CELEBRITY EVENTS NETWORK - Key Persons
Colette Pryslak joined Celebrity Events Network in 1997 as Lilana's assistant and now oversees logistics for client events.
For 18 years, Canadian Home Builders' Association - Calgary Region has worked with Lilana Novakovich and the fine talent Celebrity Event Network represents. As producers of a public home building and renovation trade exposition, we were thrilled to be able to rely upon Lilana and team to bring us notable, engaging and entertaining public figures for presentations and personal appearances. Their list of clients is impressive and to our benefit, CEN represents some of the most recognized names in home and décor themed television.
Job Titles:
- Designer Sarah Richardson
Lilana Novakovich was the first person who recognized the business potential of Daytime Drama stars in Canada while she was Advertising and Publicity Director at Prentice Hall Publishing in 1980. She brought author and actress Ruth Warrick, "Phoebe Tyler on All My Children" to Toronto for a publicity and book signing tour. Ruth encouraged her to start her own business representing soap opera stars as their Canadian agent.
The rest is history. Lilana exclusively represented the most popular stars on the soaps and continues to work with them as her business expanded and evolved. Lilana's column, Lilana's Diary in StarWeek Magazine (Toronto Star television guide) had over 800,000 weekly readers for over 15 years. Her nationally syndicated column Soap Suds was equally as successful in many major markets from Vancouver to Halifax. She was a regular guest on many Canadian news magazine shows including E-Talk and Global Noon News over the span of 20 years. She even had a weekly 2-hour open line show on CFRB Radio on the Soaps.
Soap Opera stars were the focus of her talent agency until she saw another opportunity when Life Network was launched in Canada in the late 1990's. She began representing Canada's first lifestyle television stars, culinary experts Ken Kostick and Mary Jo Eustace who hosted What's For Dinner?
The genre developed into more networks (HGTV, Food Network), shows and clients. She was the first agent to develop and brand talent from lifestyle programming.
Designer Guys, Steven Sabados and the late Christopher Hyndman, contractor Mike Holmes, designer Sarah Richardson were Lilana's first HGTV clients. She continues to represent them and several others.