Lee Coan

Lee Coan is a writer and ex editor of men's magazine FHM who was once challenged to a fight by chubby funster Ricky Gervias [ Why Ricky Gervais Hates Little Britain, Rickygervais.com [http://www.rickygervais.com/fhm.php] ] .

Journalism career

Lee Coan used to edit the 'Incoming!' section of FHM, incorporating readers letters, crazy pictures, and fact-based news stories. As a celebrity writer, Coan has interviewed The Sugababes [ Live Magazine, 2008, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/live/live.html?in_article_id=496017&in_page_id=1889] ] , Keeley Hazell [ "Top girl". FHM, pp. 74-80, September 2005 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeley_Hazell] ] , Brad Pitt, Lemmy from Motörhead, 50 Cent and Jason Kay of the band Jamiroquai amongst others. Since leaving FHM, Coan's interviews have been found in The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, and Shortlist magazine [ Leecoan.com [http://www.leecoan.com] ] . Lee Coan was nominated for the 2005 PTC New Journalist of the Year awards [ PPA awards 2005 [http://www.ppa.co.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/events/past-details.html?uid=113] ] .In August 2007 Lee met with Babyshambles star Pete Doherty shortly before he was jailed. [ FHM meets Mr Doherty [http://thenewfhm.com.au] ] .

Li'l Lee

Li'l Lee was a re-occurring character in FHM from 2003-2007. Lee was forced to do controversial things by the FHM readers. These included choking on cinnamon, eating the world's biggest hamburger [Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub and FHM [http://coachlevi.com/cooking/dennys-beer-barrel-pub-to-be-featured-on-rachael-ray-show/] ] , and being photographed outside the Priory rehab. In 2005 he caused controversy by upsetting author Michael Shenton over a curse he had put on FHM's air conditioning system [ Where has FHM buried it's honour? [http://www.prizemagic.co.uk/html/treasure_hunt.htm] ] . In 2006 Li'l Lee was briefly replaced by ill Indian child Li'l Ali, who was later featured in Channel Four documentary The 80 Year Old Children [The 80 Year Old Chrildren, Channel 4, 2006 [http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/80_year_old_children/] ] .

Banksy

In May 2006 he attended an art exhibition in LA, where graffiti artist Banksy caused public outrage by painting a live elephant [ An Artist Without A Face, The New York Times, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/arts/design/16bank.html] ] . "In one of the most surreal hours of my life, I helped the artist move his stricken truck, before giving his crew a lift back to their hotel in a convertible Mustang I’d hired. From that point I was ‘in’. [ Breaking the Banksy: The first interview with the world's most elusive artist. Coan, Lee. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/moslive/article-1024130/Breaking-Banksy-The-interview-worlds-elusive-artist.html] ] On 13th June 2008, Daily Mail supplement Live published Coan's interview with infamous graffiti artist 'Banksy'. A world exclusive, this rare access to one of the art world's greatest mysteries was claimed to be 'The first interview with the world's most elusive artist' [ Breaking the Banksy: The first interview with the world's most elusive artist. Coan, Lee. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/moslive/article-1024130/Breaking-Banksy-The-interview-worlds-elusive-artist.html] ] . However, Banksy was interviewed previously by Guardian journalist Simon Hattenstone. [ Simon Hattenstone meets Britain's No 1 graffiti artist, Banksy. Hattenstone, Simon. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,999712,00.html] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.journalisted.com/lee-coan Journalisted - Articles by Lee Coan]