Julia Allison

Julia Allison is an American journalist. Allison is a current Time Out New York columnist. She is a former contributor to a weekly social column entitled "The Dating Life" which appeared in AM New York, a daily newspaper with a 325,000 circulation among Manhattanites. In addition, 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 also does party coverage for the Huffington Post'. Allison is originally from Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago.

Collegiate Life
In college, Allison wrote the 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 has done political commentary for the 2004 election on Comcast cable. In 2004, Allison graduated from Georgetown University.

Political controversy
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 in a July 2006 Cosmopolitan article (and concealed Ford's name). Consequently, some of her comments were read aloud by Rush Limbaugh on his nationwide conservative talk radio show.

Present Day
She appears frequently on Fox News, CNN's Showbiz Tonight, on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, on New York City's Fox 5, and Sirius radio. In 2006, Allison appeared in an episode of Elimidate. She was also a Gawker "Personality of the Year" in 2006. Currently, Miss Allison lives in New York City.