Goodbye Mia

Queen of ACP and golden child of Channel Nine, Mia Freedman, has today announced her resignation from the two companies, the same day that her "baby" - daytime chat show, The Catch Up - was axed. Cooincide? Me thinks not.

Mia reigned over Comospolitan, Dolly and Cleo in her 16 years at ACP and leaves us wondering what she will do next? Is she taking time off to spend it with her kids? Writing another book (she's already written one called The New Black and is a regular columnist for the Sun Herald newspaper)? Or will she jump ship and continue her TV career at Seven? Doubtful.

I have never worked for Miss Freedman but am an admirer of what she achieved in her young years. She was editor of Cosmopolitan before her 25th birthday and made a positive impact to the magazine world by intorduing the "Body Love" campaign and using real girl models in every issue.

Starting her career as beauty editor of Cleo magazine (after a lucky break while on work experience), Mia worked her way up through the ranks and ended up editing Cosmopolitan for seven years. No doubt, we all would have read her work in the pages of Cleo and Cosmo over the years, and even though most people hated her TV show, I am sure the world has not heard the end of Mia Freedman.

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