Eve Pollard

Evelyn "Eve" Pollard (Evelyn, Lady Lloyd), OBE (born 25 December 1945 in Manchester) is an English author, journalist and former tabloid editor.

Career

In her early years Evelyn Pollard (then known as Pollock) lived in Maida Vale, London with her parents and younger twin brothers. Her hard working immigrant parents were in the costume jewellery business. She attended an all-girls Catholic school in south London where she developed a love of journalism. Her journalistic career began in 1967 at "Honey" magazine where she was the tea girl, eventually becoming fashion editor. She was the second female editor, in modern times, of a national newspaper in the UK editing the "Sunday Mirror" from 1987-1991 and the "Sunday Express" from 1991-1994. Wendy Henry former editor of the "News of the World" and the "Sunday People" was the first.

In 1985 she was launch editor-in-chief of "ELLE" magazine in the US and edited Sunday magazine for the "News of the World" and "You" magazine for the "Mail on Sunday". She has also worked in television as features editor of TV-am 1982-1983, and devised the series "Frocks-on-the-Box" for ITV during the 1980’s. She has appeared regularly on TV and radio.

She has been a member of the Competition Commission’s Newspaper Takeover Panel since 2001 and since 1995 Pollard's publications include "Jackie", a biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1971); she has jointly written four novels, "Splash" (1995); "Best of Enemies" (1996); "Double Trouble" (1997); "Unfinished Business" (1998). She was set up in the Brass Eye episode 'Science' in 1997. In 2007 she was writing a novel for publishers Harper Collins in the U.S. Eve Pollard is married to Sir Nicholas Lloyd, a former editor of the "Daily Express" (1986-95) and step-father of her daughter, the TV presenter Claudia Winkleman.

In 2003 Eve was a guest panelist on the award winning talk show Loose Women.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. [LondonGazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |startpage=11 |supp=yes |notarchive=yes]

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