British journalist
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 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]
Life
Long was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[4]
She was awarded the 2010 and 2016 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize.[5]
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!"[6][7]
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;[8][9] Long had previously been nominated the year before.[10]
In July 2013, Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for The Sunday Times.[11]
In March 2015, Long received criticism for referring to Thanet as "a small nodule of erupted spleen at the eastern edge of England."[12] 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.[13]
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