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Thea Newcomb - Founder/Director

soyouvebeendumped.com is the brain child of Thea Newcomb. an American broadcaster and now film maker.

Marrying her Scotland-based penpal, Newcomb relocated from her native California to Glasgow, Scotland in June of 1992. Since that time she has worked as part of the launch team at Q96 FM in Paisley in 1992, and then co-founded Bigwig magazine, “Scotland’s New Music Monthly” in 1994. In 1995 she joined SCOT FM in Leith and presented various weekend shows. Her marriage ended in 1995, and she embarked on a subsequent long term relationship with a co-worker.

A few years later she wrote and published Essential 80s Pop Quiz (buy @ Amazon UK) - which still sells today. Following on from the second and a third (!) break-up, Newcomb launched this site on July 4, 2000 (not coincidently American Independence Day).

Since that time, Thea has appeared in books, newspapers and magazines, and on TV and radio shows across the globe as an expert on the subject.*

In 2005, Newcomb returned to Q96 to present night time shows, “Into the Night” and the new music show “Q’d In”. When the station was sold in October 2006, inspired by the film, Little Miss Sunshine, Thea decided to do her own road trip across America. Armed with a video camera, Newcomb travelled nearly six thousand miles across twenty states – interviewing people known only to her through her site which was the beginnings of SYBD - the Movie!

With kinekter films, Newcomb is currently making the full-length, documentary film which will be about resilience. Look out for So You’ve Been Dumped the movie - 2009!

Thea Newcomb is represented by James Wills at the London based literary agency - Watson, Little Ltd.


* See the press section for a list of SYBD's global coverage!