Original story 4 February 2026: The Sun has proposed merging its features team with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle desk. Scroll down for an update on the new team
Sun editor-in-chief Victoria Newton told staff last week that they plan to create a single features team, which will write and commission for Fabulous and features in print and online.
This will include the daily print section Fab Daily and Sun on Sunday supplement Fabulous Magazine (which will continue to be published).
Jobs have been put at risk, with a 45-day consultation period ongoing, but Newton said “new opportunities and roles” are being created by investment in the new structure.
According to Private Eye around a dozen roles were affected.
In an email, seen by Press Gazette, Newton said: “We need to future-proof the business, diversify revenue streams and meet the challenges facing all modern publishers, and I’m confident that this new proposed structure will unlock even more potential in the newsroom.”
Fabulous has had a dedicated section on the Sun website since 2017 as part of a relaunch of the magazine into a seven-day publication.
Verticals under the Fabulous section online today are: real life, celebrity, parenting, horoscopes, health, relationship advice, hair and beauty, fashion and food.
The proposed changes come a year after The Sun launched a paywall charging £1.99 per month for access to certain premium online content, including features and lifestyle content.
In a retrospective of Sun Club’s first year on Wednesday, The Sun said Fabulous “featured a wealth of fashion and beauty advice, helping readers feel like the best version of themselves. From a £4.99 ‘miracle’ buy that banishes bingo wings to a 15 minute facelift that fixes saggy jowls, there wasn’t a treatment the expert team weren’t afraid to test!”
Newton said the changes “will further strengthen our quality paid-for content proposition, putting Sun Club at the heart of the commissioning process and set us apart as a digital destination with loyal and engaged audiences”.
Update 23 April 2026: The Sun has concluded merging its features and Fabulous teams into one features department.
Editor Victoria Newton told staff in a memo: “By putting storytelling at the heart of the process, the new structure enables one multi-skilled team to deliver the best stories to the right audience, regardless of the platform—spanning Sun Club, Features, Fabulous, and Fab Daily, in print and online.
“As you know we are increasingly focused on building loyal engaged audiences, and we are confident that the structure now in place will ensure the department’s success in driving subscriptions and keeping audiences entertained with the very best features.”
Newton’s memo outlined a team of 27 people led by features editors Jessica Wilson, previously Sun Club editor and Fabulous associate editor editing Fab Daily, and Veronica Lorraine, previously associate head of features, gardening editor and books editor.
Press Gazette understands more roles are yet to be added with new staff due to start in the summer and other job adverts still live.
Newton also said the launch of paid membership/paywall Sun Club has “already exceeded our targets” after its February 2025 launch.
Paid-for entertainment coverage on Sun Club will be expanded under new entertainment editor Grant Tucker, who previously held the same role at the Daily Mail, soon to be supported by a showbiz features writer. Newton said Tucker “brings with him a deep understanding of paid-for digital journalism”.
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