Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 18 June 1978) is a British newspaper
columnist
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with ''
The Times
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'' and ''
The Sunday Times
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''. 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.
Life
Long was educated at
Oxford High School and
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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,
She was awarded the 2010 and 2016
British Press Awards
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History
Established in 1962 by ''The People'' and '' World's Press News'', the first award ceremony for the then-named Ha ...
"Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize.
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
assbenderwould 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!"
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; Long had previously been nominated the year before.
In July 2013, Long succeeded
Cosmo Landesman as film critic for ''
The Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of N ...
''.
In March 2015, Long received criticism for referring to
Thanet as "a small nodule of erupted
spleen
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The spleen plays important roles in reg ...
at the
eastern edge of England." 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
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, then UKIP leader, was
standing for election.
UKIP
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registered a complaint with
Kent Police but no further action was taken.
See also
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Duke of Newcastle
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1978 births
Living people
Writers from Winchester
The Times journalists
People educated at Oxford High School, England
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
English columnists
British newspaper journalists
The Sunday Times people
English film critics
British women film critics
British television personalities
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