Voting is now OPEN for the heat Content Creator Award. The winner will be announced next week at our live final. Let me take you through who is up for winning this exciting award!
Anne Crowther (aka Christiana Brockbank)
Christiana is a writer and performer from Bolton whose writing reflects the warmth, situations, dialogue and characters that she grew up with. Since 2017 she’s been writing and performing as Anne Crowther. Anne loves a bargain (at any cost) and wants to share her passion with the world. In her mind she’s a bit like Martin Lewis, but curvier. In reality, her very unique takes on how to spend a penny are far from sound. This character won the Chorts! Live event and was shortlisted in the top 6% of entries for the first Caroline Aherne bursary award. On TikTok Anne has really thrived, amassing over a million views in total. At a time when the cost of living is a growing concern for many, Anne’s videos seem to have resonated.
Aside from her work with Anne, Christiana is an acclaimed script writer. She won the Bafta Rocliffe new comedy writing award in 2013 for a sitcom script called BINWOMEN and was shortlisted for The David Nobbs Comedy Writing Competition in 2018 with her script THE WILLIES. Christiana is represented by Katie Williams at The Agency.
Bluenbroke (aka Kate Harding)
Kate is a creator in the LGBTQ+ community with a strong following, her focus is to bring light and laughable energy to her platform, allowing for people to feel free and accepted to be who they are. She has dedicated followers that are here with her on their own journey of self-discovery. The journey gives Kate the freedom to play with gender, sexuality and self-expression through things such as make-up, style and so much more!
Kate is represented at Outreach Agency.
Chan Wills (Chanel Williams)
Chanel, or ChanWills as she’s known on her socials, is a comedy entertainer blowing people away with her voiceovers, impression work, and comedic twist on popular franchises. The main one being Harry Potter. At the dawn of the pandemic she had a plane booked to her new job, working with rescue horses abroad but with the airport suddenly closed, no job and her room share already reallocated there wasn’t much to be done besides move back in with family to regroup, job surf and accidentally go viral on tiktok. Since then Chanel has amassed over 2.8M followers on tiktok, 380k on Youtube and 340k in Instagram. She is currently making plans to expand her content in several new directions. Having recently done her first stand up show, ‘Whose Voice Is That?’ to glowing feedback, she is excited to see where this happy accident will go! In short, she’s a well-rounded nutter whose main passions include writing (comedy or otherwise), acting, singing, and equestrianism, which made up the bulk of her education and career until her start on social media in 2020.
Cocosarel
Sarel (aka @COCOSAREL) is a comedy star of TikTok, with over 740K followers and over 30 million likes. Her uplifting topical commentary skewers everything from celeb culture to politics, all with her trademark warmth and relatability; know for being mildly shady but joyful, her content about her hilarious dating antics continues to be a viral hit for her across both TikTok and Instagram – as do her iconic Love Island de-brief videos.
Castmeimjane (Jane Postlethwaite)
Jane Postlethwaite is a multi-award nominated Cumbrian Comedian, Writer and Actor. She’s had success with her various one woman character shows at Brighton Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival. Her characters and sketches have been heard on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Cumbria. She’s part of the LGBTQ+ community and has brought awareness to mental health in her work. She took to TikTok in the dark days of the pandemic to make people laugh with her various characters and to help with her own sanity. Her TikTok account @castmeimjane has frankly gotten out of hand with 64k followers with over 1.6 million likes. As well as growing her TikTok account, she’s currently making her way back onto the stand up comedy scene, working on ideas for radio / TV scripts and due to release a new spooky podcast called, ‘All the Terrible Things”. Did we mention she’s proper Northern? And tall. Ridiculously tall.
Katerina Robinson
Katerina is an Actress, Comedian and Content Creator. Quoted as London’s Answer to Samantha Jones by Evening Standard and a Comedy Queen by Daily Star. She is currently nominated for Comedian of the year across social media for the National Social Media Awards 2022. With an impressive following of 40.3K followers on TikTok her videos have over 10 million views. She has worked on paid collaborations with brands such as Beauty Pie, Garnier, Love Honey and Pepsi. Katerina has also worked on comedy videos with Sidemen, Standout TV and Lad Bible.
Martha Writes (Martha MacDonald)
Martha MacDonald is a comedy writer, performer and viral hit funny poet whose professional credits include the BBC Radio 4 Extra show ‘DMs Are Open’. As a content creator, Martha’s tongue-in-cheek poetry videos which take a wry look at pop culture and current affairs have racked up hundreds of thousands of views across Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Having just premiered her debut one-woman comedy show ‘SHELL’ – an off-beat coming of age story inspired by the pet tortoise she inherited from her grandparents – Martha is currently working towards a UK tour.
Mrs Smith Says It
Mrs Smith is an entirely fictional creation of a working primary school teacher. With more than thirty five years experience at the chalk face, Mrs Smith’s creator has more than enough funny school stories to fill a book. This teacher MUST maintain their anonymity if they wish to retain their job, so they post anonymously.
Mrs Smith has built up a loyal and very engaged following on Facebook. She comments daily on school life and adds longer posts on specific topics every few weeks. The children she teaches are never the ones being laughed at, it is the adults and their responses to situations that arise who Mrs Smith makes the butt of the joke. Although Mrs Smith teaches in the UK, she has followers worldwide. She has previously been asked by the BBC to contribute an article on the BBC news website on the subject of teacher language and what it really means in school reports.
Ever wondered what the teacher was thinking? Let Mrs Smith enlighten you!
Nikola McMurtrie
Nikola McMurtrie is an award-winning Scottish comedian and performer. She went on to win the 2020 Funny Women Awards for Best Short Film which motivated her to start a journey in comedy. Nikola has over half a million likes on TikTok and her sketches have won several competitions including the British Comedy Guide video contest and Fulwell 73 50/50. More recently, her short film Too Close won first place at the Lit Laughs film festival this summer.
Nikola also performs musical comedy and was a finalist at the 2022 Musical Comedy Awards and Rising Star competition 2022.
Quirks & Foibles (Amy, Amelia, Katie)
Quirks & Foibles Comedy Trio have been creating online weekly comedy sketches since early 2020; with the majority of sketches filmed from different locations, as the trio are based in different parts of the country. Amy is based in Leeds, Amelia in Epsom and Katie in Chichester. Through the magic of editing they appear to be all together!! Their sketches range from historical to darn right silly, they truly give something for everyone.
Rants and Big Pants (Neens and dB)
‘Hey there, we’re Neens and dB. We are both 50+ menopausal messes. Don’t let that put you off the menopause, we’ve both been a mess since birth. It’s just that we are currently in the menopause phase!!! Like all families, we are opposites in every way and that’s why we have lasted as long as we have.
Our little duo may be small in numbers (but big in noise) and has been going strong now for over nineteen years. People often ask what our secret to friendship is… ours is simple… we never argue but we do SHOUT, at each other… a lot!
We figured out long ago that the person who is the loudest is the one who thinks they’re right… But mainly when we’re together there is one winning ingredient… we laugh… at life, at each other, at Neens’ inability to get the lyrics of a song correct (she’s a bloomin’ professional vocalist!) and at dB for her rants about everything and anything (she’s a non ranty Receptionist by day!!!)
So fab to have you here with us. We won’t make you do the “Brownie Promise” but we do “Promise To Always Keep It Real.”
Rosie Holt
Rosie Holt is an actor, comedian and satirist. She is best known for her popular satirical videos on Twitter with over 6.5 million views of her playing an MP skewering the political landscape. She is a winner of the Chortle Social Media Award 2022 and a nominee of the BPG Emerging Creators Award 2022. The Times named her online work in it’s ’10 Best Political Comedies’ and her recent Edinburgh show ‘Rosie Holt: The Woman’s Hour’ sold out it’s entire run before the start of the fringe.
Rosie’s acting credits include Ashley Blaker 6.5 children (Radio 4) The Russell Howard Hour (Sky Max) and the critically acclaimed two hander theatre show The Crown- Live! (Seabright Productions), a parody of Netflix’s The Crown. She also hosts the satirical podcast, Noncensored with comedian Eshaan Akbar and actor/ improviser Brendan Murphy.
Sooz Kempner
Sooz has written and performed eight solo stand-up hours at the Edinburgh Fringe with 2022’s show, PlayStation, seeing queues around the block to get in. She is a regular collaborator with Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer the Opera, Made in Dagenham) and hosts two podcasts, Mystery on the Rocks and QueenPod, the official podcast for the band Queen. Throughout lockdown she has made a variety of online content including livestreams via Twitch and viral political videos where Donald Trump’s words are delivered verbatim by Liza Minnelli, as well as parodies of Nadine Dorries and, most recently, Liz Truss. These have received press in The Guardian, The Independent and The Metro as well as in the LA Times and Chicago Tribune stateside. She has just been cast in a brand new sitcom for CBS and Amazon Prime.
Stacey Annor
“My name is Anastasia, best known as Stacey Annor, I’m a 22 year old content creator and part time support worker. I love everything entertainment, especially music and movies, both which inspire my content on social media. I love making people laugh which in its own, creates a safe space for others to relate or feel something other than sadness. My hobbies include acting, playing football and modelling. I aspire to be a full time actress/model/entertainer in the near future!”
The Sugarcoated Sisters
The Sugarcoated Sisters are an award-winning musical comedy double-act and real-life siblings from Hertfordshire. They launched on TikTok in January 2021 and have since gained over 400K followers, 45M views and 7M likes. They were also named as Tiktok Top Creators to Watch 2022 and TikTok’s Trailblazing Women 2022. Their content is rooted in feminism, covering dating, politics and UK culture packaged as well-produced musical sketches. Chloe has bipolar type 2 and Tabby has type 1 diabetes, which often features in their content.
In January 2022 they took the leap into the live comedy scene, and won Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards. Their debut show ‘Sugarcoated Sisters: Bittersweet’ premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe (***** Entertainment Now, ***** Fringe Biscuit, ***** Theatre South East, **** The Scotsman, **** Fest Mag) and they have been featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Click and Heart Radio.
Thenjiwe Comedy
The lawyer turned comedian is one of the most highly recognised and popular South African stand up comedians on the road today. She has performed to audiences around the world including Various African countries, Vietnam, Thailand, The Philippines and various cities in Australia, Europe and North America. With six comedy specials and two popular South African sitcoms that she writes, produces and stars in (Judge Thenjiwe Khambule and Meet the Khambules,) it is no surprise that Thenjiwe is the Queen of African Comedy. Thenjiwe is also a content creator with three YouTube channels with over 180000 subs and over 40 million views.
Thenjiwe’s debut to the London scene has seen her win the King Gong Comedy at the Comedy Store and The Black Out at Up The Creek. She recently did her one hour show at the Leicester Square Theatre in London where she got a standing ovation.
Thenjiwe has graced South African tv screens acting in not only her own tv shows and movies but also popular soaps and telenovelas such as Imbewu, The Road, Harvest and many more, and has also made her name on the big screen on both local and international movies such as 10 Days in Sun City, Accidental Spy, Uncovered (all available on Netflix) and various Mzansi Magic Movies. She has a combined social media following of over a million and a half.
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