Flora Gill

London

Journalist| Bylines: GQ, ST Style Magazine, Grazia, Evening Standard, The Sunday Times Magazine, Radio Times, You Magazine, i Newspaper | she/her

Articles

The real reason I won't be taking my husband's name despite all the criticism and judging: FLORA GILL

6 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Flora Gill

I’m not sure if I’m technically Miss Gill or Mrs Gill. As of last summer I’m a married woman but I haven’t taken my husband Adam’s surname – nor do I plan to. Gill was on my birth certificate and it will be on my gravestone too. For me, the idea of giving up my name feels unnatural – and unfeminist. To take Adam’s name seems archaic, as if marrying him makes me his submissive – and not in a sexy way.
FLORA GILL: Guess which I had first - Botox or a baby?

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Flora Gill

Once upon a time in Hollywood, celebrities went to unimaginable lengths to deny plastic surgery. Who could forget Kim Kardashian getting her backside X-rayed on television to prove she hadn’t achieved her famous posterior through implants? Or supermodel Bella Hadid insisting she was entirely natural – despite the marked change in her bone structure since her teenage appearances with mother Yolanda on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills?
My husband thinks my unhygienic bathtime habit is disgusting

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Flora Gill

The bath has long been one of the best places to relax. You soak, you decompress, you wash away your worries. It’s also one of the best places to eat. If you haven’t enjoyed a full-on meal while your skin turns as wrinkled as the prunes you could be munching on, you’re missing out.
Are you seeing disquieting images like these on social media? There's a sinister reason why... and it's taking older people for fools, reveals FLORA GILL | Daily Mail Online

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Flora Gill

This week I watched a video of an attractive woman strutting down a street in slow motion. At her side was a muscular, humanoid crocodile more than twice her height, wearing a suit and swaggering on his hind legs. The video was hypnotic, strangely beautiful and, at least to someone of my generation, very clearly made by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Most extraordinary of all, though, wasn't the content – but the comments the footage attracted.
I wanted a pre-push rave

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Flora Gill
I am the daughter of revered writer and critic AA GIll and this is what caring for my son has taught me about the grandfather he will never get to meet | Daily Mail Online

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Flora Gill

My father was the first person I told I was pregnant. Partly because I've always been a daddy's girl, but mostly because he's an excellent secret keeper – owing to the fact he died eight years ago. I sat by his grave one day last spring and told him my big news. And then I cried like I hadn't in several years. When someone you love dies, in the beginning, the grief is all-consuming and constant. It sucks the colour out of the world and forever marks that moment in time.
my son's birth triggered fresh grief for my dead father

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Flora Gill
There are three of us in my marriage... that's how I like it

Jan 15, 2025 | dailymail.co.uk | Flora Gill

I got married last summer and my husband and I recently had our first baby together. You might, then, imagine that the screensaver on his phone would be a photo of his precious newborn son, or me, the person who pushed his only child from her body. But you’d be wrong. Instead, it’s a photo of my best friend, or more accurately, our best friend, Martha. A close-up picture of her beaming face fills the screen.
Londoners Revolt Against Restaurant Overcrowding with Fake Restaurant Recs

Dec 20, 2024 | airmail.news | Flora Gill

Spontaneity in London is dead. Especially if you want to eat well. Reservations a month out and curling lines so dense they make even an Englishman gasp have become the standard. This is largely thanks to the Internet, whose recommendations—by newspapers, blogs, TikTokers, you name it—have gotten so ubiquitous that no gem can stay hidden for long. So how do you secure a spot at that up-and-coming restaurant you’ve been dying to try but can never get a booking for?
Forget baby showers - I wanted a pre-push rave

Nov 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Flora Gill

Hen dos are supposed to be a last hurrah before your life drastically changes. But for most of us in the 21st century, marriage doesn’t mark that life-altering moment. You’re probably already living with your partner, you’ve already merged all your mismatched mugs and you’re likely to be sinfully sharing that marital bed. The real change comes — so I’m told — when you have your first child.