Editing Diane Abbott (section)

==Media work==
Until her appointment as a shadow minister in October 2010, Abbott appeared alongside media personality and former Conservative politician [[Michael Portillo]] on the [[BBC]]'s weekly politics digest ''[[This Week (2003 TV programme)|This Week]]''. Abbott and Portillo have known each other since their schooldays, during which they appeared in joint school productions of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (although not in the title roles), and of ''[[Macbeth]]'' as [[Lady Macduff]] and [[Macduff (thane)|Macduff]] respectively.<ref>{{cite episode |title=''Have I Got News For You'' with Jimmy Savile and Diane Abbott |series=Have I Got News For You |series-link=Have I Got News For You |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC 2]] |air-date=28 May 1999}}</ref>

In August 2012, the BBC Trust ruled that payments to Abbott for her appearances on ''This Week'' were made in breach of BBC guidelines that banned payments to MPs who were representing their political parties. For her part, Abbott had correctly declared the payments in the Parliamentary Register of Members' Interests. The Trust also said that Abbott had appeared on the show too often.<ref>{{cite news |date=30 August 2012 |title=BBC payments to MP Diane Abbott 'breached guidelines' |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19423658 |url-status=live |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130074210/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19423658 |archive-date=30 November 2018}}</ref>

Abbott is a frequent public speaker,<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Diane |url=http://www.dianeabbott.org.uk/about.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006155055/http://www.dianeabbott.org.uk/about.aspx |archive-date=6 October 2018 |access-date=5 January 2012 |publisher=Dianeabbott.org.uk}}</ref> newspaper contributor<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abbott |first=Diane |title=Diane Abbott – Comment is free |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dianeabbott+commentisfree/commentisfree |url-status=live |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118083620/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dianeabbott+commentisfree/commentisfree |archive-date=18 January 2017}}</ref> and TV performer, appearing on programmes including ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode 2, Series 50, Have I Got News for You - BBC One |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06h8xzq |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005163044/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06h8xzq |archive-date=5 October 2016 |access-date=9 November 2016}}</ref> ''Celebrity [[Come Dine with Me]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=High Street Ken |date=12 January 2011 |title=Diary: Diane's appetite for losing |work=Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/diary/diary-dianes-appetite-for-losing-2182237.html |url-status=live |access-date=30 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006201652/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/diary/diary-dianes-appetite-for-losing-2182237.html |archive-date=6 October 2018}}</ref> and ''[[Cash in the Celebrity Attic]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 January 2011 |title=Two Programmes – Cash in the Celebrity Attic, Series 6, Diane Abbott |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xj8p3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629141046/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xj8p3 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |access-date=5 January 2012 |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

Abbott was shortlisted for the [[Grassroot Diplomat]] Initiative Award in 2015 for her work on London Schools and the Black Child, and remains in the directory of the ''Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who'' publication.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 March 2015 |title=Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who |work=Grassroot Diplomat |url=http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/whoswho/ |url-status=dead |access-date=27 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520125406/http://www.grassrootdiplomat.org/whoswho/ |archive-date=20 May 2015}}</ref>