Rachel Johnson
Rachel Johnson
Rachel Sabiha Johnsonis a British editor, journalist, television presenter, and author based in London...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 September 1965
thinking yellow hair
Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
mean bored half
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
boring
Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
distance believe two
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
summer jobs thinking
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
daughter mother age
The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.
running men facts
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
mean sight people
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
worry trying facts
I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
writing giving worry
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
children teenager thinking
I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
cutting say-anything unkind
When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
teenage years parent
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
heart paris doubt
Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.