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May 13, 2022 · Bizarre became a springboard for some of the UK’s most talented journalists, including ex-column editors Jane Moore, Piers Morgan and Victoria Newton — editor of The Sun today.
- The Birth of Bizarre
- Interview: Current Bizarre Editor Simon Boyle
- ‘If You Don’T Know What A Kardashian Is You’Re A Stupid Person’
- ‘Appetites For Really Hounding Somebody Have Changed’
- The Sun vs. Mail Online, According to Ed Sheeran
- ‘It’s Faded from People’s Minds now. I Think. I Hope’
- ‘All of Life Is in The Sun’
- Club Bizarre
Bizarre’s name was reputedly born of a conversation between 1980s Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzieand the man who would become the column’s first editor, John Blake. The exchange was documented in Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie’s 1990 book ‘Stick It Up Your Punter!’: “‘Pop’s weird these days, John’, MacKenzie kept repeating. ‘I can’t understand it. ...
Fast forward to the modern day, and Bizarre’s current editor Simon Boyle. So then, Press Gazette asks him, what’s the biggest celebrity story in the world right now? Boyle names two – both of which involve The Sun. The first: “This ludicrous legal wranglingbetween the two WAGs, Becky Vardy and Coleen Rooney.” That wrangling was sparked by Rooney’s ...
Celebrity journalism is one of the most challenging and competitive sectors on Fleet Street. But Boyle is aware that his speciality can sometimes be seen as less prestigious than others. “There’s a notion among some people, an elitism,” he says. “People like to sanctimoniously go: ‘Oh, what is a Kardashian?’ “Now they know damn well what a Kardashi...
Boyle’s rejection of tawdriness is a reversal of what “Stick It Up Your Punter!” called the paper’s “‘setting ‘em up and knocking ‘em down’ process of creating and destroying popular figures like Boy George”. Under John Blake, Bizarre hyped up Boy George so much that The Sun reportedly got a dedication on Culture Club’s third album in 1984. But by ...
Press Gazette spoke with Boyle the same day press regulator IPSO ruled in favour of actress Lily James over a multi–article harassment complaint against Mail Online. IPSO decided the Mail had breached the Editors’ Code by commissioning freelances to linger near James’ home after she had already asked the paper to desist. That seemed to run counter ...
Boyle became editorof Bizarre in April 2018 – more than a decade after tabloid wrongdoing which led to the closure of the News of the World. But the paper’s parent company, News Group Newspapers – which has never accepted that phone-hacking occurred at The Sun – continues to settleclaims of illegality at the red-top out of court. Does he feel that ...
What next for Boyle and Bizarre? One ambition, he says, is to enhance the column’s coverage of Hollywood. But, he adds, “there’s a real kind of wariness about print press across the board – not just tabloids, but many big Hollywood film stars simply won’t talk to any print publication. And I’m trying really hard to break down those barriers in the ...
Between John Blake in 1982 and Simon Boyle in 2022, the Bizarre column has been a temporary home to some of Britain’s best known and most successful journalists. Alumni include Talk TV’s Piers Morgan (right), Nick Ferrari of LBC, New York Daily News editor Martin Dunn, Sun columnist Jane Moore, GB News presenter Dan Wootton, News of the World edito...
Nov 18, 2019 · Incensed by two-faced contestant “Nasty” Nick Bateman, the Bizarre showbiz team decided to warn his housemates, who were cut off from the world in a guarded compound in East London.
Victoria Newton (born 9 March 1970 in Liverpool, England) is the editor of The Sun. She formerly ran its "Bizarre" showbiz column and then became deputy editor of the paper, becoming senior editor in February 2020.
Nov 19, 2019 · THE Sun’s Bizarre column boss – an ambitious 26-year-old named Piers Morgan – was standing on the doorstep of a hotel near Buckingham Palace in November 1991, waiting in the faint hope that...
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Interesting Facts About The Sun. The Sun has had 11 editors since its founding in 1964. The first featured article in the tabloid was titled "Horse Dope Sensation". Sowerby Bridge once banned The Sun for excessive sexual content. Piers Morgan once edited The Sun’s "bizarre" pop column. The Sun’s Archives
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All six were charged with conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office. They included The Sun ' s head of news Chris Pharo, who faced six charges, while ex-managing editor Graham Dudman and ex-Sun deputy news editor Ben O'Driscoll were accused of four charges each. Thames Valley district reporter Jamie Pyatt and picture editor John ...
