Best jobs for people who love celebrities

We’ve all have a celebrity crush, someone we’ve always fancied meeting and have wanted to get closer to.

If you’re not a producer, photographer, publicist, or fashion designer, it may be difficult to get close to a celebrity.

However, there are other cool jobs you can look into if you want to meet celebrities on a personal level. If you feel like you absolutely have to meet Keanu Reeves or shake Beyonce’s hand, then we’ve got a few job ideas that could possibly make that happen.

Is it Worth it?

Getting a celebrity-adjacent job is not a walk in the park. Some spend years practicing guitar or toning their voices and never actually get to it. Others try to enter the celebrity world from the back door by becoming managers or PR personnel, but the market is oversaturated with these professions.

Nevertheless, working for a star is an appealing possibility for lots of people. The perks are awesome; six-figure salaries, international travel as well as the chance to go to award shows and access exclusive venues. Ready to get closer to the red carpet? Here are a few jobs to consider if you want to get access to celebrities.

A Member of The Staff

These jobs aren’t easy to get; however, if you use a reputable household staff agency in your job search, you may find your way into the A-List world.

Personal Assistant

Becoming a personal assistant can you give insider access to a celebrity’s life. They don’t pick up their own laundry or remember their grandparents’ anniversary. They often don’t have time to research what to pack, remember who they planned to have coffee with, or even to break up with their partners.

Some even went as far as saying being a celebrity’s personal assistant is like being a paid best friend. You’d answer phones, walk dogs, write down appointments but also go to the coolest events and get access to the most exclusive venues.

House Manager

Cleaning kitchens and scrubbing bathrooms isn’t fun. When you are a celebrity’s house manager, you travel with them and sort of help them keep their life together. From running shopping errands to managing household expenses, you get an insider-look into their lives and experience their troubles and tribulations first hand.

The job requires a lot of stamina, as we imagine these people to be very short on time and somewhat impatient, but a little bit of resourcefulness should get the work done.

Chef

It’s true; the fastest way to someone’s heart is through their stomach. Getting a job as a chef in an A-lister’s kitchen will make you one of their favorite people. You will be in charge of their banquets, their events, and their personal nutrition.

If you love cooking or are a certified chef, this is an easy and surely a fun way to get your foot into literallytheir house door. Everyone loves to eat, and the food industry is one that will never die. If you love cooking, are good at it, and are looking for a job that’ll get you close to the celebrities you love, this is the one.

Massage or Spa Expert

With a massage or spa expert certification, and a quick job search with an upscale company, you can get very up-close and personal with your celebrity faves. You could get a call one Saturday night from Lindsay Lohan to do her make-up or a booking to take care of Shakira’s hair.

Even better, you could get a call from Hugh Jackman to give him a deep tissue massage. We don’t think it gets any more personal than this.

People also tend to talk a lot with their make-up artists or hairdressers. Taking on this job won’t just give you physical contact, but also a much deeper understanding of their personal lives.

Publicist

Who does damage control when celebrities lose it? It’s their publicist. Being a publicist means you’re the glue that keeps a celebrity’s life together. You coordinate interviews, write press releases, save their image when they make a faux-pas, and communicate on their behalf. You sometimes even go as far as telling them to get it together.

PR Daily says being a celebrity’s PR manager includes taking red-eye flights, never getting drunk, or being a guest at parties, as well as always doing damage control. It’s a very hectic job but really pays off if you do it well.

Make it Happen!

Why wait? Roll up your sleeves, get the certifications you need to get and start searching for a household job, a personal assistant job, or get a spa expert. If you are dead set on working with A-listers, then it may be time to pivot your career goals. Who knows? You may even be able to get closer to your celebrity crush.

Alex Robson The King of Soho is the woman in the grey dress

10 July 2019, I found myself on a podium proudly sponsoring and presenting the inaugural Published Prize for the Comedy Women In Print Awards (CWIP), brainchild of the absolutely fabulous actress, author and stand-up Helen Lederer.

As I stood before a room packed with beautiful, creative & talented women, all there to support & encourage each other onto greater things I was truly inspired and just a little bit in awe. I heard stories about scripts & books being written, campaigns to bring awareness to female Issues which nobody wants to talk about.

Books, you might say were my first love. As a child growing up in a large, busy and extremely noisy world I was often to be found under my duvet reading a book. Then I discovered boys, business and gin in that order. And my passion for gin, you might say, following the somewhat clichéd rules on ‘the circle of life’ brought me back to my first love books.

The road that led me to CWIP started in the King of Soho Winter Gin Palace. Nestled in a side street in London’s creative heart, Soho, Helen and I were simply catching up over a pink gin and tonic. As she started to tell me about CWIP and her vision to delight, empower and bring recognition to funny women writers my heartfelt reaction was ‘how can I help, what do you need?’.

Having spent the last 7 years building my own business I understand the tenacity, commitment & sacrifices needed to turn ‘that’ creative vision into a reality. And as fate would have it, having achieved some entrepreneurial success of my own, I found myself in the wonderful position where I was able to put pen to paper and sign five cheques for the winning group of very talented female authors.

My business pledged the prize money, oodles of pink gin, love and support. After all as women if we don’t support each other then what’s the point.

Saying that when chatting to me the statistics were in Helen’s favour on this one, apparently 64% of donations are made by women. Studies show that women entrepreneurs are more likely to ‘give back’ than their male counterparts.

Typically, female entrepreneurs have to start businesses with only half as much capital as men, so perhaps the reason for giving back is empathetic because we have to fight so much harder in the first place.

Sometimes it is difficult to focus on the positives in my own industry, skipping past the male bias as a way to downgrade it, in the hope that ‘if you say it often enough, it makes it so’. Only last month I sat in the audience at an industry event and was subjected to an all male discussion panel using the term ‘me too’ completely out of context.

Hey guys, it was really not funny – ‘#MeToo’ is a watershed moment in the ‘women’s movement’ and there was not one woman in the audience who did not cringe.

In recent times we have witnessed a positive societal shift and Helen by successfully bringing CWIP to life is one of the pioneers; she started working on CWIP about five years ago – which is a reminder to all of us that whether it be about change or ventures these things do take time and in the words of Helen she became “compulsive, obsessed, persistent and annoying – so I just cracked on with it”.

A century or so ago my great grandmother, Edith Bailes, was shunned by her own family due to her success in business and even my entrepreneurial mother didn’t talk about it until a couple of years ago; generations later it was still a family taboo. Yes, we have moved on from those times but the reality is that we are not quite there yet………

Outside this warm circle of funny literary and stand-up females the attitude I met was ‘the same old same old’. Credit from media partners and the like, was first and foremost given to ‘the men in grey suits’. I had to fight to be recognised for my contribution as both sponsor of the published prize and as a bonafide female entrepreneur

The errors came in and we fought tooth & nail to correct them, to be heard – Theo Paphitis we love you, but you didn’t sponsor all the prizes! Theo (of Ryman) as another prize sponsor was feted and commended and I was left in the shadows by men and women alike – I had even put a grey dress on for the occasion!

Helen’s motivation in establishing these awards was that comedy prizes ‘tend to go to men simply because they are men’ – the irony here should not be lost. I could have run down Conduit Street naked it wouldn’t have made any difference. Seriously though, this is not the first time I have found myself in this particular situation and it’s no laughing matter……. they do say progress is a long road! But how long?

I would like to think that so long as women like me continue to ‘walk the talk’ by supporting and inspiring all women to follow their dreams then perhaps one day the woman in the grey dress will prevail.

Alex Robson

Alex Robson is the co-founder of West End Drinks Ltd, and brand owner and co-creator of the King of Soho Gin.