Tony Parsons

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tony Parsons
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Nov 6, 1953(1953-11-06)
Age	71
Birthplace	Romford
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Romford
Horoscope	Capricorn

Tony Parsons Biography

Tony Parsons is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on November 6, 1953 in Romford, Romford, United Kingdom. Tony Victor Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author. He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write for Daily Mirror for 18 years. Since September 2013, he has written his current column for The Sun. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and appeared infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.

Parsons has expressed in articles a strong loathing for tattoos. In the 1990s, he wrote a story called “The Tattooed Jungle”, suggesting that tattoos were symptomatic of the decline of the working class. In a 2012 article for GQ magazine, Parsons lamented the fact that in the last 20 years in Britain, tattoos have become mainstream, common among both sexes and to all economic classes. Parsons wrote that tattoos “remain ugly, hideous daubings that make my flesh crawl with revulsion every time I see one”.

In 1993, he presented a film for the British television documentary series Without Walls, focusing on the controversy surrounding the film A Clockwork Orange (1971). Director Stanley Kubrick and distributor Warner Brothers unsuccessfully sued broadcaster Channel Four in an attempt to prevent clips from the film being shown on television. In the programme, Parsons is seen taking a cross-channel ferry from England to France to watch the film, which at the time was embargoed in Britain due to a self-imposed ban by the director.

Though it sold respectably on publication, the novel Man and Boy (1999) was a word-of-mouth success, and only reached number one in The Sunday Times best- seller list one year after publication. Despite the publication of a series of novels, Man and Boy remains his best-selling book, being published in 39 languages, including Chinese for its publication in the People’s Republic of China (January 2009). Man and Boy won the British Book Awards’ Book of the Year Prize in 2001.

For most of the 1980s, Parsons struggled to make a living as a freelance writer. His career started to recover in 1990 when he wrote Bare, an authorised biography of pop-star George Michael. Despite the absence of a written contract with the singer, proceeds from the book were split equally between the two men. However, they fell out in 1999 after an interview Michael had given to Parsons was published in the Daily Mirror. In the 1990s, Parsons became a regular on the live BBC panel show Late Review. He also made a series of authored documentaries for Channel 4. When Piers Morgan became editor of the Daily Mirror, Parsons was poached from The Daily Telegraph as a columnist.

Tony Parsons Net Worth

Tony Parsons is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tony Parsons 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1974 he began work in Gordon’s Gin Distillery on City Road, London, where he developed an acute gin allergy and wrote his first novel, The Kids, published by New English Library in 1976. Parsons later said that he had imagined that if he could publish a book then he would be able to make a living as a professional writer. The £700 he made from The Kids was not enough to allow him to leave Gordon’s Gin factory. However, when the weekly music magazine New Musical Express advertised for new writers in the summer of 1976 Parsons submitted his novel to the editor, Nick Logan, and was rewarded with a staff writer job. For the next three years he wrote about new music. He wrote the first cover story on the Clash, and features of the Sex Pistols, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Ramones, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, the New York Dolls, Buzzcocks, and Led Zeppelin among others.

Parsons married fellow NME journalist Julie Burchill. They had both answered the same advert in the paper requesting “hip, young gunslingers” to apply as new writers. He and Burchill collaborated on the book The Boy Looked at Johnny published in 1979. After the collapse of their marriage in 1984, periodic clashes in the media between Burchill and Parsons erupted for many years. Parsons became a single parent caring for their four-year-old son, Robert Kennedy Parsons. The experience of being a young man caring for a small child was to later influence his best-selling novel, Man and Boy. Parsons’ father died of cancer in 1987, and his mother died of cancer in 1999, just weeks before the publication of Man and Boy. The book is dedicated to Parsons’ mother.

In 1992, Parsons married Yuriko, a Japanese translator. They have one daughter, Jasmine. He lives with his wife and daughter in London.

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Who is Tony Parsons Dating?

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His father was a former Royal Naval Commando who won the Distinguished Service Medal in World War Two. After the war, he worked as a lorry driver, market trader and greengrocer. His mother was a school dinner lady. Parsons attended Barstable Grammar School, Basildon (now Barstable School), which he left aged 16 with 5 O-levels. He then worked in a series of low-paid, unskilled menial jobs. He then gained employment with a city insurance company as a computer operator where his free time allowed him to develop his literary skills – publishing an underground paper called the Scandal Sheet.

Facts & Trivia

Tony Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tony Parsons celebrates birthday on November 6 of every year.

Where does Tony Parsons live now?

In 1992, Parsons married Yuriko, a Japanese translator. They have one daughter, Jasmine. He lives with his wife and daughter in London.

Where is tony Parsons?

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Why did Tony Parsons retire?

Parsons, who was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame in 2009, will be returning with his wife to live full-time in Victoria, where, he says, he plans to pursue his personal and career goals.

Who is Tony Parsons wife?

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Where is Steve Darling now?

Proactive Investors has announced that Darling has been hired as its lead broadcaster and will work out of the company’s new Vancouver studio and newsroom , which is expected to open this summer.