Welcome to MSN Life & Style. Aimed at the person who wants to look good and feel great, MSN Life & Style is the most popular commericial lifestyle channel in the UK, with independent figures stating the channel receives well over 1.4 million users per month.
The channel carries a range of fashion, beauty, celebrity, health and wellbeing content. In addition to our own content, we operate a number of partnerships with leading companies to provide our users with trustworthy services in a range of different areas, including IPC for fashion and beauty news and features, Wenn.com for celebrity photos and Tesco Diets for advice on healthy eating.
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The MSN Life & Style team
Nicole O'Neil - Editor
Nicole O'Neil has been a journalist and editor for the past eleven years, writing across newspapers, magazines and websites.
She went to Bristol University to study English and loved it, but found herself inexplicably drawn to the world of fashion magazines when she should really have been analysing the innermost thoughts of the metaphysical poets.
Starting out on local newspapers, Nic did her training as a news hound before heading to the world of magazines at Emap, where she worked with editors and publishers from glossy titles such as Red and New Woman to the more specialist mags such as Motor Cycle News. But it wasn't until she landed a job at the Evening Standard's website, ThisisLondon.co.uk, that she first became a Life & Style Editor.
After two years at This is London, Nic went travelling around Africa and Asia. On returning, she learned all about the latest celebrity gossip as an Entertainment Editor for Orange before becoming the Life & Style Editor at MSN. 'To be able to work in a field that I absolutely love - and spend much of my spare time researching for pleasure - is a dream job,' says Nic.
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Monica Stylli - Health & Wellbeing Editor
Monica has been writing for both print and web for nearly five years and has thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it.
She had always been inspired and encouraged by her teachers to write and entered the world of online publishing after completing a degree in English.
It wasn't pretty starting at the bottom, a lot of tea was made, but Monica's real break came when she was commissioned to write for Time Out London in 2006. This lead to work for Visit London and The Guardian.
After spending two and a half years working for online publishers Magicalia Media, Monica joined MSN Life & Style in 2008 and currently edits the health and wellbeing sections.
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Ellen Godwin - Shopping Editor
Ellen has worked in the world of online shopping at MSN for the past two and a half years, writing about the latest in fashion, beauty, tech and home and all things shopping. Shopping is one of Ellen's passions and working somewhere where she actually has the word in her job title is very much a bonus.
Previously she's worked for lifestyle and entertainment magazines What's On and Itchy, as well as on the website for health and beauty care products company Johnson & Johnson. Aside from shopping Ellen's other love is music and she's contributed to music magazines and writes the new music blog MSN Girl Aloud. When she's not talking all things shopping she can be found losing money on her record label and labour of love Holy Roar Records, which champions the best in new British bands and underground music.
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Tom Fortune - Contributor
Tom Fortune began his journalistic career by writing film reviews for his local paper when he was just 15, which made his English teacher immensely proud (he's convinced it's the only reason he scored an A in his A-Level English).
After studying literature and history at Edinburgh University he moved on to journalism school in London, by which time he had written for The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Sunday Herald, Esquire magazine and many more.
His first staff role was at a small magazine company called Square One, where he worked mainly on B2B and in-house magazines. He would describe that experience as 'character building'.
Tom's best career move came with a move to MSN , where he was Editor of the Health and then Life & Style channels, which gave him vital experience in the journalistic medium that is the web. His time at MSN left him with a passion for all things www and the endless possibilities it offers to journalists.
This is now the area in which he has chosen to focus his attention. He left MSN with a heavy heart in June 2008 but continues to write for his old friends here on Life & Style and the other MSN UK channels. 'It's just like my old
Liz Frost - Contributor
Liz Frost started her writing career with a work experience placement at Company magazine many moons ago.
Having spent her early career as a PA, she took a leap of faith at 29 and sold her flat and her car to follow her dream of becoming a writer. Following stints at magazines like Cosmopolitan and Glamour, she went on to work on a freelance basis, setting up an office in her flat, buying a snazzy laptop and gradually building up her client list.
Since then, she has written for many top publications (including Company, Cosmo, She, Eve, Woman's Own; Prima; Daily Mail; Look; Glamour, Grazia, The Guardian, and Top Sante).
Highlights have included an almost head-on collision with Ray Quinn whilst learning to dance on ice like the stars for Woman's Own; being followed by a pap for a day for The Guardian and meeting her ultimate crush James McAvoy.
Liz has been a freelance lifestyle columnist for MSN since early 2009 and loves getting the lowdown on all the latest trends.
She recently completed her first novel, Looking for Lucy, inspired by a trip to rural Cyprus in 2007.
Imogen Lloyd Webber - Blogger
Imogen Lloyd Webber was educated at Girton College, Cambridge and is a writer and producer.
Imogen is the author of The Single Girl's Guide, which will be published in 15 countries by the end of 2009 including the UK, US, Australia, Russia, Germany and China, and runs the interactive www.singlegirlsguideonline.com website.
She is currently writing a novel under the guidance of Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates. Imogen also freelances for publications as varied as The Daily Mail and Scarlet Magazine and when in the US is a regular on-screen contributor to The Morning Show (Fox) and Happy Hour (Fox Business Network).
Imogen formed ILW Productions to discover new commercial work by up and coming playwrights, and has several projects in development, including Salsa by the 'Time Out' Award winning writer Elizabeth Heery, to be directed by Laurence Boswell (who directed Treats, This Is Our Youth and was 'Tony' nominated for Joe Egg).
Previous work includes Head of Development for Film Finance Company Ministry of Vision and Associate Producer at CBS News (New York).
In addition, Imogen has a television company with several projects in development and is an active member of The Old Vic New Voices 'Think Tank' and of a development committee for the Almeida.
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Dr Pam Spurr - Contributor
MSN Life & Style agony aunt Dr Pam is well known in the media as a psychologist with strong views about many topics.
As well as formerly hosting her own Sony award-winning radio programme, 'Dr. Pam's Heart to Heart' on Heart 106.2 and hosting her own programmes on LBC for four years, she's contributed as a guest/expert to hundreds of television and radio programmes years including GMTV, BBC Breakfast TV, Trisha and The Wright Stuff.
A former sex and relationship expert for the News of the World and The People, Dr Pam has written several books, including her brand new book Fabulous Foreplay: The Sex Doctor's Guide To Teasing & Pleasing Your Lover, as well as The Dating Survival Guide, The Break-up Survival Kit: Emotional Rescue for the Newly Single - and her No. 1 best-sellers Sensational Sex: A Revolutionary Guide to Sexual Pleasure & Fulfilment and Sinful Sex: The Uninhibited Guide To Erotic Pleasure.
Dr Pam also writes a weekly magazine column and is a regular contributor to the glossy magazines.
Here at MSN, Dr Pam offers Life & Style readers unique full analysis and advice that isn't available anywhere else on the internet. Visit her column every Friday where a new reader's problem will be answered each week.
Hugh Wilson - Contributor
Hugh Wilson has been a freelance journalist for the best part of a decade, and a journalist for longer than that.
A regular writer for national newspapers (including The Guardian, Independent, Observer, Daily and Sunday Express) and glossy monthlies, Hugh has also done the odd spot of writing for trade titles and the BBC, alongside his work here at MSN. Back in the ancient past (or the 1990s, as it's sometimes known), he was the proud winner of a feature writing competition sponsored by The Guardian and Radio Five Live.
Hugh's main passion for writing centres around life and style issues and he has a particular interest in health, fitness, food, green living, travel and parenting (from an anxious, befuddled dad's point of view). He like clothes, too, but no one who has ever seen him on a Friday night would describe him as an expert in fashion (his words, not ours!). We beg to differ, Hugh.
