20 Facts About Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde was born on Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams; 13 May 1974 and is an English journalist.

Marina Hyde joined The Guardian in 2000 and, as one of the newspaper's columnists, writes three articles each week on current affairs, celebrity, and sport.

Marina Hyde attended Downe House School, near Newbury in Berkshire, and read English at Christ Church, Oxford.

Marina Hyde began her career in journalism as a temporary secretary on the Showbiz desk at The Sun newspaper.

Marina Hyde was later sacked by Sun editor David Yelland after it emerged she had been exchanging e-mails with Piers Morgan, editor of rival newspaper the Daily Mirror.

Since 2000, Marina Hyde has worked for The Guardian, at first writing the newspaper's Diary column.

Marina Hyde contributes three columns a week: one on sport, one on celebrity, and one which is typically about politics.

Marina Hyde has a regular serious column in the main section of The Guardian on Saturday, as well as a column in the "Weekend" supplement, in which she parodies a celebrity diary entry.

Marina Hyde was nominated as Columnist of the Year in the 2010 British Press Awards.

Marina Hyde published a follow-up diary of Elton John in 2009.

In November 2011, The Guardian apologised to The Sun newspaper for an article in which Marina Hyde had falsely alleged the newspaper had visited the home of a member of the legal team of the Leveson Inquiry.

Marina Hyde received two awards from the Sports Journalists' Association in February 2020, including Sports Journalist of the Year, the first woman to receive the award in its 43-year history.

Marina Hyde had written columns during the year on Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to award a knighthood to Geoff Boycott, Tiger Woods's performance at the 2019 Masters, and male responses to the FIFA Women's World Cup that year.

Marina Hyde won the same award again at the British Journalism Awards in 2020.

In 2020 Marina Hyde won the London Press Club's Edgar Wallace Award for writing or reporting of the highest quality.

Marina Hyde helped prepare and proof read Piers Morgan's The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade, in the acknowledgments of which she is described as Morgan's "best friend".

Since 2020, Marina Hyde has been a writer on HBO series Avenue 5.

In 2022, Marina Hyde was hired as a writing executive producer on an HBO pilot originating from director Sam Mendes about the process of superhero filmmaking in Hollywood.

In November 2023, Marina Hyde began hosting a podcast with Richard Osman, titled The Rest Is Entertainment.

In 1999, Marina Hyde married Kieran Clifton, a director at the BBC.