Eileen Daly

Eileen took part in the sixteenth series of Big Brother. She was evicted on 5 June 2015.

In late 2012 Daly filmed a sitcom set in a sex shop called Sexxx for the newly launched Loaded TV channel. The series is ongoing and began transmission in late November 2012. Daly is also a regular celebrity contestant on the Loaded TV game show Come Again, often with former co-star Ben Dover

In 2012 Eileen started her own production company called Gipsyphilia Productions. With this company she has started her career as a director, writer and producer. One of the first shows she directed was 'Daly Does The dead', a ghost hunting show that takes the team to a haunted hotel in Whitby. Eileen writes the scripts for all the shows and films, although most of the acting is Improvisation. Her band Eileen Daly & The Courtesans provide all the music for the productions. In its first year Gipsyphilia Productions have made several magazine and ghost hunting shows; 'Mr Crispin at your Cervix', Daly Does Webcam Girl', 'Daly Does Porn Stars', 'Daly Does Ghosts' and also has several feature films and shows in pre-production.

Daly formed her current band 'Eileen and Ben' with her partner Ben Thirkettle, while her other musical project Jezebel was put on hold. The duo play a combination of what they describe as "gypsy, glam and rock". Their debut single featuring "Webcam Girl" was released in 2007 and followed up with an EP entitled Elfing Around. They often perform around London and Southern England together with appearances at festivals in Glastonbury, Bram Stoker International Film Festival and Italy. They released their self-titled debut album one song at a time for digital download throughout 2013 and 2014. In September 2014 they auditioned and made it through to bootcamp on The X Factor.

Daly formed Jezebel in 1998, who played in her own words "an eclectic mix of rock, Goth and perverse fairy tales". The first album, Forbidden Fruit was released on 26 March 2004 on the record label Triple Silence, a music label linked to Redemption. A track off the album, entitled "Plastic Surgery" was featured on the Cradle of Fear film soundtrack CD. Another track off the album, retitled You're So Cute, is featured in the film All About Anna, performed onscreen by Daly. Daly released a single entitled "Persuasion" and performed on Eurotrash on which she was interviewed about her career to date. She worked with producer and musician Steven Severin who had provided music for the film Visions of Ecstasy for Nigel Wingrove.

Daly starred in the Elisar Cabrera directed Demonsoul as a vampire's human servant/familiar, in the low-budget Alex Chandon directed film Pervirella as the queen of a tribe of Amazon women, in the Elisar Cabrera directed Witchcraft X: Mistress of the Craft as the leader of a coven of vampires, in Razor Blade Smile as Lilith Silver, the protagonist of the film, a frequently fetish clad hitwoman and adventurer who also happens to be a vampire (awards for Razor Blade Smile include Grand Prize at the Gérardmer Film Festival (2000), Honourable Mention at the Sweden Fantastic Film Festival (1998), a "Vampire Oscar" for Eileen at Vampyria II in London and the film won most of the top awards in the first B-Movie Film Festival (1999), including Best B-Film, Director (Jake West), Actress (Eileen Daly), Cinematography and Special Effects., SFX magazine voted the character of Lilith Silver the 30th sexiest vampire of all time.) Daly has also starred in the Richard Driscoll directected Kannibal (Headhunter) with American Scream Queen Linnea Quigley where her character was crucified onscreen for the second time (the first being Sentinels Of Darkness), starred in the third segment of Alex Chandon directed Cradle Of Fear as the girlfriend of a man who has lost a leg and has lost his sex drive (Daly's song "Plastic Surgery" is included in one scene), in Machines of Love and Hate as the mother of a young woman accidentally runs down a hitchhiker, in the Jessica Nilsson directed All About Anna where she played Camilla, a flatmate of Anna - one of several films made to appeal to a female audience featuring hardcore sex scenes and scenes of an adult nature. The film complies with a "Puzzy Power Manifesto" which lays down strict guidelines of what should and should not be included in the film in order that it be tailored for female rather than male sensibilities. Daly has also starred in Darkness Surrounds Roberta as the manager of an escort/model agency three girls from which have been murdered, in Timo Rose's Beast as the stepmother of lead character Alex (Daly also acted as associate producer on the film), in the Richard Driscoll directed Darkness Calls: the Raven (The Legend of Harrow Woods) (originally titled "Alone in the Dark" but changed in order not to clash with the film of the popular videogame) as a psychic who accompanies a group of people into woods that have been cursed and may herself be a serial killer and in the Kemal Yildirim directed Rose - The Movie a film premiered at the London Independent Film Festival in 2012 & winner of the prestigious 'Van Gogh award' at the Amsterdam film festival 2012, as the matriarch in a nightmare world of criminals, drug dealers, street-fighters and pimps.

Daly has acted in a number of television shows and adverts (Toyota and First Choice among them), and has appeared in programmes such as Snuff Box, Our Friends in the North, EastEnders, Vampyria (documentary), Sex & Shopping, Eurotrash, Beck, The Big Breakfast, Kilroy, Fantasy By Gaslight and The Fast Show. She also had uncredited roles as the "example" human female in a Desmond Morris written and presented series on the Human Animal and body language a co-production of the BBC and the Discovery channel filmed in 1994.

Eileen Daly has been a cover model for a range of magazines including Skin Two, Time Out, Bizarre, The Dark Side, The Chronicles, Redeemer, Bite Me and Bloodstone. Many of these magazines have included features on Daly. She also contributed articles and wrote columns for several magazines in the 1990s.

Daly lived for a time with video director Tim Pope, who directed promos for The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees. She appeared in several videos Soft Cell including "Tainted Love" Tim Pope was engaged to make Soft Cell's first video for Some Bizzare Label, Soft Cell's: Non-Stop Exotic Video Show British synthpop duo, Soft Cell. It is a companion release to their debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The collection was originally issued on VHS in 1982 and Betamax and Laser Disk and re-issued on DVD. She continued to work as a model throughout the 1980s, and in 1991 starred in Linzi Drew's page 3 Striptacular video. In 1996 it was revealed by The People newspaper that Daly, who at the time was starring in television ads for First Choice Holidays, was a "blue movie queen" who had starred in "kinky videos featuring in bondage and lesbian sex scenes" and claimed the revelations would come as a shock to the bosses of the holiday booking company. in 2014, Daly stated that "When you are a kid, you are a kid. You get led down the wrong path by not very nice people. If I could have my life again I would say: 'OK, but without that part'."

Daly was born Eileen Mary Theresa Barnes in Dulwich, London, to Mary (née Daly) and James Barnes Her parents split up when she was three, with her taking her mother's surname. The granddaughter of boxer Nipper Pat Daly, Daly grew up in Hampton Hill, Richmond upon Thames with her mother and younger brother Dominic. She briefly attended drama school before dropping out to pursue private acting lessons instead. Daly left home quite young and started glamour modelling to earn her keep, based in London she began starring in various films and magazines, one of her first magazine spreads was in 1979 with future Ben Dover star and creator Simon Lindsay Honey. She appeared in films produced by Color Climax Corporation including "Big Tit Dreamer" and "Lucky Lesbians". Daly has since worked again with Honey in different scenarios on Loaded TV's sitcom Sexxx and the quiz show Come Again.

Eileen Mary Theresa Daly (born 1 June 1963) is an English actress, presenter, director, film producer, writer, singer-songwriter and former adult model. She is also a contemporary scream queen, having starred in numerous cult horror films and fronts her own band Eileen and Ben.