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Stacey Dooley: ‘I miss it’ Strictly Come Dancing winner makes surprising career admission


Since winning the Glitterball trophy on Strictly Come Dancing last year, Stacey Dooley, 32, has seemingly been inundated with job offers as well as filming more hard-hitting documentaries for the BBC. But as she reflected on starting out in her career, she revealed she misses working in a shop. In an extract from her new book, Stacey spoke out about her first television appearance on Newsnight to discuss globalisation with Jeremy Paxman, following her stint on BBC’s TV series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirt back in 2007. Despite raising awareness for globalisation, she admitted her schedule swiftly dried up after the show.

She said: “Nothing much happened after that.

“I was broke, and I got a job working in a clothes shop, Jigsaw, in St Albans.

“Then I started working in a pub in the evening as well.

“At one point I had three jobs: I was working in Jigsaw, in another shop called the Dressing Room and at the pub.”

She added: “I sometimes miss working in a shop, even now. I was happy.

“But then Danny Cohen, the controller of BBC3 at the time, asked to see me, and obviously I jumped at the chance. He started things rolling for me.”

Stacey has now made over 50 documentaries covering topics such as sex trafficking and Yazidi women fighting back in Syria and was recently appointed the host of BBC’s new make-up show Glow Up.

Stacey took a break from her intense film making last year to compete on Strictly Come Dancing with professional dancer Kevin Clifton, 36.

After an intense final round, the duo were awarded the Glitterball trophy.

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Elsewhere Stacey recently opened up on future plans with her boyfriend Sam Tucknott, 30.

She told You Magazine she is saving for a two-bedroom home, ideally be the sea.

She divulged: “Then I’d treat myself to a cleaner once a week; that would be a real luxury. And a dishwasher.

“If I had one of those I’d feel I’d landed, I’d be living my fantasy life.

“Now I never cook because I think, ‘No, I’ll have to do all the pots.’”

The documentary maker added the couple would love to have children in the future.

But on the topic of One Born Every Minute, she told The Times Magazine: “I close my legs and think, I’m never going to do that.”



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