Zac Efron has been named the "Most Wanted" Celebrity of 2007 by Contact Any Celebrity, a research firm based in West Hollywood, California that provides celebrity contact information to fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media.
The Top 10 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007 are the "most wanted" for autographs, donations, endorsements and media requests from fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media out of ContactAnyCelebrity.com's list of over 54,565 celebrities worldwide.
"Even with his less-than-stellar image, Michael Jackson is #2 and would probably be #1 if it weren't for Zac Efron's immense popularity this year with his roles in "High School Musical," "High School Musical 2" and "Hairspray," says Jordan McAuley, Contact Any Celebrity's Founder and President. "Interestingly, the public wants to get in touch with Michael Jackson more than any other star except Zac Efron which is probably temporary -- we'll have to wait and see."
Most of the searches on ContactAnyCelebrity.com come from fans, businesses, nonprofits and the media. They want to contact celebrities for autographed photos, charitable donations, product endorsements and media requests.
Here is Contact Any Celebrity's list of the Top 10 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007:
The Top 10 "Most Wanted" Celebrities of 2007 is compiled from two sources: searches on Contact Any Celebrity's public and private online database) plus clicks on the company's Google AdWords listings displayed on Google and across the Web.
Contact Any Celebrity's online database contains the best mailing address, agent, manager, publicist, production company, and charitable cause for over 54,565 celebrities worldwide.
Fashion Week is coming up in September, so organizers are now actively seeking celebrity gift bag and gift suite items for the various parties and events...
Now's your chance to get your product in the hands of fashionable celebrities, tastemakers, national and international media using the opportunities posted in the Contact Any Celebrity Member Lounge!
You can now download a new PDF File with details and contact information for these 5 Fashion Week gift bag opportunities...
* Haute.Lanta Fashion Show Celebrity Swag Suite
Celebrities already confirmed include Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, 50 Cent, Lil' Kim, Ben Affleck, Young Joc, T Pain, Jack Nicholson and more.
Meet and introduce your products and services to top-level celebrities and tastemakers, plus *lots* of photographers will be present to take photos of your product with the celebrities. You will also receive a CD of all the photos for your own promotional use.
Media including MTV, VH1, Glamour, GQ, InStyle, InTouch Weekly, Elle, Giant, Essence, Vibe, and more are all scheduled to cover the event.
* Sylvia Heisel/Max Factor party
Celebrity gift bag items are needed for the Sylvia Heisel/Max Factor Fashion Week Party. Items will go to celebrities, tastemakers, national and international media on September 10th.
* Elle Magazine & Henri Bendel Parties
Gift bag items are needed for Elle Magazine and Henri Bendel's Fashion Week Opening Night Cocktail Party and Henri Bendel's 100th Anniversary Party.
* 2(x)ist Fashion Show
This men's underwear line is looking for products and gift certificates that will go to celebrities and tastemakers -- this is a great opportunity if you offer products or services geared toward men.
Login now for details on how to submit your product or service to the above 3 events!
If you're not already a Member of Contact Any Celebrity, what are you waiting for? A 7 day test-drive is just $1 when you join now!
I'm on tight deadline to finish up my new business book, tentatively titled "Celebrity Leverage: How to Harness the Power of Celebrities To Make Your Business Famous."
And you can be part of it!
If you've got a success story about getting celebrity endorsements or simply using celebrities in your marketing and publicity, I might feature you and your Web site in the book.
(It doesn't have to be because you used Contact Any Celebrity. That would be nice, but I'm looking for all success stories).
I'm really going to promote this book, so you'll be sure to get some good publicity out of it as well!
I'll also award the 5 best stories with my upcoming Celebrity Leverage Toolkit, which will be a $995 value.
Here's an example of what I'm looking for:
"I'm a jewelry designer and I use your service to get my product into the hands of the hottest celebrities. So far I have received personal thank you notes from Courteney Cox Arquette, Angela Bassett and Halle Berry... that was out of 5 gift baskets sent. My work has been included in the SAG Awards gift basket and also in one of the Oscar Awards post show events. Because of this, my jewelry has appeared on some of the hottest celebrities in Hollywood! I'm always recommending your site to other designers."
- Amy Peters, Amy Peters Studio, Pismo Beach, CA
(By the way, this is a real testimonial from a Contact Any Celebrity Member!)
That's it -- just a simple 1-2 paragraph description of what you did to get celebrity endorsements and how you did it will do the trick.
Please include your name, email address and phone number so I can let you know if I include it in the book.
P.S. If you want to see more testimonials of how businesses and entrepreneurs have used Contact Any Celebrity to get valuable celebrity endorsements and more, visit:
To learn how to set up your own MySpace profile if you don't have one yet, check out my free article "How to Contact Celebrities Using MySpace." I'll also reveal how to tell which celebrity MySpace profiles are real... and which ones are fake!
Well this Tuesday, June 26th, my friend Arielle Ford is hosting a free teleseminar with Tim where he's going to reveal how you can create a four hour workweek for yourself as well!
The call will start at 5 p.m. PST (7 p.m. CST and 8 p.m. EST).
Tim will also reveal how he made his book a New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
If you can't listen in by phone, the call will also be available as a live webcast so you can listen in over your computer.
P.S. Tim Ferris has literally become a celebrity overnight with the success of his new book "The 4 Hour Workweek." He's appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, NBC, and MAXIM. His book became a #1 bestseller in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Now he's going to reveal how he did it, plus talk about how you can create a four hour workweek for yourself!
Soon after Barbara Walters revealed Paris told her she's been reading all of her fan mail, and Kathy Hilton told the press the same thing after she and her husband visited their daughter on Father's Day:
"She's spending her time looking at the four walls and reading some nice fan mail."
"I read your letter and just wanted to thank you for your kind words of love and support. The fact that you took time out of your day to write me truly means the world. Especially at such a difficult and scary time in my life. But I am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation. And the letters I'm receiving really do put a smile on my face as I sit here in my cell, sad and alone. Again, thank you so much and may God bless you and your family. Love always, Paris Hilton xoxo"
"I have read all the letters sent to me by my fans, and some of them have made me cry."
Here's Paris Hilton's updated address in jail:
Paris Hilton #9818783 P.O. Box 86164 Terminal Annex Los Angeles, CA 90086-0164
These items ARE NOT allowed:
Food or cosmetic items
Stationery, blank envelopes, envelopes with metal clasps, postage stamps, envelops with gang or suggestive drawings/art work
Musical, plastic, plastic covered, blank, greeting or post cards larger than 6âx9â
Paper clips, staples, pens, pencils, glitter, stickers, glued or gummed labels
Rosary beads, balloons, string bracelets, or other jewelry items
Lottery tickets or prepaid telephone cards
Cellophane tape or any type of tape on letters
Paris called her Mom from jail, who was already on the line speaking to Barbara Walters. Kathy Hilton told Paris that Barbara was on the other line, and Paris asked her mom if she could speak to Barbara directly, so Kathy clicked over.
Here's some of what Paris told Barbara:
"I used to act dumb. It was an act. That act is no
longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for
the young girls who look up to me. Now, I would like to make a difference...God has given me this new chance. I was not eating or sleeping," she said. I was severely depressed and
felt as if I was in a cage...It was a horrible experience."
Two loves have greatly influenced Annie Leibovitz's work: her mother (a dance instructor) and writer/essayist Susan Sontag (her "lover"), who died of cancer in 2004.
It's obvious Leibovitz truly loved Sontag, as she gets a little choked up every time she talks about her. In fact, there are almost more photos of Sontag in the exhibition than there are of the celebrities Leibovitz is best known for shooting.
(Nicole Kidman, New York, 2003. Courtesy of "Vogue.")
Although Leibovitz's work mostly reflects life, she clearly doesn't like to take photos of people with smiles. In fact, you'll
be hard pressed to find any of her subjects in the exhibition smiling.
"You have to understand, my family was the kind that always smiled for
pictures. I just thought it was kind of... fake. In the portrait I took of
my mother, she's not smiling. She thought she looked old and didn't
like the photo. But at an exhibit once all these people were
gathered around asking for her autograph, so she kind of liked that."
(Pondering photos of lover Susan Sontag undergoing chemotherapy.)
"I've recently started looking for a cemetery, which is sort of like looking for a good apartment in New York City. People are afraid to talk about death. So before my dad died, I made sure to talk to him about... those kinds of things. But I promise there's more to this exhibition than just death," she says with a laugh.
"The great thing about this photo is if you love George Bush, you love this photo. And if you hate Bush, you hate this photo. I only had 45 minutes to take it, which was a LONG time."
When asked why she thinks she's become such an icon, she says, "A lot of hard work. It's all about the work. Also I don't think of myself as a photographer. I think of myself as an artist who uses photography."
Leibovitz has been under contract as a landscape photographer with "Conde Nast Traveler" since 1993. Other contracts include "Vanity Fair," "Rolling Stone", and "Vogue."
And what about that famous "Vanity Fair" cover of Demi Moore nude and pregnant 1994? "I had worked with Demi a lot, and did her wedding pictures when she married Bruce Willis. I told her then that I was interested in photographing a pregnant woman, which I had never done before."
"I shot some close-ups of Demi Moore for the magazine, and I said, 'you know, we should do some nudes just for you.'"
"Demi called me when she was pregnant with her first child. Bruce was working on a film in Kentucky, so I stopped there on the way back to New York from Los Angeles. Then three years later, when Demi had a movie coming out, 'Vanity Fair' asked me to take a picture of her for the cover. As I was shooting I said, 'You know, this would be a great cover.
'Vanity Fair' decided to go with it -- I didn't quite understand the
impact it would have on people."
"I photographed Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino standing next to each other in my studio, but I had to cut them into two separate photos because they couldn't be together."
In 1994 her most shocking photo at the High Museum was Whoopi Goldberg in a bathtub filled with milk. This time around she's got Chris Rock donning "whiteface" and Beyonce as Alice in Wonderland. Clearly some things haven't changed, but a lot has, like getting to finally photograph Queen Elizabeth II. Leibovitz is the first American honored with taking her portrait.
(Brad Pitt, Las Vegas, 1994. Courtesy of "Vanity Fair.")
"They gave me 30 minutes to photograph her. She said she remembered
me asking if I could photograph her years ago, and she felt bad for
turning me down. The photos were good, but they were more like a
document. I did a lot of research; they sent me books of her clothes
and jewelry I could choose from.
I wanted to include everything, so we did the shoot at Buckingham
Palace. She was a little feisty because she had to wear the whole outfit and
everything -- it was a bit like photographing your 80-year old aunt. But she was great. At the end I told her I had made a bit of a
mistake and needed her to come back so I could do something else, and
she did."
"I got rid of my studio. It was becoming a burden, so now I prefer to shoot in the great outdoors. I'm also using a lot of digital, which I love. If I want to make it look like film I can, and it gives me a lot of leeway with color. For instance I used to not be able to shoot a subject in front of a green tree, because green looks black on film. But now I can do that. I first started using digital when I shot Barack Obama, because I wanted it to look like 'now.' It looks sort of like television."
So what advice does Annie Leibovitz have for budding photographers? "The thing I tell artists now is to make sure they preserve their work. Put it into a book. It doesn't have to be published, but put it into something."
(Contact Any Celebrity President Jordan McAuley (far right) with Annie Leibovitz, friend Matt Burkhalter and a High Museum representative.)
"Want a celebrity to endorse your product or be a spokesperson? It can cost a lot less than you think, if you do it right. I know of one clothing endorsement deal with the best pitcher in Major League Baseball that cost just $20,000 per year...
It is possible to do it yourself, as I have done many times. Contact Any Celebrity's online directory and its helpful staff will help you find any celebrity in the world."
Cool, right? It's also nice to know the author is a Contact Any Celebrity Member.
If you want to escape 9-5, live anywhere, and join the new rich (this is the book's subtitle), I highly suggest reading it.
I just wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy New Year from all of us at Contact Any Celebrity!
