Camilla Long

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Camilla Long
Born
Camilla Elizabeth Long

(1978-06-18) 18 June 1978 (age 43)
Winchester, England[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist, writer
Parent(s)Richard Pelham Long;
Roslyn Britton
RelativesRichard Long, 4th Viscount Long (cousin)

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

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] She has a younger sister, Zoe. Their father’s mother, Marjorie Pelham-Clinton (1910–2005), was a granddaughter of Lord Charles Clinton, a younger son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle. Their grandmother was a first cousin of the 10th Duke, who died in 1988.[4]

Life[]

Long was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[5]

She was awarded the 2010 and 2016 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize.[6]

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!"[7][8]

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;[9][10] Long had previously been nominated the year before.[11] In July 2013 Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for The Sunday Times.[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]

In February 2017, she received criticism, mainly on Twitter, for writing, in a review for The Times that the film Moonlight's "story has been told countless times, against countless backdrops", and that the film is not "relevant" to a predominantly "straight, white, middle class" audience.[15] She was accused of being homophobic and racist, although the review was defended as more a "waspish" response to other reviews perceived as overly congratulatory.[16]

See also[]

  • Duke of Newcastle

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. ^ Burke’s Peerage, vol. 2 (2003), p. 2337
  5. ^ "Oxford University Gazette, 28 May 1998: Colleges". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  6. ^ Stephen Brook (24 March 2010). "Daily Telegraph dominates British Press Awards with expenses exposé". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  7. ^ Camilla Long (22 January 2012). "Dirty pretty thing". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 July 2015. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Heath, Chris. "Fast Bender". Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review". BBC News. 13 February 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  10. ^ Long, Camilla (4 March 2012). "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 22 November 2015. (subscription required)
  11. ^ "Camilla Long". IMDb. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  12. ^ "Camilla Long to be new Sunday Times film critic" Archived 22 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, News UK, 1 July 2013
  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. ^ Long, Camilla. "Film review: Moonlight and Hidden Figures". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  16. ^ David McAlmont. "To Camilla Long: In Defence Of Moonlight". Huffington Post. Retrieved 25 January 2021.

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