Kerry Potter

Get The Gloss’s Contributing Editor, Kerry joined the team in 2022. She specializes in health, fitness and sport, and loves trying out bonkers new biohacking practices. She is allergic to the more woo-woo end of the wellbeing spectrum though - so she really doesn’t want to hear about your crystal collection, sorry.

A journalist for 25 years, she’s also a contributor to many national newspapers and magazines, including The Mail On Sunday, Sunday Telegraph, Evening Standard and Red. She was previously Deputy Editor of Elle magazine and Associate Editor on ES Magazine. She is an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, teaching journalism; plus a curator/host for events such as literary festivals.

Kerry is hugely optimistic about the power of exercise and sport to improve our lives and communities and in 2021 co-wrote a book about this, All To Play For: How Sport Can Reboot Our Future  (Ebury Press, £15.89). It was nominated for a Sunday Times Sports Book Award. Her favourite celebrity sporting encounter? It's a toss-up between interviewing Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli and going ten-pin bowling with Mike Skinner from The Streets at Streatham MegaBowl (sadly now defunct).

She is currently obsessed with lifting heavy weights (goblet squat PB: 10 reps at 32.5kg) – and as a result is stronger in her forties than she was in her twenties. She also plays tennis, runs and does yoga. And she's doing an FA training course so she can volunteer as a lineswoman at her son’s football matches – and, yes, of course, she understands the offside rule.