Michael Glazer
Mikey Glazer is an entertainment lawyer and former television producer known for his work on reality television programming. Glazer produced NBC reality/game show Fear Factor from 2001-2006. After Fear Factor ended its run, Glazer was Supervising Producer of the CBS Primetime Special Dr. Phil’s Romance Rescue and went to law school. Currently, Glazer resides in Los Angeles, California and continues to represent award-winning content creators in their media projects. Since 2009, he has written a column for the entertainment industry trade paper TheWrap.
Biography
Glazer attended the prestigious boarding school Deerfield Academy, in Deerfield, Massachusetts, graduating in 1994. Following that, he graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Government. Glazer earned multiple-year, full-tuition merit scholarships to Southwestern Law School, graduating in the top of his class in 2013.
Television career
Glazer began his career as an intern at The McLaughlin Group, a political talk show in Washington, D.C. He later relocated to Los Angeles and worked for Bunim/Murray Productions, creators of the MTV's The Real World and Road Rules. While at BMP and later at NBC Studios, Glazer was the assistant to frequent collaborator and mentor, Matt Kunitz.
Glazer produced NBC's Fear Factor from 2001-2006. While promoting Fear Factor, Glazer appeared on NBC's The Today Show and VH1's VH1 News Presents: Reality Secrets Revealed. During this time, he also was Supervising Producer of the CBS Primetime Special Dr. Phil’s Romance Rescue. In 2006, Glazer was producer of Telemundo's Vas o No Vas.
In 2008, Wipeout producers hired Glazer was to find a “comic host replacement” for Elon Gold, eventually hiring John Henson.
Event Planning
In the mid-2000s, Glazer was also known for event planning. Most notably, his creation of a nationwide event tour for Columbia Pictures Identity, as well as TV Guide's SeenOn.com launch party, and other prominent media and press events in Los Angeles. From 2007-2010, he helped produce the celebrity gifting suite "Boom Boom Room." [1]
Blog
Glazer was the owner and head writer of Hollywood red carpet events blog “TheCHIMP.net”, named after his alter-ego. On his website, Glazer would post news items about a variety of his prominent friends, industry professionals, and celebrities. Articles were delivered with an irreverent and satirical style, best known for highlighting peoples' educational, institutional, and professional affiliations (i.e.: Duke ’02, Harvard Business School ’05, Merrill Lynch ‘current)
In July 2009, Glazer stopped covering Hollywood events on thechimp.net when he became a contributor to Sharon Waxman’s entertainment industry news site TheWRAP[2] His column features photos and inside details from awards shows and social events within the Hollywood for an audience of entertainment industry professionals. At Elton John's Oscar Viewing Party in 2013, John awarded Glazer a Chopard watch for correctly predicting the most number of Oscar winners amongst the crowd at his party.
Glazer also runs a Twitter feed of real-time celebrity sightings @CelebSightings which has over 22,000 followers.