Grace Dent Biography
Grace Dent is a British columnist, broadcaster, and author. She is a restaurant critic for The Guardian and, from 2011 to 2017, published a restaurant column for the Evening Standard. She is a frequent critic on BBC’s MasterChef UK and has been on Channel 4’s television show Very British Problems.
How old is Grace Dent? – Age
She is 50 years old as of 3 October 2023. She was born in 1973 in Carlisle, United Kingdom.
Grace Dent Family – Education
Dent was born and raised in Carlisle, Cumbria. She attended Bishop Goodwin Primary School in Currock, Carlisle, and later studied English Literature at the University of Stirling. After being selected for Cosmopolitan’s Student Advisory Council, she authored features for the magazine while attending university.
Grace Dent Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Grace Dent Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m).
Grace Dent Weight Loss
Dent has earned a reputation for herself in the culinary world, but away from the spotlight, she has undergone her own health transition, from losing weight to becoming a “part-time” vegan. Grace, who has extensive understanding of food, stated that she “really” watches what she puts into her body and has realized that “from your mid-40s, everything you eat and drink shows in your face.” So much so that the star became “teetotal” by the end of 2021.
Grace Dent Career
Dent’s first work after graduating from Stirling University was as an editorial assistant at Marie Claire magazine in London. In 1998, she became freelance, contributing to Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire, as well as authoring a weekly column for More! magazine. She worked for the Daily Mirror from 1998 to 2000, where she wrote about unusual foreign themes.
Dent started writing for the Guardian in 1999. From 2001 until 2010, she authored “World of Lather” for the Guardian’s Guide magazine, which celebrated her love of Coronation Street and other soap operas. Between 2010 and 2012, she wrote “Grace Dent’s TV-OD”. In 2012, she signed an agreement with The Independent and the London Evening Standard. In January 2018, she became The Guardian’s food critic. In November 2017, Dent was named “Reviewer of the Year” at the London Restaurant Festival.
She has written movingly of the deaths of her mother from cancer in 2021 and her father from dementia in 2022, after caring for both during their illnesses. She has been “mainly vegan” since the early 2010s and considers herself plant-based or flexitarian.
Dent is a regular critic for Masterchef UK, Masterchef: The Professionals, and Celebrity Masterchef. She has also served as a judge for BBC Two’s Great British Menu. She was the Creative Director for the Evening Standard’s London Food Month (2017), which was named ‘Best Debut Event’ at the 2017 Event Awards. She has showed up on numerous English TV programs like Extremely English Issues (Channel 4), Silly Big names, The Disciple: You’re Terminated, Have I Got News For You (BBC1), The Now Show (Radio 4), The Audit Show (BBC Two), Film 2012 (BBC1), The Way of life Show (BBC2), Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe (BBC4), Alan Davies: At this point Untitled (Dave), and Richard Osman’s Place of Games (BBC2).
Starting around 2016, Mark has introduced The Untold on BBC Radio 4. The series has been named two times for ARIA grants. Over Christmas 2019, Mark covered for Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio 2. Beauty joined Ainsley Harriott for a 5 section series on Channel 4 called Best of England by the Ocean in 2022. In 2023, she partook in the 23rd Series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. On 27 November 2023, following 9 days in the wilderness, Scratch left the show on “clinical grounds”. She was set twelfth.
Grace Dent Books
Dent has written eleven novels. Her debut, It’s a Girl Thing, was published in 2003. She was a finalist for the 2008 Queen of Teen Prize. Her first nonfiction book, How to Leave Twitter (My Time as Queen of the Universe and Why This Must Stop), was released in July 2011.
In October 2008, Dent served on the Young Minds book awards judging panel. She was a judge for the 2011 Roald Dahl Funny Prize.