Rebekah Brooks
| Rebekah Brooks | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Rebekah Mary Wade 27 May 1968 Warrington, England, UK |
| Occupation | CEO, News UK Journalist, newspaper editor,media executive. |
| Notable credit(s) | The Post, The Sun, News of the World |
| Spouse(s) |
Ross Kemp (m. 2002; div. 2009) Charlie Brooks (m. 2009) |
| Children | one daughter |
Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. She was chief executive officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at News of the World from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of The Sun from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks.
Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the News of the World when illegal phone hacking was carried out by the newspaper. Following a criminal trial in 2014 she was cleared of all charges by a jury at the Old Bailey, which accepted her defence of incompetence: that she had no knowledge of the illegal acts carried out by the newspaper she edited.
In September 2015, Brooks was confirmed as CEO of News UK, the renamed News International, re-establishing the working relationship with News Corp founder and chairman Rupert Murdoch.
Brooks was born Rebekah Mary Wade in Warrington, Lancashire (now Cheshire) to a father variously described as a tugboat deckhand and gardener. Brooks grew up in Daresbury, to the south of Warrington, and when she was 14 decided she wanted to be a journalist. She attended Appleton Hall High School – a state comprehensive school that had previously been a grammar school – in Appleton, Warrington. A childhood friend, Louise Weir, described her as "more emotionally intelligent than academic", charming and always able to get what she wanted out of people.
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