The comic and writer addresses the last taboos of female sexuality – and the tricky topic of nepotism
It’s Valentine’s Day morning when we speak and she’s just back from a walk on Hampstead Heath with her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy Eddie He sits on her lap unbothered and in silence, even during her loudest laughs, one of which unfurls as we discuss why, when Googling “Grace Campbell partner”, the first image that comes up is her and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, and the other about her 2015 Guardian piece with The Weakest Link’s Anne Robinson, where Campbell requested Robinson to join...
People get so weird about nepotism. I just feel like it’s gaslighting. Like I absolutely know that being Alistair’s daughter has got me places… that doesn’t mean I’m not talented and I don’t work hard In this way, she tackles nepotism, as the nepo-baby calling from inside the house. The third child and only daughter of Blair’s architectural sidekick, her father features in a lot of her internet sketches, oftentimes laughing alongside her. “People get so weird about nepotism,” she laughs. “I just feel like it’s gaslighting. Like I absolutely know that being Alistair’s daughter has got me places… that doesn’t mean I’m not talented and I don’t work hard. But we all know how this works.
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