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==Early life==
Dominic John Romulus Joly was born in [[Beirut]] on 15 November 1967, to British parents John Joly and his second wife, Yvonne.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/dom-joly-reveals-horror-classmate-bought-severed-head-school-growing-lebanon-113953802.html | title=Dom Joly reveals horror when classmate bought severed head into school growing up in Lebanon | date=29 October 2018 }}</ref> John Joly, a pilot with the [[Fleet Air Arm]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]], owned banking, insurance and shipping agency Henry Heald & Co., which was managed, and later bought, by Joly's great-grandfather.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/not-as-joly-as-he-seems-7280506.html|title = Not as Joly as he seems|date = 10 April 2012}}</ref><ref>The Downhill Hiking Club: A Short Walk Across the Lebanon, Dom Joly, Hachette UK, 2019</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.charlottereather.com/DomJoly.pdf |title=Dom Joly : TV's prankster and star of ''The Complainers'' has taken to country life like a duck to water. Hunting, shooting, polo? Bring It On, he says |author=Charlotte Reather |access-date=30 May 2015 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233847/http://www.charlottereather.com/DomJoly.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dom Joly Biography|url=http://celebirthdays.net/profile/dom-joly|website=Celebrity Birthdays|access-date=23 December 2016|archive-date=24 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224101233/http://celebirthdays.net/profile/dom-joly|url-status=dead}}</ref> The family business is now run by Joly's sister.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/columnists/dom-joly/dom-joly-a-sad-homecoming-to-bury-my-brave-father-2309785.html|title = Dom Joly: A sad homecoming, to bury my brave father|website = [[Independent.co.uk]]|date = 9 July 2011}}</ref> Joly's parents were "quite detached" and he was raised with a nanny; his parents separated when Joly was 18, and for 20 years he had little contact with his father, reconciling in his old age prior to the latter's death in 2011. He has a half-brother and two half-sisters resident in [[Lebanon]] and England, to whom he is not close.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/10/dom-joly-my-family-values|title=Dom Joly: My family values|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=9 September 2011}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>
Joly attended [[Brummana High School]] in Lebanon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/jun/09/dom-joly-foodie-tour-of-lebanon|title=Dom Joly's foodie tour of Lebanon|author=Dom Joly|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=9 June 2019|access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="Child Genius 2017"/><ref>Also on television comedy panel show ''[[Would I Lie to You? (TV series)|Would I Lie to You?]]'', and radio show ''[[Loose Ends (radio programme)|Loose Ends]]'' 8 June 2019.</ref> He then moved to England, where he was educated at [[Dragon School]] in [[Oxford]] and [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College|Haileybury College]] near [[Hertford]]. He later attended the [[SOAS University of London|School of Oriental and African Studies]] at the [[University of London]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-3183026-not-as-joly-as-he-seems.do |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505063148/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-3183026-not-as-joly-as-he-seems.do|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2013|title=Not as Joly as he seems|work=[[Evening Standard]]|location=London|date=31 January 2003|access-date=30 May 2015}}</ref> He studied for a degree in politics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/24/dom-joly-how-we-made-trigger-happy-tv|title=Dom Joly: How we made Trigger Happy TV|website=[[The Guardian]]|date=24 February 2020}}</ref> Joly speaks [[Arabic]], [[Czech language|Czech]] and French in addition to English.<ref name="Child Genius 2017">{{cite AV media |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/child-genius-vs-celebrities-christmas-special |title=''Child Genius vs Celebrities'' Christmas Special |publisher=[[Channel 4 Television]] |date=24 December 2017 |access-date=26 December 2017 |archive-date=26 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226235328/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/child-genius-vs-celebrities-christmas-special |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2018, Joly told
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