Bridget Harrison (born 22 February 1971) is a freelance journalist and Contributing Editor at

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. She is also an editor on the Times T2 and Times Weekend sections. She was the deputy editor of ''

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''.

Life

She was born in 1971. Harrison was educated at

St Paul's Girls' School St Paul's Girls' School is a private day school for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in west London, England. The school is included in The Schools Index as one of the world's 150 best private schools and among top ...

and Manchester University and she has an MSc. in Development Studies from the

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. She worked at the tabloid

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from 2000 to 2005 as a reporter, columnist and editor. Before this she was an assistant features editor at

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. Harrison was the deputy editor of ''

''. Her book ''Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr Right in All the Wrong Places'' chronicles her dating experience and the trials and tribulation as a 30-something single woman in

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. The book is a

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, although the names of characters in the book have been changed.

Private life

In 2008 Harrison married Dimitri Doganis, MD of Raw Television, they have two sons named Herc and Lexi.

References

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