Clive Hurst - Not An Actor?

CLIVE HURST FINALLY ADMITS WHAT WHAT WE HAVE ALL KNOWN ALL ALONG

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"My name is Clive Hurst, I am a very obsessive individual and also jealous of real actors who make it in the industry that I simply can't."

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Who is Clive Hurst?????

Clive Hurst is a union man; he believes strongly in union policies: obviously the main agenda for a union is to protect their members (who pay an up-front fee for the privilege of being a member of the union). Two unions Mr. Hurst is a member of are EQUITY and BECTU. Both are related to the entertainment industry. Clive Hurst is a campaigner, who campaigns and lobbies about the slightest thing that takes his fancy at that time.

The latest bee in his bonnet is about agents charging ‘up-front fees’ to models and extras and actors. He believes that an agency should earn its money from commission on wages earned. We fully agree that agents should earn their money this way, but the reality in a commercial world is that it is very, very expensive to promote Artistes.

Why do Model Agencies charge fees?

Most casting directors and clients insist on a book, casting card, or a web site to see Artists’ photographs. If an agency does not provide these services, the reality is that the agency will not get work for their Artistes. The client would not consider such an agency to be professional. Obviously getting assignments for the Artists is what it is all about.

The agency will incur costs in producing the casting books, so that clients can see faces and details of the Artists so they can be selected for an assignment. The same goes for producing web sites and modeling cards. The production costs are significant, and an agency will typically charge a one off fee to cover the costs. This is the way the Department of Trade and Industry set out the rules for our industry with new legislation in 2003.

We all want to ensure that rogue agencies are closed – agencies who take money and then disappear, and provide no service at all. But Clive Hurst uses a sledge-hammer to crack a nut. Look at the letter from Harry Landis about the way Mr Hurst behaved at a Union meeting to see how fanatical he is.

Methods Clive Hurst uses to stop you having an opportunity to enter into this exciting industry.

Harry Landis President of Equity

Clive Hurst uses the internet to smear hard working agencies and promotion companies who will give you the opportunities of getting castings and assignments in the entertainment industry. The agencies and promotion companies who are in business, some have had to put their savings into their businesses, or some have re-mortgage their homes to set up their businesses up.

In contrast, Clive Hurst and other entertainers sole investment in themselves is a few photographs and a fee of a £100 to £200 maximum to pay for casting books, web sites, and modeling cards. In a commercial world the amount is negligible compared to the rewards you may get in receiving your first assignment. The alternative, incidentally, would cost many hundreds of pounds to a freelance photographer for a portfolio, plus weeks of research finding out the names and addresses to send the portfolio to, and hours on the telephone or in waiting rooms hoping for a quick word.

Unfortunately in the entertainment industry many do not get regular work, or any work at all, due its very nature. Everyone has heard of actors waiting tables to earn a living whilst waiting for their first big break. Most of them never get a big break. You only have to see look at Clive Hurst’s CV: he freely admits his last good job was back in 1999 for a Trebor Mints Commercial .

This is why Clive Hurst has lots of time on his hands and spends it making a nuisance of himself. He makes such a nuisance of himself that over the years he has been banned by most agencies in London and from Artistes chat forums, and he freely admits this. The companies do not want to be involved with him due to his libelous and defamatory statements.

It is known that Clive Hurst uses other names and anonymous PO BOX numbers to get on to Artists chat forums, this is so he can spread defamatory libelous statements. He has claimed to be a ‘BBC Researcher’ and invited people to e-mail him at:

anactor@beeb.net

This email address has nothing to do with the BBC, it is Clive Hurst’s personal address.

Anybody can have a similar address: try writing to notanactor@beeb.net: email comes straight to us.

You might wonder what his motive is in pretending to be something that he is not…

Clive Hurst on his resume states he is training as a freelance investigative journalist although he has a PA system so he can strut his stuff.

ASA ADJUDICATIONS

The first thing to say is that anyone can complain about any advert. Many advertisements for household name companies have been held to be dishonest or inaccurate – no-one suggests that this makes those companies fraudulent or bogus.

Any time he sees an agency advert he doesn’t like, Clive Hurst immediately complains to the Advertising Standards Authority. No one else appears to bothered by these adverts.

All the reports of ASA adjudications on Clive Hurst’s site of complaints made by him. If you look carefully, the complaints almost always comes from the Surrey area – Clive Hurst lives in Surrey. He does very frequently, but surprisingly for such a champion of fair-play he never mentions the more numerous occasions when the ASA dismisses his complaint.

OFFICE OF FAIR TRADING

Clive Hurst may have had a meeting with the OFT but the information that he is given out on his web site is inaccurate. It has been looked into by two independent lawyers and a Trading Standards officer it is clear that the ‘Door Step Selling Regulations’ do not apply in the way he claims. The European Court case he refers to is very different from the circumstances to which he is trying to make it apply..

If you wish to confirm this, telephone your local Trading Standards and they will verify what we say is correct. Clive Hurst is using his scare tactics once again.

Clive Hurst has scared you?

The consequence of being directed to Clive Hurst’s web site is that as a hopeful artist your confidence in an agency is undermined. You telephone the company and – based on what Clive Hurst says is your legal right – ask for your money back. The agency knows that is not your legal right because of the legal advice they have had. And they have already started on the work for which you were asked to pay. So of course the agency says it can’t return your money. Now you lose all confidence completely, and feel that you have been ‘had’. But if you had known that Clive Hurst’s advice was all wrong in the first place, you would be happily waiting to hear back from the agency.

Unfortunately for the hopeful Artists who have trusted a company and paid it to do a good job for them, they can have their dreams momentarily shattered, and unnecessary doubt put into their heads about the company, all due to seeing Clive Hurst’s  libelous, defamatory and ruthless untruths on a web site he proudly declares to be “…all my own work…” on his CV.

The only one person who loses out from paying attention to Clive Hurst is you. He doesn’t lose anything, and he gets his way and stops you from entering the entertainment industry. The agency does not lose out either since it does not have to return your money.

On another web forum, Clive Hurst and another artist were discussing how they don’t want ‘wannabes’ and ‘new faces’ entering their industry. This conversation will be online soon.

Clive Hurst seems to be a bitter and twisted person, he has had his day on the stage, and is scampering about trying to find ways of getting back into the limelight. It seems that the only way he can get back into the limelight is by putting himself on the internet and lobbying for various subjects, that seems to be of interest only to him. It is all too easy to produce negative, libelous, defamatory, information. It is also very easy to react immediately to that without questioning what has been said. Just because he is on the radio and in the newspapers doesn’t mean everything he says is true and correct.

You have done something positive in your life by getting out there and trying to improve your chances, giving a positive company an opportunity to help you on your way.

It seems to be the case that the agencies, and particularly the promotions companies, are doing very well in supplying good new models, actors and extras to the entertainment industry. What is becoming apparent is that the actors that Clive Hurst talks to seem to hanker for the good old days, when you could only get on to a film set or on television if you were a union member. Perhaps that is what it is all about.

You have had your dreams shattered because you have been directed to Clive Hurst’s web site: at the click of a button you have been worried sick that you have done the wrong thing and you will get nothing for your money. Clive Hurst’s biggest achievement is to stop new people like you from entering into the entertainment industry. He is obviously being more successful than he deserves, otherwise you would not be here reading this counterbalance of positive, non-libelous, non-defamatory information.

From the Modeling Information Bureau 2008