Hislop was born on 13 July 1960 in Mumbles, Swansea, to a Scottish father, David Hislop, from Ayrshire, and a Channel Islander mother born in Jersey, Helen Rosemarie Hislop (née Beddows), who left for Wales in her late … Se mere

Hislop married author Victoria Hamson in 1988; they have two children, Emily and Will. They live in Sissinghurst in Kent. In 2010, Hislop played a small role in the Greek television series Se mere

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At Oxford, Hislop revived and edited the magazine Passing Wind, for which he interviewed Se mere

A variety of dahlia, first bred in 2010, is named "Ian Hislop" after him. Se mere