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About Me

I am an experienced journalist specialising in travel and wellness. I've sailed across Malawi in a catamaran, ridden horseback across Iceland and been spun like a salad leaf at Virgin Galactic's HQ in New Mexico.

 

From Hollywood Oscar-winners to rock 'n' roll fashion designers, I've interviewed a colourful array of characters and in my capacity as a travel writer, I like to seek out exotic new spa treatments, immerse myself in nature and thrash about on the pickleball court.

 

Titles I write for include: Tatler, Telegraph, House & Garden, Harper's Bazaar, Sunseeker and Women's Health. 

 

In an online capacity, I contribute to Telegraph UltratravelThe Arbuturian, The Luxury Spa Edit and Little London. I'm also a UK correspondent for the online travel & tech publication Click.

 

I provide editing, subbing and writing services in print and digital and have a broad copywriting client base that includes Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising and Condé Nast Digital.

 

If you need a helping hand with any of your written materials, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

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I have a BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University and a post-graduate diploma
in periodical journalism from City University, London. I started my career at the Fulham Chronicle newspape
r covering lifestyle and arts before taking a full-time position in the magazine division at BBC Worldwide.

 

After five years at the Beeb, I swapped London for Los Angeles to go freelance.
From my base in the Hollywood Hills, I filed stories to Grazia, Marie C
laire, Total Film
and Sund
ay Times, and shared my red carpet escapades in a monthly column for
TV Hits magazine.

Returning to London in 2006, I landed at Quintessentially magazine working as a senior sub-editor. With the tagline 'accessing the inaccessible', the ultra-luxe quarterly allowed me to try my hand at travel writing. Jordan, Shanghai and Madagascar were among my early commissions. Let's just say, I never looked back.

 

One of my biggest achievements has been spearheading a dedicated wellness section in Travel Weekly's luxury magazine Aspire which earned me my nickname the 'Spa Goddess'.

Today, when I'm not working to a deadline or dashing to the airport, you can find me on the pickleball court. I live in in South West London with my husband and two daughters.

For commissions and enquiries, please email:

leo@leobear.co.uk

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