Dooley was widely admired for her hard-hitting documentaries before anyone knew she could dance
It has been more than a decade since Stacey Dooley was plucked from her job at Luton airport’s duty free makeup section to join five other young fashion-loving Brits toiling alongside Indian factory labourers for the BBC Three series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts.
Shock was rawly evident on the face of the then 20-year-old, who campaigned against child labour on her return home before her first documentary was commissioned by Danny Cohen, then controller at BBC Three. The channel has since aired investigations by Dooley into everything from Mexico’s drug war to the sexualisation of Japanese girls. Cohen, who went on to be the BBC’s director of television, had advised her to eschew a conventional journalistic persona in favour of her own natural empathy.
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