Padma Lakshmi Signs With CAA

Sophia Scorziello editor Lifestyle content creator Kristy Scott has signed to Range Media Partners for representation, following this year’s release of her clothing line Vayra. Scott’s lifestyle content on TikTok and Instagram showcases her life as a business owner and mother of two boys, while her family’s YouTube channel It’s The Scotts chronicles Scott’s family life in Houston, Texas featuring her husband Desmond Scott.

Selome Hailu CAA has signed Alix Traeger, the popular food and lifestyle content creator, for representation. Traeger began her career working for Tasty, the Buzzfeed brand dedicated to food coverage with an emphasis on video. She began at the company in 2016 as an intern, and eventually rose to a lead producer and host role, working on brand franchises including “I Draw, You Cook,” “Eat Your Screen,” “Can You Follow a Recipe in a Different Language?,” “Behind Tasty” and “Make it Fancy.” Traeger became a breakout name among Tasty talent, and left the brand to become an independent content creator in 2019.

Sophia Scorziello editor “Selling Sunset” and “Selling the OC” real estate star Jason Oppenheim has signed on to Underscore Talent, where he will be represented by Austin Mayster and Megan Brown. “Jason has the golden touch when it comes to real estate and business,” said Mayster and Brown in a statement. “He has built a community of highly-engaged followers who he entertains and informs with his vibrant personality.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Liv Tyler has signed with CAA.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NPR veteran Lakshmi Singh has signed with CAA for representation.; Singh, who has been with NPR for 23 years and has one of the public-broadcasting service’s most familiar voices, anchors midday coverage for NPR Newscasts, some of the most-heard content produced by the news outlet. Her work has drawn recognition from Women of Color in Communications for “contributions to the field, mentorship to other women in communications and broad impact on the promotion of ethnic diversity in journalism”, as well as the Asian American/Asian Research Institute and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

EXCLUSIVE: Persephonica, the producer behind hit daily news podcast The News Agents, has signed with WME in a bid to win more work across the pond.

Janet Jackson meets up with Sia backstage at the Christian Siriano fashion show during 2023 New York Fashion Week at the Pierre Hotel on Friday (September 8) in New York City.

Ethan Shanfeld Kehlani has signed with Wasserman Music for worldwide representation. The two-time Grammy nominated R&B singer last released an album in 2022, titled “Blue Water Road” and then embarked on a world tour that featured a series of sold-out two-night stands at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater and London’s O2 Academy Brixton.

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Tarzan Davis has signed with Range Media Partners.

Jung Kook of BTS will join the Global Citizen Festival lineup, making one of his first live solo appearances at the Sept. 23 concert in New York’s Central Park. The record-setting K-Pop singer, whose debut solo single "Seven" hit No.

BreAnna Bell Harley-Davidson Motor Company has signed with CAA for representation, Variety has learned. As part of the deal, CAA will work closely with Harley-Davidson to create entertainment opportunities for its existing IP across film, television, music, and podcasts, adding to the company’s historic brand and deepening its connection with both its devoted fan base, and new consumers, through pop culture.

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director Kemp Powers has signed with WME.

Brent Lang Executive Editor David Slade, the director of the Emmy and BAFTA-award winning “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” has signed with 42, the Los Angeles and London-based management and production company. The company will manage the filmmaker, who also joins 42’s commercials offering OB42 for representation in the U.K.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of his first narrative feature feature Frybread Face and Me‘s international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Billy Luther has taken on new agency reps at CAA.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated actress Shailene Woodley has signed with CAA for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Two time Emmy-nominated actor Margaret Qualley has signed with CAA for representation.

BreAnna Bell Director and screenwriter Sofia Alaoui has signed with WME for representation in all areas. She continues to be represented by Jerome Duboz of Ithaka Media. Born in Casablanca and raised in China, Alaoui is a French-Moroccan artist with an aim to create cinema that spans across borders and bends genres in new ways.

Padma Lakshmi feels it’s the perfect time to close the door on “Top Chef”.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Padma Lakshmi wants a man … a gold man, that is. After 16 Primetime Emmy nominations throughout her career, she makes no qualms about wanting to make a trip to the stage to accept a statuette. She’s double nominated this year for outstanding host for a reality or competition program for Bravo’s “Top Chef” and outstanding hosted nonfiction series or special for Hulu’s “Taste the Nation.” Lakshmi has emceed the Bravo series for 17 years and in June, she announced, via social media, that she would be exiting after the recently aired 20th season.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer The Minions are about the get the white glove treatment, as Variety has learned that CAA has signed Illumination CEO and prolific animation producer Chris Meledandri as a client. Meledandri, who founded the company and is responsible for two of the four highest-grossing animated franchises of all time (“Despicable Me,” “Ice Age”), will be represented by a team including the agency’s co-chairman Bryan Lourd. Illumination has an exclusive financing and distribution partnership with Universal Pictures, most recently delivering this year’s $1.3 billion baby “Super Mario Bros.” starring Chris Pratt and Anya-Taylor Joy.