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- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 10, 1956
- Place of Birth
- Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Stuart Higgins
Stuart Higgins (born c. 1956) is a British public relations consultant and former newspaper editor. In 1972 Higgins left school in Kingswood, on the outskirts of Bristol, and began his career as a reporter at the South West News, an agency founded by Roland Arblaster. He began working for The Sun in 1979 as their West Country reporter. He was arrested in 1982 by the police after being found with a Sun photographer "testing security" at Highgrove House, home of Charles, Prince of Wales At one point, Kelvin MacKenzie printed Higgins' direct phone number in The Sun, billed him as the "human sponge" and asked readers to call Higgins to "get things off their chest". In 1994, Higgins succeeded MacKenzie as editor of the newspaper. In 1996, Higgins wrote a front-page story about an intimate video purporting to feature Diana, Princess of Wales, with James Hewitt. The video turned out to be a h…
