ABOUT ME
Nicola Fahey
Freelance Entertainment Editor
United Kingdom
Entertainment journalist with 15 years+ experience delivering agenda-setting cultural content to national newspaper and magazine titles
United Kingdom
Entertainment journalist with 15 years+ experience delivering agenda-setting cultural content to national newspaper and magazine titles
ABOUT ME
Specialising in celebrity interviews, I’ve sat down with an assortment of famous faces, from Foo Fighters backstage to Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey and LGBTQ+ icon Christine and the Queens. I spent five years at the world’s biggest showbiz column at The Sun before going freelance in 2018. I’ve since been hired in high-profile media roles, including Entertainment Director at Cosmopolitan, Celebrity Editor at Fabulous and Talent Booker for Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar.
As well as interviewing, editing and writing, I book talent for A-list events, including Harper Bazaar's Women of the Year Awards 2021. The evening celebrated inspiring women in film, TV, music, literature, art and culture, including Claire Foy, Sarah Snook, Phoebe Dynevor, Dame Joan Collins and Cynthia Erivo. Campaigner Soma Sara claimed the Activist award for giving a voice to schoolgirls affected by sexual harassment with her online platform Everyone’s Invited.
MOST RECENT
Dame Laura Kenny is bravely breaking down stigma around baby loss. The world's most successful female cyclist speaks for the first time about suffering a devastating miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy within three months - and urges women not to suffer in silence like she did.
Rylan's mum Linda recalls how her heartbroken son slept in her bed with her following his high-profile split from husband-of-six-years Dan Neal last summer, and the 6ft 4in star’s weight plummeted to 9st. Here, they share all about their unbreakable bond
George Ezra is holed up in his Hertfordshire home trying to stay cool about performing at the Platinum Jubilee. The singer has played just three shows since 2019: “I played my first gig in London two weeks ago and just stood at the side of the stage saying, ‘How the f**k am I going to do this?’
It’s the Queen’s big week as the Platinum Jubilee celebrations mark her 70 years of service to the nation. And during Her Majesty’s record-breaking reign, former BBC royal reporter Jennie Bond has become a bit of a Great British institution herself. When we arrive at Jennie's house, a short drive...
Jermain Defoe and his bride Donna invite OK! inside their three-day long wedding extravaganza, complete with fire-eaters and super-posh chicken kiev. They tied the knot at Cliveden House, the stunning venue where Meghan Markle stayed the night before she married Prince Harry.
Shirlie Kemp is recalling the moment she showed her best friend George Michael her son Roman's early YouTube videos. What should have been a simple proud mum moment was far more profound for George, who saw in his godson something he had always longed for...
COVER STORIES
My booking of Jonathan Van Ness - Cosmopolitan's first solo, non-female cover in 35 years - won PPA Cover of Year in 2020. The Queer Eye star thanked the magazine for "showing more variations of beauty for young LGBTQ+ people." You can read Jonathan's interview here.
It’s a cold winter morning when Lena Dunham arrives on set in silk pyjamas. Her face is bare apart from a shiny gold septum piercing and a warm, infectious smile. Arms thrown open wide, she greets each and every one of us, before professing her love for all things Cosmopolitan...
Vanessa Hudgens is the sort of woman it would be very easy to just... hate. At 31, she’s already had the kind of career most of us dream of. She got to kiss Zac Efron on-screen for three years – and off-screen for another two. She had the High School Musical trilogy under her belt by 19...
Few musicians have enjoyed such mainstream success while so openly putting two fingers up at the straight, sexualised, male-gaze-dominated world of pop. Yet still, Héloïse Letissier does not want you to call her a role model. It’s four in the afternoon, after a five-hour shoot...
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Mariah Carey's iconic anthem 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' and, as she cuddles up on the sofa with her beloved Jack Russell Cha Cha for our chat in her 10,000-square-foot, peach-coloured Beverly Hills mansion, Mariah is feeling nostalgic…
Oh god, I think we need coffee.” Bebe Rexha’s Staten Island drawl carries over the early-morning hush of one of London’s oldest hotels. A waiter in a starched white waistcoat arrives with a silver pot, pouring us both a steaming cup. He turns to leave but she stops him…
Mariah Carey is the undisputed Queen of Christmas and her festive rituals are as delightfully extra as you’d imagine. If you're hoping to create a December that comes close to rivalling the hers, you'll need flights to Aspen, two Christmas trees, and a visit from Santa.
When Maura Higgins, then a struggling hairdresser, shared a meme that said: “You’re nobody unless you’re talked about” she laid down her ambition to become famous. Fast-forward five years and she hasn’t been out of the news since splitting with her Love Island ex Curtis Pritchard
Joe Wicks stops short as his 19-month-old daughter, Indie, spontaneously crashes our video interview. “Is that blood on the floor, darling? Oh, it’s just soy sauce,” he determines, in his chirpy Cockney accent. It’s late afternoon and The Body Coach is on dad duty...
Susanna Reid doesn't look like a woman who's been up since 3.45am. The Good Morning Britain presenter is in full-speed-ahead chat mode as she bounces into the Fabulous photoshoot five hours later. "It was me and Ben Shephard today - therapeutic Thursdays.
It’s taken eight turbulent years, a crushing divorce and a near-suicide attempt, but double Olympic gold-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton has finally conquered her demons. Posing with hair tinged lilac and striking tattoos, she looks a world away from the clean-cut golden girl of cycling…
Samia Longchambon, who hopes she can help other women by sharing her story, was nine weeks into her pregnancy when she went for an early scan and doctors couldn't detect a heartbeat. She was told to “give it a week to see if something changed.”
Her Irish-themed wedding complete with mermaid-style bridal gown had all been painstakingly planned out. But Shona McGarty started the new year looking towards a very different future after announcing her shock split from fiancé Ryan Harris.
Kate Garraway was set to have her best year yet. At 52, she rang in the new decade as the undisputed sex siren of I’m A Celeb, inspiring husband Derek Draper to propose for a second time. Their daughter Darcey organised extravagant Kim and Kanye-style nuptials…
Lydia Bright is describing a nightmare she has had. It’s one that undoubtedly resonates with many new mums across the UK right now. “I dreamed I was in this Perspex box and my mum was bringing the baby to me. I couldn’t touch her because I was in isolation."
LIFESTYLE
After visiting a friend on the evening of March 3, 2021, Sarah Everard wrapped herself up in a cream beanie and turquoise raincoat, and set off on the two-and-a-half-mile walk from Clapham to her home in Brixton. At 9pm, she started walking along a busy, well-lit street and...
Lying in the delivery suite, Kirsty Rollings sobbed. She'd always imagined being full of joy there as she welcomed her longed-for baby with fiancée Faye Charles. But instead, she was in the midst of a miscarriage - her second - following four rounds of IVF at a crippling cost of £23,820...
“The nurses were talking to me, but all I could hear was muffled speech, as though I was trapped inside a bubble. I sat in a small room at a Bristol sexual health clinic in July 2016 and struggled to understand what I’d just been told: I was HIV positive.”
“Looking in the mirror, I saw a deep-purple bruise on my right tricep. And right there, in the centre, was a puncture wound. Suddenly, my strange behaviour the night before – and unexplained hangover from hell – made sense. I’d been drugged by injection at a nightclub in Worcester..."
Pre-pandemic, my shopping habits would have landed me in hot water with the green police. A repeat offender of one-time wears, I was spending around £250 a month on outfits for work events or special occasions – a terrifying waste of money and materials.
"There used to be a running joke in my family. “Are you due on?” my mum would ask, a smile resting on her face. She’d say it after witnessing one of my many meltdowns. But I wasn’t just snappy or bursting into tears at silly things, as so many of us do when our period is about to arrive."
"Looking at my naked body in the hospital bathroom mirror, I began to cry. After an emergency C-section, following a traumatic 52-hour labour, I had an angry scar across my abdomen, my breasts were swollen and I felt exhausted and ugly. I was consumed with guilt..."
“My heart raced with panic as I lay in bed, too frightened to fall asleep alone in my bedroom. Aged 18, I had just been diagnosed with anorexia, bulimia and orthorexia, and doctors had warned I was so malnourished my heart could stop beating at any moment."
MUSIC FEATURES
She's the former Starbucks barista whose smooth voice and streetwise lyrics have blown away the music industry. Today, as she turns 21, Jorja Smith has every reason to reach for the bubbly. Debut album Lost & Found has won rave reviews with critics comparing Jorja to Amy Winehouse.
Dave Grohl is surely the nicest man in rock’n’roll. But that didn’t stop James Corden having a pop at the Foo Fighters star for criticising his Carpool Karaoke viral TV smash. Speaking backstage in Manchester, the rocker revealed he’d received an angry message from the Late Late Show host.
Most pop stars would celebrate their first No 1 with a boatload of booze and debauchery, but George Ezra is not your average rock’n’roll hero. After spending six months teetotal, the singer toasted his achievement with a solitary pint. “I was so drunk off one beer, I can’t tell you."
It's minutes before Ellie Goulding kicks off her biggest tour on home soil and she should be bouncing around the dressing room – not fighting back tears. But on top of the pressure of 7,500 expectant fans waiting only yards away, the 29-year-old pop sensation is nursing a freshly broken heart.
James Corden spent five years dishing out Brit Awards as host, and now an industry legend reckons he deserves a shot at getting one himself. The Late Late Show host has been backed to land a record deal by Red Hot Chill Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis. The rocker was so blown away…