Brammar attended St Katherine's School in Abbots Leigh near Bristol.
She originally wanted to become a nurse but did not have the required exam grades and spent two years working in data entry at Norwich Union.
[2] She later studied History and Russian at the London School of Economics where she worked on the student newspaper.
She later became deputy editor of Newsnight, where she won Royal Television Society awards for her journalism.
She stepped down from the post in April 2021, after BuzzFeed made editorial cutbacks to HuffPost UK.