English diver Tom Daley was BOTD in 1994. Born in Plymouth, he started diving aged seven and began competing professionally when he was nine. After winning a number of competitions, he met the qualification standard to represent England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but was not selected because of his age. In 2008, aged 14, he became the youngest member of the British team for the Beijing Olympics, and the youngest competitor to reach the final of an Olympic competition. After winning two gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he became the poster boy of the 2012 London Olympics, eventually winning a bronze medal. In 2013, the British tabloid newspaper The Sun threatened to out him as gay. To circumvent the story, he he released a video on his YouTube channel, announcing that he was gay and happily in a relationship with a man. Daley later revealed that his boyfriend was American screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. They married in 2017 and had a baby via a surrogate the following year. In 2020, Daley won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, before retiring from competitive sport in. He has won a number of awards for promoting LGBTQ visibility, and was awarded an OBE in 2022. He and Black live in London, having a second child via a surrogate in 2023.