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Susan Elizabeth "Sue" Carroll (6 December 1953 – 25 December 2011) was an English journalist, best known for her time as a columnist at the ''Daily Mirror''. ==Career== Carroll was born in 1953 at Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.〔 After leaving Gosforth Grammar School she joined D. C. Thomson & Co. in Dundee, Scotland. Working on the weekly teenage girls magazine ''Jackie'' she assisted on its "Cathy and Claire" problem page and then moved on to write the magazines fashion and beauty features. Aged 20 she moved to London to work as features editor for ''Woman''. Employed for her ability to extract private information from celebrities in interviews, she moved to the ''News Of The World'', where she was later involved in the launch of its ''Sunday'' magazine. Moving to sister paper ''The Sun'' as Women's editor and than as a features writer, she acted as a mentor to the assistant writer of the newspapers A-Z of Soaps column, Rebekah Wade.〔 Carroll joined the ''Daily Mirror'' in 1998,〔 writing under the banner ''"Warm, witty and straight to the point... Britain's best columnist"''. Her first column began: ''"I smoke, I drink, I eat red meat by the pound and I don't like being told what to do by bullies."'' Over time, her column featured her thoughts on society, values, popular culture and celebrity.〔''Obituary'', p. 25, ''The Times'', Issue # 70, p. 454. 28 December 2011〕 She displayed a consistent ability to provoke, and in 2002 during supermodel Naomi Campbell's privacy case against the ''Daily Mirror'', judge Mr Justice Morland described Carroll's reference to Campbell as a "chocolate soldier" as "extremely rude and offensive". She was described by Kevin Maguire, an associate editor at the ''Daily Mirror'', as "the queen of columnists". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sue Carroll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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