How do I contact celebrities for interviews?
I manage the website and incoming email for a friend who’s a local celebrity. We have a contact form on our website for people to send in email, and we accept work and interview requests. I veto the emails and send relevant ones (i.e. stuff that needs her reply) to my friend, and I also respond on her behalf. She checks the rest of the emails on her own time and sometimes responds to them. A lot of people ask for her “management company” or her “manager” – she manages herself and I’m pretty much the closest person she has to a manager or secretary (though all I do is check and forward email and write occasional blog entries). Some people don’t seem to understand that though. I’d write back asking for more information and a lot of them say “can I have her manager” – dude, she ain’t got one. Also it’s kinda rude to me because I feel like they think I’m some sort of lackey or sub-sub-subordinate. (She occasionally takes how they treat ME into consideration when accepting or declining requ
