Welcome

This division represents a broad spectrum of presenter talent working within the television, radio and new media industries from household names in television and commercial radio to specialists in fields as diverse as property, food and nuclear physics.

Our team brings a focused, dedicated knowledge and personal service to this ever-increasing area of talent management. We have established relationships with all of the broadcasters and independent television production companies and have a formidable and thorough knowledge of the trends affecting broadcasting today.

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Presenters Department
Independent Talent Group Ltd
Oxford House
76 Oxford Street
London W1D 1BS

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Presenters Department
Independent Talent Group Ltd
Oxford House
76 Oxford Street
London W1D 1BS

Tel: +44 (0)20 7636 6565

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Toby Young

Toby is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, international bestseller about his adventures as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine. It was turned into a film, which Toby co-produced, starring Simon Pegg, Megan Fox and Jeff Bridges.

Young got his start in journalism when The Observer put him under contract while still a student, earning a commendation in the category of Young Journalist of the Year in the 1986 British Press Awards.

In 1991, Young founded and edited the Modern Review with Julie Burchill and her then husband Cosmo Landesman. Its motto was "low culture for highbrows". He published many authors who were then unknown, including Nick Hornby, Will Self and Louis Theroux.

Young moved to New York to work for Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People describes his cack-handed attempts to "take" Manhattan and chronicles his many faux-pas, such as inadvertently hiring a strippergram to come to Vanity Fair's offices on Take Our Daughters to Work Day.

Back in London now, Young is an associate editor of The Spectator, a film critic for The Times and a restaurant critic for the Independent on Sunday. He has performed in the West End in a stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and, in 2005, co-wrote, with fellow Spectator journalist Lloyd Evans, a sex farce about the David Blunkett/Kimberley Quinn scandal and the 'Sextator' affairs of Boris Johnson and Rod Liddle called Who's the Daddy?. It was named Best New Comedy at the 2006 Theatregoers' Choice Awards.

Toby is a widely experienced broadcaster and has appeared on such programmes as Have I Got News For You, Question Time the Today programme. He competed in the Channel 4 TV series Come Dine With Me, which he won, and, for the past two years, has appeared as a regular on Top Chef, an American food reality show that was nominated for six Emmy Awards this year.

In 2008 Toby spent a week in a South African jail making a doc for Virgin 1.

In addition to co-producing How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby co-wrote and co-produced When Boris Met Dave, a 90minute dramadoc for More4.

TELEVISION

2009 The Culture Show (contributor) - In house for BBC2

2009 When Boris Met Dave (co-writer and co-producer) - Blink for More4

2009 Top Judge (judge) - Magical Elves production for Bravo

2008 Heston Blumenthal's Feast - Optomen for Channel 4

2008 Prisoner X (presenter) - Diverse for Virgin 1

2008 Top Chef (judge) - Magic Elves productions for Bravo USA

2008 Eating with Enemy - RDF for BBC

2008 The Culture Show contributor) - Inhouse for BBC2

2007 British Film Forever (contributor) - In house for BBC2

2007 The Grumpy Guide to Food and Wine (contributor) - In house for BBC2

2007 The Grumpy Guide to Fashion (contributor) - In house for BBC2

2007 Newsnight Review (panelist) - In house for BBC2

2006 Grumpy Old New Year (contributor) In house for BBC2

2006 When Toby Met Julie (contributor) In house for BBC4

2006 Come Dine With Me (contributor) LWT for Channel 4

2004-5 Question Time (contributor) Mentorn Productions for BBC1

2002 Newnight Review (panelist) - In house BBC2

FILMS

2008 How To Lose Friends and Alienate People (co-producer)

BOOKS

2008 Reality Matters (contributor), IT Books

2006 The Sound of No Hands Clapping (author) - Little Brown Book Group

2001 How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (author) - Da Capo Press

JOURNALISM

2009 The Times (Film Critic)

2009 The Independent on Sunday (Restaurant Critic)

2006 The Spectator (Associate Editor and Columnist)

2006-09 The Guardian (columnist)

2004-05 The Mail on Sunday (columnist)

2001-06 The Spectator (Drama Critic)

2000 GQ (Special Correspondent)

2000-09 Tatler (Contributing Editor)

1995-98 Vanity Fair (Contributing Editor)

1991-95 The Modern Review (Editor-in-Chief)