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‘Everything I Know About Love’ Creator Dolly Alderton Wants to Write the Next Great Rom-Com

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Manori Ravindran International EditorIn a chic Islington restaurant, Dolly Alderton asks me where I met my partner. While most people will politely smile and half-listen to the answer, Alderton — who eats love stories for breakfast — virtually squeals at the meet-cute I serve up, which I had a hunch she of all people would appreciate.The London-born Alderton is one of the most recognizable columnists in the U.K., and has built a career as a journalist and author on, well, love.

And, really, you would struggle to find someone who flits as effortlessly between waxing poetic about Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” and quoting Rob Reiner’s “When Harry Met Sally.”Alderton this week makes her screenwriting debut with a Working Title-produced adaptation of her hugely popular memoir, “Everything I Know About Love,” which premieres on BBC One on Tuesday night. (A U.S.

deal for the show is still in the works.) Britons will recognize Alderton from her hit pop culture podcast with co-host Pandora Sykes, “The High Low,” as well as her Sunday Times dating column, and reappearance in 2020 as the paper’s agony aunt.

Incapable of being single after a five-year relationship? Tired of being judged for getting together through an affair? Ask Dolly.But it wasn’t until the publication of “Everything I Know About Love” that Alderton became somewhat ubiquitous.

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