Claudia Winkleman

Profile: Full name: Claudia Anne I. Winkleman Area of interest: Lifestyle and culture Journals/Organisation: The Independent Email: Personal website: Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/claudia-winkleman Blog: Representation: Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/claudiawinkle

Biography: About: Education: City of London School for Girls; New Hall College, Cambridge University: History of Art (MA Hons) Career: Writing/Journalism (Wikipedia) TV career (Wikipedia) Current position/role: Columnist also writes/written for: The Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan Other roles/Main role: TV presenter Other activities: Charity and other work (Wikipedia) Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: The high art of reality TV (Claudia Winkleman gets really creative in her new BBC programme - a crash course in art for five celebrities. And this time she's telling no lies, she assures Catherine Shoard) The Daily Telegraph, 31st August 2005 Broadcast media: Video: Much in demand as a TV and radio presenter IMDb Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: Daughter of Eve Pollard (former editor of the Sunday Express & Sunday Mirror); stepdaughter of Sir Nicholas Lloyd (former editor of the Daily Express and New York Post); half sister of actress Sophie Winkleman

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The Independent: 'Take It From Me' Column name: Remit/Info: Lifestyle and culture Section: Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/claudia-winkleman Commissioning editor: Day published: Wednesday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: no recent articles This is goodbye. For a bit - 'Someone else will have to worry about the credit crunch while I am immersed in the details of John Sergeant's foxtrot' - 17th September 2008 Have an idea, Dave - 'Maybe Cameron should step away from the Hackett catalogue, and have a good think about the health service' - 10th September 2008 Death by diet - There is no one more enraged than a woman on a diet. I nearly killed a man after two days on the Atkins - 3rd September 2008 "Civilians" do things at a different pace - Take It From Me: 'Unless you are Peaches or Britney, by month two you are still at the stage of waking up before him to brush your teeth' - 20th August 2008 I'm sticking up for Jordan, again - 'Jordan is the fantasy. If you asked 100 women who they'd like to be, most would say Kirsty Wark. They're lying' - 13th August 2008 Don't forget the kids - 6th August 2008 I've found the best place in the world - The Grand Canyon will make you marvel at the planet. But it won't make you high-five a man selling waffles - 30th July 2008 Don't let your man near a nanny - When Ethan Hawke considered having an affair, did he think of casting the net a little wider than his own kitchen? - 23rd July 2008 Men will stop and marvel at a parked car. Am I missing something? Does it cook? Can it speak six languages? - 16th July 2008 'Could we be strong together, work as a team, and have fun? Could we win life's great wife-carrying competition? - 9th July 2008 My experience of interior design was confined to putting up pictures where a previous occupant had left a nail - 2nd July 2008 My husband is at the gym constantly. He's even created special Sports Day chants to sing with our five-year-old - 25th June 2008 Pregnant women glow because they are sweating – rivulets of perspiration running from their armpits to their feet - 18th June 2008 Should I have a picture taken in a tank top, big pants and no make-up to prove that looks aren't everything? - 11th June 2008 My husband says he's wheat-intolerant. He's given up bread. No biggie, I thought – but I should have hit the panic button... - 4th June 2008 "Basically, the human population can be divided into two groups – those who like festivals and those who don't" - 21st May 2008 "Victoria recently admitted to drinking seaweed juice. We all want to be slim, but that's just taking it one step too far" - 14th May 2008 "The Sex and the City movie is a bit like the All Saints comeback and the return of the Jammy Dodger – all wrong" - 7th May 2008 "My friend just stared at me, shocked. What was wrong? Was it the wine I'd brought? It's not like it was in a box..." - 30th April 2008 '"'I don't get pets. You work hard to save up for a nice home with a half-decent sofa and then you spoil it all with a cat" - 23rd April 2008 "The cinema is win-win. No chat, no cooking. Just nachos and a Solero in a dark room with the man you love" - 16th April 2008 "I couldn't think what to write about this week, so Lucy suggested I should look myself up on the internet..." - 9th April 2008 "My life had just been made suddenly more worthwhile: for some reason, I'd been invited to lunch with Carla" - 2nd April 2008 "Jamie Cullum could be the smallest person on the planet. If you go out for supper, does he use a high chair?" - 26th March 2008 "Pregnant women who want to parade around on stage in tutus are about the most terrifying people you could meet" - 19th March 2008 "I couldn't really hear my husband because I was speed-eating Mini Eggs while listening to my iPod" - 12th March 2008 "BlackBerrys behave like vital objectswe can't live without. But really they'rejust spam emails following us around" - 5th March 2008 "It's totally fine for a girl to ask her boyfriend to marry her. But if you want him to propose, here's how it's done..." - 27th February 2008 "My husband did nothing to mark Valentine's Day. He didn't even text me. I decided to have a full-on strop" - 20th February 2008 "Single friends should be feeling sorry for us – the morons who have to go out and spend a fortune on a hideous supper" - 13th February 2008 "When I rang BT about being cut off, it was daytime. And when I finished, the kids had put themselves to bed" - 6th February 2008 "Somewhere in her subconscious she'll know that Mummy and Daddy left her behind. So they could get a tan" - 30th January 2008 "January is not about not drinking. It's worse. It's about not having fun. God forbid you have a twinkle in your eye" - 16th Jauary 2008 "There's only one thing that will make a woman bite, bang her head, scream, take pills and offer everything she has" - 9th January 2008 "I must never not eat lunch to get into a small dress and then only drink Baileys, because I will feel very, very ick" - 2nd January 2008

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