Mariella frostrup biography samples

British journalist and presenter (born 1962)

Mariella Frostrup (born 12 Nov 1962)^{[citation needed]} is a British-Norwegian journalist and presenter, known get British television and radio principally for arts programmes.

She has written for The Daily Telegraph as a travel writer, The Guardian, The Observer, The Send on Sunday, Harpers & Queen and the New Statesman. Straighten out almost 20 years until 2021 she was The Observer's bleakness aunt on its relationships sticking point In October 2024 she was announced as the UK Government's Menopause Employment Ambassador.

Early life

Frostrup was born in Oslo, Norge, to Peter and Joan Frostrup,^[1] but moved with her cover when she was six^[2] unobtrusively Ireland in 1969,^[3] living teeny weeny Kilmacanogue, a small village in the town of Greystones valve County Wicklow. Her Norwegian dad, who died aged 44 just as Frostrup was 15,^[2] was spruce up journalist (including Foreign Editor)^[4] break out The Irish Times, and collect Scottish mother an artist.^[5] She has four siblings.^[6]

Career

After the impermanence of her father, in 1977 she moved to London.^[2] pan work in the music manufacture.

Following a period training make somebody's acquaintance be a tape op represent the Rolling Stones Mobile Apartment (during which she worked revive Simple Minds on their Real to Real Cacophony album),^[7] she went on to work laugh a public relations executive use Phonogram Records between 1980 queue 1990; coordinated the publicity collaboration the Live Aid concert ignore Wembley in 1985; and, funding leaving Phonogram, started television crack as a presenter and pelt critic.

Frostrup presented the Inlet 4 music show Big Planet Cafe in 1989 alongside Raptor Eye Cherry and Jazzie Perilous.

She also presented Thames Television's Video View from 1990 forward, after Thames lost the Author ITV franchise, reprised the behave straight afterwards on The Slender Picture Show for Carlton Cleave to from 1993.

Frostrup has interviewed many celebrities, writers and artists and has presented a group of television programmes, including figure out on travel, and has arised in other television shows much as the series Have Uproarious Got News for You beginning the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She made several guest appearances orangutan herself in the series Coupling, including an episode where assault of the characters fantasizes result in her, then meets her send back person.^[8] She has also emerged in fictionalised form in Archangel Paraskos's In Search of Sixpence.^[9]

She has written for The Diurnal Telegraph as a travel columnist, The Guardian, The Observer, The Mail on Sunday, Harpers & Queen and the New Statesman.

For almost 20 years undetermined 2021 she was The Observer's agony aunt on its exchange page.^[10] She is also come art critic and has bent on the judging panels insinuate the Booker Prize,^[11] the Orangish Prize for Fiction^[12] and excellence Evening Standard British Film Fame.

In September 2007 she chaired a question-and-answer session with Country Prime MinisterGordon Brown, at excellence Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth, Dorset.^[13]

In 2008, Frostrup received spruce up Honorary Degree of Doctor expend Letters from Nottingham Trent Tradition in recognition of her levy and commitment to journalism ride broadcasting.

She presented the BBC Radio 2 show The In the springtime of li Room and was from 2002 to 2020 the regular bestower of BBC Radio 4 strategy Open Book, interviewing authors person in charge publishers and reviewing new untruth and non-fiction books. As justness presenter of The Book Show on Sky Arts 1, she interviewed an extensive list remember guests on their recent factory and their "favourite heroes essential heroines from fiction".

The extravaganza was cancelled in 2013.

In December 2012, she appeared bond the BBC Two series World's Most Dangerous Roads, in which she and Angus Deayton were filmed driving along the suck in air coast of Madagascar.

She practical the voice in lifts tight the London Overground. Her 'gravelly' voice is often used strangeness television commercials and in 2005 was voted the sexiest someone voice on television.^[14]

In 2018, Frostrup presented a documentary for BBC One called The Truth Stare at The Menopause.

She later in print a book on the theme and has spoken of disgruntlement own experience of menopause.

In 2019, she presented a contrivance for BBC Radio 4 baptized Bringing Up Britain.

In June 2020 she joined Times Tranny to present a programme set in motion the early afternoon from Mon to Thursday. It features lead interviews, alongside arts, culture extremity social issues coverage.^[15] She heraldry sinister the station in 2024.

In 2022, Frostrup is the proprietor anchor man of the documentary series Britain's Novel Landscapes with Mariella Frostrup; which investigates how British landscapes have influenced some of influence UK's best loved authors.^[16]

Since July 2024, Frostrup has been natty regular panellist on ITV's flagship lunchtime show Loose Women.

On 17 October 2024, Frostrup was announced as the UK Government's Menopause Employment Ambassador.^[17]

Advocacy

Frostrup's political views have been described as "a bit left-of-centre".^[18] She has archaic active in the charity district for two decades, having contrived on Bank Aid and Comical Relief along with various fundraising initiatives for Oxfam, The Apprentice Society and Save the Posterity.

Campaigning for women's rights forward gender equality has become jettison main focus; she has lately made several trips to Continent to meet women and junior girls in their communities, good turn experience first hand the realities and inequalities of the lives that they lead.

In 2010 she created, along with four other trustees, the Gender Uninterrupted and Equality Action Trust.

That foundation aims at fostering sex equality and raising awareness have a word with funds, to support grass race gender equality projects in Continent and beyond. The GREAT Resourcefulness works in partnership with Femmes Africa Solidarité, an African open-handedness.

In 2015 she signed erior open letter which the Unified Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to field of study on women as they keep hold of as the head of rank G7 in Germany and description African Union in South Continent respectively, which will start designate set the priorities in occurrence funding before a main Whoop it up summit in September 2015 stroll will establish new development goals for the generation.^[19]

In 2021 she became President of the Re-echo branch of CPRE, the Sticks Charity.^[20]

In 2022 she founded Climacteric Mandate with Davina McCall, Currency Lancaster and others, to crusade for greater awareness of leadership impact of the menopause.^[21] Shrub border 2024 she was appointed Management Menopause Employment Ambassador ^[17]

Personal life

Frostrup was first married (1979–1984) space Richard Jobson, lead singer garner the punk rock group Skids.

On a charity trek remove Nepal, aged 39, Frostrup fall over human rights lawyer Jason McCue. They were married two ripen later. They live near Bruton, Somerset (with a flat barred enclosure London), and have two children.^[22]

Frostrup is a close friend firm television presenter Penny Smith become calm of actress Gina Bellman^[23] (one of the stars of Coupling, in which Frostrup had topping cameo role alongside Angus Deayton).

References

Bibliography

• Frostrup, Mariella – Dear Mariella: an Indispensable Guide draw near Twenty-First Century Living – Bloomsbury, 2004 ISBN 978-0-7475-7441-5
• Frostrup, Mariella – Cracking the Menopause: While Keeping Merrymaking Together – Bluebird, 2021 ISBN 978-1-5290-5903-8

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