Mark Frith

Mark Frith (born 1970, Sheffield) is employed as a British journalist and editor of London listings magazine Time Out. He is a former editor of celebrity gossip magazine Heat.

His career was launched by pop music based magazine, Smash Hits. He has subsequently forged a spin-off career as a broadcaster and media 'talking head' on the subjects of celebrity and pop music. On 28 February 2008, Frith resigned from Heat, having landed a book deal with Ebury Press. He left the magazine in May 2008.

Mark Frith was born in Sheffield in 1970.He attended Gleadless Valley Secondary school before going on to study at the University of East London, where he edited the college magazine Overdraft, Frith joined the editorial team at Smash Hits and became editor at the age of 23. He then joined Sky Magazine as editor for two years before joining Heat magazine in 1999. He was put in charge in early 2000 and transformed the title from a 60,000-a-week selling magazine to sales of over half a million an issue.

Over the past eight years Frith has won every major magazine publishing award in Britain including PPA Editor Of The Year (twice) and, in 2005, the Mark Boxer Award for Outstanding Achievement To British Magazines at the BSME Awards. Frith presented the BBC’s Liquid News for a year, then in 2008 made his debut in Who’s Who and now regularly features on radio as part of Radio 4's Front Row show and on the on BBC2.

His book The Celeb Diaries is being adapted by Danny Brocklehurst and Big Talk (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead) for a TV series based around a celebrity magazine office.

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