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Nevena Bridgen

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Nevena Bridgen
Nationality
  • British
  • Serbian
Occupations
  • Blogger
  • opera singer
Spouse
(m. 2017)
Websitehttps://nevenabridgen.com/

Nevena Bridgen (née Pavlović;[1] born c. 1979) is a Serbian opera singer blogger. She is married to Andrew Bridgen, the former Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire. She founded The Wives of Westminster, a blog about British political wives.[2] Bridgen and her work has been featured in The Times,[2] The Guardian,[3] i,[4] The Independent,[5] Vice[6] and other publications.

Nevena Pavlović was born in Belgrade. She studied singing at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She received Master of Music degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She has been a resident soloist of the National Theatre in Belgrade since 2015.[1] She married Andrew Bridgen in 2017.[5] She later said that her husband had left her and their young son after being radicalised.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nevena Bridgen". National Theatre in Belgrade. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b Whitworth, Damian (27 May 2019). "Nevena Bridgen on why she created the Wives of Westminster blog". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  3. ^ "The Wives of Westminster: glamorous lifestyle blog or political platform?". The Guardian. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  4. ^ Chaplain, Chloe (8 May 2019). "'The Wives of Westminster': inside the bizarre blog about the 'purpose-centric' lives of parliamentary spouses'". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  5. ^ a b Cowburn, Ashley (7 May 2019). "'Wives of Westminster' website launched by Tory MP's spouse accused of 'sexism'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  6. ^ Le Conte, Marie (9 May 2019). "We Spoke to Female MPs About the 'Bizarrely Outdated' Wives of Westminster Site". Vice. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  7. ^ Wheeler, Caroline (11 April 2024). "My MP husband Andrew Bridgen was captured by antivax 'cult'". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
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