Are the onset of autumn and the apparent threat of a chilly winter making you yearn for warmer climes? Well, I might have some good news for you, especially if you work in the agency world.
You see, I have heard on the grapevine that the dashingly handsome Stuart Archibald (he’s got a few bob in the bank now, so he is becoming increasing gorgeous) is looking for people to staff up his new agency in Australia.
Allegedly, the plan is for Stuey to launch in Oz and then eventually set up a London base. But to save you the bother of going all the way out there, the interviews are apparently going to be taking place outside Little Italy in Soho, which will ultimately become the UK head office.
(Thing is, he did virtually pay for the huge extension out of his own pocket so he is already a “sleeping partner”, so to speak, in the restaurant and bar. Mind you, it is sad that back in the day he found plenty of sleeping partners there, too…allegedly. Shame I was still at school then.)
We hear Stu has already come up with a name for the agency, Archibald Archibald Archibald. It’s not an ego thing, you understand; it’s just that he wants to prove to his former partners that he can do it all again – on his own. I, for one, wish him all the best, and Stu, if you need some feminine wiles to help you attract the right calibre of candidates, you know where to come. How difficult can this recruitment consultancy stuff be?
One person who won’t be needing a new job is the diminutive Shaun Moran, who has now taken up the ECD role at The Communications Agency. Apparently, having worked for Mel Cruikshank, Shaun looked high and low (but mostly low) for someone else in the agency world who he was taller than. He tried Sir Martin Sorrell but there were no jobs going and Mark Fiddes is already an ECD, so there was no joy there.
Luckily for Shaun, Robert “decidedly vertically challenged” Prevezer at TCA came calling and it was literally an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Talking of an offer you can’t refuse, I am now booking up my Christmas lunches, so any of you nice rich men out there who fancy taking little ol’ Busty out for some posh nosh better get in quick…
If you’ve got something you want to get off your chest or maybe just a marriage proposal, email me at busty.idol@hotmail.co.uk
