The Team
Our team is as creative and diverse as the candidates we source and shortlist for your roles. With UK bases in London, Glasgow and Manchester plus an office in Australia, we are a passionate, screen-obsessed bunch from all walks of life who love nothing more than putting together successful teams for clients.

Kimberly Godbolt
Managing Director
Kimberly travelled the world as a self-shooting Producer/Director for popular factual series & documentaries on Channel 4, BBC, ITV & Channel 5 before turning her creativity and influence to the world of recruitment. 15 years in programme making has given her an in-depth knowledge and thorough understanding of freelancers’ editorial sensibilities, production company output and key development players. She’s usually talking – either on the phone or in meetings, and if she isn’t she’s watching copious amounts of catch up to feed her insatiable appetite for great TV.
Based: Surrey

Rosie Turner
Managing Director
Rosie has worked in the television industry for nearly 20 years. Starting out at Celador Productions as a runner, Rosie worked her way up through the ranks, before moving into Talent Management over 15 years ago. Her staffing career has included time at Fever Media, Dragonfly, Maverick, Wag TV, Optomen and Sundog Pictures, before becoming Head of Talent at betty.
Rosie set up Talented People with Kimberly Godbolt in 2017, rapidly becoming one of the leading television recruitment and senior search companies in the UK.
Based: Sunshine Coast, Australia
Senior Talent Team

Katie Bright
Head of Talent (jobshare)
Katie’s production background is in entertainment and live studio where she produced series like Paul O’Grady, Alan Carr and Celebrity Juice. She made the move into talent management in 2014, supporting independent production companies with staffing across a variety of different genres. She has recruited all levels from researchers to MDs, and has influence with much of the industry’s talent, thanks to her trustworthy manner and genuine interest in candidate’s situations. She is TP’s secret weapon in development, constantly tracking and discreetly placing premium business winning developers.
Based: Hertfordshire

Naomi Callan
Head of Talent (jobshare)
Naomi has worked in the TV industry for over 25 years. From runner to Exec, she’s made a wide range of programmes including live studio shows ‘Blue Peter’ and ‘Watchdog’, long-running quizzes ‘A Question of Sport’ and ‘Mastermind’, ITV’s ‘This Morning’, Channel 4’s ‘A Place in the Sun’ and most recently Channel 5’s hospital obs doc ‘Casualty 24/7’. Naomi recently made the move into Talent Management where her production experience helps her to understand the nuances of what production companies need and how to find the best people for them.
Based: Manchester
Editorial

Tors Sorby
Talent Manager
Tors joins Talented People from the MAMA Youth Project where she placed amazing talent from under-represented groups into media roles. Prior to this, she spent 6 years working in development and casting and was part of the casting team for the first 5 series of The Great British Bake Off (yum). Having travelled the globe in the name of making great telly (Texas, Goa, Glasgow and Sandwich in Kent), she then made the move into Talent Management and worked with the BBC.
Based: North London

Jessica Endonyan
Talent Manager
Jessica has worked as a Self-Shooting Producer for Factual/Factual Entertainment, Obs doc and Documentaries. Some of the shows she has worked on include the RTS award winning; Why is Covid Killing People of Colour? , Racism: My Story, The Apprentice and First Dates.
Fun fact: Rosie and Kimberly, MDs at Talented people, gave Jessica one of her first jobs in telly and she tells us inspired her to pursue a career in talent. She is now proud Talent Manage at TP and her hardworking, calm and caring nature is a great asset in delivering the best talent to our clients. You will catch her singing out loud at every opportunity!
Based: North London

Michael Burnett
Talent Manager
With 15 years casting experience safely in the bank, Michael has moved into talent to expand on his love for finding great people. His extensive production experience coupled with a passion for taking on needle-in-a-haystack hunts, has him well placed to tackle even the trickiest of talent searches. A big fan of crazy jumpers and silly hats, Michael is happiest singing or brainstorming the next big TV idea, other hobbies include painting tiny plastic figures and taking hide and seek with a 2 year old far too seriously. Hang on, there’s an idea in that…

Tehona Waugh
Talent Manager
Tehona has cast and produced of the most popular factual entertainment formats on TV like Build a Dream Life in the Country, Couples Come Dine with Me and Four in a Bed. She moved into talent at ITV Studios before joining Talented People to deliver the best production management and editorial candidates to our broad range of clients. Give her an urgent brief, and she’s in her element!
Digital, branded & social content

Emily Taylor
Talent Executive
Emily began her career in TV Production, but made the move over to digital back in 2012 when she helped build the team and infrastructure for Jamie Oliver’s YouTube channel. Her love for digital grew from there. She’s led production across a range of YouTube, Social and Branded content. Working with a wide selection of individuals specialising in production, creative, social and channel management. Emily recently worked at YouTube Originals across a varied slate of development projects and commissioned digital content with a breadth of production companies and talent. She has recently made the move to talent management and is excited about connecting some of the best talent to some great partners.
Based: East London

Christina Fava
Social Media Manager
Christina is TP’s social media manager, creating and scheduling content that informs and entertains our homegrown community in the TV, digital and online world. She’s a good person to know – send her your latest project and you might see us shout about it on socials!
Production Management

Emma Beeson
Talent Manager (maternity leave cover)
Having worked in the television industry for over 17 years, Emma rose through the ranks to become PM for a versatile collection of genres covering, Documentary, Factual, Fact Ent and OBs. Past productions include Top Gear, Great British Railway Journeys, Children in Need, Sport Relief and David Bowie: Finding Fame, to name but a few. For the past three years she has worked for CTV Outside Broadcasts crewing up busy projects & juggling multiple shoots & clients at once. She has always found great joy in finding the right person for the role so joins TP with a big smile!
Based: Kent

Lucy Yudt
Talent Manager (on maternity leave)
Lucy worked her way up through the production ranks to manage an extensive range of projects, including international filming, multi-camera set ups and shaping new series. In the summer of 2019, she ran a large-scale Live production for the BBC ‘Plane Spotting Live’ with over 100+ crew and loved building the team from scratch. Lucy has recently made the shift to Talent Management and has a finely tuned sense for what a production needs from both an editorial and production perspective. Lucy is TP’s Production search lead placing candidates in both project and permanent roles from Production Co-ordinator to Head of Production.
Based: North London

Joty Chopra
Talent Coordinator
With a degree in Journalism, Joty started her career in TV as a Researcher where she has worked in various genres from Factual Entertainment to Observational Documentary. With her multilingual skills and extensive experience in casting she is passionate about all things people. As Talent Coordinator, she supports the Talented People team in sourcing and screening candidates both brand new and well known to us and strives to deliver a warm and personal service to our clients.
Based: Glasgow
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