Camilla Long

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Camilla Long
Born
Camilla Elizabeth Long

(1978-06-18) 18 June 1978 (age 46)
Winchester, England [1]
Alma mater Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer

Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 18 June 1978) [2] is a British newspaper columnist with The Times and The Sunday Times . She is associate editor of the News Review and a columnist for Style magazine.

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Family

Camilla Long is the daughter of Richard Pelham Long and Roslyn Vera Britton, a daughter of Captain Gordon Britton RN, who were married in 1973. [3]

Life

Long was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, [4]

She was awarded the 2010 and 2016 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize. [5]

In January 2012, Long interviewed the actor Michael Fassbender. Her opening question referred to the large size of the actor's penis ("That's kind of you to say", he replied). A section of Long's article was read to Fassbender in a subsequent interview for GQ magazine, including Long's statement that she was "quite certain that [Fassbender] would willingly show me his penis, given slightly different circumstances and a bucket of champagne," prompting Fassbender to respond that "I don't think I would touch her with a barge pole!" [6] [7]

In 2013 she won the Hatchet Job of the Year award for a piece on Rachel Cusk's divorce memoir Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation published in March 2012; [8] [9] Long had previously been nominated the year before. [10] In July 2013 Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for The Sunday Times . [11]

In March 2015 Long received criticism for referring to Thanet as "a small nodule of erupted spleen at the eastern edge of England." [12] In April 2015 Long appeared on the BBC's Have I Got News for You and was asked to justify such defamatory comments about South Thanet, the constituency where Nigel Farage, then UKIP leader, was standing for election. UKIP registered a complaint with Kent Police but no further action was taken. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ ""LONG CAMILLA ELIZABETH / Britton / Winchester / 20 1886" in General Index to Births in England and Wales, 1978
  2. ↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  3. ↑ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (Kelly's Directories, 2000), p. 1231
  4. ↑ "Oxford University Gazette, 28 May 1998: Colleges". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Stephen Brook (24 March 2010). "Daily Telegraph dominates British Press Awards with expenses exposé". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  6. ↑ Camilla Long (22 January 2012). "Dirty pretty thing". The Sunday Times . Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2015.(subscription required)
  7. ↑ Heath, Chris (15 May 2012). "Fast Bender" . Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review". BBC News. 13 February 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  9. ↑ Long, Camilla (4 March 2012). "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk". The Sunday Times. London. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.(subscription required)
  10. ↑ "Camilla Long". IMDb. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  11. ↑ "Camilla Long to be new Sunday Times film critic" Archived 22 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine , News UK, 1 July 2013
  12. ↑ "Sunday Times article brands Thanet as 'English Defence League on Sea'". Thanet Gazette. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "UKIP asks police to investigate the BBC over Have I Got News for You". ITV News. 29 April 2015.


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