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Candid Camera For Hire
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 20, 2008.
We don’t often get into celebrity gossip magazines on this show. But indulge me for a minute. There’s a certain allure to flipping through glossy tabloids to see celebrities walking their dogs, swimming at the beach or buying groceries, under the headline "Celebrities: They’re Just Like Us" - so we could be just like them. The difference is that we don’t have people with cameras stalking us all day.
If you wish you could have your most intimate family moments captured by strangers, fear not. All it takes is a little cash. Izaz Rony is a 23-year-old who runs the New York-based photo service MethodIzaz. For $500 an hour and up, he’ll follow you around and take candid pictures of you. There are paparazzi-for-hire services like Celeb4ADay, that provide a publicist and limo and bodyguard along with shouting photographers, for people to live out their fantasies of being like Brangelina or Paris. But what Izaz does is a little different. He joins us from New York to tell us more about his innovative business. (Photo courtesy of MethodIzaz)
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