Dan Hodges Biography
Dan Hodges is a media personality serving as a commentator for Mail on Sunday. He is best known as newspaper columnist. Prior to this, he was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph
Dan Hodges Age
Hodges is 54 years old as of January 2024.He was born on March 7, 1969, in Lewisham, London, England.
Dan Hodges Height
He is 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Dan Hodges Nationality
He holds British nationality.
Dan Hodges Education
He was educated at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk, Lancashire, where he studied English Literature and Communications between 1987 and 1990.
Dan Hodges Family
Born in Lewisham, Hodges is the son of the actress and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson and her then-husband Roy Hodges, a repertory company stage-manager and actor. He worked as a parliamentary researcher for his mother between 1992 and 1997, describing it as ‘straight-forward nepotism’, before working in public relations for the Road Haulage Association, GMB and the Freedom to Fly lobby group.
In 1957, Glenda met Roy Hodges, a fellow actor in the repertory theatre company she was in, and they began a relationship. The couple was married on 2 August 1958 at St Marylebone Register Office in London. In 1969, their son, Daniel, was born; Glenda was six months pregnant when filming on Women in Love was completed.
Glenda’s marriage was running into difficulties by the early 1970s, and in 1975, she began an affair with Andy Phillips, the lighting director for a production of Hedda Gabler which she was starring in. Roy sued Glenda for divorce on the grounds of her adultery with Phillips in November that year, and the couple was divorced in 1976.
Dan Hodges Wife and Kids
Dan is married to Michelle di Leo, they had their wedding in 2003, after meeting her at a Labour Party Conference in 1999. In February 1992, he lost the sight of his left eye trying to stop a fight in a bar. He lives in Blackheath with his wife and children.
Dan Hodges The Mail
Hodges is a journalist serving as a newspaper columnist. He is also a commentator for Mail on Sunday. Since March 2016, he has written a weekly column for The Mail on Sunday. Prior to this, he was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and in 2013 was described by James Forsyth in The Spectator as David Cameron’s “new favorite columnist”.
Hodges has worked as a journalist and blogger, writing in a freelance capacity for the New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph and The Mail on Sunday. He worked for the successful No to AV campaign in 2011, but attracted controversy for a provocative anti-AV poster that suggested electoral reform might lead to the deaths of newborn babies.
After an acrimonious split from the New Statesman in 2011, where Hodges had submitted articles on a freelance basis, his former colleague Mehdi Hasan described his new role with The Daily Telegraph as one where he “now performs the role of the right’s useful idiot”.
In 2017, he won the Political Commentator of the Year Award at The Comment Awards. He supported David Miliband in his unsuccessful campaign for the 2010 Labour leadership contest. Hodges describes himself as a “tribal neo-Blairite”. He was a vocal critic of the former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.
In May 2012, although he was then a long-standing member of the Labour Party, Hodges voted for the Conservative Boris Johnson in the London Mayoral elections, lauding him as a “unifying figure” over his former boss Ken Livingstone whom he saw as “divisive” and “a disgrace”, adding that “London needs someone who can speak for all of London, not just the balkanized segments whose votes he craves”. However, he still voted for Labour London Assembly candidates.
Dan Hodges Salary
His salary per month and other career earnings are over $300,000 dollars annually.
Dan Hodges Net Worth
He has an estimated salary that ranges between $ 1 million to $5 Million.
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