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Quick facts for kids Stacey Dooley MBE
Dooley in 2020
Born	Stacey Jaclyn Dooley (1987-03-09) 9 March 1987 (age 37) Luton, Bedfordshire, England
Occupation	Television presenter journalist media personality
Years active	2008–present
Employer	BBC
Television	Blood, Sweat and T-shirts Stacey Dooley Investigates Strictly Come Dancing Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over
Partner(s)	Kevin Clifton (2019–present)
Children	1

Stacey Jaclyn Dooley MBE (born 9 March 1987) is an English television presenter, journalist, and media personality. She came to prominence in 2008 as a participant on the documentary series Blood, Sweat and T-shirts. Since then, she has made social-issue-themed television documentaries for BBC Three, concerning child labour and women in developing countries.

Dooley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting. In 2018, she won the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing with dance partner and now boyfriend Kevin Clifton. From 2019 to 2020, Dooley presented Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star.

In 2018, Dooley published her debut book, Stacey Dooley: On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back, which became a Sunday Times Bestseller.

Early life

Stacey Jaclyn Dooley was born on 9 March 1987 in Luton, Bedfordshire. Her father was from Ireland, and left the family when she was two years old. He died when Dooley was in her 20s before they could reconcile. She grew up in Luton and studied at Stopsley High School. She left school at 15 and worked as a shop assistant, selling perfumes at Luton Airport. She also worked in a hairdresser's salon in Bramingham. Dooley admitted to going through a short phase of shoplifting with her friends during her youth in Luton.

Career

2008–2017: Career beginnings and Stacey Dooley Investigates

Dooley first appeared on television in April 2008 when she travelled to India as one of the participants on the documentary television series Blood, Sweat and T-shirts. Dooley and the other participants were selected to illustrate the typical fashion-obsessed consumer. Thanks to her appearance on the show, and partly because of her interest in labour laws in developing countries, a series was commissioned with Dooley as presenter. Stacey Dooley Investigates began in August 2009 and a two-part special was shown on BBC Three throughout August and September 2009. It also aired in Australia on ABC2 from 2 June 2010. In October 2010, BBC Three aired two further programmes.

Dooley at an event organised by War on Want in 2009 protesting against sweatshops

In 2011, BBC Three aired Tourism and the Truth: Stacey Dooley Investigates. Over two episodes, Dooley investigated how tourism in Thailand and Kenya affects employees there, in particular with regard to wages, corruption and environmental changes. Dooley also presented the CBBC series Show Me What You're Made Of.

Filmed in Dooley's hometown of Luton, My Hometown Fanatics was broadcast on BBC Three on 20 February 2012. In the programme, Dooley interviewed Islamists and the English Defence League. A three-part series titled Coming Here Soon was broadcast on BBC Three in June and July 2012, in which Dooley explored the lives of young people in three countries affected by the global financial crisis: Greece, Ireland and Japan. While Dooley was in the United States in 2012, she created two series of Stacey Dooley in the USA where she investigated issues affecting teens across America such as: Girls Behind Bars, Border Wars, Homelessness and Kids in the Crossfire. In 2015, Dooley created the documentary series Beaten By My Boyfriend where she investigated domestic abuse within the UK.

In 2016, Dooley presented Stacey Dooley in Cologne: The Blame Game, which aired on 29 January. She also presented Stacey Dooley: Hate and Pride in Orlando where she travelled to Orlando, Florida in the aftermath of the Pulse Bar shootings. On 30 July, Dooley appeared on the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind where her specialist subject was the television series Girls.

In November 2016, Dooley appeared in a BBC Three series Brainwashing Stacey.

In 2017, Dooley presented CBBC's The Pets Factor. She also presented the documentary Canada's Lost Girls in March 2017 in which she travelled across Canada investigating the various factors which played a part in the disappearance of over 1,200 Indigenous women. Dooley narrated the documentary The Natives: This Is Our America where she investigated the lives of young Native Americans, and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

2018–present

In April 2018, Dooley took part in a BBC show, Celebrities on the NHS Front-line, to celebrate the 70th birthday of the National Health Service. In the 2018 series of Stacey Dooley Investigates, she travelled to Russia, Florida, Iraq and Hungary to explore more challenging issues such as war, domestic violence, pollution in the fashion industry and coming face-to-face with an ISIS soldier for which she won a One World Media Award. The episodes of this series won the title of the Most Watched Documentaries on BBC iPlayer.

Dooley published her first book in February 2018, Stacey Dooley, On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back. The book became a Sunday Times Bestseller. She also had her own UK book tour, hosted by Viv Groskop.

Dooley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting. In 2012, and again in 2015, Dooley was a member of the judging panel for The Observer Ethical Awards.

On 16 August 2018, Dooley was announced as the eighth contestant to take part in the sixteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. On 15 December 2018, she won the series with her dance partner Kevin Clifton. Following her win, shortly afterwards the BBC announced Dooley as co-presenter of New Year Live on BBC One, with another Strictly 2018 contestant, Joe Sugg. She also took part in BBC One's Children in Need where she explored the number of homeless young people in the UK.

In 2019, Dooley was named as Grazia's new contributing editor for investigations. She appeared on The National Television Awards 2019, and presented BBC's The Nine To Five With Stacey Dooley and The One Show. Dooley took part in The 2019 Strictly Come Dancing Arena Tour throughout the UK. Dooley then began presenting the BBC Three reality competition series Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star. In July 2019, it was announced that Dooley would be a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. In August 2019, she released the documentaries Stacey Meets the IS Brides and Stacey Dooley: Face to Face with The Bounty Hunters which became the most watched documentary on BBC IPlayer.

In 2020, Dooley appeared in Jessie Ware's music video for "Save a Kiss" and the game show Michael McIntyre's The Wheel.

In 2021, Dooley, with Turi King, presented the BBC programme DNA Family Secrets which helps people solve family mysteries regarding their ancestry, missing relatives and genetic diseases.

In 2022, Dooley competed in series 2 of The Masked Dancer as Prawn Cocktail.

Personal life

Dooley is a feminist and has made documentaries regarding gender equality.

Since early 2019, Dooley has been in a relationship with her Strictly Come Dancing dance partner Kevin Clifton. In August 2022, Dooley confirmed via Instagram that she was expecting a baby with Clifton. In January 2023, she gave birth to their daughter.

Honours and awards

Dooley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting.

In 2018, the programme Stacey Dooley: Face to Face with ISIS received the Popular Features Award at the One World Media Awards.

Filmography

Television

See also

In Spanish: Stacey Dooley para niños