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Jeff Maysh is an award-winning journalist, columnist and author, writing for British men’s magazine Loaded and a myriad British publications. He writes investigative, undercover and dangerous features for magazines including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Company.
AWARDS
IPC New Writer of the Year 2005
PTC New Magazine Journalist of the Year 2005
IPC Writer of the Year 2006
MJA Feature Writer of the Year 2006
Highly Commended, PPA Writer of the Year 2007
IPC Online Writer of the Year 2007
MAGAZINES
As a feature writer, Jeff Maysh has travelled the world reporting on all things dangerous and dazzling, gaining a reputation as a ‘participatory journalist’, who refuses to cover a story from the sidelines. Maysh won an armful of industry awards for a series of travel stories, where he fought in an illegal Australian boxing ring in the outback, and survived alone on a South Pacific deserted island. He has infiltrated Tokyo bike messenger gangs, investigated London’s machine gun black-market, shadowed drug dealers and Indian dynamite fishermen. He writes a successful monthly column in Company magazine, called ‘Jeff’.
- Jeff Maysh has a lesson in fine art with Pete Doherty at the singer’s home
CELEBRITY
In August 2008, Jeff Maysh interviewed Pete Doherty, in a bizarre ‘At home with’ feature, in which the Babyshambles singer admitted he was still not over his love for Kate Moss. The interview made worldwide news, at a time when the artist was extremely elusive. He has also interviewed everyone from David Beckham, Roger Moore and David Hasselhoff, to Jordan, and was nominated by Press Gazette for Interviewer of the Year, at the MJA Awards, 2008.
Jeff on GMTV
TELEVISION
As a media pundit, Jeff has appeared on Big Brother’s Little Brother, Channel 4 News, Sky News, and was once a guest on GMTV’s famous sofa. He also appeared as a talking head on Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Sex Symbols. Jeff also appears on the Spurs Show Podcast, alongside comedian Phil Cornwell.
BOOKS
Jeff Maysh is the author of ‘Brown Bread Fred’ (John Blake Publishing, 2007) the autobiography of Krays gangster Freddie Foreman. Ghostwriting the bankrobber’s life story in 2006, Jeff spent time with Foreman in Marbella and London. The book is available now in paperback.
TRIVIA
Jeff Maysh was born in Nassau, Bahamas. He is 27, and lives with his girlfriend and one imaginary cat in Belsize Park, North London. He is a lifelong Spurs supporter, for his sins.
