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'''Rosemary Harriet Millard'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/671144/NY18_Queens_List_-_Final_.pdf|format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|title=New Year's Honours 2018|work=[[Gov.uk]]|publisher=[[Government Digital Service]]|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=30 December 2017|page=36}}</ref> {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 17 April 1965) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[journalist]]. writer and broadcaster.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Rosie Millard • Authors • Legend Press • Legend Times Group|url = http://www.legendtimesgroup.co.uk/legend-press/authors/636-rosie-millard|website = Legend Times Group|accessdate = 6 January 2016}}</ref>

Millard is Chair of BBC Children in Need and Chair of Firstsite gallery in [[Colchester]]. She is vice Chair of [[Opera North]]. Previous roles include CEO of Children and the Arts, Arts Editor of the ''New Statesman'' and Arts Correspondent of the BBC, which she did for ten years (1994-2004). She was Chair of Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and a former profile writer and columnist for the ''Sunday Times''. She has been a theatre critic and property columnist and has also written regular comment columns for ''[[The Independent]]'' and ''[[i (newspaper)|i]]'' newspapers,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Rosie Millard|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/author/rosie-millard|website = The Independent|accessdate = 6 January 2016}}</ref> and features, comment pieces and interviews for other national newspapers and magazines, including ''[[The Sunday Times]]'',<ref>Rosie Millard, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/gap_travel/article6537091.ece Rosie Millard and family: our gap travel adventure], ''[[The Sunday Times]], 21 June 2009.</ref> ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[The Independent]]'', ''[[New Statesman]]''.<ref>Rosie Millard, [http://www.newstatesman.com/200503280032 Notebook&nbsp;— Rosie Millard], ''[[New Statesman]]'', 28 March 2005.</ref> and ''[[ArtReview]]''.<ref>Rosie Millard, ArtReview, June 1998.</ref>.

She wrote the ''Mr and Mrs Millard'' marital column in the ''Body and Soul'' section of the Saturday ''Times''.<ref name="about">[http://www.rosie-millard.co.uk/about/ About Rosie Millard], UK.</ref> She was the arts editor and theatre critic for ''New Statesman''.<ref>[http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/rosie_millard Rosie Millard], ''New Statesman'', 28 March 2005.</ref> Millard has written four books, ''The Tastemakers: U.K. Art Now''.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/search-alias=books&field-author=Rosie+Millard&sort=relevancerank Rosie Millard books], [[Amazon.co.uk]].</ref><ref>Rosie Millard, ''The Tastemakers: U.K. Art Now''. Hardback: [[Thames & Hudson]], 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-500-51060-5}}. Paperback: [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]], 2002. {{ISBN|978-0-7432-3163-3}}.</ref> She then wrote '' Bonnes Vacances '',<ref>{{Cite book|edition = First |title = Bonnes Vacances: A Crazy Family Adventure in the French Territories|url = https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bonnes-Vacances-Family-Adventure-Territories/dp/1849531498|publisher = Summersdale|date = 6 June 2011|location = Chichester, West Sussex, UK|isbn = 9781849531498|first = Rosie|last = Millard}}</ref> a comic travel memoir recounting a journey around the French Overseas Territories with her children, published by [[Summersdale]], 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Rosie Millard on the forgotten corners of France's empire|url = http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/magazine/articles/interviews/rosie-millard-travels-little-known-french-territories?page=all|work= Wanderlust Travel Magazine |accessdate = 6 January 2016}}</ref> This was published along a series of TV documentaries on the same trip presented by Millard.

Her first novel ''The Square''<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Square|url = https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Square-Rosie-Millard/dp/1785079921|publisher = Legend Press Ltd|date = 1 August 2015|location = S.l.|isbn = 9781785079924|first = Rosie|last = Millard}}</ref> is a comic romp set in London. It was published in August 2015 by [[Legend Press]]. Legend Press published the sequel ''The Brazilian'' in 2017.

In 2014 Millard was made Chair of Hull City of Culture 2017. That year 2017 brought millions of visitors into the city and created 800 jobs. She was appointed [[OBE]] in the 2018 [[New Year Honours List]] for services in the arts to the city of Hull.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-new-years-honours-list-2018|title=The New Year's Honours list 2018|date=29 December 2017|publisher=HM Government|accessdate=17 January 2018}}</ref>

Millard was educated at [[Wimbledon High School]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/527/Wimbledon-High/GSA-GDST/Wimbledon-High-School-GDST-Mansel-Road-London-SW19-4AB|title=Guide to Independent Schools - School Details - Wimbledon High - Former pupils|work=GuideToIndependentSchools.com|accessdate=8 June 2015}}</ref> an [[independent school]] for girls in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] in southwest London. Millard is a graduate of [[Hull University]], the [[London College of Communication]] and the Courtauld Institute. Millard was also educated at an American High School courtesy of the [[English-Speaking Union]]. Millard has been a Trustee of the Carnegie (UK) Foundation, Home Live Art and Modern Art Oxford. She has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hull.

Millard started her career as a junior researcher on Granada TV's daytime show "This Morning", before later becoming the [[arts]] correspondent for the [[BBC]] between 1995 and 2004.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100829182532/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/thoroughly-modern-rosie--rosie-millard-632556.html Thoroughly modern Rosie: Rosie Millard], ''[[The Independent]]'', 25 October 2001.</ref>

On 20 June 2014 [[BBC News]] announced that Millard was to be appointed the role of chairwoman of the company running [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]]'s [[UK City of Culture#2017|UK City of Culture]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-06-05|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=UK City of Culture#2017|reason=Anchor "UK City of Culture#2017" links to a specific web page: "Hull UK City of Culture 2017". The anchor (2017) [[Special:Diff/707218064|has been deleted]].}} activities in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|title = My love letter to Hull|url = http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/my-love-letter-to-hull-1-6844211|work=Yorkshire Post| date=17 September 2014 |accessdate = 6 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite webnews|title = Broadcaster Rosie Millard to chair Hull's City of Culture team|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-27927768|work= BBC News|date = 20 June 2014|accessdate = 6 January 2016}}</ref> Having arrived at the University of Hull more than 30 years ago to study for a degree in English and Drama, arts specialist Millard maintains close links with the city.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Hull: Why I adore this unloved city|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/citybreaks/cities-of-culture/10462862/Hull-Why-I-adore-this-unloved-city.html|work= The Telegraph|accessdate = 9 January 2016}}</ref>

On 18 January 2018, it was announced that Millard would become the chair of the [[BBC Children in Need]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/appointments/2018/01/rosie-millard-chair-bbc-children-need|title=Rosie Millard to chair BBC Children in Need|date=18 January 2018|work=Prolific North|accessdate=18 January 2018}}</ref> In February 2022 she became chair of the [[Philip Larkin Society]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Our New President – The Philip Larkin Society |url=https://philiplarkin.com/uncategorized/our-new-president/ |access-date=23 July 2022}}</ref>

Millard lives in [[Islington]], north [[London]]. with Sheher ispartner married[[Alex toGraham the(producer)|Alex TVGraham]]. producerShe and her ex-husband Pip Clothier<ref>{{Cite andweb|url=http://www.grahammawchristie.com/rosie-millard.html|title=Rosie hasMillard}}</ref> have four children,.<ref name="about" /><ref>{{Cite web|title = Rosie Millard|url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587747/bio|website = IMDb|accessdate = 6 January 2016}}</ref> Phoebe, Gabriel, Honey and Lucien. Millard is a marathon runner; she has run ten marathons so far including the Great Wall of China Marathon and the six Abbott Marathon Majors. Her PB is 3.48.