She is the daughter of Woodrow Wyatt, journalist and Labour politician, and his fourth wife, the Hungarian Veronica (Verushka) Banszky von Ambroz. Wyatt, known to her friends as "Petsy," lives with her mother in Street John"s Wood, North London.
Born in Saint John"s Wood, London, Wyatt attended Street Paul"s Girls" School and was offered a place to read History at Worcester College, Oxford.
After she had lived in the United States for the latter half of 2003 with Charles Bruce Berry at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2004 British newspapers reported that she had had a four-year affair with the then-Conservative Member of Parliament Boris Johnson. The affair, which had been well hinted at in United Kingdom newspaper gossip columns, included passionate London taxi cab rides around Street John"s Wood during which they would ask the cab driver to insert cassette tapes of Wyatt singing Puccini. Johnson was sacked from his shadow cabinet post by Michael Howard, not because of the affair but because he had lied about lieutenant
Wyatt"s hobby is singing and lyric-writing.
She also co-wrote a cabaret act called Kiss and Tell with the pianist and composer Jeremy Limb, poet Lloyd Evans, and opera singer Melinda Hughes. lieutenant debuted at London club Volstead in November 2007.
She has been a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator, of which she was deputy editors Her interviewees have included John Major, David Blunkett, and Piers Morgan.
Wyatt is known for her direct and playful interview style.
In 1996, when interviewing the proposed Labour Minister for Women Janet Anderson, Anderson joked that "under Labour, women will become more promiscuous", which Wyatt reported as policy. Denis Healey regretted at the close of an interview with Wyatt that there was no time left for "rumpy pumpy". Wyatt"s television appearances include Question Time and Newsnight.
Views on Wikipedia
Wyatt writes about her attention to her Wikipedia entry.
In May 2007, Private Eye reported that Wyatt had been instructed by Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail, to pen an attack on Wikipedia over the content of her entry on the site. This was published on 22 April 2007 when Wyatt admitted to writing her initial entry and then threatening to sue over vandalism to the page.
Views on cycling
She writes against cycling in London, as championed by her ex-lover Boris Johnson, now Mayor of London. (See Santander Cycles, aka Boris bikes) Her half-brother, Pericles Wyatt, promotes cycling where he lives.
In September 2012 doubts were raised over the veracity of one element of an article written about her mother being run over by a cyclist.
On 7 October Wyatt"s employer, The Daily Mail, published a correction saying that the bag snatch reported in the article had happened in 2008, not 2012 as originally reported.
After dropping out of Oxford due to persistent bullying and harassment owing to her political views, she graduated from University College London. She currently writes political interviews and main feature articles for the Daily Mail.
