The noughties was a golden age of celebrity culture but it was also toxic. “There was a major obsession with young women ‘trainwrecks’, people like Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears,” she says. “The magazines were disgusting… They would circle sweat patches and body parts of celebrities that were deemed inadequate.
It took longer to find a voice when writing about politics. She thinks it first began to click for her when she stopped trying to write worthily and deferentially and was carried away by the ludicrous white heat of Brexit. She realised that politics was no longer hugely different from show business. “The biggest reality TV star of that era, Trump, ended up in the White House,” she says.
Marina Hyde: 'There is something quite cathartic about having to quite dispassionately sit there and contemplate whatever Jacob Rees Mogg has done that week and think'. Photograph: Matt Crockett What about legal restrictions? “There’s almost always a way around… a way that means that the reader will understand exactly the same thing from [a joke], but somehow I am not going to court for it. I really try and get as close as possible to that line. It’s been my life’s work!”She rarely writes about herself. But the week the story of Sarah Everard’s awful death broke, she was followed and verbally abused by a strange man as she was collecting one of her children.
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