She was born in Wales and attended Durham Road Junior School in Newport, Gwent, Brynteg Comprehensive secondary school (Ysgol Brynteg) in Bridgend and Cardiff University where she gained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English and a post graduate Certificate in Education.
University of Wales.
She is best known as a newspaper columnist and television critic for the London Evening Standard, the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. She became an English teacher and then a full-time writer after completing and Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Since the 1980s she has written articles for numerous newspapaers and magazines including: The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times Literary Supplement, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan.
She currently writes "Soapwatch - The ultimate insight into this week"s soaps".
A review of soap operas for the Daily Mail Weekend magazine. She has made several television appearances.
Including a spell as an expert on soaps on This Morning and in 2002 presenting the Independent Television lifestyle and chat show Loose Women.
