Julia Allison

Julia Allison is an American journalist, currently contributing to a weekly social column entitled "The Dating Life". The column appears in AM New York, a daily newspaper with a 325,000 circulation among Manhattanites. She has a monthly column in Co-ed magazine and has written for a variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Maxim, New York, Teen Vogue, Men's Health, Seventeen, and Capitol File.

She is currently a guest contributor on Fox News and has done commentary on CNN's Showbiz Tonight and New York's Fox5. She is on Sirius radio frequently and appeared in an episode of Elimidate in 2006. She was also a Gawker 2006 Personality of the Year.

Beginnings
During college, Allison wrote the collegiate dating column "Sex on the Hilltop," for Georgetown University's newspaper, The Hoya.

She also worked as a full-time legislative correspondent for Illinois Republican Congressman Mark Kirk in the 107th Congress as well as in his 2000 campaign. She did political commentary for the 2004 election on Comcast cable.

Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School.

She graduated from Georgetown University in 2004 and now lives in New York City.

Political controversy and romantic relationships
Allison has been romantically linked with former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr., a Democrat, in 2002. Her relationship was used as an attack ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Ford's unsuccessful run for United States Senate in 2006. In response, she commented on the experience, and wrote about the relationship (without using his name) in a July 2006 Cosmopolitian article. Consequently, some of her comments were read aloud by Rush Limbaugh on his nationwide conservative talk radio show.

Allison has also been romantically linked with Men's Health Editor in Chief Dave Zinczenko and playboy James Fay, son of billionaire Sir Michael Fay, whom she dated for a year while she was at Georgetown [Fox News The Big Story with Rita Cosby, 2003].