Who is Dolly Alderton?
Dolly Alderton is a well-known British journalist, author, and podcaster. Dolly Alderton currently works as an agony aunt for The Sunday Times in her column Dear Dolly.
She began writing for The Sunday Times in 2015, initially as a dating columnist from 2015 to 2017.
Dolly’s memoir, Everything I Know About Love, won a National Book Award for autobiography in 2018 and was nominated for the British Book Awards’ 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year (won by Michelle Obama for Becoming).
In 2019, she served as a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and in 2020, she appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives, nominating American actress Doris Day.
Dolly Alderton- Birth, Parents, Siblings & Education
Dolly Alderton was born on August 31, 1988, in London. She is 33 years old. Dolly’s birthday is on August 31st every year.
She was born in London and raised in Stanmore by her parents. Dolly is half Canadian and half British.
Caroline O’Donoghue is her sister, and she writes novels about magical teenagers (for @walkerbooksya) and perverted adults (for @viragopress).
Dolly attended St Margaret’s School in Bushey and Rugby School, where she boarded in the sixth form. Dolly has a 2.1 English degree from Exeter University.
Dolly went on to study for a master’s degree in journalism at City University after finishing her undergraduate degree in English at Exeter University.
Dolly has spoken openly about how being rejected from Bristol University affected her self-esteem in her teens and twenties, and how she still feels resentful of anyone she meets who went there.
Net Worth of Dolly Alderton? Salary, Earning
Dolly Alderton’s net worth is estimated to be $785,115.
Dolly makes a good living as an agony aunt for The Sunday Times in her column Dear Dolly and as the author of Everything I Know About Love. Dolly earns an annual salary of $77,103.
Relationship, Married Life, Boyfriend/Girlfriend
Dolly Alderton was in a long-term relationship in her early twenties but has been single since.
She is focused on her work as a journalist and author. We will update once we have more information about Dolly’s marital status.
Body Measurement- Height, Weight, Hair Color
Dolly Alderton is a woman of average stature. Dolly is 5 ft 6 in tall (Approx. 1.65 m).
Dolly Alderton- Professional Career
Alderton co-created and co-hosted The High Low with Pandora Sykes, a weekly podcast focusing on pop culture and current events. The High Low podcast lasted four years and featured over 150 episodes.
The last episode aired on December 2, 2020. The High Low: A Christmas Special Live Stream took place on December 8, 2020, to raise funds for Blood Cancer UK.
Dolly also hosted the podcast Love Stories in conjunction with her book Everything I Know About Love, where she interviewed many guests including Stanley Tucci, Ruth Jones, and Marian Keyes.
Season one was released between February and May 2018, and season two was released between January and March 2019.
Dolly described the experience as a “great privilege” in a Penguin feature titled Six Inspiring Lessons I Learned from Love Stories published in January 2019.
She’s appeared on a number of popular podcasts, including Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, and Table Manners with Jessie Ware.
Dolly co-hosted a Sentimental Garbage spin-off series called Sentimental in the City with Caroline O’Donoghue between February and April 2021. The podcast received a five-star review in The Times in March 2021.
Dolly’s debut novel, Ghosts, will be published by Fig Tree in October 2020. Nina, a 32-year-old food writer, meets someone through a dating app while her father begins to show signs of dementia.
It was announced in October 2020 that Dolly had sold the film rights to Ghosts.
According to the BBC, the book “offers readers a frank and deeply personal account of friendships, relationships, and growing up as a millennial.”
This memoir was nominated for a National Book Award in the Autobiography category in 2018. It was also nominated for the 2018 Waterstones Book of the Year award.
Dolly was working on a TV adaptation of Everything I Know About Love in October 2020.
The BBC and Working Title will produce the film, which will be directed by China Moo-Young and written by Dolly. The cast and screening date had not been announced as of May 2021.
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Social Media
Her Twitter handle is @dollyalderton.
Quick Facts of Dolly Alderton
- Dolly writes an agony aunt column for The Sunday Times called Dear Dolly.
- She began writing for The Sunday Times in 2015, initially as a dating columnist from 2015 to 2017.
- Dolly’s memoir, Everything I Know About Love, won a National Book Award for autobiography in 2018 and was nominated for the British Book Awards’ 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year (won by Michelle Obama for Becoming).
- She was in a long-term relationship in her early twenties but has been single since.
- She earns an annual salary of $77,103
