Kim joined the Entertainment News team in the spring of 2006 and within her first week she’d helped Bill Nighy find his lost bacon sandwich!
Plus, Kim compared notes with Halle Berry on the best way to get in (and out) of a cat suit and had settled into visiting The Dorchester like it was her second home. Since then it literally has been a whirlwind of film junkets, including interviews with Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Michael Caine, Jennifer Aniston, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Lopez, Denzel Washington, Kate Winslet, Kiera Knightley and Cameron Diaz – not forgetting time spent with the vampires and werewolves from The Twilight Saga and the wizards from the Harry Potter films.
After nine months, Kim was made TV Editor and now works to a different calendar from the rest of us – the reality TV calendar – from The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent to I’m A Celebrity and Strictly Come Dancing, Kim’s the person in the know when it comes to which celeb is learning to tango, who’s eating jungle bugs and who really is on the judging panel of The X Factor – both here and in the US.
Music-wise Kim’s chatted to an array of big name stars, ranging from surviving members of The Beatles to The Saturdays and including P. Diddy, Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, Bon Jovi, 50 Cent, Jennifer Lopez and, of course, The X Factor winners.
The journey to Kim’s showbiz calling has been short yet extremely varied – after graduating with a degree in Politics and American Studies from Nottingham University in 2003, Kim headed back home to study for a Post Grad in Broadcast Journalism at the London College of Printing. Her first forays in radio were of the hard news kind, interviewing Tony Blair, Charles Clarke and Michael Howard during her first job as a fully-fledged journalist at KMFM in Kent. Kim’s also taken to the seas providing media training for the Royal Navy – getting the chance to ride shotgun in the cockpit of none other than the Queen’s own private plane!
But Kim’s secret life as a showbiz addict soon spilled over into her day job as she reported from the first ever Kent Music Festival where Lemar, Girls Aloud and McFly headlined; to interviewing Joanna Lumley and Buffy’s Anthony Head.
Making the decision to become a full time entertainment journalist, Kim headed back to London – and the rest, as they say, is history.
“I love what I do now – the not knowing where the day will take me – and who I’ll get to talk to – the hours may be long, but they’re never dull,” Kim enthuses!
