Camilla Long

Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 18 June 1978)[2] is a British newspaper columnist with The Times and The Sunday Times. Long is associate editor of the News Review and a columnist for Style magazine.

Camilla Long
Born
Camilla Elizabeth Long

(1978-06-18) 18 June 1978
Winchester, England[1]
NationalityBritish
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist, writer
Parent(s)Richard Pelham Long;
Roslyn Britton
RelativesRichard Long, 4th Viscount Long (cousin)

Family

Camilla Long is the daughter of Richard Pelham Long and Roslyn Vera Britton, a daughter of Captain Gordon Britton CBE RN, who were married in 1973.[3] She has a younger sister, Zoe. Their father’s mother, Marjorie Pelham-Clinton (1910–2005), was a granddaughter of Lord Charles Clinton, a younger son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle. Their grandmother was a first cousin of the 10th Duke, who died in 1988.[4]

Life

Long was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford,[5]

She was awarded the 2010 and 2016 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize.[6]

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!"[7][8]

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;[9][10] Long had previously been nominated the year before.[11] In July 2013 Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for The Sunday Times.[12]

In March 2015 Long received criticism for referring to Thanet as "a small nodule of erupted spleen at the eastern edge of England.".][13] 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.[14]

In February 2017, she received criticism, mainly on Twitter, for writing, in a review for The Times that the film Moonlight's "story has been told countless times, against countless backdrops", and that the film is not "relevant" to a predominantly "straight, white, middle class" audience.[15] She was accused of being homophobic and racist, although the review was defended as more a "waspish" response to other reviews perceived as overly congratulatory.[16]

See also

References
  1. ””LONG CAMILLA ELIZABETH / Britton / Winchester / 20 1886” in General Index to Births in England and Wales, 1978
  2. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  3. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (Kelly's Directories, 2000), p. 1231
  4. Burke’s Peerage, vol. 2 (2003), p. 2337
  5. "Oxford University Gazette, 28 May 1998: Colleges". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  6. Stephen Brook (24 March 2010). "Daily Telegraph dominates British Press Awards with expenses exposé". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  7. Camilla Long (22 January 2012). "Dirty pretty thing". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 July 2015. (subscription required)
  8. Heath, Chris. "Fast Bender". Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  9. "Long wins Hatchet Job award for scathing Cusk review". BBC News. 13 February 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  10. Long, Camilla (4 March 2012). "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 22 November 2015. (subscription required)
  11. "Camilla Long". IMDb. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  12. "Camilla Long to be new Sunday Times film critic" Archived 22 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, News UK, 1 July 2013
  13. "Sunday Times article brands Thanet as 'English Defence League on Sea'". Thanet Gazette. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  14. "UKIP asks police to investigate the BBC over Have I Got News for You". ITV News. 29 April 2015.
  15. Long, Camilla. "Film review: Moonlight and Hidden Figures". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  16. David McAlmont. "To Camilla Long: In Defence Of Moonlight". Huffington Post. Retrieved 25 January 2021.


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