Camilla Tominey is a British journalist, broadcaster, and commentator. She is the associate editor and executive editor of The Daily Telegraph. She also writes a weekly column for the newspaper and co-hosts The Daily T podcast with Tim Stanley. Since January 2023, she has presented The Camilla Tominey Show, a Sunday morning politics show on GB News. In 2023 the New Statesman named Camilla Tominey as the 49th most influential right-wing figure in British politics.
Camilla Tominey was offered a traineeship at the Hemel Hempstead Gazette by the then editor. Within two years at the newspaper she had qualified as a senior journalist. After contacting the Sunday Express and asking for shifts, she left the Hemel Hempstead Gazette and joined the Sunday Express. She was offered the opportunity to report on the British royal family by Sunday Express editor Martin Townsend. She began her career as a royal reporter in 2005 when she covered the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.
At the Sunday Express she worked in several roles concurrently, firstly as royal editor and deputy political editor, and then as royal editor, political editor and a columnist. Press Gazette journalist Dominic Ponsford said this was “a reflection of tight budgets on the title”. She joined NBC News in 2010 and co-hosted its coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton from outside Buckingham Palace alongside Meredith Vieira, Matt Lauer, Andrew Roberts and Martin Bashir. Camilla Tominey’s scoops have included her 2013 report of Prince Andrew being held at gunpoint by guards at Buckingham Palace. She broke the news of Prince Harry’s relationship with Meghan Markle in an article in the Sunday Express on 31 October 2016. The article was nominated for the Scoop of the Year award at the British Press Awards. Camilla Tominey covered Prince Harry and Markle’s wedding, again for NBC News.
Camilla Tominey moved to The Daily Telegraph as associate editor (politics and royals) in 2018. She has been described as holding pro-Brexit views. On 1 May 2021, she began writing a weekly Telegraph column. In June 2021, after misquoting Meghan Markle on a TV programme, she stated that she had received abuse on Twitter and via email, which resulted in Twitter and the police taking action.
On 1 July 2021, it was announced that Camilla Tominey would commence a Sunday afternoon show on call-in radio station LBC. The show, which ran from 4pm to 7pm, began on 4 July. On 18 August 2022, it was reported she would leave LBC and join GB News as a political presenter. Since January 2023, she has presented The Camilla Tominey Show, a weekly political interview show from 9:30am to 11am on Sundays on the channel.
In April 2024, she became The Telegraph’s executive editor, and co-host of The Daily T podcast with Kamal Ahmed.
Camilla Tominey is a patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics and the Peace Hospice. She is a contributor to ITV’s This Morning, and has appeared on the BBC’s Any Questions? and Question Time.
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