Stories are urgently needed.  You will be paid to appear in a magazine or newspaper story.

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

Also – please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider.  We are looking for new story ideas every day. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story today.

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Story or Person Wanted: Someone who broke free of the benefits trap.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: National Newspaper Story.
Info: We are urgently looking for someone who grew up in a family on benefits but has managed to break free of the benefits trap and really make something of their life. Perhaps growing up in that environment actually made them determined not to follow the same route themselves. This is a positive piece to show that even without hard working role models around you as a child you can still break away from all that and make a better life for yourself.
Criteria: Male or female aged 18 or over.

Story or Person Wanted: Man with a visible health condition – who is looking for a cure.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: BBC TV programme.
Info: We are urgently looking for a man with a visible health condition who would like treatment from a leading doctor.  He might have seen a few doctors already and has been unable to get to the bottom of his problem.  It is for a new BBC programme.
Criteria: Male, with visible health condition.

Story or Person Wanted: Christmas stories please.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Woman’s Magazine Story.
Info: We are ideally looking for strong Christmas stories that touch upon how the recession has impacted families and the way they’ve had to downsize festivities. Anything particularly heartbreaking – not medical – or uplifting very much welcome.
Criteria: Mostly after mums aged 30-50 but am open to hearing ideas!

Story or Person Wanted: Halloween and Bonfire stories.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
Info: We are looking for a spooky story to use for Halloween and a Bonfire/Guy Fawkes one.
Criteria: Ideally female, but they can be talking about their partner or children.

Story or Person Wanted: a woman who has been told a shocking secret by a family member.

Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
Info: The secret could be that her mother had an eating disorder when she was younger; a parent had been in prison; a parent had had an affair; a sibling/half sibling had been born and adopted; had a family member been married before; was somebody close illiterate, family member had an addiction etc etc.
Criteria: women need to be between 30-55.

Story or Person Wanted: The family of a victim whose offender is due for release or has been released.

Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s magazine story.
Info: We’re doing a feature on sentencing and are looking for the family of a victim who are unhappy with the jail sentence the offender got, because they are due for release (to serve the rest of their time on license) or have been released. The person who speaks needs to be female and the victim can be male or female. It doesn’t matter when the crime happened, but the offender needs to have been charged and was released within the last year or is due to be released in the next few months. They will need to be pictured and a payment will be made.
Criteria: The family member needs to be female (mum, sister or partner) and can be any age from 20 to 55. The victim can be male or female and any age.

Story or Person Wanted: A woman/couple who bought sperm over the internet.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: National Daily Newspaper Story.

Info: We are trying to find someone who bought sperm over the internet to talk about what happened, what their experience was etc. This includes women who bought sperm then changed their mind about using it.  We would also be interested to speak to a man who sold sperm over the internet, or who was a sperm donor, or went down the route then changed his mind.
Criteria: None.

Story or Person Wanted: Victims of Botox cowboys.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s Magazine Story.

Info: A new study says that one in 20 women who have botox in the UK suffer complications thanks to Botox cowboys.  We are looking for a case study who has had a horrific experience as a result of using a dodgy Botox doctor.
Criteria: Need to be female and have strong before and after photos.

Story or Person Wanted: Party changed my life.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
Info: We are looking for case studies for a piece on ‘The party that changed my life’.  Examples are:
I met my husband after being single for eight years;
I met my future business partner;
I changed career – and became a party planner/amazing DJ or somesuch;
I met my long lost brother;
I had an accident and was paralysed;
I hit rock bottom – and rose to the surface.
Criteria: Women aged 18-35.

Story or Person Wanted: A lapdancer who went to university and has a degree.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s Magazine Article.

Info: We are looking for a girl who works as a lap dancer in a club but also has a degree.
Criteria: Female – needs to have proof of degree and be happy to do a shoot.

Story or Person Wanted: Girl to tell us how she tamed her man, or how she couldn’t!
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s weekly – glossy magazine story.

Info: We’re looking for someone who’s tamed her boyfriend to become a one-woman man. And someone else to tell us how she tried to do that, and failed. Criteria: 20-30 years old, female.

Story or Person Wanted: A severely overweight woman who claims she is too fat too work.

Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
Info: We’re looking for someone willing to admit that they are too fat to work and unwilling to seek employment for an article debating whether being overweight does limit your job opportunities or is just an excuse for laziness.
We’d also like to find an overweight woman earnestly seeking work who has been turned down for jobs because of her size, and an overweight woman who is gainfully employed and thinks being big should not be an excuse for unemployment.
Criteria: Participants should be aged 18-45, and female.

Story or Person Wanted: A crime story about a woman aged mid 30s to mid 50s.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Weekly Women’s Magazine.
Info: We are looking for crime stories – it could be something along the lines of a woman who turned her life around after her husband tried to kill her, or it could be a heartbreaking murder story. Or it could be a woman’s desperate hunt to find her loved-one’s killer.

Criteria: The woman needs to be mid 30s to 40s, and identified.

Story or Person Wanted: Teen who has suffered a large number of STDs.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy magazine.
Info: The girl (or maybe boy) would need to be willing to speak openly and be identified and pictured.  They will be paid for their participation.

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Please get in touch if you think you could help with one of these magazine or newspaper stories.  We will pay you for your participation, so visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk today and fill out our online form.

If you would like to sell a story that isn’t on the above list, just let us know, we are looking for all kinds of stories.

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

Just go to www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features.  Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk).

You can also get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider.  Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story now.

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Story / Person Wanted: Please email us any funny / wacky / bizarre / feel-good / upifting stories.

Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s weekly magazine article.

Story / Person Wanted: We are looking for women who have been ‘functioning addicts’ in the past.

Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s weekly magazine feature.

More info: We are looking to interview women between the age of 18 and 35 who have held down a professional job in the past, whilst being addicted to a drug or alcohol. Perhaps they were addicted to cocaine – and had to go to the toilets to take coke at work – or perhaps they could only get through their working day by drinking a bottle of vodka.

Story / Person Wanted: Wedding stories – wacky wedding / weddings from hell / record- breaking wedlocks.

Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s Glossy Magazine Story.

Story / Person Wanted: Good first person stories.

Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s Glossy Magazine Story.

More info: We are after some good, emotional first person features and stories.

Criteria: Women aged mid 30-mid 60, family minded, very ordinary.

Story / Person Wanted: Victims of IVF Blunders.

Where the Story will Appear: National Newspaper Story.

More info: Responding to the news that IVF blunders have risen by 85 per cent in the last year, we are seeking couples (willing to be identified) who have been victim to a blunder themselves. Incidents could include, lost embryos, mis-matched eggs and sperm, embryos given to the wrong couple…

If you have access to anyone who has found themselves in this position, we’d really like to hear from you.

Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features.  Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk).

You can also get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider.  Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story now.

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Person or Story Wanted: Britain’s Got Talent Stories.

Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper.

More info: We are looking for any information about this year’s Britain’s Got Talent contestants.  We will pay for any scrap of information, no matter how small. Get in touch now.

Person or Story Wanted: Strong real lives for the women’s pages.

Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper Real-Life Stories.

More info: We are looking for $exy, edgy, topical real life stories for the Women’s pages to put out to the national editors this week.  Uplifting is better but nothing too soft.

Person or Story Wanted: A woman whose addiction to looking like a celebrity ruined her life.

Where the story/article will appear: Magazine True Story Section.

More info: We are looking for young women who have spent a lot of time and money trying to look like their favourite celebrity, eg by having a lot of cosmetic surgery such as having a boob job to look like Katie Price, lip injections to look like Angelina, or anything else quite extreme.  We need someone whose obsession has ruined their life in some way; eg got them heavily in to debt because they spent so much on surgery, it ended their relationship because their boyfriend was jealous of the attention she got from men, she stopped getting work as a professional lookalike because the star she copied was hated, etc.

Person/Story criteria: Female, aged 18-38. Willing to be photographed.

Person or Story Wanted: IVF mix up Stories.

Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper Story.

More info: We are looking for any IVF mix up stories.

Person or Story Wanted: Looking for a woman who found ‘Mr Right’ while she was pregnant.

Where the story/article will appear: Women’s Magazine – True Life Story Section.

More info: Looking for a woman who found ‘Mr Right’ while she was pregnant. She may have been single when she was expecting through to a split, bereavement or having got used AI or similar because she didn’t want to wait for Mr Right to have children. Will want her partner/husband to comment too on how the experience was for him, meeting her under the circumstances.

Person/Story criteria: Ideally they are still together and may even have had children together since.

Person or Story Wanted: A woman (aged 25-55) whose marriage ended after she became more successful then her husband.

Where the story/article will appear: Women’s Magazine – True Life Story Section.

More info: For example, he had an affair to boost his ego after she got a promotion/payrise at work or her career success made him insecure and was the reason their relationship ended. Please note that we can credit the subject’s business at the end of the piece.

Person or Story Wanted: Women who have been severely affected by post natal depression

Where the story/article will appear: Newspaper story.

More info: Case studies to be approx 18-35 years old.

Person or Story Wanted: Victims of crime who are outraged by the sentencing their attacker received.

Where the story/article will appear: Woman’s Weekly – Real Life Story Section.

More info: We are working on a feature about people who’ve suffered a terrible crime and been appalled by their attackers’ jail sentence.

Person/Story criteria: Ideally family members. Would need to be female and aged 18-40, but this can be adapted depending on how strong the story is.

Person or Story Wanted: Woman who waited until her children were in their late teens before she divorced her husband.

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

More info: We’re looking for a woman to talk about having waited until her children were in their late teens before divorcing her husband, in the belief that it would be less damaging to them.

Person or Story Wanted: Young women who have been humiliated on Facebook, or the internet, or in other ways, by an ex.

Where the story/article will appear: Magazine Article.

More info: We are looking for case studies who have had their reputations ruined by a malicious ex.  We would want to interview her/him about how this affected her/him, and they would need to be identified.

Person/Story criteria: Female, aged 18-38, willing to be ID’d.

Person or Story Wanted: Women who have had their lives ruined by a malicious ex.

Where the story/article will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story / Magazine Story.

More info: We are looking for case studies who have had their lives – and reputations – ruined at the hands of a malicious ex.

We would want to interview her about how this affected her, and she would need to be identified.

Person/Story criteria: Female, UK based, aged between 18-38.

Person or Story Wanted: Heartwarming and uplifting features with good pictures.

Where the story/article will appear: Weekend newspaper magazine article.

More info: We are on the hunt for heartwarming, uplifting stories. If you would like more details and think you may be able to help, get in touch. Thanks.

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.

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Story / Case Study Wanted: I’m looking for four girls who will write an open letter saying ‘Why I slept with your boyfriend’

Media outlet: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More info: It could be ‘I was lonely’, ‘You weren’t giving him what he needed’ or ‘I didn’t know you existed’ – etc, etc.

Girls need to be available to attend photo shoot for More in London on December 4th, and need to provide picture of love-rat.

Special criteria: Girls need to be between 20- 29. Case-study will be paid.

Story / Case Study Wanted: Someone who has submitted a claim for a bank charge refund and will talk on Supreme Court Judgement.

Media outlet: National Newspaper.

More info: This is for a breakout to our main piece on today’s Supreme Court Judgement on bank charges. Many people who were expecting refunds now look like they will be out of pocket.

Special criteria: N/A

Story / Case Study Wanted: Case study who has had a bad experience/or addicted to the party drug methadrone.

Media outlet: National Newspaper.

More info: Needs to be named and pictured

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Story / Case Study Request: Looking to Interview a Sex Worker or Former Sex Worker.

Media Outlet: Women’s Magazine.

Newspaper / Magazine Article Info: We are searching for a case study of either a woman who is working as a prostitute at the moment (preferable) or a woman who used to work as one and is willing to talk about their experiences. We want to show the real side of prostitution, so not someone who is just going to say that she loves working as a high class escort and it takes her all over the world etc, but someone who probably does it out of necessity, and can speak truthfully about the profession without “glossing it up.”

Case Study Criteria: Female, aged ideally 18-39. Deadline is asap this week. Case study would need to be photographed.

Get paid to appear in the national press.  Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk if you would like to take part in any of these Magazine & Newspaper articles. 

Story or Case Study Request: People who have had childhood illnesses as adults, such as measles or mumps.

Requested by: Daily Newspaper.

Story / Case Study Info: Do you know anyone who had chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough as an adult? We are writing a feature about how these illnesses manifest themselves when caught in adult life and would like to do short telephone interviews with those who have suffered from them as adults. All enquiries dealt with in strictest confidence

Story or Case Study Request: Fatal Attraction – A man who has been the victim of a “Fatal Attraction” style stalker.

Requested by: Glossy Magazine.

Story / Case Study Info: He must be prepared to be identified and talk about how he met the female stalker, what type of relationship they shared, when and how the stalking began and the aftermath. If he has a wife/partner who went through this with him we’d like to talk to her too.

Story / Case Study Criteria: He must be aged between 20-35 and we’ll need evidence this happened – either by police reports, a conviction, letters, text messages or emails.

Story or Case Study Request: A woman who had a bad experience after meeting a man on the internet.

Requested by: Sunday Newspaper.

Story / Case Study Info: a woman who had a bad experience after meeting a man on the internet.
Story / Case Study Criteria: Must be 35 or under.