Former Edinburgh Napier University student, Gordon Smart, has been named the number one showbiz journalist in the UK by Press Gazette magazine. Both journalists and the public were surveyed in the search to find the top 50 journalists.
Smart writes the Bizarre column for The Sun. He is credited with exposing Guy Ritchie’s split from Madonna and the recent unsavoury news about The One Show’s Jason Manford.
He told Press Gazette: “I’ve felt as much like a marriage counsellor as a journalist over the last few years.”
But he insisted that his brand of showbiz journalism is a lot more sensitive than that of a previous Sun era: “I feel like I’ve become the respectable face of showbiz journalism. That’s something I’m trying to do.”
Also featuring in the top ten are Daily Mirror 3am editor Clemmie Moodie and British Press Awards winners Caitlin Moran of The Times and Dan Wootton of the News of the World.
