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Limelight Celebrity Management Ltd 33
Newman Street,
London
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1PY Phone: 020
7637 2529 Fax: 020
7637 2538
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About
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We are a Celebrity Management
company and Literary Agency based in
the heart of London’s West End and we focus on lifestyle subjects and
experts. We are
Celebrity Agents for TV celebrities,
broadcasters, writers, journalists, celebrity speakers and media
personalities, after dinner speakers, motivational speakers, celebrity
chefs, TV presenters and TV chefs. Our clients are available for
Personal Appearances, Cookery Demonstrations, Wine tastings, After
Dinner Speaking, TV commercials and Voice overs, Product Endorsement,
Product Licences, Award Presentations, Seminars, Trade and Consumer
Shows, Garden Design Seminars, Antiques Valuations, Health Seminars and
Conferences, Cookery Master Classes. Our celebrity clients appear
on top television and radio programmes like Ready Steady Cook, Saturday
Kitchen, Cash in the Attic, Antiques Road Show, 20th Century Road Show,
Great Garden Challenge, Crimewatch, Great Food Live, Gardeners’
Question Time, The Salvager, Weakest Link, Daily Cooks Challenge, The Daily Politic,
Celebrities Under Pressure, Houses Behaving Badly, Trading Up, This
Morning, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. As Celebrity Agents
we work with all the major TV Broadcasters including BBC1, BBC2, BBC3,
ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV and Discovery, Radio 4, Talk Sport,
UKTV Food, Carlton. Our
celebrity clients are TV chefs and
restaurateurs, wine experts, a cocktail mixologist and a whisky guru,
many garden designers, garden plant experts and Royal Horticultural
Society judges, health and beauty professionals, antiques experts, a
historian, interior designers and experts in homes, a professional
counsellor and expert in sex and relationships, a specialist in
architectural salvage and a business analyst. Our celebrity
experts write for national newspapers and magazines including Express
Newspapers, Metro, BBC Good Food magazine, BBC Good Homes, BBC
Gardeners’ World, Garden Life, Garden News, Delicious, Fresh, Olive,
and their books have sold millions of copies. Among the publishers we
work with are Quadrille, Kyle Cathie, Dorling Kindersley, BBC Books,
Aurum Press, Mitchell Beazley, Pavilion Books, Sterling Publishing
(USA), Continuum, Penguin, Chrysalis, Ryland Peters & Small, Hodder
Headline. We are
experienced in Product Licensing, and one of our products was voted Food
Product of the Year 2005. Clients with Licensed Products are Antony Worrall
Thompson, Linda Barker, Oz Clarke, James Martin, Paul Rankin and Mary
Berry. Limelight Management (now Limelight Celebrity Management Ltd.))
was started by Fiona Lindsay in May 1989 and is one of the
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Profile
James
Martin has made a great impact since he began to appear on television in
November ‘96 and has rarely been off screen since. Currently he's gracing our
screens as presenter of BBC 1's hugely successful Saturday Kitchen, regularly
attracting viewers in excess of 2 million (double the amount of viewers when
James inherited the show). He was a regular team member on Ready Steady
Cook (BBC 2) and in
Autumn 2006 gained a whole new army of fans with his new found prowess on the
dance floor in Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1) where he reached the
semi-finals.
Biography
More
recently, James was featured in a prime time BBC 2 special during Christmas
2008 – The Real Italian Job. The
show saw James live his dream of racing in the exclusive Millie Miglia race
in Italy
in a vintage sports car. The show attracted over 3.5 million viewers and has
cemented James’ role as a car enthusiast and expert.
James
has enjoyed phenomenal success with his many series for UKTV Food – enjoying
some of the highest ratings the channel has ever experienced. Such was the
success of James Martin Digs Deeps (2006),
Feast (2007) and Brittany (2008), UKTV have commissioned
another series, Champagne
broadcast early 2009. James is in demand for the many other programmes too
including Channel 4’s Food Fight
and ITV 1’s Loose Women.
As
well as his television work, James is a keen journalist and writes a weekly
column in the Mail on Sunday’s Live
magazine on cars and motoring, as well as writing food columns for BBC Good Food Magazine, Sky magazine and Reveal magazine. 2008 saw the first James Martin magazine filled with delicious recipes and
interesting interviews with the chefs.
James’s
publishing career extends beyond magazines – he is the author of several best
selling and award winning books. His
first book, Eating In With James Martin was published in October 1998
and his second The Deli Cookbook in autumn 2000. Great British
Dinners came out in 2003 with Easy
British Food following mid June 2005. Great British Winter was
published in 2006
(all published through Mitchell Beazley). James's most successful book
to date has been his puddings bible, Desserts, published in 2007
by Quadrille to coincide with his prime time BBC 2 show, Sweet
Baby James. Also released that year were The Great British
Village Show Cookbook, published in May 2007 by BBC Books to
coincide with his BBC 1 primetime series of the same title, and Saturday
Kitchen Cookbook (BBC Books). The Great British Village Show
Cookbook was awarded the Best Cookbook award at the World Gourmand
Cookbook awards.
2008 saw the release of The Collection
(Mitchell Beazley), an anthology of James’ best recipes to date. Also in
2008, James released his autobiography, Driven, published by
HarperCollins. The book attracted huge amounts of media interest and has sold
incredibly well. There was another Saturday Kitchen Cookbook – Saturday
Kitchen’s Best Bites, for which James contributed some recipes and wrote
the foreword.
2009 has been another exciting year for James with
the publication of James Every Day – The Essential Collection
(Mitchell Beazley) as well as his first cookery book with HarperCollins, James
Martin – My Kitchen, released in Autumn 2009.
James
continues to make regular appearances around the country including at all of
the BBC Good Food Shows
incorporating London, Glasgow
and Birmingham
and attracting vast crowds for his demos in the super-theatres. In addition
to the BBC Good Food Shows, he regularly appears at Bingley Fine Food Festival, Stoneleigh
Festival and works with organisations such as the Food Standards Agency.
2009
has been an extraordinary year for James’ licensing endeavours – he already
has a range of small electricals with Wahl, Cookware, Knives and Kitchen
Textiles with Stellar/Horwoods and Serveware with Denby. This year James has
launched his own range of cake mixes too.
He is a consultant with P
& O Cruises on the restaurants and menus for their cruise ships Ocean Village and Ocean Village 2.
This
success can be attributed to James’ early love of food which was nurtured at
Castle Howard where his father ran the catering and where James often helped
out – he even helped cook for the Queen Mother at 11! At 16 he began his
formal training at Scarborough
Technical College,
where he was Student of the Year for three years running. At the tender age
of 22, he opened the Hotel and Bistro du Vin in Winchester as Head Chef, where he changed
the menu every day.
James’ message about food has always been the same – he has been
passionate about celebrating British food, using the best ingredients
possible and creating simple, delicious recipes accessible to all.
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