The Mail On Sunday deployed their Showbusiness Editor Katie Hind for their latest rubbishing of Jess Brammar, as she seeks a return to BBC News in an executive role.
Katie, 40, (Notre Dame Pound Hill Middle School, then Hazelwick Comprehensive, Crawley; 2.1 Linguistics, University of East Anglia; qualified football referee) rose through news editor to editor at the UEA student paper Concrete, and made news herself by defending an ad for a Norwich lap-dancing club, with included a free lap-dance voucher for students.
In June 2019 she opined that 'Boris and Carrie are the perfect 'love match' who enjoy evening painting sessions and cycle rides'. In July 2019 she wrote a feature answering the question 'Thanks to the ‘Carrie effect’ could Carrie Symonds be well on her way to becoming a full on fashion icon ?' In February this year she wrote a long piece complaining that 'her friend' Carrie Symonds had been the victim of a three-month long campaign of misogyny. Carrie's crime, said Katie, was that 'she got in the way of the Brexit Boys who thought they could have it all their way.' (Another confidante seeking Katie's help was pre-Harry Meghan Markle, who wanted to know if she should date footballer Ashley Cole).
Her friendship with Carrie gave her no special insights on the announcement of a second child on the way, in July, but Katie pulled it all together under the headline "Has anyone had a start to family life as dramatic as Carrie and Boris Johnson?"
Jess Brammar's partner Jim Waterson broke the story that Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds had a blazing row at her South London flat in 2019, after his newspaper was passed a recording of the argument by a neighbour of the couple in June that year.
Katie has taken to social media to defend today's article. NB Ms Hind used to be Mirror's Los Angeles editor, until 2016. She joined the MoS in 2018..
A Mirror journalist is having a go at me for questioning whether a fair recruitment process took place at he BBC over the hiring of a woman. Suggest she takes a look at her own employers and how they have treated their female staff before she starts throwing insults around
— Katie Hind (@katiehind) August 22, 2021
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