Beverley Lyons

Beverley Lyons is an award-winning digital and Scottish entertainment journalist, vlogger and broadcaster. She founded the daily Razz pages for the Scottish Daily Record newspaper covering Entertainment, until leaving in 2016. She has set up her own media and digital PR company www.theshowbizlion.com She is a guest presenter on STV 2’s Live At Five and was a guest host on The MusicMatch for BBC Radio Scotland. In 2002 she was team captain on BBC Scotland radio show "Famous For Five Minutes", with comedians Craig Hill and Frankie Boyle. She holds a LAMDA certificate. She has voiced advertisements for The Scottish Chill Out Album, Julienne Taylor's album Music Garden and Irn Bru carnival. Lyons was nominated at the 2009 Scottish Press Awards for "Entertainment Journalist" and "Multimedia Journalist" of The Year; she was runner-up in the latter category. Nominated again for Scottish Press "Multimedia Journalist" in 2010, she received the "New Media Journalist Of The Year" in 2011.^[1] She was also Trinity Mirror’s Digital Journalist of the Year and is currently a Showbiz and Lifestyle columnist in the Evening Times in Glasgow, where she originally created “Clubber Of The Week”. Lyons is the daughter of late radio producer Ben Lyons and promoter Louise Rosenthal. Her sister Yvette is a Yorkshire Television producer director.

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