Richard Curson can hardly be described as shy and retiring, but when it comes to talking about himself it is like extracting teeth from a lion! This is a guy who has achieved so much in his very short life (he thinks he is old at 29!). He has worked alongside so many talented and famous people, and is probably at the forefront of what it means to be a PR Guru for the Celebrities! It would take two books for me to list all that he has done and the many people he has worked with, and all of them would agree that he has achieved amazing results. I have yet to come across anyone who can open as many doors, and his creative and entrepreneurial spirit is utterly inspirational!

Born 11 August 1980 in his hometown in Wisbech, Richard began a life long passion for show business, broadcasting and media as early as age 11. At that time, he was already making regular visits to Executives at the BBC, won 3 Blue Peter badges, including silver, for his achievements at the time.

By the time Richard was 14 he was already studying media (BTech National Diploma) at college, and having left school early, finished his education at higher education level with his chosen subjects - all media based.

At 16 Richard published his book, Burst with Verse! This is still available on Amazon. He sold 5,000 copies and became the youngest person in the UK to publish a book of poetry – a record he still holds today.

Richard, aged 17, went on to work with Tim Shaw at Magic Am in Sheffield and co presented Breakfast Radio shows when he was involved with numerous stunts including having his arm broken live on air. He left after two years to move to London where his career in media was to take a different direction, although he worked again with Tim broadcasting a weekly slot on Kerrang 105.2.

At the age of 19, Richard owned his own home, and in that same year (1999) he started working with an established publicist as a way to earn extra money. This was a step that was to shape his future.

Here, I am just going to mention a very few things that Richard has done, but please in your mind multiply this by a factor of 100 and you might get a sense of what he has really done!

• Richard was involved in the most successful press campaign in the history of World Music Awards when he supported their public relations campaign in 2004
• Richard founded “club4climate” – a climate change organisation – which has gone on to great success
• Richard – being at the heart of celebrity culture - has hosted some of the most flamboyant glamorous and bizarre celebrity parties in London earning himself a distinguished reputation as one of London’s best celebrity party gurus.
• Richard has written for and been publicised in various newspapers as a Celebrity Columnist - Daily Mail, The Times, Daily Mirror, the Sun, Gay Media including QX, Gaydar Radio and The Gay Times, The Big Issue and The Guardian. He has worked with The Daily Star, The Sunday People, Es Magazine, Loaded Magazine, and Grazia Magazine to publicise his clients and projects and parties. With all of this, he is not too proud to support his own local paper – the Enfield Independent – in which he revealed stories about Celebrities associated with the area

• Richard has also become involved in restaurant PR - organising restaurant reviews (whisper has it that someone pretty famous in the food industry is his uncle!). Here he is pictured with Marco Piere White and Georgina Bruni. In this capacity he has worked with numerous publications (to many to mention them all) including: The Evening Standard, Time Out, and The Times, Ok Magazine, as well as many smaller independents and glossy magazines. This, of course, has brought Richard into contact with top restaurants and eateries – Esca, Biagios, Leadenhall Italiano, the Queen Mary (London), Regatta on The Green, Gabrielle's - to name but a few!

Over the years, the people that Richard has worked alongside and with would take another book to write about, but here are just a few names listed:

The Countess of Wessex; the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; The Crown Prince of Brunei; Dave Courtney; the band Blue; Mark from Take That; Dancing on ice stars, Matt Evers and Kristine Lenko; Jordan Knight (of Backstreet Boys); Jodie Marsh; the Cheeky Girls; Calumn Best; Danielle Lloyd; X Factor star Journey South; Tom Cruise; Cindy Jackson; Chanelle Hayes; Jade Goody; Nancy Lam; Peter Tatchell; Rachael Stevens.

Richard is now 100% committed to supporting Lee Latchford Evans in furthering his celebrity career (after the success of STEPS) and of course to promoting and marketing the FamouslyFit.com brand. We are incredibly privileged to have him on board.

If you want to know any more about Richard’s fantastically diverse career in the field of show business, broadcasting and media, I suggest that you drop him a line (richard@famouslyfit.com). He may reply, but then he may not – being quite modest about it and all that!