{"id":1971968,"date":"2025-08-21T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1971968"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:36:06","slug":"megan-mckenna-joe-baggs-sign-with-ymu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/megan-mckenna-joe-baggs-sign-with-ymu\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan McKenna &#038; Joe Baggs Sign With YMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ymu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ymu\" data-tag=\"ymu\">YMU<\/a> has further additions to its talent roster, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/megan-mckenna\/\" id=\"auto-tag_megan-mckenna\" data-tag=\"megan-mckenna\">Megan McKenna<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joe-baggs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-baggs\" data-tag=\"joe-baggs\">Joe Baggs<\/a> signing for representation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMcKenna began her career as a reality contestant on UK shows such as Britain\u2019s Got Talent, Ex on the Beach and Big Brother before starring in her own ITV show, There\u2019s Something About Megan releasing a studio album and winning The X Factor: Celebrities in 2019. She is now a two-time Sunday Times best-selling author through her gluten-free recipe cookbooks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBaggs, meanwhile, also began his media career on reality TV, as part of the Baggs family in Channel 4 series Gogglebox. He has gone on to become a content creator and to build a sizeable social media following, with more than 350,000 currently subscribed to his Instagram account and 2.1 million on his TikTok. Baggs also hosts the Not My Bagg podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome both Joe and Megan to the entertainment roster,\u201d said YMU\u2019s Managing Director of Global Entertainment, Lucy Loveridge. \u201cJoe brings sharp wit, natural charm, and a fast-growing digital presence, while Megan continues to carve out a unique space as a multi-hyphenate talent \u2013 from music to food to motherhood and beyond. Both have incredible momentum and we\u2019re excited to support them as they take the next big steps in their careers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast week, we reported that YMU, which represents the likes of Simon Cowell and Graham Norton, had <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/ymu-signs-spencer-matthews-made-in-chelsea-star-1236486099\/\">signed another UK TV personality, Spencer Matthews<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe company has been building out its entertainment ranks in recent months, being especially active in the influencer space, with the likes of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/ymu-signs-jack-remmington-ash-holme-1236166059\/\">Jack Remmington and Ash Holme also signing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYMU welcomed new owners last year, with investor Permira Credit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/03\/simon-cowell-agent-ymu-sale-permira-financial-restructure-1235859893\/\">taking control<\/a> after a period of post-pandemic restructure in a\u00a0\u00a360M ($80M) deal.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: YMU has further additions to its talent roster, with Megan McKenna and Joe Baggs signing for representation. McKenna began her career as a reality contestant on UK shows such as Britain\u2019s Got Talent, Ex on the Beach and Big Brother before starring in her own ITV show, There\u2019s Something About Megan releasing a studio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1971969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[316598,351060,351061,351062],"class_list":["post-1971968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-agencies","tag-joe-baggs","tag-megan-mckenna","tag-ymu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Megan-McKenna-Joe-Baggs-Sign-With-YMU.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}