- Eve Pollard
Evelyn "Eve" Pollard (Evelyn, Lady Lloyd), OBE (born
25 December 1945 inManchester ) is an Englishauthor ,journalist and formertabloid editor .Career
In her early years Evelyn Pollard (then known as Pollock) lived in Maida Vale, London with her parents and younger twin brothers. Her hard working immigrant parents were in the costume jewellery business. She attended an all-girls Catholic school in
south London where she developed a love of journalism. Her journalistic career began in1967 at "Honey" magazine where she was the tea girl, eventually becoming fashion editor. She was the second female editor, in modern times, of a national newspaper in theUK editing the "Sunday Mirror " from 1987-1991 and the "Sunday Express " from 1991-1994.Wendy Henry former editor of the "News of the World " and the "Sunday People " was the first.In 1985 she was launch editor-in-chief of "
ELLE " magazine in the US and edited Sunday magazine for the "News of the World " and "You" magazine for the "Mail on Sunday ". She has also worked in television as features editor ofTV-am 1982-1983, and devised the series "Frocks-on-the-Box" for ITV during the 1980’s. She has appeared regularly on TV and radio.She has been a member of the Competition Commission’s Newspaper Takeover Panel since
2001 and since1995 Pollard's publications include "Jackie", a biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1971); she has jointly written four novels, "Splash" (1995); "Best of Enemies" (1996); "Double Trouble" (1997); "Unfinished Business" (1998). She was set up in theBrass Eye episode 'Science' in 1997. In 2007 she was writing a novel for publishersHarper Collins in the U.S. Eve Pollard is married to SirNicholas Lloyd , a former editor of the "Daily Express " (1986-95) and step-father of her daughter, the TV presenterClaudia Winkleman .In 2003 Eve was a guest panelist on the award winning talk show
Loose Women .She was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. [LondonGazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |startpage=11 |supp=yes |notarchive=yes]Footnotes
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