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EXCLUSIVE: More people have left UK agency YMU, further shaking up the talent landscape as a host of big TV names leave along with their agents.
Senior agents Rebecca Dowell, Minnie Harding and Lizzie Barroll Brown have all left Simon Cowell's agency over the summer months, taking with them YouTube sensations Munya Chawawa and Amelia Dimoldenberg, Judge Rinder presenter Robert Rinder and Your Home Made Perfect presenter Angela Scanlon .
We understand that Dowell now represents Chawawa and Dimoldenberg through international management company Three Six Zero, while Harding has joined Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee's IMG-backed company MVE. Another YMU client, Leigh Francis, aka Celebrity Juice presenter Keith Lemon, has left to join his former YMU agent, George Ashton, at her agency, Ashton Artists. BBC presenter Clara Amfo has also left YMU. Three Six Zero and Ashton Artists have not yet responded to requests for comment until the time of going to press.
