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Camilla Long

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 section of The Sunday Times and a columnist for Style magazine.

Camilla Long
Born
Camilla Elizabeth Long

(1978-06-18) 18 June 1978 (age 48)
Winchester, England[1]
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
OccupationsJournalist, writer
Children2

Early life

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Camilla Long was born to Richard Pelham Long and Roslyn Vera Britton, a daughter of Captain Gordon Britton RN,[3] both academics.[4]

She was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[5][4]

Career

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Long joined Vogue as an administrator and became a writer. She was a journalist at The Tatler[4] from 2002.[6] She moved to The Sunday Times in 2007, working on Style magazine and working with A.A. Gill, Lynn Barber, and John Witherow.[4] In 2012 she wrote that Dave Lee Travis groped her when she interviewed him; she was in court when he was sentenced for groping another woman in 2014 and said he angrily reacted to her presence.[7] In July 2013, Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for The Sunday Times.[8] She was also a TV critic for the newspaper until February 2026, when she moved to be the restaurant critic.[4][9]

Reactions

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Writer Monique Roffey referred to being "hatcheted" by Long in 2011.[10] 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!"[11][12]

In March 2015, Long received criticism for referring to Thanet as "a small nodule of erupted spleen at the eastern edge of England."[13] 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.[14]

She was suspended from Twitter in July 2020 for referring to "facemask Nazis".[4] Piers Morgan has said she is "mischievous, provocative, and occasionally merciless".[4] Emma Lee-Potter, who interviewed Long for the 2017 book Interviewing for Journalists, called her "brilliant" and noted the "Camilla Long rule" of always taking the first interview slot offered.[15][16] Dominic Sandbrook said she is "one of the funniest writers you could hope to read".[17]

Awards

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Long was awarded the 2010 and 2016 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize.[18] In 2023, she was awarded columnist of the year,[4] and was shortlisted in 2025.[9]

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;[19][20] Long had also been nominated the previous year.[21]

Personal life

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As of 2023, Long lived in north-west London with her photojournalist husband and their two children.[4]

See also

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References

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  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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Turvill, William (12 January 2023). "Camilla Long on cancel culture, her Twitter suspension and the royal 'goatf**k'". Press Gazette.
  5. ↑ "Oxford University Gazette, 28 May 1998: Colleges". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  6. ↑ Bell, Matthew (15 December 2017). "Tatler is the ultimate posh magazine – but are its days numbered?". The i Paper.
  7. ↑ "DLT sentenced for groping TV personality". Sky News. 26 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Camilla Long to be new Sunday Times film critic" Archived 22 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, News UK, 1 July 2013
  9. 1 2 "The Sunday Times appoints Camilla Long to restaurant critic role". News Works. 4 February 2026.
  10. ↑ Roffey, Monique (2016). "Private Notes Made Public". Caribbean Quarterly. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1080/00086495.2016.1260267.
  11. ↑ 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)
  12. ↑ Heath, Chris (15 May 2012). "Fast Bender". GQ. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ "UKIP asks police to investigate the BBC over Have I Got News for You". ITV News. 29 April 2015.
  15. ↑ Adams, Sally; Lee-Potter, Emma (26 June 2017). Interviewing for Journalists. Taylor & Francis. p. 34-40. ISBN 9781317232148.
  16. ↑ Lee-Potter, Emma (19 May 2017). "My new book for journalism students".
  17. ↑ Sandbrook, May 2013. "Bury the Hatchet". Literary Review.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ Stephen Brook (24 March 2010). "Daily Telegraph dominates British Press Awards with expenses exposé". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  19. ↑ "Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review". BBC News. 13 February 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  20. ↑ 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)
  21. ↑ "Camilla Long". IMDb. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
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