Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde (born 13 May 1974 as Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams) is an English columnist who writes articles on topics such as current affairs, politics, celebrity and sport for The Guardian newspaper. She is the daughter of Sir Alastair Edgcumbe James Dudley-Williams and the granddaughter of aviation pioneer and Conservative politician Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams.

She read English at Christ Church, Oxford,[citation needed] and began her career in journalism as a temporary secretary on the showbiz desk at The Sun newspaper.[1].

Since 2000, Hyde has worked at The Guardian and wrote the newspaper's Diary column. She now writes three columns a week: one on sport, one on celebrity, and one which is typically politics. Her sport column appears on Thursday, her celebrity column is entitled Lost In Showbiz and appears in the G2 supplement each Friday. She has a regular serious column in the main section of the Guardian on Saturday, as well as a column in the "Weekend" supplement, in which she parodies a celebrity diary entry. This is entitled A Peek at the Diary of..., which ends in the sign-off, "As seen by Marina Hyde". A libel action brought by Elton John against The Guardian, in reaction to Hyde's spoof diary column "A peek at the diary of... 'Sir Elton John'", published in July 2008, was rejected. The judge, Justice Tugendhat, said that in this case "irony" and "teasing" do not amount to defamation.[2]

Hyde's book about celebrity, Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over the World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy, was published in 2009. She has appeared from time to time as a reviewer on the BBC's Newsnight Review, and was nominated as Columnist of the Year in the 2010 British Press Awards.

References

  1. ^ Marina Hyde (24 July 2011). "Phone-hacking scandal: What I learned about news by temping for Sean Hoare". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/22/chancer-sure-sean-hoare-much-more. Retrieved 22 September 2011. 
  2. ^ Hyde, Marina. A victory for irony as Elton John loses Guardian libel case" - The Guardian, 13 December 2008

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