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Tom Daley’s Celebrity Traitors Turn Puts Spotlight Back on 2022 Soho Case

Dustin Lance Black reports heavy financial losses from the episode.

Overview

  • Daley has emerged as a popular contestant on the BBC’s The Celebrity Traitors, drawing renewed attention to his personal life.
  • Black was punched at Soho’s Freedom nightclub in 2022 by presenter Teddy Edwardes, who received a police caution.
  • Edwardes later accused Black of assault, but a Westminster Magistrates’ Court judge dismissed the 2023 case after finding contradictions in her evidence.
  • Black has said the case cost him about £600,000 and the couple subsequently relocated to the United States.
  • Daley, married to Black since 2017 and father to two sons born via surrogacy in 2018 and 2023, retired from diving after the 2024 Olympics to focus on family.