Marina Hyde

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Marina Hyde (née Marina Dudley-Williams) is a columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian, where she writes on celebrity, sport and general comment. She lives in London.

She read English at Christ Church, Oxford, and began her career in journalism as a temporary secretary on the showbiz desk at The Sun newspaper. At this time she gained much publicity for her affair with Piers Morgan, then editor of The Daily Mirror, while they were both married to other people.[1][2]

Since 2000, Hyde has worked at The Guardian and formerly wrote the newspaper's Diary column. Her celebrity column is entitled Lost In Showbiz and appears in the G2 supplement each Friday. (It has used Wikipedia as a source.[3]) She also has a regular column in the Saturday supplement Weekend 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".

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lynn Barber 'I should have been fired years ago, to be honest', The Observer, 20 November 2005. Retrieved on 23 April 2007.
  2. ^ Bill Hagerty "Media: The Piers Morgan that you won't read about in the newspapers", The Independent 25 May 2004. Retrieved on 23 April 2007.
  3. ^ Hyde, Marina. "Lost in showbiz: Is this what Steve would have wanted?"." The Guardian. 29 February 2008 (details)

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