The first bit to be fair could be any writer…but then:
‘I started out life, or grown-up life, anyway, as a journalist on the Evening Standard newspaper in London. There, I wrote about things like the maple syrup diet, doing four hours of cardio a day to exercise like Madonna, and accidentally travelling to Amsterdam on my brother’s passport.’
Just waltzed into a job at the Evening Standard…like you do, no hard yards on the locals.