Tina Brown

So he asked everybody in London to edit it, you know, and he didn't know anyone.

And they all said, no, why would anybody go and do this ridiculous job?

It was a silly job.

And I think, you know, the great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster actually recommended me to him because I had been writing quite a lot about sort of society, as it were, because that's what people tended to assign girls, right?

I mean, I was a woman.

And so it was like, you go, why don't you go and write about, you know, I don't know, the Queens, whatever or something.

But I did it with a kind of irreverent style.

And

He asked if I had ever considered editing, and I hadn't actually at all.

But I don't know.

I just sort of loved it as soon as I did it.

You know, I leapt in and realized I could hire all my wonderful friends.

And I just took to editing because it was very much like, to me, like theater as well.

You know, it was very similar skills.

And my father had been doing films, and it was all about –

Gathering talent, getting talent going, you know, finding them, assigning them.

The skills are very similar, actually, between theatre, film and editing.

Any one of those professions, I could have done the same.

It wasn't true of course of Tatler when I took over.

When I took over Tatler, we had a circulation.