Sophie McCartney is an English comedian and novelist who has written and performed about her experiences of motherhood.
Sophie McCartney | |
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Born | Liverpool |
Occupation | Writer |
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Her parody version of the Ed Sheeran song 'Shape of You' went viral.[1]
She is a cousin of Paul McCartney.[2]
She was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for her novel Mother Hens.[3]
References
edit- ^ Flaherty, Jess (27 January 2021). "Liverpool comedian has a very famous relative you never knew about". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
But it wasn't until a year later when Sophie posted the parody Smell Of You - swapping Ed Sheeran's lyrics about meeting a girl for the mundane life of Tom Hardy-loving, nit-phobic, Dairylea-covered mums - that she started to get attention online.
- ^ O'Dornan, David (12 February 2024). "Entertaining in genes for NI-bound comic Sophie McCartney". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ Creamer, Ella (4 October 2023). "Bob Mortimer and India Knight among shortlistees for the Wodehouse comic fiction prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 June 2024.