Currently Free. Celebrity Booker/Talent Producer for factual-entertainment, talking-heads docs, event & award shows. Also experienced Producer/Director, Series Producer & Development Producer which gives me editorial edge. Spent 2024 exec producing a short film doc about a street artist selected by Tokyo Short Film Festivals & Blind Walls Netherlands.
Amazing contacts & professional reputation, well respected by talent & agents. Vast contact book.
Solely cast 'The Real Marigold Hotel' series 1 on BBC Two (& preliminary booked series 2), 'Gone to Pot' on ITV1, 'The Pilgrimage (series 1 & 2) on BBC Two, 'Famous & Fighting Crime' on Channel 4, 'Celebs Carry on Up The Canal' (Channel 4), 'Celebs Go Barging' & 'Celebs Go Motor-homing' for Five and preliminary booking on 'The Jump, series 2' for Channel 4 & more recently 'Celebrity Race Across The World', series 1. Helped significantly to gain 'The Pilgrimage' & 'Gone To Pot' series commissions which were subject to casting and of course the original cast of 'The Real Marigold Hotel' which featured Miriam Margolyes.
Sole talent producer/celebrity booker 5 consecutive years 2018-23 for BBC Studios & RHS The Chelsea Flower Show on BBC One & BBC Two, primetime and daytime.
My role involves researching, pitching, booking celebrities, writing briefs & pitching documents, talent liaison on location, supervising runners on location, negotiation fees (often helping to set them), completion of contracts & release forms. Briefing talent on location, conducting phoner interviews & all manner of admin.
Love on location work: hired as talent liaison in 11 countries for 'The Real Marigolds' BBC series; talent producing on location for 3 spin-off series of 'Marigolds on Tour' covering 10 countries including USA, Japan, Iceland, Thailand, Cuba, China, Russia, Mexico, Vietnam & Argentina.
Guests I've booked include Miriam Margolyes, Dame Joanna Lumley, Josh Widdicombe, Tom Allen, Craig David, AJ Odudu, Lisa Snowdon, Jay Blades, David Morrissey, Amar Latif, Dr Amir Khan, Zoe Ball, Rufus Hound, Alastair Campbell, Sharleen Spiteri, Emilia Fox and Joel Dommett with his mum, Cuba Gooding Junior, Fraser's Kelsey Grammar, John Bishop, Rob Brydon, Nick Frost, Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Kelly Brook, Harry Judd, Angellica Bell, Debbie McGee, Rev Richard Coles, Ozwald Boateng, Ben Miller, Neil Morrissey, Michael Flately, Deborah Meadon, Penny Lancaster, JB Gill & Craig Revel Horwood to name just a few.
Skilled at booking high-profile people for big events; solely booked 2014's 'The Military Awards' for ITV1 which featured Liam Neeson, Damian Lewis, David Beckham, Angelina Jolie, Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell, Maggie Smith, Alesha Dixon to Mary Berry.
Also produced 5 editions of 'The South Bank Show Awards' for ITV1 (which also included booking presenters & music performances). And 5 years for BBC One & Two's coverage from RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Skilled at researching stories, finding narratives & interviewing.
Worked For: Twofour Broadcast, Betty, Spun Gold TV, Blast! Films, BBC Studios, BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, Sky Atlantic, Channel Four, ITV1, Five, Sky Arts, Melvyn Bragg's 'The South Bank Show', Endemol, Planet 24, Princess Productions, At It Productions, CTVC & Leopard Films.
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