Circles

More news of Richard Sharp's chumocracy at the BBC, from The Sunday Times. 

They say that Richard introduced Caroline Daniel, currently earning £15k as a Board advisor on editorial matters, to her husband Christopher Villiers - and that friendship was declared to senior executives before the formal appointment. 

Caroline went to St Helen's, a private day school in Northwood, then studied history at St John's College Cambridge, picking up a First, and colours for badminton. She won a Laurence Stern Fellowship to the Washington Post, wrote for The Economist and the New Statesman, and researched for Gordon Brown, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, before joining the FT in 1999, where she progressed through Technology Correspondent, White House Correspondent, Opinion page editor, Comment and Analysis Editor, and Weekend FT Editor. She joined Brunswick PR in 2016.  

Christopher Villiers, 62, (Stowe) is an actor perhaps best known for playing Grayson Sinclair in Emmerdale. He portrayed Captain James Hewitt in the 1996 tv movie Princess in Love, more recently Charles Montague in Fisherman's Friends, and has fond memories of touring with a version of Entertaining Mr Sloane, also starring Barbara Windsor and John Challis. He was previously married to Kathryn Threlfall.