Entertainment Tonight's Carly Steel Credits Good Luck and an 'Ability to Blag'

Scottish native retraces her plucky U.S. career steps.

The origins of the word “blag” are unknown. But it’s a colorful word, meaning in one of its definitions the ability to obtain something through skillful persuasion.

Blag is put to good use in a profile of Entertainment Tonight correspondent Carly Steel (pictured) published in the Daily Record, a newspaper in the entertainment journalist’s native Scotland. Steel tells contributor Jenny Morrison that she “definitely blagged my way” into a job in New York with Vogue, as an assistant to the managing editor, after arriving here at age 19.

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