Carole Malone
| Carole Malone | |
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| Born | Carole Anne Malone 14 October 1954 (age 57) Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
Carole Anne Malone (born 14 October 1954[1]) is a right-wing English journalist, commentator on Current affairs and occasional broadcaster.
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[edit] Early life
She grew up in a small mining village near Newcastle. Her family, of Irish ethnic origin, were staunch Labour voters.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
Malone started life as a journalist before moving into television. She hosted her own light hearted court show, Guilty!, on Sky One from 1997 to 1999.
In 2005 Carole was a guest panellist on Loose Women, later returned as a guest anchor covering Jackie Brambles maternity in 2007.
Since 2006 Carole has been a regular panellist on The Wright Stuff.
In 2006, she appeared on the ITV reality show, Celebrity Fit Club. She was made team captain of Bobby, Sharon and Micky, and lost three stone.
In 2007 Malone was the seventh "celebrity" housemate to enter Celebrity Big Brother UK in January 2007 and was second to be evicted from the Big Brother House, on Friday, 12 January 2007. Malone had often been critical of Big Brother and on her entering the house, host Davina McCall read out many of Malone's criticisms, to jeers from the live crowd. After spending 10 years at the Sunday Mirror, she then wrote for the News of the World until its closure in July 2011. In an article earlier in 2011 Malone had written of how proud she'd always been of the News Of The World, despite spending ten years working with its deadliest rival at The Sunday Mirror.
From September 2007 to April 2011, Carole appeared as a regular discussion contributor on The Alan Titchmarsh Show and since 2009 has regularly reviewed the newspapers on This Morning.
[edit] Controversy
In 2009, a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about one of Malone's columns in the News of the World which claimed that illegal immigrants receive "free cars", led to the publication of the following clarification by the paper:
- On July 26, our columnist Carole Malone claimed illegal immigrants receive "free cars". We now accept illegal immigrants do not receive such a benefit and apologise for the error.[2][3]
Carole Malone appeared on This Morning to argue against Ruth Hall, from the group Women Against Rape, that women, particularly those under the influence of alcohol, are partially responsible for their own rape.[4] This caused outrage amongst women’s groups and victims of rape crime and resulted in the setting up of a Facebook group for survivors of rape.[citation needed]
Malone also angered[citation needed] many residents in the county of Cumbria after she wrote a piece for the 'News of the World' on the Derrick Bird shootings.[5][6]
[edit] Personal life
Carole married Nino (Emir Mulabegovic), a Bosnian eight years her junior, in December 1991 in Richmond upon Thames,
| Preceded by Denise Welch |
Loose Women Leading Host (temporary) 2007 |
Succeeded by Andrea McLean & Jackie Brambles |
[edit] References
- ^ "Malone evicted from Big Brother", BBC News. URL last accessed on 2007-01-12.
- ^ http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=NjAzNQ==
- ^ http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-pcc-doesnt-work.html
- ^ http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/more/whoistoblameforrape/
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bird#Perpetrator
- ^ http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/839021/These-proud-people-dont-like-to-grieve-with-the-world-looking-on-and-judging-Carole-Malone-in-Cumbria.html?postingId=842581
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