Bio
Journalist, author and editor with more than 20 years experience as a senior staff editor and freelance contributor on a wide variety of national magazines, newspapers, radio stations and websites.
Specialist areas
Currently working as Features Editor on Event Magazine (formerly Live) at The Mail on Sunday, specialising in writing, commissioning and editing cover and feature stories across the arts, celebrity, reportage and sport. Authoring the definitive biography of Jimmy Savile (to be published by Quercus in 2014), based on scores of interviews and years of in-depth research. A Contributing Editor at both Esquire, where I write long-form features and interviews, and MrPorter.com, for whom I contribute regular first person columns, humour and interview items. Formerly Deputy Editor and Acting Editor of Esquire, Deputy Editor of Jack and a regular contributor to The Guardian Guide among many others, my areas of expertise include men's lifestyle, celebrity interviews, sport, style and humour. Freelance commissions for: Live Magazine (The Mail on Sunday), The Guardian Guide, The Economist, Esquire, Mr Porter, T3, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph Men's Style supplement, GQ Sport, The Alfred Dunhill Magazine, Sky Sports Magazine, Golf Monthly, Golf World, FourFourTwo, 90 Minutes, World Soccer. Published books: 'One Love - The Story of Jamaica's Reggae Boyz and the 1998 World Cup' (Andre Deutsch); 'The Rough Guide to Liverpool FC' (Rough Guides). Brand relationships & editorial/event projects with Alfred Dunhill, Omega, Tag Heuer, Aubin & Wills, Hugo Boss, Betfair, Sky Sports, Microsoft, TaylorMade/adidas
