any offers of photo shoots.

She said: "It is nice when people are saying nice things about my appearance, and not nasty things, but it's sad that they feel it necessary to say things about my appearance at all."

Asked what she would do next, she said she was working on her D. Phil.

"I'm coming towards the end of it, finishing within the next year, then an academic job, hopefully, that's what I want to do."

Ms Trimble was presented with the winners' trophy by the poet Wendy Cope.

It is the second time the Oxford college has won the competition, having also taken the title in 2005.