SIMON WILSON 

TALENT PRODUCER & CELEBRITY BOOKER

Simon is a BAFTA award-winning Talent Producer and Celebrity Booker with over 20 years experience casting and producing on-screen talent, presenters, interviews, music acts, narrators, reporters and readers for factual entertainment, documentaries, events and entertainment television shows.

He has suggested, sourced and secured Hollywood A-listers, national treasures, hugely popular performers, sporting heroes and well-known authors – always ensuring they are relevant to the production and the audience.

Simon's TV Credits include ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, ‘Piers Morgan’s Life Stories’, 'Amol Rajan Interviews', ‘Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh’, ‘Children in Need’ and ‘Morning Live’.

His work within the prestigious BBC Ceremonial Events department includes Queen Elizabeth II's 90th Birthday, Platinum Jubilee and State Funeral.

Simon has also booked instantly recognisable talent for red carpet events and national campaigns including Blood Cancer UK, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the African Children’s Choir and the Teaching Awards Trust.


"Simon deserves a medal. For Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday coverage on BBC One, he booked amazing guests on film and in the studio - such a range of brilliant faces who all felt like treats in their own right".

Alison Kirkham
BBC Controller of Factual Commissioning 2014-2020

Simon Wilson - Talent Producer - Showreel

BROADCAST 

Simon has secured global stars for the UK’s biggest television shows, events and documentaries

Strictly Come Dancing

BBC One

Producing celebrity contestants on hugely popular entertainment series.


Piers Morgan's Life Stories

ITV1

James Corden, Sir Roger Moore, Donny Osmond, Lulu, Lorraine Kelly and Bruno Tonioli take part in prime-time biographical chat show.


Amol Rajan Interviews

BBC Two

Securing guests including actor Brian Cox and Dame Sheila Hancock for documentary interview series.


Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh

ITV1

Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Penelope Keith, Martin Shaw, Jenny Agutter and Dame Arlene Phillips join Alan Titchmarsh to celebrate the British countryside.


Countryfile Rambles for Children in Need

BBC One

Celebrity guests join the fundraising rambles at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire celebrating ten years of Children in Need support.


Morning Live

BBC One

Booking guests including Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber for daily live studio show.


This Morning

ITV1

Securing global stars including David Hasselhoff for live studio magazine show.


Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance

BBC One

Sir Michael Palin, Martin Shaw, Adrian Lester, Samantha Morton and Julian Ovenden read moving testimony at annual tribute to the armed forces and victims of conflict.


The Queen's 90th Birthday

BBC One

Dame Joan Collins, Sir Elton John, Dame Judi Dench, Will.i.am, Dame Darcey Bussell, Jools Holland and Sir Michael Morpurgo take part in Queen Elizabeth II's birthday celebrations.


The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

BBC One

Dolly Parton, Sir Barry Gibb, Sir David Jason and Sheridan Smith pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee.


The State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

BBC One

Securing studio guests including Michael Crawford for interviews marking the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.


Britain's Classroom Heroes

BBC Two

Will.i.am, Jennifer Saunders, Dame Shelia Hancock, Jonathan Bailey, Jenny Agutter, Daniel Mays, Alison Steadman, Nadiya Hussain, Shirley Ballas and Diane Parish celebrate the teaching profession.


World War One Remembered: Passchendaele

BBC Two

Dame Helen Mirren, Alfie Boe, Jonathan Bailey, Daniel Mays, Russell Tovey and Nina Sosanya perform at BAFTA award-winning event to mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele.


VE Day 75

BBC One

Himesh Patel, Phyllis Logan, Russell Tovey and Emilia Fox read powerful personal testimonies from those involved in VE Day whilst Griff Rhys Jones and John Craven reveal their own family connections for moving commemorations 75 years on.


VJ Day 75

BBC One

Dame Joanna Lumley, Hugh Bonneville, Martin Shaw and Paterson Joseph lead tributes to the fallen at special event to mark 75 years since VJ Day held at London's Horse Guards Parade.


D-Day 80

BBC One

Dame Helen Mirren, Iain Glen and Julian Ovenden take part in the national UK commemorative event honouring D-Day veterans.


CAMPAIGNS 

Simon has spearheaded many successful celebrity campaigns for well-known national and global brands

Children In Need

Ben Shephard, Jenson Button, Duncan James and Jake Wood support Children in Need.


Blood Cancer UK

Dame Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Pixie Lott, Emilia Fox, Luke Evans, Rick Astley, Ruby Turner and Lee Mead support Blood Cancer UK.


National Thank a Teacher Day

Dame Helen Mirren, Dame Joanna Lumley, Hugh Bonneville, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Rudolph Walker celebrate the UK's teachers.


African Children's Choir

Bob Geldof, Annie Lennox, Dame Esther Rantzen and Kate Garraway support the African Children's Choir.


Holocaust Memorial Day

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, Jim Broadbent, Sir Michael Palin, Sarah Lancashire, Keeley Hawes, Christopher Eccleston, Adrian Lester and Nicola Walker deliver powerful testimony at annual national Holocaust remembrance event.


Equality and Human Rights Commission

National online campaign highlighting how we each have a personal story to tell. Boris Johnson talks about his heritage, Gok Wan reveals how he was 21 stones and Gloria Hunniford opens up about losing her daughter Caron Keating to cancer.


CONTACT 

Please feel free to get in touch by 'phone or e-mail

Simon Wilson
Talent Producer
E-mail: simonwilsondirect@btinternet.com
Mobile: 07745 874885


Website Designed and Hosted by Graphic Design by Jaxx