Camilla Long
British journalist
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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 section of The Sunday Times and a columnist for Style magazine.
18 June 1978
Camilla Long | |
|---|---|
| Born | Camilla Elizabeth Long 18 June 1978 Winchester, England[1] |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Journalist, writer |
| Children | 2 |
Early life
Camilla Long was born to Richard Pelham Long and Roslyn Vera Britton, a daughter of Captain Gordon Britton RN,[3] both academics.[4]
She was educated at Oxford High School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[5][4]
Career
Long joined Vogue as an administrator and became a writer. She was a journalist at The Tatler[4] from 2002.[6] She moved to The Sunday Times in 2007, working on Style magazine and working with A.A. Gill, Lynn Barber, and John Witherow.[4] In 2012 she wrote that Dave Lee Travis groped her when she interviewed him; she was in court when he was sentenced for groping another woman in 2014 and said he angrily reacted to her presence.[7] In July 2013, Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for The Sunday Times.[8] She was also a TV critic for the newspaper until February 2026, when she moved to be the restaurant critic.[4][9]
Reactions
Writer Monique Roffey referred to being "hatcheted" by Long in 2011.[10] 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!"[11][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]
She was suspended from Twitter in July 2020 for referring to "facemask Nazis".[4] Piers Morgan has said she is "mischievous, provocative, and occasionally merciless".[4] Emma Lee-Potter, who interviewed Long for the 2017 book Interviewing for Journalists, called her "brilliant" and noted the "Camilla Long rule" of always taking the first interview slot offered.[15][16] Dominic Sandbrook said she is "one of the funniest writers you could hope to read".[17]
Awards
Long was awarded the 2010 and 2016 British Press Awards "Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize.[18] In 2023, she was awarded columnist of the year,[4] and was shortlisted in 2025.[9]
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;[19][20] Long had also been nominated the previous year.[21]
Personal life
As of 2023, Long lived in north-west London with her photojournalist husband and their two children.[4]
