Stacey Dooley, documentary maker and Strictly Come Dancing winner, has announced a brand new project. Warner, Sam. "Strictly Come Dancing's Stacey Dooley announces exciting new TV series". Digital Spy . Retrieved 17 May 2020. Are You Really OK? Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency sees Stacey explore the mental health crisis in Britain and its impact on young people. The book follows on from Stacey's two recent documentary series on mental health. So, you do have to bear that in mind, coming down the aisle like, 'Hello everyone, I know what you're all thinking'. It's just never been something I've dreamt about. But I couldn't have done this (motherhood) without Kev. It's weird. I've always loved him, but it's a different love I have for Kev now."

The talks will also touch on other related subjects such as poverty, addiction, identity and the pressure of social media.Stacey Dooley is an unexpected serious journalist and documentary maker. As she says herself, she is a girl from Luton who spent her wages of clothes and having fun. Until she didn't any more. Until she became aware of where all the fashion she enjoyed came from, and at what cost. And then began the awakening that has resulted in this important docu-journalist telling essential stories. This book follows the many women she has met during her travels across the world. The women she meets usually come from impoverished conditions and have had to deal with horrifying events, something very different to how I live my every day life. I have seen some of her documentaries and I think they work as television because she is not your average journalist - instead she is your average woman. She speaks in a way we can all understand. We all were her, or are her.

In Conversation with Stacey Dooley will see the author open up the conversation about mental health and challenge the stigma and stereotypes around it. Sutton, Megan (31 July 2019). "Lorraine Kelly and Stacey Dooley have landed the dream job on RuPaul's Drag Race UK". Good Housekeeping . Retrieved 31 July 2019. Her casual tone and chatty way of speaking makes the hard issues she is actually talking about more stark, more awful and more relevant. She is not preaching - she is just telling you what she thinks and believes. And that is powerful. She then added: "(Was becoming impossible to hide and if one more person asks me if I've had my tits done in LA I'm gonna scream). Here goessssssss." Kevin also shared the same picture at the same time and sweetly wrote: "We're having a baby! And I think my girl @staceydooley looks beautiful pregnant." As the special police unit in Cheshire (one of the tiny handful in the country that specialises in stalker cases), Aurora New Dawn and, of course, countless other charities, refuges and women know, hell hath no fury like a man, as he sees it, scorned. “A lot of them feel entitled to be in a relationship,” says Mahbuba, “and have that person next to them.”Johnson, Jamie (11 June 2019). "Comic Relief will stop sending celebrities abroad in wake of 'white saviour' racism row, Richard Curtis tells MPs". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 12 June 2019. [ verification needed] Furious Sam claimed he had found gushing messages between the two on Stacey's phone as they were clearing out their flat after agreeing to split. He told The Sun at the time: "I was getting my stuff to leave. Stacey was in the loo. Her phone went and it was Kevin Clifton - 'I love you' with a red love heart." He branded Kevin "an absolute rat" and a "slippery, slimy snake". BBC Three – Thailand: Tourism and the Truth – Stacey Dooley Investigates". BBC. 1 July 2011 . Retrieved 6 November 2012. Stacey and her team focus on some locations and issues that I was vaguely familiar with and others that sadly I had practically no knowledge of. In this book Stacey delves into issues relating to prison, immigration, drugs, child abuse, femicide, high-end to low-end prostitution, trans prostitution, abortion, child sexualisation, murder, war and survival. Your heart will be broken and warmed by the womens’ stories. For women who have had to survive such horrendous circumstances in their past and oftentimes present as well, their courage and resilience are extraordinary and inspirational. It’s up to you as the reader to form your own opinions about what’s presented to you and whether that will change your mind or not, but you cannot walk away uninformed. I hope you also walk away with your empathy enlarged. The TV star is following up her 2020 live shows with a brand new tour, titled In Conversation with Stacey Dooley and taking place in June.

The several stories Dooley follows over months play out with grim similarity: 28-year-old Claire’s ex-boyfriend (just shy of 50% of stalkers are previous partners) began stalking her 18 months after they split up. Hers is one of the utterly terrified and terrifying 999 calls we hear, begging for help. A 25-year-old single mother Sabrina started receiving anonymous, frightening calls and messages, plus pictures taken outside her house. She was sent assurances that the caller knew where her daughter went to school, and lists of locations she had been to that day. Eventually she discovered they were coming from her ex, but unlike Claire’s and Katie’s, theirs had been a good relationship. “He was lovely,” says Sabrina. “We just didn’t work out.”

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Being a devoted fan I have watched each and every one of her documentaries which did aid in reading the book. The book is written about each of the women she met whilst filming and their story. There was a lot of repetition in the book for me as a lot of what Dooley was talking about I had already watched, however there are a few juicy behind the scenes info in there too. If you, like me, are a big fan it’s still worth reading for the bits that Dooley couldn’t technically say on the BBC, but has included In the book.

Battison, Jessica (17 January 2023). "BBC Strictly's Stacey Dooley gives birth to baby with Kevin Clifton as she announces gender and name". MyLondon . Retrieved 17 January 2023. Mitchell, Harriet (19 September 2022). "The Masked Dancer's Stacey Dooley opens up about taking part on the show while pregnant". Digital Spy . Retrieved 25 September 2022. BBC Hairy Bikers' fans left disappointed as Si King and Dave Myers issue 'sad' series update despite complaints Stacey is from Luton and her father left the family when she was two years old. In her book, Stacey said: “My father had his demons; our relationship was difficult and fractured.In 2015, Stacey returned to the screen with her new BBC3 documentary looking at domestic abuse in the UK ‘Beaten By My Boyfriend’ and prime time, three-part series for BBC3 lifting the lid on the global war on drugs culminating in Cannabis Smugglers.