Do you have a life like a celebrity? Do you look like a celebrity? Or are you a great fan of someone famous?
You might have recently appeared on a TV show such as Britain’s Got Talent or X Factor…
Or perhaps your own life mirrors a current soap storyline?
Celebrities often sell a story to promote themselves. In fact gaining publicity is an essential part of any celebrity’s life as without those write-ups in newspapers and magazines, they simply would not be famous.
She said: ‘It was great fun. Featureworld made me famous!’
Caught up in N-Dubz Rapper trial
When Serena Burton and friend Grace Cochran had a brush with Dappy, the celebrity rapper from N-Dubz, the found themselves in the middle of a media circus.
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The girls, who claim Dappy spat at them when they refused to get into his car after a night out, ended up giving evidence against him in court.
They then found unwittingly found themselves victims of some nasty Twitter tweets from fans.
Gemma Dalchin only discovered she was being poisoned from fumes from a faulty boiler when she watched an episode of Coronation St.
Coronation St had been running a storyline about one of the characters Fiz, who had been feeling unwell for weeks. Fiz finally collapsed after breathing in fumes from a boiler which hadn’t been fixed properly.
Gemma called the helpline at the end of the episode and it was confirmed by a gas safety expert that she and her children were suffering from the same fumes as Fiz.
When former BBC1 Apprentice contestant Zoe Beresford split up with the partner she met on the show, Glenn Ward, she came to Featureworld to tell her story.
Zoe and Glenn met while they both appeared on the hit show and their romance lasted for a year with Zoe believing she had met her Mr Right.
But then the couple began to row and have since split.
Zoe’s story appeared in the SUNDAY MIRROR newspaper.
Take me out twins – Cat and Sam Wilkinson claim show was rigged…
When Cat and Sam Wilkinson appeared on ITV reality dating show, Take me Out, they were shocked at what happened to them.
For instead of getting a date, they ended up being rejected by 52 men. And afterwards they claimed that producers had not only edited the show to make them look stupid (when they are university students with a stash of A grade GCSEs and A levels between them) but also bought them identical clashing outfits.
Cat and Sam wanted to set the record straight about how they feel they were wrongly portrayed on the programme.
Cat said: “We wanted to sell our story to a newspaper. This was the only way to get our story out there and make people realise we are nothing like the twins that appeared on the show. In fact although we are physically identical we never dress the same in real life.”
Sasha Gordon had a story to sell about how looking like singer Leona Lewis has impacted on her life.
The story about how she had lost her boyfriend because of her looks and also found it hard to be taken seriously by work bosses was sold to the Daily Mail newspaper where she appeared looking very glam on page three!
Sasha says: “The Daily Mail gave me a great day out with professional make-up, photographer and glamorous clothes. The newspaper made me feel just like a true-life celeb!”
Afterwards Sasha was invited onto ITV’s This Morning.
She also wanted to sell a story to a magazine. Sasha’s true-life story has now been sold to woman’s mag, Best magazine.
X FACTOR COMPETITOR WAS MY BOYFRIEND
Katie wanted to sell her story about how she was devastated when X Factor contestant Danyl dumped her for a man.
Katie’s story was sold to the Sunday Mirror newspaper where it appeared in the centre pages.
She said: “With Alison taking charge of my story, selling my story to the newspapers was much easier than I thought it would be.”
Michelle posed with her beautiful white dog, Jingle, for the Mail on Sunday for a glamorous feature, which went across two pages in the main newspaper.
Michelle is pictured as she appeared in the Mail on Sunday newspaper
X FACTOR CONTESTANT WAS MY BANDMATE
Tim wanted to tell his story about the old days when he and X Factor contestant Danyl Johnson were in a band together. Tim sold his story to the Sun newspaper and Sunday People newspaper.
Tim said: “Selling my story was straightforward. It actually gave Danyl lots of publicity, which I was pleased about because as well as selling these stories, I was voting for him to stay in the X Factor competition!”
Do you have an X Factor story to sell? Or do you know someone taking part in Britain’s Got Talent? Or another TV show?
If so you could have a story to sell! To find out, go to the Sell My Story form here>
Simon Cowell’s sister June gave Mail on Sunday newspaper readers a fascinating insight into what it is like to be related to one of the most famous – and richest! – men on the planet.
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When Cat and Sam Wilkinson appeared on ITV reality dating show, Take me Out, they were shocked at what happened to them.
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