{{Short description|Scottish broadcaster, model and journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Jill Daley | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1976/77 | birth_place = | occupation = Radio presenter | yearsactive = | spouse = | children = | website = }} '''Jill Daley''' (born 1976/77) is a Scottish broadcaster, model and journalist who lost her sight at the age of 19 to a condition called diabetic retinopathy.<ref name="RNIB's Insight Radio">{{cite web|url=http://www.insightradio.co.uk/jill-daley.html|title=Jill Daley|work=RNIB's Insight Radio |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326230203/http://www.insightradio.co.uk/jill-daley.html |archive-date=26 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="TheScotsman">{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/blind-injustice-1-1097431|title=Blind Injustice|work=The Scotsman}}</ref> She presents ''The Daily Lunch'', a weekday lunchtime show on Glasgow's Insight Radio, a radio station for visually impaired listeners.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/interviews/13_questions_jill_daley.shtml |title=13 Questions: Jill Daley |publisher=BBC |work=Ouch! |date=9 September 2009 |access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref> Daley worked as a blind adviser for director Eleanor Yule and producer Oscar van Heek for the film ''Blinded''. Yule and van Heek intend to make a film about Daley's life.<ref name="The Scotsman">{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/blind-injustice-1-1097431|title= Blind Injustice|work=The Scotsman}}</ref> In November 2014, she appeared in an episode of BBC Radio Scotland's ''Skin Deep'' discussing beauty and body image issues for people with sight loss.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n62hn |work=BBC Radio Scotland |title=Skin Deep, Jill Daley |publisher=BBC |date=6 November 2014 |access-date=13 March 2015}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/interviews/13_questions_jill_daley.shtml It's a disability thing] BBC (9 September 2009) *[https://archive.today/20150311125601/https://www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk/resources/life-and-style/jill-daley-interview/ Jill Daley interview] RNIB Action for Blind People *[http://www.insightradio.co.uk/daily-lunch.html Daily Lunch and podcasts] RNIB's Insight Radio
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