Tess Daly Biography
Tess Daly is an English model and television presenter who co-hosted the BBC One celebrity dancing show Strictly Come Dancing from 2004 to 2013 before taking over as the show’s main host in 2014.
How old is Tess Daly? – Age
She is 53 years old on 29 March 2022. She was born in 1969 in Stockport, United Kingdom. Her real name is Helen Elizabeth Daly.
Tess Daly Family
Daly was born to textile workers Felix James “Vivian” Daly, who died of emphysema, and Sylvia (née Bradley). She went to Hayfield Primary School and New Mills Secondary School, where she graduated with nine O-levels. Karen is her younger sister. Daly is of Irish and English ancestry.
Tess Daly Husband
Daly married Vernon Kay, a DJ, and TV presenter, on September 12, 2003, at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Horwich, near Bolton. They have two daughters, Phoebe, born on October 17, 2004, and Amber, born on May 30, 2009. Daly and Kay live in the Buckinghamshire town of Beaconsfield.
Tess Daly Height
She stands at a height of 5 Feet 9 Inches(1.75 m).
Tess Daly Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £ 3 million.
Tess Daly Career
Daly was scouted outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Manchester while waiting for her sister. Daly was asked to change her name because there was already a model named “Helen Daly” at the time. Daly’s agent was infatuated with Nastassja Kinski from the film Tess and told her that she should change her name to “Tess”. Daly later reflected on how “gullible and impressionable” she was. She has not changed her name legally because she believes it would be disrespectful to her parents.
Six weeks after turning 18, she landed her first professional modeling gig in Tokyo. She spent five years in Paris after a series of work assignments in Asia and Europe while based in London. She then returned to London for six months before relocating to New York for five years of work.
Daly appeared in two Duran Duran videos, “Serious” and “Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over),” both from the album Liberty, in 1990. She also appeared naked in the video for The Beloved’s “Sweet Harmony” in 1993. She later became the face of Danone Shape yogurt as well as the lingerie company La Senza in the United Kingdom, where she appeared in their Steal the Show Christmas 2009 campaign.
A friend who planned red-carpet events suggested that Daly conduct interviews with the celebrities who attended while she was living in New York City’s Lower East Side. Daly’s first interview was with Quentin Crisp, author of The Naked Civil Servant, who lived in New York and became a close friend until his death. Daly bought a video camera. She sent a showreel to the producers of Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast in 2000, following a few red carpet interviews, and they immediately hired her to host the Find Me a Model competition. She has since presented shows such as Singled Out, Get Your Kit Off, Smash Hits TV, SMTV Live, Back to Reality, and the first season of Make Me a Supermodel with Dave Berry.
Daly became Ulrika Jonsson’s replacement as the host of the ITV makeover show Home On Their Own in 2003. On this show, children chose what to do with their homes over the course of a weekend while their parents went on vacation. An Austin Powers room, individual doorbells for the children, and a cinema living room were among the home improvements.
Since 2004, Daly has served as a co-host on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing. She started the show with Bruce Forsyth as co-host before he left in 2013; She has been co-hosting with Claudia Winkleman since 2014. Daly had just given birth to her first daughter, so she was unable to watch the first half of the second series. For these episodes, the winner of the previous series, Natasha Kaplinsky, took her place.
Daly and Vernon Kay co-hosted the second season of Just the Two of Us on BBC One in January 2007. Daly has also hosted BBC One’s National Lottery show and This Time Tomorrow. Daly, Terry Wogan, and Fearne Cotton have co-hosted the BBC telethon Children in Need since 2008. She also defeated Terry Wogan to win the Children in Need special edition of Strictly Come Dancing, where she competed alongside Anton du Beke. Daly co-hosted the Royal Variety Performance on December 17, 2008.
Daly and Matt Baker co-hosted an episode of The One Show in November 2013. She co-hosted BBC One’s charity spinoff of Strictly Come Dancing, The People’s Strictly, beginning in 2015. Daly and Rochelle Humes co-hosted the new AOL show Being Mum in 2015. In the CBBC drama “The Spotlight,” which aired in 2019, she played an unidentified character who hosted the fictitious program: Nearly never.
Tess Daly TV Shows
2001 – L.A. Pool Party
2002–2003 – SMTV Live
2003 – Home On Their Own
2004 – Back to Reality
2004— – Strictly Come Dancing
2006–2007 – Just the Two of Us
2008 – A Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards
2008 – Royal Variety Performance
2008 – This Time Tomorrow
2008 – Happy Birthday Brucie!
2008–2019 – Children in Need
2013 – The One Show
2015 – The People’s Strictly for Comic Relief
2015 – Being Mum
2018 – Sir Bruce: A Celebration
2019 – Almost Never
