Kizzi Nkwocha

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Kizzi Nkwocha is a media consultant and public relations specialist based in the United Kingdom.

He was born in Nigeria, eventually emigrating to the United Kingdom. At 21, he became the UK's youngest newspaper editor, editing the 10-edition Recorder Group in West London. After the Recorder, Nkwocha worked as programming editor of Broadcast Magazine, owned by Emap. He was also guest editor of international celebrity magazine, Society. He spent the last five of his journalistic years as a reporter at the News of the World weekly tabloid newspaper.

As a public relations consultant Nkwocha, known for his flamboyant dress, served as a publicist for the Pakistani cricket player Wasim Akram; Baganda king Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II; multiple mum Mandy Allwood, who was pregnant with eight babies; Britain's oldest mum, Liz Buttle; mistresses of President Bill Clinton, Dolly Kyle Browning and Gennifer Flowers; the campaign group Jubilee 2000; and the international Vass Foundation, a charitable organisation dedicated to tackling malaria and AIDS in the Third World.

Nkwocha has also presented a series of TV and radio programmes. In 2001 he was voted by The Voice newspaper one of the 100 most influential black people in the United Kingdom. He has been the subject of a C4 documentary on publicity and was a character in the fictional novel No Glove, No Love by Ron Shillingford. In 2006 one of his clients, Guy Goma, became a worldwide celebrity after being mistakenly interviewed by the BBC on News 24. Nkwocha currently works alonside Andrew Beck at PRhq.

Nkwocha is approximately 38 years of age.