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Residence
  
West London

Nationality
  
British


Name
  
Jan Moir

Role
  
Columnist

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Born
  
August 1958 (
1958-08
)

Occupation
  
Columnist, restaurant reviewer

Known for
  
Opinion column in Daily Mail


Similar
  
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Jan Moir (born August 1958) is a British newspaper columnist.

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Career

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She currently works for the Daily Mail, having previously worked for The Daily Telegraph and The Observer newspapers. While at The Daily Telegraph she wrote the restaurant column "Are You Ready To Order?". She has won several newspaper awards including the Society of Women Writers' "Lynda Lee-Potter award" for the outstanding woman journalist of the year., the British Press Awards 'Interviewer of the Year', and What The Papers Say Feature Writer of the Year.

Stephen Gately

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In October 2009, Moir wrote an article criticising aspects of the life and death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately in the context of same-sex civil partnerships, and attempting to link his death to his sexuality, which she and the Daily Mail chose to publish six days after the singer's death and before his funeral. The article provoked much criticism, with Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker, for example, describing her article as "a gratuitous piece of gay-bashing" and urging readers to contact the Press Complaints Commission, albeit somewhat ironically. After receiving a record number of complaints, the PCC announced that it would investigate. Moir wrote an article in the newspaper a week later entitled "The truth about my views on the tragic death of Stephen Gately". On 6 November 2009, Moir was awarded the Stonewall Bigot of the Year Award jointly with Father John Owen.

On 17 February 2010, the Press Complaints Commission, whose chairman is the editor of the Daily Mail, confirmed that although it was "uncomfortable with the tenor of the columnist's remarks", it would not uphold the complaints made. The Crown Prosecution Service also concluded that there was insufficient evidence that the article had breached the law. In an interview on the BBC Radio's Today programme, PCC chairwoman Baroness Buscombe said the commission found the article "in many areas extremely distasteful" but that the Daily Mail had escaped censure because it "just failed to cross the line".

Later incidents

On 30 July 2012, Moir made headlines in the Netherlands when she called Dutch cyclist Marianne Vos "some bitch from Holland" after she defeated Lizzy Armitstead in the Olympic Women's road race and won the gold medal.

On 23 April 2013, Moir accused Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins of being a fame-hungry attention seeker when she ran the London Marathon whilst wearing make-up, designer sunglasses, and diamond earrings, and criticised her further for wearing a black suit with a plunging neckline to Margaret Thatcher's funeral a week before. Although Jenkins had raised £25,000 for Macmillan nurses in memory of her father who had died of cancer, the headline read "Katherine the (I'm so) Great: A Marathon in Full Make-Up. 'Cathedral Cleavage' at Lady T's Funeral. Shy and Retiring Ms Jenkins Simply Can't Help Stealing the Limelight". The article backfired with Jenkins tweeting in response, "I adore and support other women [and] wish you could do the same" Katy Brand in The Daily Telegraph reported that Jenkins comments about Moir's article had been "retweeted hundreds, even thousands of times."

References

Jan Moir Wikipedia


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