Claudia Cox

Claudia Cox
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Hampshire
Education
Cambridge University
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Student culture, UK universities, Russell Group universities, Oxbridge, pop culture, film, TV, ranking Russell Group universities by everything possible, things with dragons in, the wonder that is Taylor Swift

  • Claudia first started making silly quizzes for The Cambridge Tab way back in February 2021.
  • She now writes mildly more serious news stories for the main site, and deeply unserious entertainment stories.
  • Her dog has more Instagram followers than she does. And is about ten times as glamorous.

Experience

Her work has appeared in The Independent, Den of Geek, Square Mile, Screen International, Creative Review, the Museums Journal and The Hampshire Chronicle. And also in the newspaper she made for her Sylvanian Families toys when she was eight.

Education

Claudia studied Classics at the University of Cambridge. Since ancient Greek grammar is a fairly useless life skill, she then did a Master's in Magazine Journalism at City, University of London.

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Ben Affleck *finally* breaks his silence on his dramatic divorce from Jennifer Lopez

He had to clarify they didn’t split because of her Amazon Prime documentary

UK university fined £585k for ‘failing to uphold freedom of speech and academic freedom’

This is the largest fine issued to a UK uni since the law changed in January

Fitness influencer Ashton Hall’s unexpected response to *that* bizarre morning routine

Er, he’s seen our memes about the banana facial and the four minute dive

The snarkiest and most savage reviews of Millie Bobby Brown’s Netflix film The Electric State

‘It’s an experiment conducted on the audience to determine how much dross they’ll tolerate’

St Andrews Uni rifle club coach found guilty of sexually assaulting female students

He inappropriately touched a woman while helping her into a shooting jacket

A complete timeline of Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick’s dramatic feud before Another Simple Favour

Er, did Anna Kendrick ask for her cleavage to be photoshopped bigger than Blake Lively’s?!

22-year-old University of Oxford grad charged with murder of elderly landlord

The landlord was about to testify in his former tenants’ trial

Eliot Donovan slams his villain edit on MAFS Australia that ‘wasn’t the whole story’

He doesn’t get why people make a big deal of his ‘non-negotiables’ list

A timeline of the crimes, investigation and trial of UCL student rapist Zhenhao Zou

He raped two women in 2022 and 2023 while studying mechanical engineering at UCL

The 15 boujie UK private schools that worm the most students into Oxbridge, revealed

Don’t bother studying for your interview, just say you went to boarding school x

Body language expert weighs in on whether Maura Higgins and Danny Jones *really* kissed at Brits

A video seems to show Maura kissing her married I’m A Celeb campmate kissing at an afterparty

The real reason behind the dramatic Peppa Pig pregnancy announcement, explained

Mummy Pig revealed she was pregnant with her third piglet and the internet is bewildered

Here we go again, here’s every UK university that might strike in 2025

It would be quicker to list the unis where lecturers aren’t striking, tbh

What we know about Belle Gibson’s boyfriend in Apple Cider Vinegar, Clive Rothwell

They dated for nearly a decade but she said in court they were ‘just friends’

Where to watch the real 60 Minutes Belle Gibson interview that inspired Apple Cider Vinegar

The Netflix show recreated this very famous news documentary with Belle Gibson

So, which people are still suspects in the investigation into Liam Payne’s death?

Three people have been acquitted, but two are still people of interest

The Russell Group unis that get drastically fewer applications than they used to, revealed

I guess sixth form students can’t face the pain of Oxbridge interviews

Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry’s heartbreaking new revelations about their relationship

Maya Henry said she ‘stood by him in his darkest moments’ but ‘drug addictions’ made him ‘unrecognisable’

If you do these 9 things on Valentine’s Day, I’m afraid you’re a certified posh girlie

Do you have enough Waitrose beetroot kimchi for your Galentine’s bottomless brunch?

Er, Gracie Abrams is being dragged for her hot takes on adult entertainment

The pop star suggested young girls learn about intimacy from ‘a strong mentor’

Kate Cassidy shares how she found out tragic news of boyfriend Liam Payne’s death

She was scrolling through TikTok at home while Liam was in Argentina

St Andrews Uni student sues Neil Gaiman and his wife for $7m over human trafficking claims

Scarlett Pavlovich is suing the famous author over his treatment of her while she was his nanny

London university PhD student accused of raping 10 women and keeping ‘souvenirs’

The UCL student has been called a ‘a persistent sexual predator, a voyeur and a rapist’

Lily Phillips already attempted her 1,000 men challenge – but here’s why it failed

She was scared to complete the stunt in case she was thrown out the country

Influencers are being slammed for using the LA fires to sell detox products

Apparently it’s the perfect time to buy raw milk and vitamin supplements!

Erm, Bonnie Blue’s ex-husband is now ‘furious’ she slept with 1,057 men in 12 hours

He used to help her make OnlyFans videos, but now ‘wants nothing to do with her’

Wait, Blake Lively apparently sent Justin Baldoni this weird Game of Thrones text?!

She compared herself, Ryan Reynolds and a ‘celebrity friend’ to very controversial characters

Who even is Roger Nores, the man suing Liam Payne’s dad for $10 million?

Roger Nores was accused of manslaughter and abandoning Liam Payne before his death

Where to watch FireAid, the celeb-filled concert for the Los Angeles fires

Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Gracie Abrams are all performing

How the OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue’s parents are supporting her dreams

Bonnie Blue’s mum cleaned up after her ‘gangbang’ with Lily Phillips?

All Ekin-Su’s attempts at fame before resorting to Love Island All Stars

I swear this girl’s been on even more reality shows than Joey Essex

Kim Kardashian is being dragged for promoting SKIMS during the LA fires

People are calling her ‘sick’ and telling her to ‘read the room’

Everything we know about how the LA fires really started, explained

More winds over the weekend could make the wildfires worse

How the Selling Sunset cast is getting stuck in with helping the Los Angeles fire victims

Bre and Mary are donating clothes and Jason is finding people houses for free

Wait, will TikTok really become illegal in the US? The ban explained

TikTok has to convince the Supreme Court to stop the app from being banned

Liam Payne: New UK inquest revealed the cause of his death as ‘polytrauma’

The One Direction singer suffered several injuries after falling from a balcony

Inside Lily Phillips’s surprising normal life before she got famous on OnlyFans

She played netball and liked SpongeBob like basically everyone, everywhere

A deep dive into Ariana Grande’s vibey new Glindacore rebrand post-Wicked

Out with the spray tan, in with the rambling Insta stories about gratitude

All the UK unis which are cutting back STEM subjects to save money

Even Russell Group unis are making science staff redundant

All the differences between what Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni say happened, explained

Justin Baldoni claims Ryan Reynolds ‘berated’ him and it was ‘traumatic’

Lily Phillips vs Bonnie Blue: Who’s made more money from OnlyFans?

Lily Phillips has a huge net worth after sleeping with 100 men in a day

St Andrews Uni student embezzled £5,700 from a charity ball she organised

She initially took nearly £9k of money which students paid for tickets

Exclusive: TfL removed a beloved Banksy mural on Brick Lane in London

Apparently graffiti can case ‘anti-social activity that poses a danger to the operational railway’

The Banksy artwork has vanished from Brick Lane in London

The painting of three monkeys was washed away overnight

All the UK universities forced to cut core subjects in 2024

UK unis have less chemistry than Love Island couples

Revealed: The leaked ‘toughness sheet’ Oxford Brookes Uni is investigating its rowing team for

Someone ranked the students’ ‘toughness’ and made derogatory comments

Oxford Brookes Uni investigates its rowing team after shocking leaked WhatsApp messages

Someone made a ‘toughness sheet’ comparing the students to penises

Revealed: Exactly how rich each Oxbridge college is right now

Some of the older colleges are richer than Taylor Swift

Liam Payne’s funeral is happening today – here are all the details we know

All of Liam Payne’s One Direction bandmates have arrived at the church

All the times the MAFS UK 2024 cast slated the show and producers

They’re finally realising what all reality dating show viewers know

Uni of Oxford student found dead in the sea during his year abroad

The 21-year-old languages student was studying in Guadeloupe

Jamie Oliver’s new children’s book pulled from sale due to ‘offensive’ stereotyping

The book was criticised for the ‘stereotyping of First Nations peoples and experiences’

Suspect allegedly linked with Liam Payne makes claims about his time with the singer

Braian Nahuel Paiz admitted to taking drugs with Liam Payne, but denies supplying them

Liam Payne’s friend Rogelio Nores denies abandoning him at the hotel before his death

Rogelio Nores says he ‘never abandoned Liam’ and is ‘heart-broken’

University of Oxford student died by suicide in the River Thames

Alexander Rogers was a third year ‘talented student, well known and liked’

These influencers are opening up about the ‘nightmare’ of having to get part-time jobs

Apparently posting pictures on Instagram doesn’t always pay the bills

MAFS UK groom Luke Worley loses lawsuit against old employer EE for taking time off to film TV show

Apparently reality dating shows aren’t a ‘legitimate’ reason to skip work

All the Russell Group unis in their financial crisis eras in 2024

Will they start charging even more to do laundry?

The most annoying types of people who will dare connect with you on LinkedIn

There is nothing more obnoxious than posting online about your own promotions

‘Our brother’: All the tributes from Liam Payne’s One Direction band members so far

Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson have posted moving statements on Instagram

The Russell Group unis ranked by the percentage of girlies studying there in 2024

You are statistically less likely to find a man if you go to King’s

Here’s the full timeline of everything we know about Liam Payne’s tragic death so far

The One Direction star was found with injuries ‘incompatible with life’ in Buenos Aires

Inside the bougie country hotel where the MAFS UK 2024 cast went for the couples’ retreat

Guess it doesn’t get more British than clay pigeon shooting and scones?

The 10 most stunning UK uni room transformations that will put your decor to shame

Feat. framed paintings, Greek vases and a Chappell Roan shrine

The votes are in! This eyesore is officially the ugliest UK uni in 2024

The people have spoken and they do not like concrete

Ranked: The UK uni Vice-Chancellors getting paid the most extortionate salaries in 2024

How do you become a uni Vice-Chancellor? Asking for a friend…

Um, Emma and Nicole from Selling Sunset are STILL feuding over whether Emma dated a married man

Apparently someone ‘destroyed’ and ‘terrified’ Nicole’s friend after an unaired scene from season eight

These are all the UK unis that have student pro-life societies in 2024

Students have started pro-life societies at three more UK unis this year

These 30 unhinged MAFS UK 2024 memes will keep you entertained until the show’s back

I’ll be laughing over those fajitas for three to five working days

Kim Kardashian slams media for turning Menendez brothers into ‘eye candy’ in lengthy essay

She called upon them to be freed and claimed they were ‘not monsters’ when she visited them in jail

Which university is the ugliest in the UK? Vote now to make it official

The Russell Group unis need their egos to be deflated a bit

Inside Millie Bobby Brown’s lavish wedding, and how much it costs to get married there

Jon Bon Jovi might need to make a Greatest Hits album to fund all four dresses

Inside Harper Adams University, the very elusive and scandal prone UK uni

It specialises in farming and in making the front page

So, which UK unis are really the best for each subject in 2024?

Loads of non-Russell Group unis topped The Times’s league tables

These are the 10 most extortionately expensive UK private schools in 2024

You could buy 300 Sabrina Carpenter tickets with some of these fees

These are the best Russell Group unis in 2024, according to The Times

Aka the unis guaranteed to impress your grandparents

Inside the life of Polly Sellman, the deeply iconic and glamorous MAFS UK 2024 bride

She went to drama school, so she must be prepared for the drama of MAFS dinner parties

The 10 best UK private schools based on grades, and how tragically expensive they all are

You’d better start saving now if you want darling Tarquin and Tatiana to go to Wycombe Abbey x

Inside the viral trainwreck Bridgerton Ball that’s the new Willy Wonka Experience

Featuring raw chicken, one lone pole dancer and a very grumpy Queen Charlotte

All the MAFS UK 2024 wedding dresses, ranked from best to worst

Polly looked like a princess and nobody can prove me wrong

Uni rugby team banned from playing after sexual and physical abuse reported at initiations

Students say they were burned with cigarettes and curry sauce by members of the team

Inside the very vibey life of MAFS UK contestant and Surrey girl Charlie Curtis

I wish I could go on as many boujee European holidays as this woman

We asked ChatGPT to write an episode of Selling Sunset and they need to air this masterpiece right NOW

Dramatic divorces? Romantic revelations? Fighting at funerals? A bizarre amount of Jennifer Aniston?

Revealed: These are the top 10 UK unis where the most students get firsts

There’s one uni where over half of students graduate with a first

Take this vibe test to see which Russell Group uni you should actually have applied to

This very scientific quiz will analyse your personality and make you regret your life choices

Revealed: These are officially the Russell Group unis with the highest dropout rates in 2024

6.2 per cent of students at Queen’s University Belfast don’t finish their degrees

Orlando Bloom caught looking *very* awkward while Katy Perry danced erotically at the VMAs

People think he’s a fake fan because he only sang along to ‘I Kissed A Girl’

The 10 most Instagrammable UK uni libraries for your vibey study pics

If it’s good enough for Timothée Chalamet, then it’s good enough for my Instagram story

These are the hardest UK unis to get into right now, based on how many UCAS points you need

Good luck if you want to go to St Andrews (because you’ll definitely need it)

These are the best subjects to do at each uni, according to the Daily Mail

Check out which uni you should’ve applied to, and regret all your life choices!

Every Russell Group uni as a meal deal: A very scientific analysis based on vibes

Bristol is a falafel salad bowl and I can’t explain it better than that

We asked ChatGPT to write a uni packing list and you defo shouldn’t use it

Don’t forget your chocolate fountain and your Rubik’s cube!

Pack your umbrella, because these are officially the rainiest Russell Group unis in 2024

Surely you know what you sign up for if you go to uni in Scotland

A rundown of the most middle-class things on the John Lewis uni ‘essentials’ list 2024

Don’t forget your air fryer, Châppèlle-Röanne Huntington-Robertson-Smythe III!

These uni cities have the most expensive rent in 2024 and yikes, it’s a lot

It’s a good thing that London has lots of clubs to compensate

All the Megalopolis film drama explained after *that* train wreck trailer

The drama behind this film would have made for a far juicier story

So, which uni city is officially the cheapest for a big night out in 2024?

I’m buying a bottle of vanilla vodka and a train ticket to Stoke-On-Trent

What subject to study at uni in 2024 to earn the most after graduating

Law grads make less money than sports science students and I’m shook

Um, AliExpress has made a back-to-uni list and it couldn’t be weirder

Who doesn’t bring a phone-shaped leather rucksack to uni?

George RR Martin reveals major regrets about Game of Thrones books

If only he wrote books as fast as Taylor Swift writes albums

These are officially the highest-ranking unis with Clearing spaces in 2024

Fear not, there are plenty of spots left at these 30 leading unis

Uh oh! Ice Spice is being dragged for playing adverts on her tour

People were not In Ha Mood to watch two hours of ads after shelling out hundreds of dollars for tickets