Carol Thatcher

Carol Thatcher

Carol Jane Thatcher is an English journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, and Denis Thatcher. Thatcher won the fifth series of the reality show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

About Carol Thatcher in brief

Summary Carol ThatcherCarol Jane Thatcher is an English journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, and Denis Thatcher. Thatcher won the fifth series of the reality show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! She has written biographies of both her parents and also produced a documentary about her father which contained his only public interview. Thatcher’s freelance career has included contributing articles to magazines and papers as well as television work. In 2007, Thatcher travelled to the Falkland Islands and Argentina for the documentary Mummy’s War, in order to explore the legacy of the Falklands War.

On 3 February 2009, British media reports that Thatcher had referred to a black tennis player, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, as a ‘half-golliwog’ and ‘the golliwog Frog’ Thatcher refused to apologise for what she said on The One Show unless she made a more sincere apology. The BBC stated that Thatcher would not work on the show again unless she said what she had said in shorthand was not a racist remark in a way that she meant it in a racist way. In 2003, Thatcher produced a Channel 4 documentary about him called Married to Maggie. Thatcher captured the only public interviews Denis Thatcher gave in his lifetime; he died shortly after its release.