Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 18 June 1978) is a British newspaper columnist with ''

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'' and ''

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''. Long is associate editor of the

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and a columnist for ''Style'' magazine.

Family

Camilla Long is the daughter of Richard Pelham Long and Roslyn Vera Britton, a daughter of Captain Gordon Britton RN, who were married in 1973. She has a younger sister, Zoe. Their father’s mother, Marjorie Pelham-Clinton (1910–2005), was a granddaughter of Lord Charles Clinton, a younger son of

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (31 January 1785 – 12 January 1851) was a British nobleman and politician who played a leading part in British politics in the late 1820s and early 1830s. He was styled Lor ...

. Their grandmother was a first cousin of the 10th Duke, who died in 1988.

Life

Long was educated at Oxford High School and

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, She was awarded the 2010 and 2016

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"Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)" prize. In January 2012, Long interviewed the actor Michael Fassbender. Her opening question referred to the large size of the actor's

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("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 assbenderwould 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!" In 2013 she won the

Hatchet Job of the Year Hatchet Job of the Year was a British journalism award given annually from 2012 to 2014 to "the writer of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months". It was awarded by '' The Omnivore'', a review aggregator websi ...

award for a piece on

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memoir '' Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation'' published in March 2012; Long had previously been nominated the year before. In July 2013 Long succeeded Cosmo Landesman as film critic for ''

''. In March 2015 Long received criticism for referring to

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as "a small nodule of erupted

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at the eastern edge of England." 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

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, then UKIP leader, was standing for election.

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registered a complaint with Kent Police but no further action was taken. In February 2017, wrote, in a review for ''

'' that the film ''Moonlight'''s "story has been told countless times, against countless backdrops", and that the film is not "relevant" to a predominantly "straight, white, middle class" audience. She was accused of being

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and racist, although the review was defended as more a "waspish" response to other, highly congratulatory reviews.

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