International TV Co-Editor

EXCLUSIVE: YMU's head of literature Amanda Harris is leaving the UK agency next year to start her own business.

Harris joined the London-based agency, which represents Simon Cowell among others, in 2019. Two years later, he founded YMU Literary, where he simultaneously became Global Managing Director.

We can reveal that she will be leaving YMU in the spring of 2025 and plans to set up her own, as-yet unnamed, talent agency. YMU confirmed the departure, which was described as “completely amicable.”