Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill was born in Bristol and educated at Brislington Comprehensive School. She did not attend university, leaving the A-levels she had started a few weeks earlier to begin writing for the New Musical Express. In the 1980s and early 1990s, before her move to Brighton, she was depicted and saw herself as being the ‘Queen of the Groucho’
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Julie Burchill was born in Bristol and educated at Brislington Comprehensive School. She did not attend university, leaving the A-levels she had started a few weeks earlier to begin writing for the New Musical Express. She left her position at the NME at the age of 20, and started freelancing to be able to write about other subjects, although she has never completely given up writing about pop music. Her main employers after NME were The Face and The Sunday Times where she wrote about politics, pop, fashion and society. She admitted in 2008 to making up film reviews and having’skived’ from screenings, and her ex-husband, Cosmo Landesman, has admitted to attending screenings on her behalf. In the 1980s and early 1990s, before her move to Brighton, she was depicted and saw herself as being the ‘Queen of the Groucho’ She has frequently drawn on her personal life for her writing, especially during this period, when everything – her marriages, debauchery, her children – seemed to be news. In 2004 she established a short-lived magazine called Modern Review through which she met Charlotte Raven, with whom she had a six-month affair. She has been involved in legal actions resulting from the contents of her writing on several occasions. Her 2004 novel Sugar Rush was adapted for television. She is also an author and novelist, and wrote a book about the Falklands War in 1982, which was made into a film, The Falklands, in which she argued that the military dictatorship of General Galtieri was a greater evil than the British government.
In 2010, she wrote of her parents: ‘I don’t care much for families. I adored my mum and dad, but to be honest I don’t miss them much now they’re dead\”; three years later she contradicted this when she said she couldn’t return to Bristol, as every time she heard someone speaking with her parents’ Bristol accent it would remind her how much she missed them. She was married to Tony Parsons for six weeks in 1995, and had a publicised affair with a lesbian for six months in 2000. In 2008, she said of journalists on the Daily Mail: ‘Everybody knows that hacks are the biggest bunch of adulterers, the most misbehaving profession in the world – and you have people writing for The Daily Mail writing as though they are vicars… moralising on single mothers and whatnot’ She is a supporter of the Labour Party and has written for The Mail on Sunday, where she urged its readers to vote Labour in the 1987 general election. In 1991, she declared that she had ‘put enough toot up my admittedly sizeable snout to stun the entire Colombian armed forces’ and that she could have reigned as Queen of the ’90s and ’80s for a good 80s and 90s. She said of the MoS: ‘I simply can’t imagine that I could have had any kind of social life without, let alone have a good social life’
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