Introducing Viva
We supply exclusive celebrity news and interviews to major media outlets worldwide. As well as entertainment content we also represent over 20 professional writers and journalists covering a variety of entertainment fields - from films and fashion to diet and beauty. We also have staff reporters in Los Angeles, New York and London - who are on permanent standby.
EDITORS
Despite our relative youth as a company, we have already established ourselves as a major supplier of entertainment content to world media. We have provided countless covers, features and news items for magazines, newspapers and periodicals in every continent - and our list of clients is growing.
Viva's core service comprises exclusive news and interviews directly from the writer to the client. But we offer much more than this as a fully fledged reporting service with stringers available for commission.
Whether you require the latest news from New York Fashion Week, an interview with Brad Pitt at the Cannes Film Festival or the latest beauty treatment story from Hollywood - call us or get in touch. Keep watching the site for the latest upcoming news too!
WEBSITES
For websites we can offer bespoke packages of news and interviews, please just get in touch or give us a ring to find out how we may help you. It's useful to remember that we can give you exclusive items that have not appeared anywhere and thereby increase your profile and news 'currency'.
WRITERS
For entertainment journalists and writers who may be reading this - please contact us or register if you would like to discuss the possibility of representation - we are always looking for new talent to promote. Why us? Because we pay upfront in the month you sell. No waiting, no hassle.
PRS
We are currently pursuing relationships with film and personal publicists who are looking to access mainstream media worldwide. We can act as a convenient and economic conduit for them and cover a huge swathe of the market in a way that an individual reporter could not. We offer bespoke permutations that comprise newspapers and magazines in most countries. Please contact us for more details about how we can help.
Richard Rees, Editor
Brighton 2010
Richard Rees - Editor
Richard Rees has been one of the UK's top press agents for the last ten years. Since that time he has brokered thousands of news stories, interviews and features to most of the world's entertainment magazines and national newspapers.
Richard has particular expertise in the UK market and was one of the first agents to actively represent and syndicate American entertainment journalists to the British Press.
As well as agency work he has also written for publications as diverse as the Literary Review and GQ Magazine. An avid film buff he is also represented by ICM in Hollywood for his screenwriting.
Holly Dawson - Associate Editor
After graduating from the London School of Economics, Holly cut her teeth on B2B journalism as a writer and then editor of several leading international journals. As a freelancer, she has written for a wide variety of magazines and had a number of covers. She has enjoyed work as a music journalist and obituarist, as well as contributing to literary publications. She has been with Viva Press since 2007.
Chrissy Iley - Interviewer
Chrissy Iley is renowned for her intimate celebrity profiles published in the Sunday Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, You Magazine, Glamour and Harper’s Bazaar. She was awarded Interviewer of the Year in the 2008 British Press Awards, received for her work on Demi Moore, The Police and Keira Knightley.
Chrissy started her interviewing career twenty years ago when she realised she had a peculiar gift - people, including celebrities, wanted to tell her things. Victoria Beckham, Johnny Depp and Bono are favourites among her subjects. They like the way she can be both feisty and sympathetic. Chrissy has been known to take subjects hostage for hours if not days including Dustin Hoffman, one of her first interviews, who wanted to talk about the difference between men and women but ended up in a mutual foot massage. Others on the list of willing interviewees have been Helen Mirren, Mel Gibson, Alicia Keys, Harrison Ford, Anjelica Houston, Lily Allen, Yoko Ono, Barbra Streisand, Michael Douglas & Elton John.
As well as her gift for probing her subjects face to face, Chrissy made her mark as a columnist for the long running and iconic column Relationship of the Week in Sunday Times Style. Chrissy has made many guest appearances in a variety of documentaries and appeared on stage at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, interviewing Julian Clary for his show An Audience with Julian Clary.
Chrissy divides her time between London and Los Angeles.