Jenny Kleeman
@jennykleeman
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Journalist & broadcaster @guardian @TheSTMagazine @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds. Author of SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT and THE PRICE OF LIFE
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Joined November 2009
Four years of reporting, twelve prices - and the stories behind the numbers that are on all of our heads. I finally got to take one home today.
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I have never an a reporting experience quite as unsettling as my day with the Collins family in Pennsylvania
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We live in a bonkers world where Saturday evening can be interrupted by a BBC Breaking News alert telling us Holly Willoughby finds it “very hurtful” that Philip Schofield lied to her.
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Chrissy Chambers has won her fight for justice and is the first revenge porn victim in England to publicly win damages. She proposed to her girlfriend Bria Kam outside the High Court today. Fantastic to be able to report such great news @BriaandChrissy.
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Listening to Robert Jenrick pathetically attempting to justify Cummings on the radio this morning has made so me furious I almost threw my porridge pan through the window. We are being lied to and insulted so blatantly. They think we are beyond contempt.
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The response to this has been overwhelming. I’m away at a festival this weekend and I can’t keep up. Except to say, thank you. And - I am mortified by the typo in this tweet.
I have never an a reporting experience quite as unsettling as my day with the Collins family in Pennsylvania
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I saw a man and a dog in the park today. They were both wearing sunglasses. That is all.
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My six year old is going through a phase of always asking his dad to read to him at bedtime. I’ve tried telling him I am a professional broadcaster who has narrated an audio book that people have paid actual money for but apparently this means nothing to him.
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I went back to work today, and people, let me tell you, I don’t recommend it.
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I don’t like to make a fuss about these things but TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY so I am off to see some art on the Southbank and I am going to enjoy all I can about this wonderful world before it ends
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I’m sad to say that this applies to me too. I have absolutely loved doing the Sky Press Preview ever since they first had me on in 2011. I’ve made some wonderful friends and had some fantastic exchanges. Thank you so much to the peerless team behind it - I’ll miss you #skypapers.
Sad news for me: Sky News have decided that Times Radio is a competitor and so I can no longer do #skypapers. I’d like to say that pitching up to talk about the news once a week for the last seven years has been a great joy. Thanks to all the wonderful folk who work on the show.
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It's fun being female and on TV. This man has taken the trouble to look up my email address to share his thoughts.
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My seven year old just shouted Merry Chris Whittymas and a Happy New Tier.
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Read the full story of the YouTube star who fought back against revenge porn and won in today's Guardian Long Read
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The good thing about Matt Hancock being on I'm a Celeb is that the British public will finally have a vote. And I think people will vote well and vote often.
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This is an explanation reverse-engineered to fit images and accounts he knows are in the public domain. Nothing more.
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We may not have won - but my seven-year-old daughter got to stay up late AND see this. So that’s total victory #universitychallenge
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Do you want to tell them or should I?.
@jennykleeman @SkyNewsPolitics Why oh why Jenny did you have a book entitled “Sex Robots. ” displayed so prominently on your bookshelf during the @SkyNews Press Preview???!!! #Credibilitygone
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Sex robots are as old as the hills, I tell you. (Thanks to @BookJaw for drawing my attention to this delight).
In 1916, after the Austro-Hungarian artist Oskar Kokoschka was rejected by his lover, composer Alma Mahler, he had a this life sized replica doll of her made. He wrote that the “point of all this for me is an experience which I must be able to embrace!”. Thread
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I do not wish to leave a review every time I take a cab or receive a delivery or speak to my bank or renew my insurance or buy toilet roll. Stop it now.
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Unbelievably lovely, this was.
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In what has been an incredibly crazy year, this may top the crazy list for me. I spoke to @joerogan on his podcast last week, and I loved every minute of it.
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I never like to draw attention to this kind of thing but IT’S MY BIRTHDAY and I have had a big ice cream and a glass of champagne and now I need a nap.
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I am in the British Museum. My nine year old just asked me to explain this. I don’t think I can.
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My latest film is finally live - revenge porn survivor @chrissychambers's search for justice http://t.co/h66TXVtbOV
@BriaandChrissy.
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First thing he does in the UK? He turns the TV on.
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Putting on proper clothes because tonight, for the first time in three and a half years, the Sky News Press Preview is off Zoom and BACK IN THE ACTUAL STUDIO. I’m on from 10.30pm 👠.
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I wish I had an everlasting supply of headphones to hand out to the MORONS ON TRAINS who like to watch videos and take calls on loud speaker.
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@SimoneHCollins I knew you would have a rational counter argument! I mention it in the piece. It came out of nowhere for me - and it’s not something I’m used to seeing.
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I have an exclusive report on Chrissy Chambers' journey to justice out on @vicenews on HBO tonight, and online soon after.
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Eight LGBT YouTubers are suing YouTube for discrimination. It’s the second landmark legal case for @BriaandChrissy. They spoke to me about why they think YouTube is shutting down their content.
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Very excited to be making a big new shiny series for @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds that will be hitting your years in the autumn 📻
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This is exactly it - the point of this article, the point of The Price of Life. What happens when humans become data points?.
Fascinating and deeply disturbing article by @jennykleeman on the extrapolation of humans as data
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I travelled to Yanomami territory with Tom nearly 15 years ago to tell this story. It is devastating to read how much more systematic and industrialised illegal mining now is. Bolsonaro has done irreparable damage.
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Anyone else feel uneasy about the sheer level of detail being reported from the Depp/Herd case, everywhere from the Daily Star to the BBC News At Ten? We don't need to hear it all. There is no reason for us to examine every witness statement - beyond voyeurism.
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Online now - watch my interview with Chrissy Chambers following her landmark revenge porn victory @BriaandChrissy
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Good morning! Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting Breakfast on @timesradio Friday-Sunday. Excited to be sharing the station with @AasmahMir, @lukejones03, @StigAbell, @cathynewman, @MattChorley and @JPonpolitics.
Welcome to Times Radio. We’re really excited to announce six names who’ll be joining the station, set to launch this summer. Details here 👇.
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I will wear my burkha at 11.30 #skypapers.
#skypapers The man reviewing the papers is dressed professionally in a business suit and the woman turns up to review the papers with all that flesh hanging out. Is it any wonder women are not taken seriously?.
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I can't believe this needs to be said, but apparently it does. (And I'm also not going to reply to any questions about 5G either.).
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Had a baby last week. Send me your #longread recommendations - I’m anticipating a lot of late night reading over the coming weeks.
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In a show of solidarity, I also refuse to present Match of the Day tomorrow.
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After today's briefings, I think we could all do with a drink. But I don't get to have one, because I'm doing tonight's Sky News Press Preview, with @ajcdeane and @skygillian #skypapers.
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I’m going to wear a raspberry corduroy jumpsuit on Sky News tonight and no one can stop me.
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First tube journey since February. (No haircut since January. )
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I wrote this, on the rise in cancer diagnoses among young adults, for this week's Sunday Times Magazine. Some people have been messaging me to ask why I didn't mention that the covid vaccine is responsible. The answer is (1/3)
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@LifeAfloat Oh Nick! I’m so sorry to hear this. Glad you are being looked after - I wish you all the best.
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This charming delight dropped into my Facebook feed. It’s a no from me.
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Brighton has the most Google searches for 'lonely'. Plymouth is top for debt problems. Aldershot has the most Buddhists. I try and figure out why in Hotspot, my new @BBCRadio4 series, exploring the extremes of UK society. Mon-Fri next week at 13.45. (Don't worry, I'll remind you).
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This has been, without a doubt, both the worst and the very best decade of my life. Happy New Year, fine people of Twitter (and the not so fine people, who are all muted).
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Hello new followers, and long suffering ones. @SimoneHCollins and Malcolm have responded to my Guardian piece on their YouTube channel. I am never going to be able to reply to all the comments, but thank you - I'm glad it's reached so many people.
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Can someone please make me a mask with IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE *AND* MOUTH printed across it? Something to match the evil eyes I’m trying so hard to deploy on the tube.
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Happy New Year to you all, fine people of the platform formally known as Twitter. May your 2024 be filled with beauty and bright ideas.
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Tonight is my last Sky News Press Preview before I disappear to have a baby. I will be back in 2018, smaller and more exhausted #skypapers.
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I am recording the audiobook of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat today. And loving every minute of it. I can’t wait to share this book with you!
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We look like a colour blocking girl band on @SkyNews tonight - join me, @Ommasalma and @annabotting from 10.30 until just before midnight
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This is completely and totally untrue, and she should know it. The US has.(a) a mental healthcare crisis with no NHS.(b) an opioid crisis.(c) an affordable housing crisis in SF and LA.But Suella never let’s facts get in the way of a splashy, nasty policy.
Unless we step in now to stop this, British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug taking, and squalor. 2/4.
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Also, *nobody* spends £35k on naked pictures. You can get them for free anywhere, and if you want to pay for them you can get a ton of them without spending tens of thousands. This story posed so many more questions than it answered, and the Sun had no interest in asking them.
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They’ve let me back into the building! Back for the Sky News Press Preview from 10.30
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When I visited Xitei with Tom in 2008, it looked like this from the air
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Anyone else feel that their intelligence is being insulted by the constant robotic repetitions of the three word mantras by government officials? “Stay at home.” “Protect the NHS.” “Take Back Control.” “Get Brexit Done.” “I’ve Had Enough.” “Respect My Intelligence.”.
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Thank you for all the lovely messages today about my new Times Radio job. I intend celebrate by cleaning up my living room, getting dressed and going on tonight’s Sky News Press Preview - dodgy WiFi permitting #skypapers.
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It’s my birthday. My family gave me this. I am officially 10 years old now.
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No hard copies of The Times this morning - Extinction Rebellion have blockaded the printworks where the paper is produced. All the more reason to tune into @TimesRadio Breakfast! We’ll be bringing you the latest.
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You know I always want to keep things like this to myself but TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY and already I have seen the Magna Carta and Shakespeare’s First Folio and now I am drinking this.
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Listing to Chrissy Chambers on The Today Programme. What an incredibly brave woman @BriaandChrissy.
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I wrote about Britain's child gambling addicts for today's @guardianweekend. I don't think I've ever looked into anything that frightened me in quite the same way as this did. Many thanks to @GambleWithLives for sharing their stories with me.
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The remarkable @BriaandChrissy are having to crowdfund in order to get justice in British courts. Help Chrissy here
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My five year old just interviewed me and then wrote it up on her ‘computer’ because she’s writing a book, obvs
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David Icke is back on Twitter. Under @elonmusk Twitter has become the bit in Ghostbusters where the guy from the Environmental Protection Agency deactivates the containment unit and there’s an explosion of newly liberated ghosts across NYC.
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My mum sent me this to remind me that 20 years ago I shared a lift with Lionel Ritchie. It was all downstairs from there.
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Incredibly touched by all the kind messages. We may not be able to end the day together - but we can begin it. Join me tomorrow for my first weekend Breakfast @timesradio show. I'm hosting with the incomparable @lukejones03 6-10am Fri-Sun. Now where did I put that alarm clock.
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That’s it. I’m not doing politics anymore. I’m sticking with sex robots.
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Good morning! In two weeks time, you too will be able to start your weekends with @lukejones03 (and me) with Breakfast on @timesradio. (For now, we are just talking to ourselves).
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People, I have just put the last full stop on the first full draft of my book. I HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK.
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I spent many Sunday mornings awake against my will with small children and nothing meaty to listen to on the radio. Now I am the meat! Join me on @timesradio - I’m on with the equally meaty @lukejones03 until 10am.
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STAY ALERT. STAY AWAKE. WATCH THE SKY NEWS PRESS PREVIEW TONIGHT. With me, @StigAbell and @annabotting . #skypapers.
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Having breakfast with my 5 year old daughter before going to an exercise class. 5 year old: Will there be a teacher at your class?. Me: Yes. 5 year old: Wow. Even when you’re so old?.
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Happy New Year to the wonderful, awful, inspiring and infuriating people of Twitter. Tonight I’m going to party like it’s twenty years since 1999.
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Waiting in the wings for tonight’s Press Preview - we’re on from 10.30 until just before midnight @SkyNews
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@Philippa_Perry Really happy that my car now shows the right time for the first time since October.
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If only that had been a Trump press conference, or Orban, or Bolsonaro. Then we could laugh. But that was us.
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@tessie_the_mess “There is a great article to be written about [the subject of the article you’ve just written]”.
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My first book came out during the pandemic and I was either talking to a screen or shouting into a void. This time I’m on the traaaaaain on the way to see the three dimensional faces of actual readers. I cannot wait. First stop: @RossiterBooks
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