Edwardes was described by a former
Evening Standard colleague as "hugely well-known, well-respected and well-liked among political circles, and is, in some cases, personal friends with them.". She began her career as a war reporter. BBC Radio 4's
The Media Show called her a "master of the craft" of the set-piece celebrity interview. Edwardes spent a decade as a reporter at
The Telegraph. In December 2001, she interviewed
Osama bin Laden's half-brother
Abdullah. In 2004, Edwardes wrote a piece for the newspaper that said that, based on a script before the film was made, Ridley Scott's
Kingdom of Heaven "panders to Osama Bin Laden". Critic
Hamid Dabashi described this response to a then-unmade film as "Very strange, indeed". In 2005, Edwardes and her
Sunday Telegraph colleague
Daniel Foggo were finalists for the Outstanding Investigative Reporting Prize at the
ICIJ awards for their reporting on illegal abortion. They were also runners-up for the
Private Eye/
Guardian Paul Foot Award the same year. She was a feature writer and chief interviewer at the
Evening Standard from 2012, for which she won the 2016 and 2017
Press Award for Interviewer of the Year (Pop). She was diary editor of
The Londoner for
The Evening Standard for over a year before being replaced by
Ayesha Hazarika in July 2019, remaining as senior feature writer and columnist. While at the
Evening Standard, she also freelanced for
The Times and
Tatler. In May 2016, when interviewing cricketer
Chris Gayle for
The Times, he made what were reported as lewd and sexist comments. Soon after leaving the
Standard, she joined
The Sunday Times as an assistant editor and columnist for its
Style magazine, in September 2019. At
The Times and
Sunday Times, Edwardes was a features writer, interviewer, and columnist for over three years. That same month, Edwardes accused the then-Conservative Prime Minister
Boris Johnson in her
Sunday Times column of groping her thigh and that of another woman at a lunch in 1999 when she worked for him at
The Spectator, which he denied. She was supported by Conservative MPs
Matt Hancock and
Amber Rudd. In 2020, Edwardes was highly commended at the Press Awards for her political interviews. In 2021, she was shortlisted as Interviewer of the Year at the
British Journalism Awards for her
Times interviews with
Robert Webb,
Joey Essex, and
Kit Harington. She joined
The Guardian's Saturday magazine as an interviewer in January 2023. In 2025, Edwardes was highly commended at the 2024 Press Awards for her in-depth interviews, including with
Keir Starmer,
Gary Lineker, and
Jeremy Clarkson. She was shortlisted as Interviewer of the Year - Broadsheet at the 2025 Press Awards for her
Guardian interviews with
David Lammy,
Kieran Culkin, and
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her debut novel
Trouble Was will be published in July 2026 by Bloomsbury. ==Personal life==