Joanne Salley

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:EngvarB Joanne Salley (born 1977, Dungannon)[1] is the 1998 Miss Northern Ireland, later an art teacher and part-time television presenter.

Educated at the Royal School Dungannon, she trained in ballet for fifteen years. She has a teaching certificate from a Cambridge College. She was named 1998 Miss Northern Ireland, and came runner-up in the Miss United Kingdom pageant. She was a mascot for the 1998 Milk Cup football tournament.[2] She became a teacher and an occasional 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. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

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. Appearances in television advertisements include the Peugeot 106. In October 2011, she co-hosted the BBC series Out of the Blue.[3]

Personal life

Salley plays polo. She has raised funds for charity by running the New York Marathon, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro[4] and visited the site of the world's highest active volcano in Ecuador where she helped build a school for an isolated community.[5]

In 2011, photos taken by professional photographer and part-time teaching colleague Fiona Corthine, of Salley posing topless were found on a memory stick, which had been forgotten in a school photographic studio, by a Harrow pupil. They were distributed around the school and were also sent to boys at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Hertfordshire, where Salley had taught previously.[6]

References

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  1. "Sporting wife", women.timesonline.co.uk; accessed 26 March 2015.
  2. Northern Ireland Milk Cup down through the years, Belfast Live; accessed 5 June 2019.
  3. Profile, bbc.co.uk; accessed 26 March 2015.
  4. Sue Mott. "Rugby Heaven" Template:Webarchive, 4 February 2004.
  5. "As pretty as a pearl", Sunday Life, 22 January 2006.
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