Category: celebrity portrait

Portrait no.18

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18 of 26 26Miles4MND is very happy to have the support of some household names. Today’s portrait is of the television presenter and journalist Nick Owen. Miles was lucky enough to work with Nick Owen for more than fifteen years while working as a cameraman and TV news director for the BBC in Birmingham. They first worked together at the BBC’s iconic Pebble Mill studios. Nick had worked there during it’s heydays: From 1992 he co-presented Good Morning with Anne and Nick, the breakfast TV show with an audience of more than 15 million viewers. Miles met Nick when he joined the BBC in 1998 just before his 30th birthday. He was one of the new breed of multi-skilled technical staff and worked as a news cameraman and picture editor as well as a live news director and vision mixer. After getting his MND diagnosis, Miles struggled in vain to continue working at the job he loved but in 2014 MND forced him to retire, leaving the BBC (and Nick Owen) behind. Nick is as friendly and supportive off screen as he appears on it. When we contacted him to ask if he’d be photographed for our 26Miles4MND project he agreed without hesitation. The photo was taken in the BBC Midlands Today studio at the Mailbox in Birmingham – the studio where Miles had the pleasure of directing Nick as he presented the news programme BBC Midlands Today. To help the work of the Motor Neurone Disease Association donate via our Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/26miles4mnd

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Getting quite excited now…you could say Wilde even…

Tomorrow we will be photographing Kim Wilde and her husband the actor Hal Fowler for 2 more of our 26 Miles celebrity portraits. Can’t wait to see her and my old mate Hal again.

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Kim Wilde singing Kids In America in 1981

http://www.kimwilde.com/

After that we’ll be interviewing and photographing Sarah Ezekiel for another of our 26 MND portraits. We are slowly but surely getting closer to our target (and nearer to Cristian having to run 26 miles – the poor git!).
Here’s a link to Sarah’s website. She creates amzing art using Eye Gaze technology. Well worth a look if you are already thinking about Christmas –
http://sarahezekiel.com/#/eyegaze-art/4562566580

Stories and photos will be on here soon 🙂