Katie Hind

Katie Hind has this year proven to be a masterful interviewer, with an array of top showbusiness tell-alls.

Her exemplary contacts book proved key in securing the interview that everyone wanted: the first and only sit-down with Strictly professional Giovanni Pernice, after he was accused of bullying his dance partner, the actress Amanda Abbington. He was subsequently cleared of many of the allegations.

Katie’s natural interviewing style, and skill at putting subjects at ease, came to the fore when the usually private and stoical Pernice revealed exclusively the full impact the scandal had had on him and his family, while also threatening to topple the much-loved BBC show.

Her tenacity and versatility were further demonstrated when Katie managed to secure an exclusive interview with the daughter-in-law of global superstar Cher, affording readers a rare and vivid glimpse into her fascinating, private world.

With an unrivalled attention to detail, readers learned of the fortress-like conditions Cher lived in during Covid and how the 78-year-old singer likes to exercise to her own work-out tapes.

But what made the interview with Marieangel most impressive was that it was secured, and conducted, days after she’d faced her mother-in-law in court, where the financial conservatorship of Marieangel’s husband Elija, Cher’s troubled 47-year-old son, was bitterly contested by the couple.

Katie enticed her subject to open up about the tension and explosive rows that surrounded the sensitive subject, and also her treatment at the hands of her mother-in-law.

Meanwhile, as football fans were captivated by Kyle Walker’s performance on the pitch, it was his love life off the pitch that was generating more headlines.

After Walker fathered two love children and branded his relationship with their mother a ‘mistake’, Katie conducted a heartbreaking interview with ‘other woman’ Lauryn Goodman, revealing a side to her as yet unseen by the censorious public.

Goodman opened up about her pain at being labelled an ‘evil homewrecker’, confessing to Katie that the affair had not been her ‘finest hour’ but added ‘I won’t be the last woman to have ever slept with a married man’, elevating the story to a more human level.

No other journalist on Fleet Street does Showbiz like Katie Hind does Showbiz, and these thoughtful, revealing interviews on some of the biggest tabloid stories of the year are perfect testament to that.