Joanne Salley

Joanne Salley (born 1977 in Dungannon)^[1] is a former Miss Northern Ireland winner, presently working as an art teacher and part-time television presenter.

Educated at the Royal School Dungannon, she then graduated from Cambridge University. She trained in ballet for fifteen years.

Salley won the Miss Northern Ireland title in 1998, and came runner-up in the Miss United Kingdom pageant. This led to her following a dual career, as both a teacher and a television reporter/presenter. Starting out her teaching career at Harrow School, she then joined Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, before returning to Harrow for a second period in 2010. She made international headlines in March 2011, when private pictures taken of her topless by another art teacher were found by pupils, and distributed throughout the school.^[2]

She once co-hosted The Big Breakfast, worked for Comic Relief does Fame Academy, Disney and as a researcher for the BBC's Hard Sell. She also appeared in television advertisements, including one for the Peugeot 106. In October 2011, she co-hosted the BBC's new series Out of the Blue.^[3]

Personal life

Salley was in a relationship with A Question of Sport captain and England rugby player, Matt Dawson. As a couple, they had appeared in Hello! magazine (issue no. 794),^[4] and lived in London.^[5] She then was in a relationship with St Helen's School Northwood's PE teacher Kevin Dunne until the summer of 2011.

Salley plays polo. She has raised funds for chairty by running the New York Marathon, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro^[6] and has visited the site of the world's highest active volcano in Ecuador where she helped build a school for an isolated community.^[7] She has also worked for charities such as Breast cancer, Mencap and Asthma UK.

In 2011 it was widely reported in the press that photos of Salley, taken by fellow teacher Fiona Corthine, of Salley posing topless in the art studio at Harrow were found on a memory stick by a pupil and distributed around the school.^[8][9]

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