Gloria De Piero

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Gloria de Piero  MP
Shadow Minister for Crime Prevention
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 October 2011
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Clive Efford
Shadow Minister for Culture and Media
In office
11 October 2010 – 7 October 2011
Leader Ed Miliband
Preceded by Ben Bradshaw
Succeeded by Dan Jarvis
Member of Parliament
for Ashfield
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded by Geoff Hoon
Majority 192 (0.4%)
Personal details
Born 21 December 1972 (1972-12-21) (age 39)
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Alma mater University of Westminster
Birkbeck, University of London
Occupation Member of Parliament
Religion Roman Catholic
Website gloria-de-piero.co.uk

Gloria De Piero (born 21 December 1972) is a British Labour Party politician, journalist and presenter best known for her work with GMTV. In 2010, she was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashfield.

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[edit] Early life

De Piero was born in Bradford, Yorkshire of Italian descent. She lived in modest surroundings, a terraced house, in the white working class area of south-west Bradford known as Wibsey. Bradford is a strongly Labour-voting area. She attended Marshfields Primary School in Little Horton then Priestman Middle School on Thornton Lane in Little Horton (which closed in 2000) until the age of 13 in 1986.

She attended the Roman Catholic Yorkshire Martyrs Catholic College (the school closed in 2010, and was originally formed in 1981 from Cardinal Hinsley Grammar School and Margaret Clitherow Grammar School) on Westgate Hill Street (A650). She did her A levels at Bradford and Ilkley College.

She was educated at the University of Central England (called Birmingham City University since 2007), where she was the President of the Student Union for a year, and gained a BA in Social Science from the University of Westminster in 1996. She completed a MSc in Social and Political Theory from Birkbeck, University of London in 2001.

[edit] Career

[edit] Journalism

De Piero began her journalistic career as a researcher on Jonathan Dimbleby's TV programme from 1997 to 1998. She then moved to the BBC where she worked at On the Record from 1998 to 2002, The Politics Show from 2002-3 and BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour, where she produced and reported on the Palace of Westminster.

From 2003 to February 2010 she was political correspondent and a relief newsreader for GMTV.[1]

De Piero was also an occasional presenter on the Weekend Breakfast and Weekend News programmes on BBC Radio 5 Live.

In 2009 and 2010, De Piero acted as a guest presenter on the Five magazine show Live from Studio Five, in the absence of presenters Kate Walsh and Melinda Messenger.

[edit] Politics

In February 2010, De Piero resigned from GMTV in order to seek selection as the Labour Party's candidate for the Ashfield constituency in the 2010 General Election.[2] The position became available following the announcement that the constituency's Labour MP, former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, would be stepping down at the election.[3] On 20 March 2010, De Piero was selected by the local Labour Party as its candidate.[4][5] She was narrowly elected to the seat with a majority of 192 votes (down from the 10,000 majority) after a 17.2% swing to the Liberal Democrat - the second largest such swing in the 2010 election.[6]

[edit] Personal life

In 2008 she was voted the 85th sexiest woman in the world in the FHM readers' poll.[7] Her partner is The Guardian's media correspondent, James Robinson.[8]

According to the Daily Mail De Piero "posed topless when she was 15 years old".[9]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gloria quits GMTV to pursue political career Mail Online, accessed 4 March 2010
  2. ^ Paul Bentley (28 February 2010). "Backlash as Labour lines up GMTV's Gloria De Piero for Hoon seat at election". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254518/Gloria-De-Piero-lined-Hoons-seat.html. Retrieved 21 March 2010. 
  3. ^ Andrew Sparrow (11 February 2010). "Geoff Hoon to stand down at general election". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/11/geoff-hoon-standing-down-election. Retrieved 21 March 2010. 
  4. ^ Brendan Carlin (21 March 2010). "Tony Blair's 'favourite broadcaster' Gloria De Piero selected for safe Labour seat". Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259543/Tony-Blairs-favourite-broadcaster-Gloria-De-Piero-selected-safe-Labour-seat.html. Retrieved 21 March 2010. 
  5. ^ Ex-GMTV reporter Gloria De Piero is Labour candidate BBC News, 21 March 2010
  6. ^ Ex-TV reporter wins Labour seat of Ashfield BBC News, 7 May 2010
  7. ^ "GMTV's Gloria De Piero is among FHM's 100 sexiest women". GMTV. 24 April 2008. http://www.gm.tv/articles/gorgeous-gloria/29259-worlds-sexiest-women.html. Retrieved 21 March 2010. 
  8. ^ Bill Blanko (18 December 2008). "A seasonal snub from the prime minister". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/18/bill-blanko. Retrieved 21 March 2010. 
  9. ^ Brown star was a Page 3 girl aged 15: Yesterday she posed with PM, but 20 years ago she was topless model Mail Online, 28 March 2010

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