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People Urgently Wanted: Get Paid to Appear in a Magazine

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

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

Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to feature in any of these true life stories.  Just fill in our online form.

Or, get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider.

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Person or Story Wanted:  Any Summertime Stories to fill the magazine’s summer specials/issues.

Where the story will appear: Various Women’s Magazines.

More info: Looking for any holiday stories to fill the summer pages of all of the magazines that we contribute to.  Holiday romances, injuries and illnesses, heartbreak, disasters and so on.  We’ll pay you for your story.

 

Person or Story Wanted:  Individual who has suffered cardiac problems due to cocaine – or a relative of someone who has died.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: Looking for an individual, man or woman, who has suffered cardiac problems as a result of taking cocaine. And/ or an individual who has lost a relative after they died as a result of cocaine causing a fatal heart attack.

 

Person or Story Wanted: When plastic / cosmetic surgery goes wrong. Horribly wrong.

Where the story will appear: Weekly women’s magazine.

More info: We are writing a story to warn women about the dangers of cosmetic surgery.

 

Person or Story Wanted: I gave my baby to my parents.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: We are looking for the real life version of the Eastenders storyline where pregnant teen Lucy offers to give her baby to her parents Ian and Jane.

The real mum should be quite young, like Lucy and didn’t want to abort the baby but knew that her parents would be able to give it a good upbringing. Ideally the parents should have wanted another child, but were unable to have more for whatever reason.

It should be a positive story, looking at how the relationships have worked well, how the child has benefitted from having loving grandparents and how the mum has enjoyed having her child around.

 Person/Story Criteria: The mum should have had the child in her teens. Her parents can be any age. The child can be any age now up to a teenager. This will require a chat with the whole family and a family picture. We will pay a fee on publication.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Women who love their very different bodies.

Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.

More info: We are looking for women who have unusual/different bodies. Their faces must be considered ‘good looking’ and have bodies that are different from the norm. Examples of what we\’re looking for are:

-A very large woman who\’s proud of her plus size curves.

-A very tall woman.

-A very short woman.

-A woman with a lot of tattoos on her body.

-A female bodybuilder.

-A female amputee.

Any other women who have ‘different’ bodies to the norm, are beautiful and love how they look. We would prefer for them not to have appeared in the press before.

Person/Story Criteria: Aged 18-35, Female.

 

Person or Story Wanted: His affair made us stronger….

 More info: URGENTLY looking for a couple case study where the woman has forgiven her partner for cheating. We just need a short chat about how she forgave him and move on. Need a picture of them together, but we could pixellate his face if necessary and pay generous fee…

Person/Story Criteria: 20-45

 

Person or Story Wanted: Looking for a woman or man who’s marriage has been affected by their mother in law.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: as Ashley Cole blames his mother in law for marriage breakdown, we’re looking to talk to couples who have been through similar experiences. Maybe they lived with their mother in law and their marriage has improved since she moved out? Maybe the husband feels the Mother in law negatively affected their marriage. Whatever the mother in law story we’d been keen to hear it! Thanks.

 

Person or Story Wanted: A woman, aged under 36, who has HIV and who contracted it through a heterosexual relationship.

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

More info: We’d ideally like a woman who will be identified.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.

More info: We are looking for men and women aged 18-35, who have been left by a partner, or who left their partner, for someone of the same sex. Generous fee paid.

 

Person or Story Wanted: “I gave my man a makeover”

Where the story will appear: Woman’s Weekly Magazine.

More info: We need men in their 20s who have had an image overhaul at their girlfriend’s request – eg extensive dental work, laser hair removal, cosmetic surgery etc.

Person/Story Criteria: Couple in their 20s – both would need to come to photoshoot.

 

Person or Story Wanted:  Victims of copycat brides.

More info: Looking for comments/anecdotes from brides who have had their wedding ideas copied by another bride, or who copied someone else’s wedding – anonymity is fine!  The sorts of anonymous examples I’m after are anecdotes from brides who had to deal with things like another friend announcing she’s marrying the same week as you, or in the same venue with the same band and decor, or buying the same dress, or having the exact same readings, first dance and ring, or copying your invites etc – so not just friendly borrowing of a nice idea but getting a bit OTT with the copycat behaviour! Especially if they had similar guest lists or, even worse, the copycat ends up having her wedding first and then the bride feared looking like she copied her!

Appear in one of these features and earn cash: 11/2/10

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Our latest story requests:

Get paid to feature in any of these magazine or newspaper articles.  Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to send us your details and find out how much we will pay you. 

You can also send us any other real-life story ideas at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk and you will earn cash if we can publish them for you.

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Person or Story Wanted: Women who have experienced suicidal thoughts and tried to take her own life.  

Where it will appear: Sunday Newspaper Magazine story.

More info: We are looking for a woman in her late 20s/early 30s who had suicidal thoughts when she was younger and who tried to take her life. She’s now received help/support and thinks that failing was the best thing that happened to her. Perhaps she’s helping other women now who feel suicidal? Or maybe she’s living her dream life/career or has become a mum.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Women who have taken revenge on an ex.

Where it will appear: Sunday Newspaper Magazine story.

More info: We are looking for women aged 20-40 who have taken revenge on an ex after her treated her badly, eg by cheating on her, and in the most imaginative way possible.

Two women recently put up posters warning others off their ex after they discovered he’d been seeing both of them at once…an American woman put up billboards of her with her now ex after she found out he was actually still married…   so we are looking for women who have been quite creative in their revenge tactics!

 

Person or Story Wanted: Looking for spooky love stories – so I need a woman who found love through a psychic / tarot reader / astrologist etc.

Where it will appear: Glossy women’s magazine story.

Person or Story Wanted: Primary school mums.

Where it will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More info: We’re looking for girls who gave birth age 10-15 to talk about how they coped with being such young mums. They’d need to be over 16 now so they can be identified.

We’re looking for a range of experiences – so perhaps one gave up her baby for adoption, and feels like that was the best thing she could have done for both of them, but another might have struggled on and is really proud of what she’s achieved.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Case study of a woman who has been a victim of domestic violence.

Where it will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: Urgently need a female victim of domestic violence. Ideally with injury pictures.  Perpetrator MUST have been convicted and we also need a picture of him.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Adult phone line workers.

Where it will appear: Glossy women’s magazine story.

More info: We are looking for women who work for adult phone lines, who are happy to be pictured in Reveal and discuss their career move.

- perhaps they’ve taken it up because they’re working around child care?

-perhaps they’ve retired and wanted a bit of money on the side?

We want to hear from women of all ages who have tried it out as a career. Please send any applications with name, age and a picture.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Someone who used to be a member of ‘The Silver RIng Thing’ who has now abandoned it.

Where it will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.

More info: We are looking for someone who joined the Silver RIng chastity movement when it first came to Britain a few years ago but who has now left and who is prepared to discuss why. It’s part of a wider piece on whether abstinence pledges work in the long run.

Criteria: Preferably female, but not crucial. Most silver ring pledgers are teens so looking for someone under/early twenties. Ideally they would be prepared to be photographed but again not crucial.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Looking for women willing to have a fertility test – contact details only.

Where it will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: We are running a general fertility piece on different women with different lifestyles. I am in need of a a forty odd year old who doesnt drink or is v healthy and willing to have a test and have results printed.  Also looking for someone in their 40s who has drank heavily or smoked all their lives for same reason.  Also looking for a healthy/tee total 30 odd year old for the feature.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Five teenage girls with strange eating habits.

Where it will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: I am looking for teenage girls with mad eating habits.  Maybe they don’t eat carbs to stay Posh Spice stick-like, perhaps they only eat takeaways as they don’t like anything else, or maybe they haven’t eaten anything but salad for two years.

We would want to speak to these teens, analyse their diet with our experts and then do a bloodtest to see if there are any other problems. We would then work to create a nice healthy plan for them.  Need case studies asap.

Criteria: Must be 13-18, female, not anorexic etc or obese.

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.

Appear in a Magazine or Newspaper and Earn Cash Today

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

We are looking for the following stories right now.  If you, or anyone you know, fits the profile – simply let us know by filling out our online form at: www.famousfeatures.co.uk

You can also let us know about any other real life stories that you would like to publish in a magazine or newspaper. You can sell a story today.

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Story or Person Wanted: Mums with high blood pressure or diabetes and their daughters aged 18-35.

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

More info: Reveal magazine are putting together a health feature based on mothers and daughters.

We’re looking for mums who has had high blood pressure or diabetes who both have a daughter aged 18-35; both mums and daughters need to be able to attend a photo shoot and interview in London one week day in early Feb.  Expenses and payment available.

Case study criteria: Mums can be any age but daughters must be 18-35.

 

Story or Person Wanted: A woman who divorced her hubby and then married him again.

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

More info: For a Valentine’s Day feature on love second time around.

Case study criteria: Up to age 45 or a young-looking 50.  Needs to be available for interview this week.

 

Story or Person Wanted: Looking for a case study who has had a divorce party to give a quick five minute interview.

Where the story will appear: Newspaper article.

More info: We are running a piece on the changing face of divorce, we are looking for a female case study aged 18-45 who has had a divorce party and is happy to talk to us for five minutes about it and provide a pic of themselves.

 

Story or Person Wanted: I am looking for a woman whose house was burgled.

Where the story will appear: Glossy magazine story.

More info: I am looking for a women who’s house was burgled and the robbers took off with whatever they could find while she hid/didn’t confront them for fear of being attacked etc.

Generous fee to case study paid – must be aged 22-40.

 

Story or Person Wanted: Any real life story, involving a young woman aged 19-35, who is available for pics/interview by Thur.

Where the story will appear: Glossy women’s magazine.

More info:  We’ve got a last-minute hole in our schedule that needs filling by Thursday lunchtime (eek!). So, we are looking for any first person real life stories involving young women aged 19-35, where either good pics already exist; or the woman concerned is available to be shot in the next 24 hours. Any suggestions welcome!

 

Story or Person Wanted: Female chef that lost weight despite working with food.

Where the story will appear: Glossy women’s magazine story.

More info: We are looking for a female chef who lost a lot of weight despite working with food.  They will need to be able to attend a photo shoot in February.

 

Story or Person Wanted: Case studies of girls who’ve had underage sex.

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

More info: We are working on a feature about under age sex and looking for case studies as young as possible. They need to have had sex young and be willing to talk about their experiences – do they regret it / has it ruined their body / did they get pregnant etc?

Case study criteria: They can be aged up to 35.

 

Story or Person Wanted: Gay man turned straight.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info:  There was a piece in the Times earlier this week in which Patrick Muirhead wrote about how he’s going straight after years of being gay as he wants a wife and family. On the back of this story we are now looking for a man who also went straight after years of a homosexual lifestyle and now has a wife (and ideally a child as well).  Phone interview required and ideally a photograph too although we are flexible on this given the sensitive nature of the feature. Payment upon publication. 

 

Story or Person Wanted: Woman or man who wants to propose to their other half in the Newspaper on Valentines day.

Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper (News of the World).

More info: We are looking for men and women who want to propose to their other half in the magazine’s Valentines issue.  Make it a super-special proposal, and we may even be able to throw in a free diamond ring from a top jewellers.  This must be a genuine proposal!

Case study criteria: Men/Women Aged 19-40

 

Story or Person Wanted: Female stalking victims.

Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.

More info: We are URGENTLY looking for female victims of stalking. We’re particularly interested in speaking with a victim of cyber stalking, ie through facebook/My Space etc…but are open to other options.  This is for an issue going to press imminently so please contact us asap if you know anyone suitable.

Case study criteria: Female 18-40.

 

Story or Person Wanted: Girls aged 18-25 who have taken mephedrone to talk about their experience.

Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper magazine supplement.

More info: We are putting together a news report on the rise of new ‘legal high’ drug mephedrone (known as bubble and meow meow) and am hoping to speak to a couple of female case studies who have tried it to talk about what it was like.  We will need them to be identified (named and pictured) and there would be payment involved.

Case study criteria: They need to be aged between 18-25, be female and willing to be identified

Earn Cash: We are looking for these stories right now… 11/01/2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Gat paid to feature in any of these magazine & newspaper articles, or send us a different story idea.

Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to let us know if you are interested.

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Person or Story Wanted: A young woman who’s looking after her siblings.

Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.

More info: We’re urgently searching for a young woman who is now caring for her siblings after her parents have died or are otherwise unable to look after them.

Criteria: Must have been granted custody of her siblings and allow them to be named and pictured. Ideally aged 18-25.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Obesity related case studies.

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

More info: We are working on a feature about obesity and how the problem is spreading into funerals – bigger coffins / larger burial plots etc. We need to speak to anybody who’s buried a relative that was largely overweight and how the funeral was affected by their size.

Alternatively, I would like to speak to anyone who’s severely overweight and worried about the problems their size could cause to a funeral and the affect this could have on their family.  Bit of an odd request I know! But if anyone has any obesity related stories at all, we’d be interested in taking a look at them.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Teen boy who has Botox injections.

Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper story.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Sex and the City lookalikes.

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

More info: We are looking for lookalikes of Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha from the show, Sex and the City. It would be great if they had a story but the looks are obviously more important for this feature.

 

Person or Story Wanted: Valentines Stories.

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

More info: Looking for any really romantic proposal stories for a Valentines day feature.

Criteria: Case studies must be between the ages of 18 and 35.

 

Person or Story Wanted: A mum who’s child took part in the strangling game with friends and hurt themselves.

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

More info: There is a new internet craze, which shows teenagers strangling each other in order to give themselves a high. We are looking for a case study of a mum who’s daughter took part in this and really hurt themselves.

Criteria: The mum must be aged between 18 and 35.

Paid Story Requests: 21/12/2009

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Get paid to feature in these, or any other real-life magazine & newspaper articles.  Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to submit your details.

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Story/Person Wanted: Strong love rat stories

Media outlet: Newspaper Story.

More info: Looking for love rat real life story for 2010.

Special criteria: Must not have spoken to another national newspaper. Must be willing to be named and pictured.

 

Story/Person Wanted: Great real life features.

Media Outlet: Women’s Magazine Story.

More info: We are on the hunt for some really interesting real life features that can slot in between now and new year.  We are open to any suggestions whether it’s hard hitting, tear-jerking or inspiring. As always, it needs to have that extra something special about it that will really get the readers’ attention.

 

Story/Person Wanted: A woman whose addiction to crystal-meth destroyed her looks.

Media outlet: Glossy magazine story.

Special criteria: Woman, aged under 35.

 

Story/Person Wanted: Girls who’ve tried party drug Mephedrone (Meow)

Media outlet: Glossy women’s magazine story.

More info: We are working on a feature about party drug Mephedrone. After the death of Gabi Price (which was linked to the legal drug) I want to speak to other girls who’ve tried it. They’d need to have had a dramatic experience – palpitations / paranoia / hallucinations and be willing to warn others about the dangers of the drug.  Alternatively, we are looking for a girl who’s still using it happily, despite the risks.

 

Story/Person Wanted: Parents and young person to talk about drinking habits.

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper Story.

More info: We need a family (parents and young person, ideally in late teens) to talk about how the young person was given alcohol by their parents under the age of 15. And has subsequently turned into a big drinker.

Special criteria: Young person ideally needs to be 17/18/19 but early 20s could work.

 

Story/Person Wanted: Ant and Dec lookalikes.

Media outlet: Women’s Magazine Story.

More info: Must be dead ringers for the TV duo, with a good strong real life story too!