Tom Daley

At 29 years old, Tom Daley has this physical status:

Thomas Robert Daley (born May 1994) is a British diver.

He competes in the 10-meter platform event and is a double World champion in the sport; he won the 2009 FINA World Championship in the individual category at the age of 15, before recovering it in 2017.

He was the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the event. Daley also participates in coordinated and team events.

He partnered Rebecca Gallantree in the inaugural mixed team World Championship in 2015, while Daniel Goodfellow won his second Olympic bronze in the men's synchronized 10-meter platform.

In 2017, he claimed World silver with Grace Reid in a mixed 3-meter springboard synchronized event. He started diving at the age of seven and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club, where his talent was discovered early and made an impact in national and international competitions from age 9.

He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in which he was Britain's youngest competitor, age 14, and the youngest from any country to qualify in a final.

Daley won two gold medals for England in the 10m synchro diving (with Max Brick) and the 10m Individual Platform competition, and he finished third in the 2012 Summer Olympics' individual competition.

Daley earned bronze medal in the synchronized 10m platform on January 5th, 2013 as a mentor to the celebrity participants competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

During the first qualification round, Daley recorded a new Olympic record in the individual 10m series, but the semi-finalists did not qualify for the final.

Early life

Daley was born in Plymouth, Devon, England, on May 21, 1994. The son of Debbie (née Selvester) and Robert Daley was born on May 21. William, who is three years older, has two brothers, Ben, who is five years younger, and Ben, who is five years older. Robert, their father, died of a brain tumor on May 27, 2011, a few days after Daley's 17th birthday. Alexandre Despatie, a Canadian diver who won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at the age of 13, and British diver Leon Taylor, who later mentored him, was his early diving hero. Daley was spotted by a coach who was attending regular diving lessons and was put in a competitive squad in September 2002. In April 2003, he was in the National Novice Championships, where he earned a bronze medal in the 8/9-year-old boys category. In September 2003, he attended an invitational function in Southampton, where he first made his mark on the wider audience. Daley achieved his age group at the British Championships in the 1 m springboard, the 3 m springboard, and platform in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

He won the National Junior (under-18) category in June 2004, the month after his tenth birthday, making him the youngest winner of that category. In 2005, Daley competed in the Australian Elite Junior Nationals as a guest competitor and came first in platform and second in the 3 m springboard in the 14-to-back age group competition. He also competed in the 13-15 category at the 2005 Aachen Junior International, placing second on platform and third in 3 m springboard. He met the qualification requirements for the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but he was ruled out of the England squad due to his age. He was the youngest British champion in platform and 3m springboard in 2006, and he finished second in the 10 m platform at the 2007 senior British Championships, which were held in December 2006.

Daley, aged 11 to 14, was a member of Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth, Devon. He became a celebrity promoter of Childline, a children's helpline operated by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), at 13 years old, and it was revealed that he had been bullied eighteen months before. Daley pleaded guilty to Plymouth's largest local newspaper The Herald that he had been bullied at school since the Olympics, and his father told the BBC that he had temporarily suspended him from the program because the school's response to the crisis had been ineffective. Daley was praised in the media for speaking out against his illness.

Daley was given a full scholarship to board at Brighton College, but his father decided against it due to the distance from home and began discussions with Plymouth College, which had given him a "very generous scholarship." Daley had enrolled at Plymouth College just a few weeks later.

Daley began GCSEs in small batches to accommodate his diving commitments. After meeting supermodel Kate Moss on a photo shoot for the Italian version of Vogue, he begged her to take a recreation of an original portrait by David Hockney as part of a GCSE photography initiative reciting beautiful works of art. In his GCSEs, Daley received eight A* grades and one A.

Daley completed his two-year A-level mathematics, Spanish, and photography in 2012. Daley has decided not to enroll in an International Baccalaureate course due to the pressures he faced in his preparations for the 2012 Olympics. He received an A* in his Photography A-level and an A in his Spanish and Maths A-levels.

Personal life

On August 23, Daley launched a YouTube channel on August 23, 2010. His channel covers a variety of topics, including vlogs, exercise, and food. Daley has over 1,200,000 followers as of September 2021, with over 130 million views. Daley revealed on YouTube that he had been in a sexy relationship with a man since early this year. "I've never been happier," he said. Daley said that speaking out about his personal life had been a difficult decision. "I'd never felt the love, it happened so quickly, that I'm completely overwhelmed by it to the point where I can't get him out of my head all the time." Dustin Lance Black, an American Oscar-winning film screenwriter, producer, and producer, is his husband.

He did not use the term "gay" or "bisexual" in the video. "Of course, I still like girls," the singer said. In a July 2015 interview with The Guardian, Daley said, "I don't have a particular name on it because right now I'm in a relationship with a guy, but I still have sexual feelings against girls." "I'd been in friendships with girls where I'd have sexual thoughts, but it became so ferocious when I met Lance," he said. "I am not 100 percent straight; I am not 100% gay," Daley said in a PinkNews interview in 2018. During a press conference after winning his first Olympic gold medal in Tokyo, he referred to himself as a "gay man."

Daley and Black met at an industry conference, with Daley later claiming that it was "a true love-at-first sight thing." On October 1, 2015, he announced their engagement. Daley and Black were married at Bovey Castle, Devon, on May 6, 2017. Daley revealed on Instagram on February 14 that he and Black were expecting their first child by survivacy. Their son was born in June. The family lives in London. Daley and Black do not post pictures of their son's face online or on social media pages.

Daley loves to knit and crochet, which are hobbies he took up after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown began. Daley unveiled an Olympic-themed knitted cardigan he had created during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Daley knitting was seen in the stands during television coverage of diving, while other athletes watched. He has a separate Instagram account devoted to his knitting and crochet projects.

Daley was one of 200 public figures to sign a letter opposing Scottish independence in August 2014, the year before the referendum in September.

Daley, in a tweet on the eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2018, Daley urged Commonwealth countries to eliminate their anti-gay legislation. Boris Johnson, the tense UK Foreign Secretary, told BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat that he will raise concerns about gay rights with leaders of countries where homosexuality is unlawful. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for governments has reiterated calls to protect the interests of their minority groups, including women and minorities in the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Prime Minister Theresa May said she "deeply regret" Britain's recent history of anti-gay legislation throughout the British Commonwealth.

Daley said in October 2021 that he would make it his "mission" to campaign for countries where homosexuality is punishable by death, not allowed to participate in the Olympic Games.

Daley became a patron of the LGBT+ charity Switchboard in 2015 and collaborated with YouTuber Calum McSwiggan to relaunch the charity under its new name.

For the first time in October 2017, Daley hosted the Virgin Holidays Attitude Awards.

He appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on September 30, 2018. Ellie Goulding's most popular pick was "How Long Will I Love You." J. K. Rowling's book pick was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and his luxury item was an oven.

He sent Channel 4's Alternative Christmas greeting on December 25, 2021.

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