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EXCLUSIVE: Former ICM Partners agent Justin Ongert has joined APA as SVP, Alternative & Factual Programming. He will be the department’s key liaison with the talent, comedy, and music departments, reporting to Kyle Loftus, Head of Content Development and Hayden Meyer head of Alternative and Factual Programming at APA.
Ongert is the 10th agent/executive and 8th SVP to join APA from ICM Partners amid and following the agency’s acquisition by CAA. That is more than ICM hires by other agencies combined as APA has been the most aggressive pursuing ICM agents and executives who became available because of the acquisition.
At ICM, Justin represented Wanda Sykes and her production company Push It with his longtime producer/director client and Push It co-founder Page Hurwitz, as well as talent including Laverne Cox, Kristin Chenoweth, Bobby Berk, Keltie Knight, Soleil Moon Frye and Elizabeth Chambers, along with production companies and producers such as Brian Graden Media, Fat Camp Films, Corey Palent, Sarah Skibitzke, Chris Ahearn & Graham Shaw.
He also represented several clients who launched on RuPaul’s Drag Race including Emmy-winning producer/judge Michelle Visage and artists Trixie Mattel, Bob the Drag Queen and Sasha Velour as well as the cast of MTV’s Messyness including Nicole Snooki Polizzi, Tori Spelling and Adam Rippon.
“Justin is an exceptional agent with an 18-year track record of success at ICM and WME and his addition, along with Seth Lawrence, Ryan Wackerman and Katie Kolben and their Emmy winning clients have greatly fortified what we are building at APA,” said Loftus and Meyer.
Ongert joins the Alternative & Factual Programming Department along with fellow former ICM SVP’s Seth Lawrence and Ryan Wackerman and agent
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EXCLUSIVE: Jen Rudin has joined APA where she will launch and head up the agency’s Animation and Voice Over department. Rudin is the 12th former ICM agent/executive brought in by APA over the past year — more than all other agencies combined — as the agency has been aggressively pursing ICM staffers made available by the CAA acquisition. Most of the hires have been at a senior level, including several department heads. Backed by a major investment from Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies two years ago, APA has been in an expansion mode, going on a hiring spree as it is looking to bulk up and move up the agency pecking order, which was disturbed by the CAA-ICM merger.
Justin Trudeau always found Queen Elizabeth to be "lovely and thoughtful and gracious". The Canadian Prime Minister first met the monarch when he was just seven years old, and he still has fond memories of their first encounter. Trudeau, 50 - whose father was former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau - shared: "I was seven years old and I had to rush back from school to meet her.
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Lots of celebs stepped out to celebrate their Emmy nominations while kicking off awards weekend!
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Director Justin Simien and Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis stopped by D23 today to tease their upcoming live-action Haunted Mansion film, sharing that it will feature cameos from Winona Ryder, Dan Levy, Hasan Minhaj and more.
Justin Bieber has announced that he is taking another break from his world tour, which was due to run through to the end of March next year, due to ongoing health issues.The musician postponed US tour dates in June after revealing that he had been diagnosed with Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome, which had caused part of his face to become paralysed.He resumed the tour at the end of July with a show at the Lucca Summer Festival in Italy, before playing a number of concerts in Europe in the month that followed, and then travelling to Brazil to play Rock In Rio at the weekend.From there, he was due to tour South America, and then travel on to South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, before returning to Europe for more shows there – including dates in the UK and Ireland.However, in a statement on social media last night, he told fans: “Earlier this year, I went public about my battle with Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome, where my face was partly paralysed. As a result of this illness, I was not able to complete the North American leg of the Justice Tour”.“After resting and consulting with my doctors, family and team, I went to Europe in an effort to continue with the tour”, he continued.