Tom Daley Biography
Tom Daley OBE is a television personality and diver from the United Kingdom. He is an Olympic gold medalist in the men’s synchronised 10-meter platform event and a FINA 10-metre platform event double world champion. He also competes in team competitions, and in 2015 he won the inaugural mixed team World title. He has won one Olympic gold medal, three World Championships, two Junior World Championships, five European titles, and four Commonwealth titles.
How old is Tom Daley? – Age
He is 29 years old as of 21 May 2023. He was born in 1994 in Plymouth, United Kingdom. His real name is Thomas Robert Daley.
Tom Daley Family
Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley gave birth to Daley in Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, England. He has two younger siblings, William (three years younger) and Ben (five years younger). Their father, Robert, died of a brain tumor on May 27, 2011, just a few days after Daley’s 17th birthday, at the age of 40.
Tom Daily Education
Daley was a famous supporter of Childline, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s (NSPCC) children’s helpline. He became a celebrity advocate of Childline at the age of 13, and it was discovered that he had been bullied eighteen months before. His father declined a full scholarship to board at the independent school Brighton College due to the distance from home. The media praised him for speaking up about his problem. His father declined a full scholarship to board at the independent school Plymouth College due to the distance from home.
He took his GCSEs in small groups to accommodate his diving commitments. In his GCSEs, he received eight A*s and one A. He completed his two-year A-level studies in maths, Spanish, and photography in 2012. He achieved an A* in photography, as well as an A in Spanish and Maths.
Who is Tom Daley in a Relationship with? – Is Tom Daley Gay?
Daley said in a YouTube video on December 2, 2013, that he had been in a relationship with a man since early that year. Daley said it was a difficult decision to speak out about his personal life, but he’d never felt the kind of love he did when he met his spouse, American film screenwriter, director, and producer Dustin Lance Black. Daley and Black met at an industry gathering, and Daley later described it as “a real love-at-first-sight thing.” On October 1, 2015, he announced their engagement. Daley and Black married on May 6, 2017, at Bovey Castle in Devon. In June 2018, their first child, a son, was delivered via surrogacy. In March 2023, the couple’s second son was born.
What is Tom Daily’s Net Worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million (£3.3 million).
Tom Daily Diving
Daley began diving at the age of seven and is a member of the Plymouth Diving Club, where his skill was recognized early on. He began competing in national and international championships at the age of nine. He competed for Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Olympics as the country’s youngest athlete, aged fourteen years old, and the youngest competitor from any nation to compete in a final. Daley achieved a career-high position of first in the FINA World Aquatics Championships Diving Rankings for the 10 m platform in 2009. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won two gold medals for England: 10 m synchro diving (with Max Brick) and 10 m Individual Platform. Following the 2012 Summer Olympics and a summer of increased sporting interest among the UK public, Daley was asked by television network ITV to appear in their new celebrity diving reality TV show Splash!
Tom Daily Olympics
Daley and Waterfield were deemed “poster boys” for the 2012 Summer Olympics, with an 80-foot tall banner of him hanging the John Lewis department store in Cardiff and a 40-foot tall banner of his female counterpart, Jessica Ennis, covering the store chain’s Sheffield branch. However, they finished fourth in the 10 m men’s synchronized platform event on the first Monday of the Games, with 454.65 points, trailing the Chinese pairing of Cao Yuan and Zhang Yanquan on 486.78 points, the Mexican pairing of Iván Garca and Germán Sánchez on 468.90 points, and the US pairing of David Boudia and Nick McCrory on 463.47 points.
Following this setback, Daley was the target of several hostile Twitter remarks, prompting police to arrest a 17-year-old kid in Weymouth, Dorset, and a 28-year-old professional footballer for writing offensive messages. On the penultimate Friday of the Games, Daley returned to the Aquatics Centre for the 10 m men’s platform event. With a disappointing performance in the preliminary round, he first worried his admirers, but a better performance in the semi-finals the next morning put him in fourth place with 521.10 points.
Daley led Qiu Bo and David Boudia by 0.15 points in the last round, however his final dive had a difficulty rating of only 3.3, while his competitors both had 3.6 dives. He received the bronze medal with 556.95 points, while Boudia received the gold medal with 568.65 points and Qiu Bo received the silver medal with 566.85 points.
Tom Daily Views
In the run-up to the September referendum on Scottish independence, Daley was one of 200 public personalities who signed a letter to The Guardian opposing it.
Daley called on Commonwealth countries to eliminate anti-gay laws in a statement issued on the eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018. In response, Boris Johnson, the then-UK Foreign Secretary, told BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat that he would raise concerns about LGBT rights with leaders of nations where homosexuality is prohibited. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has repeatedly urged states to protect the rights of their vulnerable LGBT minorities.
Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said she “deeply regretted” Britain’s historical legacy of anti-gay laws throughout the British Commonwealth. Daley stated in October 2021 that it would be his “mission” to push for countries where homosexuality is punishable by death to be barred from competing in the next Olympics, “to make it so that the countries [where it’s] punishable by death for LGBT people are not allowed to compete at the Olympic Games.”