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Limelight Celebrity Management Ltd
33
Newman Street,
London
W1T
1PY Phone: 020
7637 2529
Fax: 020
7637 2538
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Aldo's
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About
our agency
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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
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Profile
Aldo Zilli is
chef patron of the Zilli Fish group and is one of Soho's
most flamboyant restaurateurs. Owner of Zilli Fish (the flagship restaurant),
Zilli Café, Zilli Green and Zilli Bar, Aldo is a larger than life personality
whose profile has rocketed in recent years.
Biography
Aldo is now a
member of the Ready Steady Cook team
(BBC 2) which attracts viewers in excess of 2 million – a position he was
invited to take after his immensely popular episodes for BBC 1’s Sunday Life (Aldo’s episodes were the
highest of the series), where he focused on food waste.
2008 was a very
busy year for Aldo with appearances on BBC 1’s Step up to the Plate, ITV 1’s Daily
Cooks Challenge, BBC 1’s Eating in
the Sun, Channel 5’s Family Recipe,
UKTV’s Market Kitchen, BBC 1’s Chelsea Flower Show, BBC 3’s The Real Hustle, BBC 1’s The One Show, ITV 2’s Extra Factor, ITV 1’s Christmas
Cooks Challenge, BBC 1’s Breakfast and
Channel 5 News regularly. When not
busy with the above shows, Aldo was filming a Tonight with Trevor MacDonald special on diets for ITV 1 which was broadcast in Spring 2009 and a programme on
Sleep for BBC 1 primetime, also broadcast in Spring 2009.
2008 was also
the year that Aldo continued his phenomenally successful relationship with Kelloggs Optivita with a new advert and
accompanying PR campaign. This is the biggest campaign Kelloggs have launched
in the UK
since Special K in the 1970s.
2009 saw Aldo as
busy as ever with appearances on BBC 2’s Put
Your Money Where Your Mouth Is – Aldo was pitted against Nick Nairn and won
his week’s worth of challenges comfortably. He continues as a favourite on BBC
2’s Ready Steady Cook and ITV 1’s Daily Cooks Challenge.
Thomsonfly have also continued with Aldo
Zilli’s in-flight food menu, which they launched in 2006 and are thrilled with
the results. On the basis of the success of Thomsonfly, Thomson invited Aldo to
re-launch all the food of their ships and granted Aldo his own restaurant, Zilli’s, which is filled to capacity
every night.
Aldo’s latest
restaurant ventures are with Centreparcs,
with whom he has opened a healthy eating cafe in Longleat in Spring 2009. This
is the first of many such cafés, which Thomson wish to roll out across the
group. 2010 saw him open the phenomenally successful Zilli Green, a vegetarian
restaurant in Soho.
Previously, Aldo
came to the fore after attracting a huge following on Celebrity Fit Club (ITV 1), where he showcased his dynamic
personality and led the successful team to victory, gaining a new slender
figure in the process. Aldo has always been synonymous with healthy eating and
this was the perfect showcase for his delicious, Mediterranean food.
Aldo also
endeared himself to the nation with his winning run on Celebrity X Factor (ITV1) where he and the other 3 singing chefs
wowed the audiences with their songs in Italian, French and English - they
proved enormously popular making it through to the last stages of the
competition. Also in 2007, he filmed Local
Food Heroes for UKTV and filmed a two week mini series entitled 'Italian Summer' for GMTV last summer.
He has recorded
several series for Carlton Food Network including One Man and His Hob in 2001 as well as Perfect Pasta with Aldo Zilli; Aldo's
Italian Job and Aldo and Friends.
In 2000 he co-presented a series for CFN called Two Chefs In Cape with Brian Turner and he has guested on a number
of programmes including BBC2's Food
& Drink, The Weakest Link, The Vanessa Show, The Generation Game, Channel 4's Light Lunch and The Food
Factory for ITV.
Aldo has been
resident chef for The Sun newspaper,
and has written several books: Sainsbury's
Quick and Easy Italian Food; Aldo's
Italian Food For Friends (1998) and Zilli
Fish (1999), Foolproof Italian (BBC
Books) March 2001 and Simon & Schuster published The Zilli Cook Book in October 2003. His latest books are Fish Cook (Jacqui Small Books, 2006)
and his autobiography, Being Zilli
(John Blake, 2008). Aldo latest cookery
book entitled Zilli Fit, was
released in January 2010. He is currently working on the follow on.
Updated
15/04/2010
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