Camilla Long
{{Short description|British journalist}}
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| name = Camilla Long
| birth_name = Camilla Elizabeth Long
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1978|6|18}}
| birth_place = Winchester, England""LONG CAMILLA ELIZABETH / Britton / Winchester / 20 1886" in General Index to Births in England and Wales, 1978
| occupation = Journalist, writer
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| alma_mater = Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 18 June 1978)Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition. 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.
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.Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (Kelly's Directories, 2000), p. 1231
Life
Long was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/280598/coll.htm |title=Oxford University Gazette, 28 May 1998: Colleges |publisher=University of Oxford |accessdate=29 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427233522/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/280598/coll.htm |archive-date=27 April 2013 |url-status=dead }}
She was awarded the 2010 and 2016 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/mar/24/british-press-awards-2010-telegraph-expenses |title=Daily Telegraph dominates British Press Awards with expenses exposé |author=Stephen Brook |work=The Guardian |date=24 March 2010 |accessdate=2 July 2013}}
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!"{{cite news |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/Interviews/article856056.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129083609/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/Interviews/article856056.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 January 2013 |title=Dirty pretty thing |author=Camilla Long |newspaper=The Sunday Times |date=22 January 2012 |accessdate=2 July 2015}} {{subscription required}}{{cite web|last=Heath|first=Chris|title=Fast Bender| date=15 May 2012 |url=https://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201206/michael-fassbender-gq-june-2012-interview?currentPage=1|accessdate=11 April 2015}}
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;{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21441058 |title=Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review |publisher=BBC News |date=13 February 2013 |accessdate=29 April 2013}}{{cite news|last=Long|first=Camilla|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article879730.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122215028/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/article879730.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 November 2015|title=Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk|work=The Sunday Times|location=London|date=4 March 2012|accessdate=22 November 2015}} {{subscription required}} Long had previously been nominated the year before.{{Cite web|title=Camilla Long|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1884191/bio|access-date=2020-11-03|website=IMDb}}
In July 2013, Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for The Sunday Times.[http://news.co.uk/2013/07/01/camilla-long-to-be-new-sunday-times-film-critic/ "Camilla Long to be new Sunday Times film critic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122085122/http://news.co.uk/2013/07/01/camilla-long-to-be-new-sunday-times-film-critic/ |date=22 January 2014 }}, News UK, 1 July 2013
In March 2015, Long received criticism for referring to Thanet as "a small nodule of erupted spleen at the eastern edge of England."{{cite web|url=http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/Sunday-Times-article-brands-Thanet-English/story-26249636-detail/story.html|title=Sunday Times article brands Thanet as 'English Defence League on Sea'|work=Thanet Gazette|access-date=24 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404143236/http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/Sunday-Times-article-brands-Thanet-English/story-26249636-detail/story.html|archive-date=4 April 2015|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-29/ukip-asks-police-to-investigate-the-bbc-over-have-i-got-news-for-you/|title=UKIP asks police to investigate the BBC over Have I Got News for You|work=ITV News|date=29 April 2015}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1884191|name=Camilla Long}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/sitesearch.do?querystring=camilla+long§ionId=2&p=sto&bl=on&pf=all|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505060927/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/sitesearch.do?querystring=camilla+long§ionId=2&p=sto&bl=on&pf=all|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2013|title=Camilla Long|work=The Sunday Times|accessdate=29 April 2013}}
- {{Journalisted|camilla-long|title=Camilla Long}}
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