Rebekah Mary Brooks is a British media executive and former journalist and newspaper editor. She has been the chief executive officer of News UK since 2015.
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Rebekah Brooks Parents: Meet John Robert Wade, Deborah Wade
Rebekah was born to John Robert Wade and Deborah Wade. Rebekah Mary Wade was born in 1968 in Warrington. She grew up in Daresbury, where her parents ran a tree-pruning business. Her father, John Robert Wade, died aged 50 in 1996.
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When she was 14, she decided she wanted to be a journalist and would make tea at her local newspaper and help out generally. She attended Appleton Hall High School – a state comprehensive school that had previously been a grammar school – in Appleton, Warrington.
A childhood friend, Louise Weir, described her as “more emotionally intelligent than academic”, charming, and always able to get what she wanted out of people.
Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International in July 2011 amid public outrage over hacking allegations and was summoned by police the following week.
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