Posts Tagged ‘real life’
Friday, September 17th, 2010
URGENT STORY REQUESTS – EARN CASH NOW
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.
Friday, 17th September 2010
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
URGENT STORY REQUESTS – EARN CASH NOW
The Stories Listed Below are Urgently Needed. We will pay you 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: Looking for an inspirational read about women.
Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
Info: We are looking for inspirational stories about women who’ve done something amazing. It could be anything as long as it’s about the woman herself – not kids, diet or looks. It needs to have a strong story behind it though to fill a spread.
Story or Person Wanted: MY HOLIDAY CHANGED MY LIFE
Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.
Info: We’re looking for women who’ve gone on holiday and it has in some extraordinary way changed their lives…not just that they moved to the country where they were on hols.
Criteria: The women need to be in their mid-30s to early 50s
Story or Person Wanted: Hen nights that have got out of control…
Where the story or article will appear: Glossy Magazine Feature.
Info: We’re looking for women prepared to talk about a particularly nightmarish hen party – expensive/extravagant trips that have gone horribly wrong, demanding brides-to-be, arguments about what to do, control-freak friends who’ve been put in charge of organising.
Criteria: Aged between 18 to 35.
Story or Person Wanted: Upbeat, quirky real-life story ideas with great pictures.
Where the story or article will appear: Weekend newspaper magazine story.
Info: Gentle and heartwarming ideas needed for spread in the weekend newspaper magazines.
Story or Person Wanted: A girl with a dad dating younger girls
Where the story or article will appear: monthly women’s magazine.
Info: We are looking for a girl aged 18-32 who has a dad who loves dating or is in a relationship with a younger girl.
Story or Person Wanted: Extraordinary body transformations: Rebuilt after massive injuries/huge weight loss/sex swop, ETC.
Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
Info: Any extraordinary body transformation stories wanted.
Story or Person Wanted: ‘I’m in love – but not with my husband’
Where the story or article will appear: Glossy Celebrity Magazine.
Info: Looking for a female case study (aged 25-50) who admits to being in love with someone other then their husband.
Story or Person Wanted: The family of a murdered loved one whose murderer has been released early from prison.
Where the story or article will appear: Magazine Story.
Info: We are looking to find the family or relative of a person who was murdered and their murderer has been released early from prison or is set to have an early release. We would want to speak with the family/relative about how this has affected them. We are tagging this on to the Peter Sutcliffe/Philip Lawrence news stories.
Criteria: The woman needs to be aged mid 30s to mid 50s.
Story or Person Wanted: A wacky, fun or uplifting real life story.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
Info: We’ve got lots of gloomy news stories at the moment. To balance this out we are looking for a light real life stories to run in one of Saturday’s papers. Please pitch anything that might be suitable.
Criteria: None, but women aged 18 – 35 work well for us.
Story or Person Wanted: Female aged 18-35 who has had malaria.
Where the story or article will appear: Newspapers Article.
Info: We are looking for a fairly extreme case of malaria, someone who was struck down quite badly, hospitalised and maybe even close to death.
Criteria: Must be female, age approx 18-35 and available for quick turn around, phone chat and pics.
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That’s it. So 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.
Wednesday, 21st July 2010
Friday, April 2nd, 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 or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at the link above).
You should 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: We are looking for case studies of people who have been VIOLENTLY abused as children like Baby P.
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We are working on a feature about violent child abuse and neglect. We are looking for a case study about anyone who’s suffered neglect / violent abuse along the lines of Baby P. The case study would be in their 20-30s now talking about how they escaped the situation.
Criteria: Female aged 18-35
Person or Story Wanted: Woman (40s/50s) who has been diagnosed as suffering from depression as result of financial worries.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: Piece is about physical and psychological effects of stress on women as a result of money worries.
Criteria: Must be 40-plus, must have been clinically diagnosed.
Person or Story Wanted: 3 Women had a baby in the last three months to take part in a positive shoot about post-baby bodies
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: An uplifting positive piece about real women and their post-baby bodies. The shoot is THIS FRIDAY, and willl take place at our studios in Wapping ater 10am. We will cover travel costs. We need three women of different ages to talk about their body changes and do a classy naked-style shoot (think Gok Wan). £500 all in for each lady. Ideally aged 19 – 30s.
Person or Story Wanted: Couples Confront!
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We need couples (in which both are happy to be photographed) that have any of the following issues, which they would be prepared to talk about in the magazine:
Why didn’t you tell me you’ve been married before?
Why didn’t you tell me you’re still living with your ex?
Why do your friends hate me?
When will you stop punishing me for cheating?
Why are you so convinced that I’m going to cheat?’
Why do you watch so much porn?
Why won’t you stay over after sex?
Why won’t you have sex with the lights on?
Criteria: In their 20s.
Person or Story Wanted: A teenager who’s addicted to the internet and/or computer games.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for a teenager, aged 12-15 years, who is addicted to the internet and/or computer games. Maybe they’re desperate to log on before school, during school and afterwards. Perhaps it’s affecting their schoolwork as they’re online till the early hours or they’re missing out on social events as they’d rather be online.
We then want them to meet an internet psychologist (which we will set up), who can explain the dangers of their behaviour and how to break the addiction.
We need to name and picture the case study, and their parents, and will be able to pay them for their time.
Criteria: Case study must be aged between 12 and 15 years, and be willing to be named and identified.
Person or Story Wanted: Wife cheated on after she became more successful then her husband.
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We’re looking for a woman (aged 25-55) whose husband cheated on her / had an affair after she became more successful / got a promotion a work, because he felt inferior.
Person or Story Wanted: Can you help us find a woman who has forgiven her cheating hubby?
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
More info: We’re looking for a woman who has decided to forgive her husband for having an affair but is having trouble moving on.
Criteria: They will need to be aged between 30 and 55 and they will need to be named and pictured.
Person or Story Wanted: “My one night stand ruined my life!”
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
More info: We are interested in any story in which a one night stand ruined a woman’s life.
Criteria: Girl in her 20s.
Person or Story Wanted: We’re URGENTLY looking for a cougar who’s given up dating younger men.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.
More info: We need a woman who’s dated younger men in the past but who has now settled down with a man her own age or has decided to give up younger men to find a man her own age.
Criteria: Happy to be named and pictured.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman who has used a male escort to get over heartbreak.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.
More info: We’re looking for a woman, 20-35, who’s happy to be named and pictured, to talk about her experiences with a male escort and how using one helped her get over the heartbreak of a relationship break-up.
Criteria: 20-35, female, identified and exclusive.
Person or Story Wanted: We\’re looking for a woman who\’s had lots of surgery but who now regrets the procedures.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.
More info: We’re looking for a woman who has undergone a lot of cosmetic surgery but who now regrets it to talk about why she did it and why she now wishes she’d never started altering her looks.
Criteria: Female, 25-40, happy to be named and pictured and exclusive please.
