About Me

I'm a young writer who has just graduated from City, University of London in MA Magazine Journalism with a Distinction. I have experience in news reporting, feature writing and editorial (digital and print), and have a penchant for pop culture and LGBT+ issues.

3rd August 2021

Q&A with Judge Rinder

Born in London, Rinder, 43, was first called to the bar in 2001 after graduating from the University of Manchester. 13 years later, he was approached to host the reality courtroom series, Judge Rinder, which catapulted him into the public eye. Thanks to his services to Holocaust education and awareness outside of the show, he was appointed an MBE in June 2021.

3rd August 2021

The Real Housewives grabbed my hand and dragged me from the pits of lockdown

I turned my nose up at the Housewives’ cattiness and parade of wealth for years but, as the world burnt around me, the franchise fast became the perfect numbing agent.

3rd August 2021

Experience: "I won £32,500 on a game show"

It all started as a joke. I always fancied myself as a quiz show connoisseur, but the most I’d won for my general knowledge was a Fortnum & Mason hamper at the local school fête. I routinely rang up the ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ contestant hotline in the late nineties, but Chris Tarrant never got back to me.

3rd August 2021

I tried to become a TikTokker in lockdown three

In lockdown one, I sneered at my 19-year-old sister’s request to teach me the viral dance to Doja Cat’s ‘Say So’. Now, completely submerged in lockdown three, my desire to maintain any level of dignity has been lost. I want to be a TikTok star.

3rd August 2021

Me and my wardrobe

When I was nine-years-old, I vividly remember wanting to dress like Kate Moss. I was never interested in polished editorial shoots; it was her off-duty looks that mesmerised me.

Issuu • 3rd August 2021

XCity Magazine 2021 | By City, University of London, Journalism Department

Find my interview with writer Annie Lord on pages 93-94.

book(ish) • 3rd August 2021

Wuthering Heights: You don’t have to read Brontë to love Bush

I may not have read Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë cover to cover, but I’ve listened to Kate Bush’s homonymous single more times than I can count.

XCity Plus • 13th May 2021

Journalism, OCD, and me

Since starting my journalism master’s in September 2020, I’ve noticed my nit-picking perfectionism and incessant checking more than once.

22nd January 2021

One to one with a COVID-19 nurse

“I have a friend who wet herself because she couldn’t leave her patient, but she’d been there for hours and hours and hours. Nurses in intensive care units around the country are wearing nappies as part of their scrub uniform. There is not enough time for toilet breaks.”

27th November 2020

The AMAs saved by Hot Girl Meg

When ABC’s contract to air the Grammys expired in 1973, Dick Clark created The American Music Awards. With this kind of entrance into the world, the AMAs were born to be the Grammys’ less original, trashier younger sibling.