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Stories Needed 17/9/2010: Earn Cash Today

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.

PRESS ALERT: Stories Wanted – 11.08.2010

Tuesday, August 10th, 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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Person or Story Wanted: Women who discovered their men were love-rats.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Feature.
Info: We’re looking for a variety of women to talk about how they discovered their partners were cheating on them. Maybe they were suspicious, hired a honeytrap, found underwear in his pocket or saucy texts on his phone? Maybe she spotted a pic of them on the internet or he called out the wrong woman’s name in a passionate moment?

Criteria: 18-45, happy to be named and pictured and exclusive.
Person or Story Wanted: Stories for Christmas issue.
Where the story will appear: Glossy Magazine Story.
Info: Stories for Christmas Magazines wanted. Needs to Christmassy (clearly), happy, uplifting and emotional. Can’t be anonymous.

Person or Story Wanted: Women who have discovered their partner cheated with a pr0stitute.
Where the story will appear: Weekly Magazine Story.
Info: We are looking for women who discovered their man paid for $ex. They could have forgiven or dumped them.


Person or Story Wanted: Looking for somebody who turned to work in $ex industry after losing their job.

Where the story will appear: Newspaper Feature – Real Life Story.
Info: I am looking for case studies who lost their job in the recession and are now working in the $ex industry. They could be phone operatives, p0rn workers… anything like that.
Person or Story Wanted: Women in their dirty thirties!
Where the story will appear: Glossy Magazine Feature.
Info: We’re working on a feature about women getting more $exually adventurous in their 30s. Ideally We’d like a divorcee who’s found a much better $ex life with a new partner, a woman who was really body conscious and is now much more comfortable and knows what she wants in the bedroom. Then I need a woman who’s come out as g@y/bi$exual in her thirties!
Person or Story Wanted: Mum with a daughter aged 11 or 12 who is on the contraceptive pill.
Where the story will appear: Glossy Magazine Story.
Info: Case study needs to be British. Must be willing to talk about why she is happy that her young daughter is on the pill and how she feels about her being $exually active at such a young age.

Person or Story Wanted: Looking for some great real life stories for the next couple of ‘hopefully sunny’ weeks!
Where the story will appear: Newspaper Story.
Info: Juicy real life reads that will keep our readers entertained while sun bathing in the garden or still taking about the story when the get on the plane for their summer hols.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman aged 20-35 who has suffered with OCD.
Where the story will appear: Woman’s Weekly Magazine Story.
Info: The article is a report on OCD, intended to show how it is a very debilitating illness, often unfairly passed off as trivial and a bit of a joke. The piece will give a real insight into what it’s like to live with the disease on a day to day basis.
Criteria: The case study must be female, aged 20-35. It doesn’t matter if she is still battling OCD or has found a cure for her condition. She must be willing to talk frankly about the affliction during a short telephone interview and must be able to provide a picture of herself.
Person or Story Wanted: Urgently looking for superfans- fans who have followed a famous person for years and have pictures that depict this.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Weekend magazine story.
Info: Pegged onto the beatles fan who is auctioning her collection of photos of her with the Beatles, we are looking for other superfans. Ideally, they’d have lots of photos of themselves with their idols – whether that is an individual or a group – from over the years.
Person or Story Wanted: I am looking for women who suffered from depression after getting married…
Where the story will appear: Woman’s magazine story.
Info: Many women experience the blues or get depressed after they get married because after the high, excitement and stress of planning their big day, they feel down at the realisation it is all over and have to get on with ‘normal life’.
Therefore, I am looking to interview three women for a feature on this ‘post bridal depression’ to talk about their experiences, emotions and how they are feeling now.
Criteria: No specific age required but I would like one of the case studies to regret how much they lavished on their weddings and maybe would have preferred just to have had fish and chips as now, they may be struggling to get a house or maybe have been hit by redundancy and are struggling financially. The couple will need to be prepared to be pictured.

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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.

Stories Wanted for Cash – 21st July 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.

Easy Cash in the New Year: Story Requests 6/1/2010

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Earn easy cash in the New Year.  We are looking for the following people to appear in newspaper and magazine articles. Simply read the requests below and then visit: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to send us your details or sell another story to the press.

UPDATED DAILY

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Person or Story Wanted: Weekend dad

Where the story will appear: National Newspaper.

More info: We are looking for a dad who is separated from his kid’s mum and only sees them at the weekends and during the holidays ie he is a Weekend Dad.  Most importantly his ex must give permission for the children to be photographed and identified. This is essential.

Special criteria: Male 20-45.

Person or Story Wanted: A family on benefits

Where the story will appear: National Newspaper.

More info: We’re looking for a family who are all on benefits to feature in a piece for The Sun where we give them advice on how to get a job, get fitter and healthier and reduce the amount they claim from the state. Ideally we’d need a mum and dad, and children of working age, along with any other family members who want to take part. We will pay a fee to them.

Person or Story Wanted: A woman who fell in love with her housemate.

Where the story will appear: Glossy woman’s magazine feature.

Story Info: We are looking for a woman who lived with her husband/boyfriend as housemates (maybe at college or university), before they got together.

Case Study Criteria: She must be 21-29.

Person or Story Wanted:  Young(ish) women who’ve lost weight and ditched their men.

Where the story will appear:

Story Info: A line-up piece featuring three women who dumped their blokes after losing weight and gaining confidence. It could be the best thing they ever did – or something they’ve lived to regret.

Case Study Criteria: Ideally in 20/30s but could stretch to early 40s. Must be able to provide before and after pics of weight loss.

Person or Story Wanted: A woman who knew her husband/boyfriend as a friend before they got together.

Where the story will appear: Glossy woman’s magazine feature.

Story Info: We are looking for a woman who knew her husband/boyfriend as a friend before they got together. Ideally, he would have been her best friend’s brother/ brother’s friend or they would have known each other when they were very little.

Case Study Criteria: She must be 21-29 and preferably will be married or engaged.

Person or Story Wanted: My boyfriend\’s a cross-dresser.

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

Story Info: We would like to find a girl in her 20s who discovered her boyfriend was a cross-dresser and she’s still with him.

They will both need to be pictured and we’ll need a chat with both of them.

Case Study Criteria: Aged between 20-29

Person or Story Wanted: Gay parents (preferably dads).

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

Story Info: We are URGENTLY looking for two gay parents (preferably men but will consider female case studies) for a positive feature on modern families in 2010.   They must have had the child together as a couple (ie we do not want case studies who have children from a previous heterosexual marriage).

Both parents must be identified but we can conceal the child’s face through photography if they do not wish for them to be identified.

Case Study Criteria: Male or female 20-45

Person or Story Wanted:  Single woman who conceived through sperm donation.

Where the story will appear:  Sunday Newspaper.

Story Info: We are URGENTLY looking for a single mother who conceived through sperm donation for a positive feature on modern families. She must be identified but we can conceal her child’s face through photography if she does not wish for them to be identified.

Case Study Criteria: Female aged 20-45

Story Requests (15/12/09): Earn Cash Today.

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Here are the latest PAID stories that we are looking for right now.  If you, or anyone you know, fits the story profile, get in touch and earn cash today.  Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to register your details.

UPDATED DAILY

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We are looking for this story / person: A girl in her 20s who has spent a significant amount of time in prison.

Magazine or Newspaper: Woman’s Magazine.

Story Details: We are looking to speak to a girl in her 20s who has spent some time in jail.  The Magazine piece will be an insightful look into how her life was behind bars and how it has affected her now she’s been released.

Story Criteria: Must be in her 20s and willing to be photographed.

 

We are looking for this story / person: We are looking to speak to a woman who got or is getting divorced.

Magazine or Newspaper: Woman’s magazine.

Story Details: The trigger needs to have been in some way the Christmas/New Year period – so the decision was made in January. We need to speak to them in the next two days.

Story Criteria: Woman aged 21 to 45

 

We are looking for this story / person: A good phobia story.

Magazine or Newspaper: Glossy Women’s Magazine

Story Details: Any woman who has got a really unusual phobia.

Story Criteria: a woman aged between 18 and 35

 

We are looking for this story / person: a young woman who was sexually abused by a woman in a position of responsibility.

Magazine or Newspaper: Sunday Newspaper Magazine.

Story Details: Piece about female abusers.

Story Criteria: Preferably aged under 35.

 

We are looking for this story / person: I am looking for a great pet story.

Magazine or Newspaper: Women’s Magazine.

Story Details: We are looking for a really good pet story for a short feature. It can’t be about a rabbit or a mini-pig or about fat pets, but anything else to do with animals would be great.

Story Criteria: The feature must be told by a woman aged between 18 and 35.

 

We are looking for this story / person: A good non-violent crime feature.

Magazine or Newspaper: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

Story Details: We are looking for a feature that would work for one of our magazine’s crime sections. We want anything along the lines of a con man / woman, an arson, burglary – anything that doesn’t have any violence in it.

Story Criteria: It must be told by a woman aged between 18 and 40.

Story Request: 7/12/09

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Today’s story requests from national media. Get paid to feature in any of these magazine & 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.

UPDATED DAILY

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 Story / Case Study Wanted: Uplifting real life story for January

Media outlet: Glossy Magazine.

More info: We are looking for a really fun, lively real life story for the January issue of a glossy women’s magazine – not too scandalous or about cheating but anything goes as long as it’s a good read.

Story / Case Study Criteria: She must be no older than 29. Second rights considered.

 

 Story / Case Study Wanted: Inspirational Slimmers.

Media outlet: Sunday Newspaper.

More info: We are looking for inspirational slimming stories. We need women aged 20 to 35 approx who have lost a significant amount of weight and transformed their lives in the following ways:

 -Lost weight and conceived my first child.

-Lost weight and landed my dream job (eg became an airhostess after previously being too heavy).

-Lost weight and got a boyfriend.

We do not want case studies who have had gastric bands/bypass surgery, they must have lost the weight through diet and exercise.  Please contact me asap by end of Mon 7 Dec ideally. We will need before and after collects of case studies.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Female 20-35

 

 Story / Case Study Wanted: A heart warming love story of a couple who fell in love this year.

Media outlet: National women’s magazine

More info: We are looking for amazing love stories where the couple met this year (for our Christmas wishes came true feature).

We need the woman to be between 19-35 and ideally they have got in touch with a long lost love this year and their romance has been rekindled. Perhaps he was half way round the world but she/he tracked them down and now they’ve met up and are together.

Maybe she was single for years until she found her childhood sweetheart again this year.

Whatever the story, we’d love to hear about it.

Story / Case Study Criteria: 19-35

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: Someone earning £150,000 or over to be a case study for Wednesday’s pre-budget report.

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.

More info: The person would need to to give their reaction to announcements in the pre-budget report next Wednesday. 5-10 minutes on the phone. They would need to provide rough details of their job and salary (although we could keep this a little vague if it is sensitive).  It will be a forum for them to give their views on the Chancellor’s report, and we could obviously mention their business etc if they wanted us to (although it must be their personal income that is £150,000 or more not the company’s profits)

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: Lost weight to conceive first child.

Media outlet: Sunday Newspaper.

More info: Fabulous is urgently looking for a woman aged 20-35 approx who lost weight in order to be able to conceive her first child. She must have lost weight through diet and exercise not through surgery.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Female. 20-35 approx

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: “I fell in love with my brother”. A girl who had a relationship with her brother.

Media outlet: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More info: I’m looking for a girl who had a relationship with her brother/ half brother/step brother.

She should be in her 20s and willing to be photographed.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Must be in her 20s. Second rights considered.

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: Lost weight to land my dream job.

Media outlet: Sunday Newspaper Magazine.

More info: We are urgently looking for a woman aged 20-40 who lost weight and landed her dream job.

E.g. maybe she was too heavy to be an airhostess or a dancer. She must have lost weight through diet and exercise, not surgery.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Female 20-40.




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