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People Needed: Earn Cash Today 24/3/2010

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

We urgently need these stories right now…. (see story requests below).

Just visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to feature in any of these true life stories or features.  Send us your details by filling in our online form.

You should also get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider.  You could earn cash from real life story or every day experiences.

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Person or Story Wanted: A woman who took sea kelp tablets and experienced ill side effects.

Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.

More info: Alex Curran was pictured with the tablets that can boost weightloss today, but can also have dangerous effects on health including thyroid issues, raising the risk of hypothyroidism, and autoimmune thyroiditis. There are also a number of side effects like sweating, palpitations etc.  I am looking for a woman up to the age of 40 who experienced problems after taking the supplement.

Person or Story Criteria: Female, up to 40.

Person or Story Wanted: A young, good-looking woman who has a very bad temper and lashes out at her friends and family.

Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.

More info: It’s for part of a news report. We’d need to speak to the woman on the phone and get a good picture of her. As usual, we will pay the person who takes part.

Person or Story Criteria: Aged 18 to 35.

Person or Story Wanted: A woman who’s fled the country after having her heart broken.

Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.

More info: We’re looking for a woman 20-40 who’s had her heart broken and then decided to leave the country to heal it. She might have gone to work in the jungle or a far flung destination or helped with a charity and then decided to never come back. Ideally, she’ll have found love wherever she’s gone.

Person or Story Wanted: Women who’ve had their eggs frozen for social not medical reasons.

Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.

More info: I’m urgently looking for young women who have had their eggs frozen for some kind of social rather than medical reason, ie they haven’t met the right man yet, are worried that their party lifestyle might affect their fertility in years to come etc. This is for a positive piece on egg freezing so we’re looking for women who are pleased they did it and have no regrets. Maybe one of them has since had a child using one of their eggs frozen a while ago.

Person or Story Wanted: A mum who is financially better off on benefits than going to work.

Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.

More info: This case study is for a piece in a daily newspaper about how the benefits system should be reformed. I’m looking for a mum  who is financially better off staying on benefits than she is going out to work. She will need to be named, and pictured, and speak about how she has looked into various options but going to work does not add up.

Person or Story Criteria: Mum must have children who are under 16 and still living at home.

Person or Story Wanted: I’m looking for girls who love showing off their boyfriends.

Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.

More info: The feature is all about vain girls who love showing off their man and looking like they’re in the perfect relationship.

Ideally I’m looking for a girl who loves putting on displays of public affection with her man. I also need a girl who hires male escorts for parties / events so she looks like she has a gorgeous man on her arm.  Then I need a girl who grooms her man – maybe they dress in matching outfits or she\’s given him a make-over etc. Any vain women who love showing off their man would be great! Each case study will be paid.

Person or Story Criteria: Women need to be aged 18-35. Both her and her partner would need to be pictured.

Person or Story Wanted: Women/men who were assaulted/raped at Uni or accused of assaulting/raping someone.

Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.

More info: I am writing a feature about sexual assaults and the culture of heavy drinking and sex at university which means that many women are raped/assaulted and also that sometimes men find themselves  wrongly accused of rape/assault.

So i am looking for case studies of:

1. Women (or men) who were raped or assaulted at university.

2. Men (or women) who were accused of rape/assault at university. 3. Anything else that might be relevant, eg lecturers who were implicated or careers ruined etc etc.

Person or Story Wanted: Teenagers who feel under pressure from their family to have a baby.

Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.

More info: Working on a piece about teenage girls who feel under pressure from their family to get pregnant.  They might also already be pregnant but feel they were encouraged by their family when they might not otherwise have pursued having children yet. Reasons might include a parent’s desire for grandchildren, or for economic or religious reasons.  It might be traditional for that family to have children early.

Person or Story Criteria: The women should be under 20, but otherwise the brief is flexible.

Person or Story Wanted: “I was stalked!”

Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.

More info: Need a girl in her 20s who was the victim of a stalker for a first person account.

Person or Story Criteria: Female, 20s. Preferably the stalker will have now been convicted (to avoid legal problems).

Person or Story Wanted: Menopausal women using alternative to HRT.

Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.

More info: We’re looking for women who have attempted to overcome the symptoms of menopause – or delay it -  using treatments other than HRT  – which they have declined to use because of fears over its safety.

Alternatives could be weird, whacky, new and unproven, DHEA etc.

Person or Story Criteria: Women 50plus, articulate, willing to be interviewed – and possibly photographed..

Person or Story Wanted: Saucy sex confessions – can be anonymous.

Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.

More info: We’re looking for women aged 18-35 to send in their naughty sex confessions for a feature. Maybe you and your man got carried away in a romantic holiday moment on the beach or you got down to business out of hours with a colleague, whatever your confession we want to hear from you. It doesn’t matter how saucy you think it is, it just has to be a sexy moment you enjoyed.

Your stories needed today – for cash. 26/02/10

Friday, February 26th, 2010

We need these stories or people right now….

Get paid to appear in a magazine or newspaper.  Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to feature in a story.

(also, please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider)

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Person or Story Wanted: Adopted Child, or Sperm Donor.

Where the story will appear: Glossy Magazine Story.

More info: We are looking to interview a woman who’s adopted a child by herself, and we are also looking for a woman who’s used a sperm donor.

 

Person or Story Wanted: I am looking for women – or couples – who have problems with their mother in laws.

Where the story will appear: Woman’s magazine  article.

More info: We are looking to interview 2-3 women – or maybe a couple – who are willing to chat about the effect problematic mother in laws have had on their relationship for a sensitive piece in a top women’s magazine.  Maybe their in laws caused such a problem that their relationship even broke down as a consequence. The case study will need to be willing to be pictured (although we can change their name) and also available for a short telephone interview. They will also be paid for their time and the piece will be read back to them before publication.

 

Person or Story Wanted: People who have lost relatives or loved ones to MRSA.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: We are looking for case studies of people whose loved ones have died because of MRSA they picked up in an NHS hospital. We need people in particular whose relatives went into hospital for a fairly minor complaint and picked up the infection in there. MRSA mainly affects elderly patients so I\’m looking for people who lost younger relatives in particular.

We also want to hear the case study’s views on what the Government could have done better to prevent MRSA deaths.

Person or Story Criteria: Relatives or loved ones must have caught MRSA in an NHS hospital and died as a result of the infection.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Women aged under 48 talking about the ‘final straw’ that made them leave their husbands.

Where the story will appear: Women’s magazine story.

More info: We need pictures of the women with their ex-hubbies.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Mums who gave birth on a special day whose baby is under 18 months.

Where the story will appear: A pregnancy magazine.

More info: We are looking for mums who gave birth on a meaningful day – such as her wedding anniversary, wedding day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, last day at work (but not Christmas, New Year or a birthday) to feature as a real life birth story in a top pregnancy magazine.

Person or Story Criteria: The baby must be under 18 months and we will need high res images of the mum with her baby as a newborn and the newborn on his/her own.

 

Person or Story Wanted: We are looking for a man who (like Ashley Cole) is living with his mother in law.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper story.

More info: It would need to be a couple who are willing to speak candidly (ie, about how it affects their sex life) and be photographed on the edition.

 

Person or Story Wanted: strong, emotional first person lead for july issue.

Where the story will appear: Women’s glossy monthly magazine story.

More info: We need a good emotional, uplifting lead stories (nothing gloomy please – this particular magazine don’t do gloom). Also any nice three women pieces (ideas like ‘what our clothes say about us’; ‘why my fresh start was the best thing that ever happened’.

Person or Story Criteria: 30-55 down-to-earth (ie no high-flyers or career women).

 

Person or Story Wanted: Teenage mums.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: We are looking for a young mum who gave birth at 13 or 14. She can be no more than 16 now.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Male sex addict

Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More info: Real life feature: ‘I am a sex addict’

Person or Story Criteria: Male in his 20s.

 

Person or Story Wanted: A woman who has had an abortion in her 40s, and a woman who contracted an STD in her 40s.

Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story – women’s supplement.

More info: The feature is about how these ‘teenage’ type problems can actually occur at any age.  Both women would need to be identified and pictured, but we will do a readback to the interviewee.  There is a small fee available for the right case study – dependent on the story.

Person or Story Criteria: Must be a woman in her 40s prepared to be identified and pictured.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Women who have been driven to taking extreme revenge on their ex boyfriends.

Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story – women’s supplement.

More info: We are looking for women who were driven to extreme revenge tactics after finding out a boyfriend was cheating on them or treated them badly in some other way.  Perhaps they publicly humiliated him by putting up posters / creating a fake website in his name etc. Perhaps they destroyed his favourite things or ruined his wardrobe.  Anything that will make a reader secretly cheer and think, he totally got what he deserved!

 Person or Story Criteria: Must be women aged 22-34, willing to be identified / photographed. There is a small fee available.

 

Person or Story Wanted: A mum who looked after her daughter\’s baby to allow her to finish her education.

Where the story will appear: Women’s magazine story.

Generous Fee Paid for Appearing in Magazine Articles: 26/01/2010

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Get paid a generous fee for appearing in any of these magazine or newspaper articles and features.  Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to send us your details and let us know which story you are interested in taking part in.

You can also let us know if you have any other stories to sell.  We are looking for all kinds of different stories to publish.  What an easy way to make cash!

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Person or Story Wanted: Couple willing to try relationship therapy.

Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.

More info: I’m looking for a long term couple aged between 35 and 55 who would be willing to have a session of relationship therapy and then talk about how it has helped in a women’s weekly magazine. The case study will be paid and you will be able to read the copy before publication.

Person or Story Wanted: A family who refuse to have the Internet at home, and a family who are hooked on the web.

Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: Following news about the broadband tax, I\’m looking for two families from opposite ends of the broadband spectrum.

1) A family who refuse to have the Internet at home, not for financial reasons, but because they don’t believe it’s a good thing. They prefer to get their kids doing sport or other activities rather than spending hours scouring the web.

2) A family who couldn’t live without the Internet. Mum might use it for shopping, dad might rely to his emails, while the kids are hooked on spotify and facebook.

We would need to picture them at home today and a quick chat on the phone. We can pay them for doing this.

Person or Story Wanted: Case studies of women who have used diet pills with negative side effects.

Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: After a recent study says that a quarter of women use diet pills, I need several case studies of women who have used them with unpleasant side effects. One Alli case study is fine, but we’d like a couple of other diet drug examples as well and it would be good if they bought them online.

Person or Story Criteria: Age bracket pretty broad (20-60 years old).

Person or Story Wanted: Valentine real life stories.

Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Features.

More info: Love stories with a twist for a Daily Newspaper’s 14th February issue.

Person or Story Wanted: Mail order brides.

Where the story or article will appear: Men’s magazine story.

More info: We are looking to do a piece about a man who has married what is known as a “mail order bride”

Person or Story Criteria: It has to be a British man between the ages of 18 and 30.

Person or Story Wanted: Desperately seeking: An obese patient forced to EAT MORE in order to have NHS weight loss surgery.

Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.

More info: The Royal College of Surgeons claim obese patients are being made to eat more and gain weight so they can have weight-loss surgery on the NHS.  We’re looking for a strong case study of a patient who deliberately gained weight after being told they did not qualify for surgery because they weren’t fat enough. We’re particularly keen to hear from patients whose health suffered as a result – for example, suffering diabetes, stroke, heart problems etc etc.  The more extreme the weight gain the better, especially if it was over a short period of time.

Person or Story Criteria: Ideally, the patient should be under 30 and female but we’d be happy to hear about any case studies.

Person or Story Wanted: a funny crime story involving an animal.

Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine story.

More info: We\’re looking for a funny crime story involving an animal in some way. Anything like a pet who was killed that turned into a bit of a whodunnit or someone who was beaten up by someone dressed up as an animal.

Person or Story Criteria: We need to be able to tell it from a woman aged between 18 and 35.

Person or Story Wanted: We are looking to speak to a woman who became a mum in her 50s or older.

Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.

More info:  It doesn’t matter if she was already a mum or if this was her first baby. It also doesn’t matter whether the baby was conceived naturally or through IVF. Ideally the baby would need to be about a year old. We are looking for someone who hasn’t appeared in any other women’s magazines.

Person or Story Wanted: Chemical peels gone wrong.

Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: We are looking for three women who each had bad experiences of chemical facial peels – did it leave your face scarred, seriously swollen, in a lot of pain, or requiring further treatment to repair damage done by the peel? Phone interviews and pics required. Generous payment offered.

Story Requests: 3/12/09. Get Paid to Feature in these Articles.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

See the latest story requests from national media. Get paid to feature in any of these magazine and newspaper articles. Visit: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to let us know if you fit the profile, or tell us about a different story that you would like to get published for cash.

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We are looking for: Domestic violence case studies – repeat offenders.

Media outlet: Women’s Magazine

Story / Article Info: We are looking for women who’ve been the victims of repeat offenders. Ideally, I we need a case study of a woman who got into a violent relationship and found out her partner had been violent towards women before. They’d need to have a previous conviction.

Criteria: Women aged 18-35

We are looking for: People allergic to Christmas!

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.

Story / Article Info: Looking for case studies of people allergic to Christmas – could be Christmas trees, turkey, mince pies etc. We already have case studies for lights, balloons, candles and nuts.

We are looking for: People who have been attacked by dogs – or whose dogs have been attacked.

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.

Story / Article Info: We are looking for a series of case studies on dog attacks. They should be willing to talk about the incident, how it has affected their life and any changes jn dog control they would like to see.

Criteria: Adults and children welcome. Must be willing to be photographed.

We are looking for: Miracle weight loss stories.

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.

Story / Article Info: We are looking for miracle weight loss stories for a New Year issue. Needs to be before and after pictures and more to the story than just the weight loss – i.e. found love, saved their life etc.

Story Requests: 02/12/2009 – Sell a Story or Appear as a Case Study

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Here are the latest story requests from national press. You can get paid to feature in any of these magazine and newspaper articles. Visit: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to let us know if you fit the profile, or tell us about a different story.

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We are looking for this story: Woman who finds out her husband is having an affair with a man.

Media outlet: National Newspaper

More info: We are looking for a woman who finds out her husband is having an affair with a man. If she found out on her wedding night/day would be ideal. But just before the wedding or just after would be fine too.

Special story criteria: Woman aged 18-35 (can be flexible on age).

 

We are looking for this story: A woman aged 18-35 who was raped at a Christmas or New Year party.

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.

More info: The case study will need to be named, interviewed by phone and photographed. It doesn’t matter if they have appeared in another publication or if it happened a few years ago, although anything exclusive and more recent would be preferable.

Media Requests: 27/11/2009

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Latest story requests.  Get paid to appear in national newspapers and magazines. Submit your details at: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk

Tell us if you would like to feature in one of the articles below, or if you have a different story to sell.

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Story / Case Study Wanted: Do you ever get over your first love?

Media outlet: Sunday Newspaper Supplement

More info: We’re looking for a case study for an article on first love.

Did you think you’d never get over your first love? But now you’ve found love again and believe that you can? We have case studies that are still with their first love and so need someone who believes you can get over your first love even if it takes a long time and have know gone to find love with someone else.

Special criteria: Women – twenties or thirties, Willing to be identified and pictured.

Story / Case Study Wanted: I am looking for couples who’ve spiced up their sex life in an unusual way!

Media outlet: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More info: I’m working on a feature about couples and how to spice up their sex life in the New Year.

Ideally we are looking for a couple who’ve done something extreme – swinging / trying unusual aphrodisiacs or even making their own naughty movies. Any couples with spicy new year’s stories would be appreciated!

Special criteria: The couples need to be under 40.

Story / Case Study Wanted: Polygamous marriages.

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.

More info: Looking to interview a polygamous family for a real life feature to tie in with the law change.

Special criteria: Need to be named and pictured. Ideally all wives will speak.