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The award-winning journalist and restaurant critic AA Gill has died at the age of 62, just three weeks after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with “an embarrassment of cancer, the full English”.The award-winning journalist and restaurant critic AA Gill has died at the age of 62, just three weeks after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with “an embarrassment of cancer, the full English”.
Senior staff at the writer’s newspaper, the Sunday Times, confirmed Gill’s death on Twitter on Saturday afternoon. Tim Shipman, political editor of the Sunday Times, wrote: “AA Gill, the writer who first made me buy the Sunday Times, the best of us for thirty years has died. Very sombre mood in the office. Revealing his illness in an interview last month – diagnosed only recently after family concerns about his rapid weight loss – the writer said it prompted his successful proposal to Nicola Formby, his partner of nearly a quarter of a century.
His death on Saturday morning was confirmed by the Sunday Times, for whom he was a long-standing columnist. Friends and colleagues on the newspaper were informed of his death by editor Martin Ivens, who described the celebrated critic – known to some by his first name Adrian – as “a giant among journalists”.
In his memo to staff, Ivens said: “It is with profound sadness that I must tell you that our much-loved colleague Adrian Gill died this morning. Adrian was stoical about his illness, but the suddenness of his death has shocked us all.
“Characteristically he has had the last word, writing an outstanding article about coming to terms with his cancer in tomorrow’s Sunday Times Magazine.
“He was the heart and soul of the paper. His wit was incomparable, his writing was dazzling and fearless, his intelligence was matched by compassion. Adrian was a giant among journalists. He was also our friend. We will miss him. I know you will want to join me in sending condolences to Nicola Formby and his children.”
Tim Shipman, political editor of the Sunday Times, wrote: “AA Gill, the writer who first made me buy the Sunday Times, the best of us for thirty years has died. Very sombre mood in the office.
“If you loved AA Gill’s writing, he has one final, blisteringly brilliant cover story in tomorrow’s ST magazine. Be dazzled one last time.”“If you loved AA Gill’s writing, he has one final, blisteringly brilliant cover story in tomorrow’s ST magazine. Be dazzled one last time.”
Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Sunday Times’ Irish edition, added: “Sunday Times announces death of Adrian (AA) Gill: Editor said he was ‘the heart and soul of the paper...a giant among journalists’.”Frank Fitzgibbon, editor of the Sunday Times’ Irish edition, added: “Sunday Times announces death of Adrian (AA) Gill: Editor said he was ‘the heart and soul of the paper...a giant among journalists’.”
Gill broke the news of his cancer in his regular “Table Talk” dining column in the Sunday Times on 20 November. Describing how the disease, diagnosed in the summer, had spread, he wrote: “There is barely a morsel of offal that is not included. I have a trucker’s gut-buster, gimpy, malevolent, meaty, malignancy”. Gill broke the news of his cancer in his regular Table Talk dining column in the Sunday Times on 20 November. Describing how the disease, diagnosed in the summer, had spread, he wrote: “There is barely a morsel of offal that is not included. I have a trucker’s gut-buster, gimpy, malevolent, meaty, malignancy.”
Gill, a father of four, also used the column to announce he was to marry his long-term partner, Nicola Formby, after 23 years together. It is not known whether he was able to fulfil his wish before he died. Gill, a father of four, also used the column to announce he was to marry Formby after 23 years together. It is not known whether he was able to fulfil his wish before he died.
Born in Edinburgh in 1954 to English parents, Gill was privately educated in Hertfordshire before moving to London to study at the Central Saint Martins College of Art of Design and the Slade School of art.Born in Edinburgh in 1954 to English parents, Gill was privately educated in Hertfordshire before moving to London to study at the Central Saint Martins College of Art of Design and the Slade School of art.
By his 30s, though, he had given up his artistic aspirations and instead began writing “art reviews for little magazines” while working in restaurants and teaching cookery. Despite self-professed dyslexia, he went on to write his first article for Tatler, the society magazine, in 1991. He moved to the Sunday Times in 1993.By his 30s, though, he had given up his artistic aspirations and instead began writing “art reviews for little magazines” while working in restaurants and teaching cookery. Despite self-professed dyslexia, he went on to write his first article for Tatler, the society magazine, in 1991. He moved to the Sunday Times in 1993.
Reacting to the news of Gill’s death, Jay Rayner, a fellow food critic at the Observer, said: “So sorry to hear about the death of AA Gill. He was a controversialist, sometimes outrageously so, but a kind man and a brilliant writer.”Reacting to the news of Gill’s death, Jay Rayner, a fellow food critic at the Observer, said: “So sorry to hear about the death of AA Gill. He was a controversialist, sometimes outrageously so, but a kind man and a brilliant writer.”
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