Joanne Salley

Joanne Salley, born in Dungannon, is a former Miss Northern Ireland winner, presently working as an art teacher and part-time television presenter.

Educated at the Royal School Dungannon, she then graduated from Cambridge University. She trained in ballet for fifteen years.

Joanne won the Miss Northern Ireland title in 1998, and came runner-up in the Miss United Kingdom pageant. This led to her following a dual-career, as both a teacher and a television reporter/presenter. Starting out her teaching career at Harrow School, she then joined Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, before returning to Harrow for a second period in 2010. She made national headlines in March 2011, when private pictures taken of her topless by another art teacher were found by pupils, and distrubuted throughout the school.

She once co-hosted The Big Breakfast, worked for Comic Relief does Fame Academy, Disney, and as a researcher for the BBC's Hard Sell. She also appeared in television advertisements, including one for the Peugeot 106.

See also:  TV Personality,  Beauty Pageant Contestant,  Teacher,  Irish,  Cambridge University