birth_place article_title name birth_date
watford , hertfordshire , england kathryn flett
 kathryn flett 1 april 1964
kathryn flett

kathryn alexandra flett -lrb- born 1 april 1964 -rrb- is a british tv critic , author , and star of the bbc 's `` grumpy old women '' series .
she was educated at notting hill & ealing high school , and hammersmith and west london college .
flett began her career as a staff writer for `` i-d '' magazine in 1985 .
this was followed by a period as features editor and fashion editor of `` the face '' -lrb- 1987-1989 -rrb- , three years as a freelancer , and then editor of `` arena '' magazine from 1992-1995 .
in 1995 , at the age of 31 , flett joined `` the observer '' as associate editor of the magazine `` observer life '' , later becoming a features writer and tv critic on the newspaper .
in 1997 , flett 's husband of just 17 months had just left her and the couple were going through a messy divorce .
flett found an outlet for her grief by writing about the break-up in gory detail , week-by-week , in her `` observer '' newspaper column .
she published a book about the relationship , `` the heart-shaped bullet '' -lrb- isbn 0330370383 -rrb- in 1999 .
since 2004 , flett has starred in the bbc tv 's `` grumpy old women '' series and , in 2008 , was a judge on channel 4 's `` miss naked beauty '' .
her first novel , `` separate lives '' , was published july 2012 by quercus books .
