Hugo James Rifkind was born on 30 March 1977 and is a British journalist.
12 Facts About Hugo Rifkind
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Hugo Rifkind has been a regular guest on The News Quiz, on BBC Radio 4 since 2008.
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Hugo Rifkind was born in 1977 in Edinburgh, the son of the Conservative Party politician Sir Malcolm Rifkind and his wife Edith, daughter of Polish airforce engineer Joseph Steinberg, who was imprisoned in Siberia after the annexation of Poland and lost his first wife and daughter.
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Hugo Rifkind was educated at the independent Loretto School in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, where, he has written, he was the only Jewish pupil.
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Hugo Rifkind attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh before reading philosophy at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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Hugo Rifkind began his career in journalism as an editorial assistant for the show business website Peoplenews.
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Hugo Rifkind joined The Times in 2005, taking over the gossip column from Andrew Pierce.
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Hugo Rifkind was named Columnist of the Year in the 2011 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, and Media Commentator of the Year in the same awards in 2012.
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Hugo Rifkind was highly commended in the Best of Humour category at the Society of Editors' Press Awards in 2012.
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Hugo Rifkind was Stonewall's Journalist of the Year in 2012, in recognition of his strong support for equal marriage.
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Hugo Rifkind began presenting a programme on Saturday mornings on the digital radio station Times Radio in July 2020.
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Hugo Rifkind is married to the German travel journalist Francisca Kellett, and they have two children.