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Limelight Celebrity Management Ltd
10 Filmer Mews
75 Filmer Road
London SW6 7JF
Tel :020 7384 9950
Fax :020 7384 9955

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About our agency

We are a Celebrity Management company and Literary Agency based in the heart of London’s West End and we focus on lifestyle subjects and experts.

We are Celebrity Agents for TV celebrities, broadcasters, writers, journalists, celebrity speakers and media personalities, after dinner speakers, motivational speakers, celebrity chefs, TV presenters and TV chefs.

Our clients are available for Personal Appearances, Cookery Demonstrations, Wine tastings, After Dinner Speaking, TV commercials and Voice overs, Product Endorsement, Product Licences, Award Presentations, Seminars, Trade and Consumer Shows, Garden Design Seminars, Antiques Valuations, Health Seminars and Conferences, Cookery Master Classes.

Our celebrity clients appear on top television and radio programmes like Ready Steady Cook, Saturday Kitchen, Cash in the Attic, Antiques Road Show, 20th Century Road Show, Great Garden Challenge, Crimewatch, Great Food Live, Gardeners’ Question Time, The Salvager, Weakest Link, Daily Cooks Challenge, The Daily Politic, Celebrities Under Pressure, Houses Behaving Badly, Trading Up, This Morning, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

As Celebrity Agents we work with all the major TV Broadcasters including BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV and Discovery, Radio 4, Talk Sport, UKTV Food, Carlton.

Our celebrity clients are TV chefs and restaurateurs, wine experts, a cocktail mixologist and a whisky guru, many garden designers, garden plant experts and Royal Horticultural Society judges, health and beauty professionals, antiques experts, a historian, interior designers and experts in homes, a professional counsellor and expert in sex and relationships, a specialist in architectural salvage and a business analyst.

Our celebrity experts write for national newspapers and magazines including Express Newspapers, Metro, BBC Good Food magazine, BBC Good Homes, BBC Gardeners’ World, Garden Life, Garden News, Delicious, Fresh, Olive, and their books have sold millions of copies. Among the publishers we work with are Quadrille, Kyle Cathie, Dorling Kindersley, BBC Books, Aurum Press, Mitchell Beazley, Pavilion Books, Sterling Publishing (USA), Continuum, Penguin, Chrysalis, Ryland Peters & Small, Hodder Headline.

We are experienced in Product Licensing, and one of our products was voted Food Product of the Year 2005.

Clients with Licensed Products are Antony Worrall Thompson, Linda Barker, Oz Clarke, James Martin, Paul Rankin and Mary Berry.

Limelight Management (now Limelight Celebrity Management Ltd.)) was started by Fiona Lindsay in May 1989 and is one of the most established in its field in the UK.

Profile

Paul Rankin runs the neighbourhood restaurant Cayenne in Belfast. Previously he ran the very successful Roscoff, which was voted Restaurant of the Year in the BBC Good Food Magazine's 1996 Awards and where he was awarded Ireland’s first Michelin star.

Biography

Paul is best known for being one of the longest standing and most successful chefs on Ready Steady Cook on BBC 2, which regularly pulls in viewers of nearly 3 million. Recently, Paul has appeared on Step up to the Plate (BBC 1), Local Food Heroes (UKTV), Saturday Kitchen (BBC 1), Michael Ball Show (ITV 1) and Ten Mile Menu (ITV 1). Paul has just finished filming a series with fellow chef Nick Nairn entitled Paul and Nick’s Big Trip due for broadcast on UTV later this year. The series sees Paul and Nick travelling around Scotland and Northern Ireland exploring local ingredients and having a great laugh along the way.

Previously, Paul has appeared on Celebrity X Factor (ITV 1), as one ‘The Chefs’. The group were so popular that they made it to the final stages of the competition. In 2005 he was asked to overhaul the menus at a Belfast Care Home for the elderly and his enthusiasm for this cause has led to him addressing conferences and events for care industry professionals and this in turn triggered a Tonight with Trevor McDonald special programme on the subject for ITV 1 in which Paul was heavily featured.

When not busy in his restaurants and with his television commitments, Paul is furiously writing recipes. He has published several books including Gourmet Ireland (BBC Books), Gourmet Ireland 2 (BBC Books), Ideal Home Cooking (Boxtree), Dublin Dining (Black & White Publishing) and New Irish Cookery (BBC Books).

Paul has been appointed International Ambassador for Bushmills Whiskey and regularly does consultancy work for Sodexo. He has his own range of phenomenally successful Irish breads with Irwins Bakery available in major supermarkets throughout the UK and is expanding the range all the time. It now includes sausages and pies.

Paul has had several of his own series including 1994’s BBC 1 TV series Gourmet Ireland - showcasing the best of Irish ingredients plus their own distinctive cookery talents and The Rankin Challenge which won two coveted Glenfiddich awards. Gourmet Ireland was transmitted on the Public Broadcasting Service in the USA and the accompanying book was published by KQED (USA). The series has also been sold to SBS in Australia, TVB in Hong Kong, TVNZ Pacific and TV2 in New Zealand, and to CBET Windsor in Canada.

Updated 25/08/2011

Pixie Mckenna Agent is Limelight Celebrity Management Ltd