For Frazer it's been a strange 18 months, mixing with the stars and seeing their good and bad sides.

The work is a far cry from the Lincolnshire Echo and the Hull Daily Mail where he cut his teeth as a trainee and then senior snapper. Since moving across the Atlantic he's seen his work published in the UK nationals as well as those in America - and he never knows who he'll bump into from day-to-day.

He said: "There was the occasion I was door stepping Paul McCartney, and his security staff blocked me in. While I was talking to one of his security men a guy with a Liverpool accent popped his head through my driving side window… guess who?

"I ended up talking pics of Paul on the street next to his sports car.

"Then we had Hugh Grant who lost his head after coming out of an LA restaurant after having dinner with Liz Hurley. He decided it would be fun to try to assault a photographer - not a good idea when I'm there with a camera.

"Those pictures of him punching out appeared in Heat and a host of the UK tabloids.

"On a nicer note I met Tom Hanks at a charity event who asked me to take his picture with a fan with a disposal camera, I said OK but it would cost him… a picture of him and me.

"I have to admit I used it to impress the lads and just to prove I actually do meet the stars!"

Frazer was at the Echo for five years before moving on to the Hull Daily Mail, where he spent ten years before his move to the Hollywood entertainments agency.

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