So Heather Mills has a new PR ubermouth. It was reported yesterday that she has hired a self-styled French aristocrat and beauty salon owner Michele Elyzabeth as her “official worldwide spokesperson”. She is said to originate from France and started her career with Rogers and Cowan in the Seventies. Sir Paul McCartney’s estranged wife dumped…
The last 48 hours have been very odd for me, not only because I have the flu, but I’ve been taking calls from Malcolm McLaren from Brisbane, the location for yet another series of “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”. He’s not a client of mine but a friend asking for advice. Clearly…
I have just heard from Malcolm Mclaren he told me that he has decided not to join the mayhem in the Australian bush and is heading back to Europe. Perhaps it was the eleventh hour intervention of Ant and Dec that did the damage.
A call from one of my fave scribblers informs me that the list of celebrities to brave the jungle and appear on “I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here!” have been just released. I have known for some time that both Malcolm Maclaren and Lynne Franks had taken the ITV schilling and decided to…
I have been in bed all week with flu and I have rolled out of my sick bed to take a peek at my inbox. Naturally there a pile of emails but one stood out, a forward from a pal in Australia. The email implored me to look at www.freerice.com. The site seems not…
Simon Wakeman noticed that my burblings have been noted about Heather Mills McCartney. Mark Borkowski on role of a publicist: If you want a really interesting insight into this, it’s worth checking out this post on publicist Mark Borkowski’s blog. Mark talks in depth about the Heather Mills GMTV meltdown and the role of a publicist…
Over the last three days a baleen of PR bloggers have added their voices to the debate kicked off by the Wired Editor, Chris Anderson. His tirade against lazy PRs is reported in The New York Times which ran an article thick with PR’s coughing up sound bites http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/ technology/05flacks.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin I fear a few egos…
Forensically picking through the PR damage that is left after Heather Mills McCartney’s Halloween PR onslaught, I can only conclude that it was an emotionally crude crusade of her own design. The harm inflicted on her tattered brand after sweeping across media Ville was nothing short of catasphrophic. The screaming banshee is now a textbook…
Shock, horror, Britney Spears may have made a hit record. Her “Blackout” album has received International critical acclaim. Perhaps all the tears, tantrums and drug problems have been part of a smart publicity ploy to generate sympathy for Britney, prior to her album release. Already, the Catholic Church is up in arms about the religious…
Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson has decided to list every lazy PR person who spams his mailbox with irrelevant messages. He claims that “Lazy flacks send press releases to the editor in chief of Wired because they can’t be bothered to find out who on my staff, if anyone, might actually be interested in what…