Nina Myskow

Nina Myskow (born Janina Marcela Myskow) is a British journalist and television personality who was a columnist for The Sun and the News of the World, under the byline "The Bitch on the Box", in the 1980s. She appeared on New Faces, and has been a regular contributor on Grumpy Old Women and on many countdown list shows.

Early life

Myskow was born in St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, to a Polish officer father and a Scottish school teacher mother. Her parents moved to South Africa after World War II and she attended Wykeham Collegiate School in Pietermaritzburg, where she learned to speak Afrikaans. She moved back to Scotland with her family at the age of 15 attending Bell Baxter High School in Cupar. She studied English literature at the University of St Andrews, but did not graduate.

Career Myskow was a writer for Jackie for some years and then became the first female editor of the magazine. The damages were raised to £11,500 at a retrial after Myskow appealed, but costs were awarded against Cornwell.

Myskow has been criticised for stating that women doing their makeup on the train were "lazy and selfish", and that millennials are "snowflakes".

Myskow is a regular contributor on GB News.