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David Yelland was born on 14 May, 1963 in Harrogate, United Kingdom, is a Former journalist and editor of The Sun and founder of Kitchen Table Partners. Discover David Yelland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 14 May 1963
Birthday 14 May
Birthplace Harrogate, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1963

David Yelland (born 14 May 1963) is a former journalist and editor of The Sun and founder of Kitchen Table Partners, a specialist public relations and communications company in London, which he formed in 2015 after leaving the Brunswick Group LLP.

Born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, Yelland was adopted at birth by Michael and Patricia Yelland of York.

He has a younger brother, Paul.

Yelland subsequently traced his birth father, now deceased.

Yelland's natural mother was a children's writer from Harrogate, who died before he could meet her.

In childhood he suffered alopecia and after wearing a series of wigs he decided to go without them when he was 31 and living in New York.

1976

Yelland was educated at Brigg Grammar School in Brigg, Lincolnshire, from 1976 to 1981, followed by Coventry Polytechnic (now Coventry University), where he obtained a BA in Economics.

He was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party.

1992

Yelland was hired as business editor on The Sun in 1992 by editor Kelvin Mackenzie, and became deputy editor of New York Post in 1995, as well as a speech writer for Rupert Murdoch.

1996

He married Tania Farrell in January 1996 at New York City Hall, but the couple divorced in 2004.

1998

He was editor of the tabloid newspaper The Sun from mid-1998 to January 2003.

His predecessor was Stuart Higgins and his successor was Rebekah Wade.

His editorship was largely liberal and in an interview with The Guardian towards the end of his editorship he described himself as "a progressive liberal".

Their son, Max, was born in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Shepherd's Bush, London, in August 1998.

Yelland is now married to Charlotte Elston, director of communications at BBC Worldwide.

2002

He did the same in an interview with Tim Burt in the Financial Times in 2002 which ran on the front of the media section.

Yelland says his favourite headline was "Is this the most dangerous man in Britain?"

about Tony Blair, and his worst moments were publishing topless photos of Sophie Rhys-Jones (now the Countess of Wessex) and running a front-page editorial asking whether Britain was being run by a "Gay Mafia", a front page he has since acknowledged was a mistake and contrary to his personal views.

During his editorship he regularly feuded with Piers Morgan of the Daily Mirror.

2003

He later studied at the Harvard Business School in 2003, sponsored by News International.

Yelland's first journalism post after university was at the Buckinghamshire Advertiser.

He was a trainee with Westminster Press, then part of Pearson, and worked on a series of regional papers including the Northern Echo and the North West Times in Manchester.

2004

Yelland became senior vice-chairman of the PR consultancy firm Weber Shandwick in 2004.

2006

He joined Brunswick in 2006.

At Brunswick, he advised businesses on media and crisis management.

His clients have included Lord Browne, Burberry, Ocado, Norman Foster, Tony Ball, Warner Music Group, Brookfield Multiplex, Tesco, Coca-Cola and Cadbury-Schweppes.

Tania died from breast cancer in September 2006.

2007

He is a board member of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and in 2007 was appointed a Life Patron of the charity.

He supports Manchester City Football Club.

2009

Yelland said in 2009 that he checked into rehab for alcoholism in 2005 and has not drunk alcohol since.

He said his novel was written both for children and adults, and a further theme is that of a young boy who has lost his mother.

The book is dedicated to the memory of Tania, and to Max.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

2010

Yelland has written a children's novel about a 10-year-old who tries to hide his father's alcoholism, titled The Truth about Leo, which was published by Penguin Books in April 2010.

He was a board member of the National Campaign for the Arts from 2010 to 2012.

He has been a Patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics since 2010.

2012

On 30 September 2012 they announced the birth of their daughter in The Times.

He became a Trustee of Action on Addiction in 2012.

2013

Yelland appeared on the BBC Today programme and wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian on 29 September 2013 arguing for reform of the press and for the Royal Charter on its future to be adopted.

2015

In 2015 he left Brunswick to form Kitchen Table Partners which the Financial Times reported would counsel individuals as well as businesses.