Allsorts

You know, we don’t really want to give our readers the impression that Saritha gets picked on. It’s more that she kind of brings it on herself sometimes.

Like the time she had to pay a ransom to get her rubber band ball back. What a ransom…

Our CEO comes in for a fair amount of stick. He gives as good as he gets but to add to the postman fat posting earlier here is something for the flare wearers among you…..

No, it’s not Alanis Whatshername. It’s Rossella - a Media Planner/Buyer at Media Souk! We can see why you might have done a double take though.

The lovely Rossella is our resident Italian, as every agency worth it’s sale (that’s salt in Italian) needs to have some exotic staff.

Rossella Spoto

What she doesn’t know about online media isn’t worth knowing. Unfortunately I don’t know anything about Rossella as I can’t understand a damn word she says. These digital people all speak gobbledegook to me anyway.

Being Italian, Rossella has an innate sense of style and if the agency ever held a best use of colour fashion awards she would clean up.

What is the Wall of Weird?

No it’s not Ronnie Barker. He looks uncannily like our Front End Developer, Andy Cargill though. Another fine example of our addiction to Yearbook Yourself that’s made it onto SOUK’s Flickr gallery.

SOUK Agency Yearbook

Tricky. How do you write a pithy Wall of Weird post about your ultimate boss, the Chairman, without then spending the next 24 hours wondering if you’re going to get your marching orders?

Bill Hart, SOUK’s Chairman, is an excellent, kind hearted, generous chap. The kind of person you feel you can always turn to in moments of crisis knowing that whatever he says will be knowing and wise. I imagine he does wonderful things for charity.

Bill Hart

As a Founding Partner Bill earns maximum respect for having the gumption to start a marvellous agency employing superb people. Personally I feel rather let down that other people might think he looks a bit like Parker from Thunderbirds.

What is the Wall of Weird?

Here he is, the man-with-the-plan, the one-and-only, super smooth, ‘If I were a lady I would,’ Andrew Durant, a Founding Partner.

It’s not just because he’s a Partner that Andrew gets the treatment here. He is genuinely a very nice and lovely guy and we love him, even though he does look like Cliff Richard. Actually, he doesn’t really but it’s the closest we could get.

Andrew Durant

When not running the Roberts Radio and Cayman Island accounts to name but two, Andrew can be found running around in his Aston Martin, which he thinks makes him highly desirable. Unfortunately for the men in the agency, in a recent straw poll of SOUK’s ladies, this turned out to be true.

What is the Wall of Weird?

It’s fair to say everyone loves Andy, Media SOUK’s, Media Director. And it’s probably why he likes SOUK so much that we like him: “I love the freedom I have to wade into a room of creatives and account folk, leaving them open-mouthed with a rant about the role a particular media plays in the purchase funnel.”

We do hope ‘purchase funnel’ isn’t a euphemism.

Given that Andy is a ringer for Keeping Up Appearances’ Onslow, his most embarrassing moment shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise… “Bursting the button off my rented tux in the pub before the Caribbean ball was somewhat disappointing (though I think I got away with it given I ended up dancing around the Dorchester Hotel ballroom with my bow tie around my head).

He’s our Number 1 agency hero.

What is the Wall of Weird?

Some websites come along and just, y’know, tickle your agency’s fancy.

www.yearbookyourself.com

See more on our Flickr channel’s SOUK Agency Yearbook

Bearing an uncanny likeness to Sally from Charles Shultz’s Peanuts cartoons, New Business Administrator Catherine is an agency favourite simply because no one else on the Wall has managed to look so like a cartoon character. We are all deeply jealous.

Catherine Sefi

Catherine’s a long-termer, having been at SOUK and its previous incarnations for f*&@ years. Not only does she look after the logistics of our new business efforts, she also looks after Bill Hart, our Chairman, meaning she is on first name terms with our best friends at The Ivy. Table for two at 8pm on a Friday, anyone?

What is the Wall of Weird?

Sarah Cox look-a-like Becs is Welsh.

Rebecca Davies

What is the Wall of Weird?

In a one-off Wall of Weird special, we welcome today’s Kitchen Table guests with a rare glimpse of our Chief Exec in his favourite party outfit.

Postman Fat

She’ll be sadly missed will Joyce Kelso. Our Client Services Director is off to pastures new - Caribbean pastures to be exact as the lucky old thing (see how polite that was) has bagged a gig running an ad agency in Barbados!

Funny how, as soon as we cottoned on where she was going Joyce suddenly became Number 1 agency heroine, which is fitting given that we’ve got a picture of her in bed with Number 1 agency hero Andy Brander (you’ll have to click the more button for that). Can I come in January, please Joycey?

Joyce is the one on the right

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Production Director Adam needs to get out more. His most embarrassing moment to date is simply falling in Exeter canal. Being a rugby loving chap we thought at the very least he’d have been stripped naked, covered in Nutella and tied to Nelson’s Column by now. Or perhaps caught in flagrante with a group of fellow pie fanciers at Fortnums. Shame those things didn’t really happen, eh Adam?.

Anyway, it’s less that he looks like Oliver Hardy and more that he acts like the classic film comedian. Which bodes well, as a little birdy tells me that after peddling press ads all day he’d quite like to be pushing gags on the comedy stage of a night. Good luck with that dream, fella.

What is the Wall of Weird?

Meet Claus, our Creative Director. Having been around for about six months now you’d think we’d have plenty of dirt on him by now. But no, he’s squeaky clean. Except…

Asked, as is everyone, what he most likes about SOUK he replied, “The free chocolate on reception every Friday afternoon.” Hmmm, I bet that’s not the answer he gives the chairman. That said, he does get maximum points when asked what in life he is really passionate about. “Art,” was the answer, commendably relegating his wife and children to also-rans.

Although Claus is freakishly similar to Phil here, on hungover days he also looks uncannily like that other lovable rogue John Leslie.

What is the Wall of Weird?

No one can remember quite how it started, but it was probably the lunchtime after a major pitch win*. All we know is that every time someone joins SOUK it’s only a matter of time before it’s pointed out they bear an uncanny likeness to somebody, or something, famous.

Once the connection’s been made, the Studio deftly mocks up a look-a-like picture to go up on the Wall of Weird:

Oddly enough, the WoW seems to be a big hit with potential clients when we take them on a tour of the agency. Is it our sense of humility or the fact that Claus really does look like a cross between Phil Collins and John Leslie?

* Actually we know exactly how it started, but, as usual it involves Saritha and we’ve made a promise to her husband Ferg that she wouldn’t become the main focus of the people section, even though we have enough embarrassing moments to melt YouTube’s and Flickr’s servers.

If you know Saritha, Head of Creative Services at SOUK, you would know how loud and annoying she can be. This particular day she had annoyed us all, so….