Decca Aitkenhead

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Chief interviewer for the Sunday Times

As Chief Interviewer for the Sunday Times, Decca interviews leading figures in public life across the world, from politics to the arts, entertainment to science, literature to sport. Her subjects have included Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Tony Blair, Johnny Depp, Hillary Clinton, Usain Bolt and Boris Johnson, and her work has won multiple awards. she is the interviewer A-listers most fear - and most want to talk to.

 

Decca has been a journalist for more than 25 years. the author of two memoirs, she also ghostwrites celebrity autobiographies, and appears on BBC radio and TV.

 

She lives in London with her two sons, but they spend as much time as possible in Jamaica, visiting their dog who lives there.

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