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Fashion, Camilla Morton
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Ever since Camilla Morton skipped Guide Camp and booked a flight to Paris to see the Chanel show things have been going horribly high end. Camilla started going to fashion shows long before she was invited, and went from being a TV runner to the Telegraph, to St Martins and VOGUE, as her finishing school. Then, after watching ‘Sabrina’ too many times, she moved to Paris to polish off her look, more than her French, and worked for John Galliano at Christian Dior. Her writing credits include a column in the Times and later the Telegraph Magazine, POP, the Face, TIME, W , Harpers Bazaar (US), Vogue, the Sunday Times, and ELLE. But show time is her passion and she has written runway reviews for VOGUE.COM as well as the ‘Camilla Says’ column for them, whilst continuing to make tea and be the Girl Friday for John Galliano in Paris. Camilla’s first book ‘How to Walk in High Heels’ was a UK Bestseller and has been translated into 19 languages worldwide. Her new book ‘A Girl for All Seasons’ is out now.

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Fashion, Mimi Spencer
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Mimi Spencer set up Wonderstuff (UK) Ltd in May 2007, in response to the hundreds of enquiries she received each week from readers eager for expert opinion and information in matters of style. Mimi is a columnist at YOU Magazine (the Mail on Sunday), and a contributing editor to Observer Woman Magazine and Grazia. She regularly writes for the Guardian, the Evening Standard, Harper’s Bazaar and the Spectator and has edited ES Magazine. She was Fashion Editor at the Evening Standard for six years (where she won Fashion Journalist of the Year in 2000). She now lives with two children, a husband and many seagulls not far from Brighton Pier.

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Beauty, Alice Hart-Davis
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Alice Hart-Davis is an award-winning beauty journalist who writes for publications such as the Daily Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday's YOU magazine and London's Evening Standard, and pops up occasionally on GMTV, to discuss what's new (and what works best!). Her most recent and sparkling award was for Beauty Journalist of the Year at the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Beauty Awards, where Alice was voted the "winner of winners" by a panel of industry luminaries and magazine editors. She also won Regional Beauty Writer of the Year, and was short-listed for Beast National Beauty Writer. Alice spends her time with the experts in the beauty field, from hairdressers and nutritionists, cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists, to the R&D scientists of skincare companies. In the interests of research, she has tried everything from acupuncture needles to radio-frequency skin-tightening treatments. She knows that beauty is more than skin deep, but also that we live in a fickle society that judges people on their looks, so you might as well try to look your best. Alice lives in central London with her husband and three children, has a bit of a false-eyelash habit and is still looking for the perfect face cream.

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Beauty, Rebecca Howard
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Rebecca Howard has been a health and beauty journalist for the past seven years, working for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Glamour magazines and on The Daily Mail as Deputy Editor of the Lifestyle pages. Since January 2006 she has been a freelance writer contributing to Grazia, The Independent, The Daily Mail and The Wall Street Journal's Style Journal, as well as several luxury titles including BA's Business Life and High Life magazines. In addition, she has a weekly fashion column in the purple-top paper, London Lite. Alongside her editorial work, she regularly appears on television for GMTV and Living TV, and most recently, on the Channel 4 series How to Look Good Naked. A committed beauty expert, she specialises in the latest nip'n'tuck surgery procedures and can spot the next big catwalk trend from fifty paces. A self-confessed product junkie, she's always on the hunt for the perfect lip balm and concealer and never leaves the house without lashings of sooty mascara. She lives and works in London.

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Food, Tom Norrington-Davies
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Tom Norrington-Davies is a cook and writer. After a degree in Drama at the University of Wales, and a bizarre interlude dubbing Kung Fu movies in Hong Kong, he moved to London where ham acting and dubious sound effects were not in great demand. He originally began cooking to make ends meet but got lucky when he met Mike Belben and David Eyre, the team behind the pioneering Eagle pub. Tom joined them there in 1996 and took over as head chef, a post he held until 2005, when he started writing as food columnist for the Weekend section of the Daily Telegraph. During this period he also made the series Great British Food for the Discovery Channel. He still writes a monthly feature on unusual cooking ingredients for Delicious Magazine, and contributes regularly to The Guardian and the Spectator. Tom is now back behind the stoves at Great Queen Street, a restaurant in Covent Garden, which is a joint venture between the Eagle and the Anchor and Hope. It opened in April to rave reviews. He is the author of two cookbooks, just like mother used to make (Cassell 2003) and Cupboard Love (Hodder and Stoughton, 2005). Tom has just won a prestigious Michelin Bib Gourmand for his work at Great Queen Street in Covent Garden, an award which recognises excellence in moderately-priced high-quality food. Of his writing Nigella Lawson has said: "Tom Norrington-Davies writes about food you actually want to eat – and cook. Nothing is prinked or preened. He is a friendly, cosy presence in the kitchen". You can contact Tom through his agent Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates on 020 7434 5900.

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Food, Nicola Jeal
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NIcola Jeal is the editor of the award-winning Observer Food Monthly and Observer Woman magazine. Before joining the Observer, she was the editor of Elle and then associate editor of the London Evening Standard newspaper. Last year she was awarded the BSME editor's editor of the year; this year, she won newspaper supplement editor of the year. See more of Nicola at www.observer.co.uk/foodblog

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Drink, Jonathan Ray
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Jonathan Ray spent several years in the wine trade before becoming a journalist. He is the wine editor of the Daily Telegraph and the author of several books on wine including ‘Bloodlines and Grapevines’, and the best-selling ‘Red Wine’ and ‘White Wine’. His most recent book, ‘All about Wine’, was published in 2005. As well as English and American editions, his books have been translated into Danish, Dutch, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish. He has a Ph.D in history from London University and is a frequent contributor to the Spectator, the Guardian and GQ, writing on wine, travel and other subjects. Jonathan is also founding co-editor of SCOFF!, the food and drink lovers’ free email newsletter (see www.gastronomail.com), and the winner of the British Guild of Beer Writers’ award for National Journalist of the Year, 2005 and 2007.

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