Stacey Dooley, 32, opened up about the beginning of her career as a documentary filmmaker in an interview with Cosmopolitan last month. Having first appeared in BBC Three’s Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts, the Strictly Come Dancing champion said the show “changed her life”. She explained how, in addition to giving her the platform to catch the eye of BBC bosses, thus kickstarting her career, the insight into child labour in the fashion industry had prompted her to shop ethically since. “Of course it’s easy for me to say I’m going to shop more ethically, as I’ve got the spare money to do that, whereas somebody who has got to buy four uniforms as a single mum doesn’t,” she told the publication.
You’d have to be sat at the top of a mountain, in silence, not eating, naked
“But I never said I’ll never shop high-street again.”
Stacey went on to joke she would end up “naked” on a mountain top if she attempted to live a perfectly ethical life.
“You’d have to be sat at the top of a mountain, in silence, not eating, naked,” she laughed. “And that’s not fun.”
Stacey got her start in TV on the show when she was just 19 after her mother gave her a leaflet advertising for volunteer fashion enthusiasts.
The programme saw her and five more teens taken to India to visit backstreet child sweatshops to learn about the manufacturing processes and the people involved.
Since Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts, the presenter has gone on to make a name for herself with her Stacey
