
Lisa Rinna's Horrifying Casting Couch Admission
Exclusive: Lisa Rinna tells me her dishy new novel, 'Starlit,' is an inside look at "life on and off the red carpet, full of scandalous backstabbing and lots of sex." She describes it as a "roman à clef," or a novel that describes true events but is disguised as fiction. However, the most shocking real-life event that Lisa left out of the impossible-to-put-down read is a true story about herself and the infamous Hollywood casting couch.
"I lost a role on a BIG TV series because I wouldn't bend over a chair in a producers office for 'just a quickie,'" Lisa admits to me for the first time. "'Just pull your panties down and bend over and the role is yours,' he said to me."
Lisa was just 24 years old at the time and walked away in tears after the disgusting encounter, but that hasn't stopped her from thinking about the producer or that moment every day.
A friend tells me that Lisa has never revealed the producer's name to anyone, including husband Harry Hamlin, but many years later, during the height of her 'Melrose Place' success, she saw the man that propositioned her all those years ago on an industry red carpet. He stopped to say congratulations and she told him, "I know everyone in this town and if you ever do what you did to me again to anyone else I will tell everyone your dirty secret."
So far, Lisa's lips are sealed and so it seems are the producer's pants. For a real insight into the glamour and darkness of Hollywood, pick up Lisa's new book
'Starlit.'
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Well,I'm 98% positive that this unnamed producer wasn't,in fact, Gale Ann Hurd...
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LMAO!!
She needs to tell everyone his name so he is black-balled in Hollywood(no pun intended)
Well, how would she know if he did it to someone else, unless that person talked? And then it wouldn't be a dirty little secret any longer. Duh.
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impeach obama...
I'm SO GLAD SHE SHARED. This reality crud is done to death. I don't expect Vonnegut out of anything she writes but does something reek of a lie here??? I think that "how does she know that he's done it again" is the kicker here. It's called pathological lying. You always know when it hits you that it hits HER as the truth but this was just silly beyond belief. I can not believe we are letting our Children watch and listen to self-promoting sad sacks. Truly.
She acts as if she has some power. If he did it to her, he did it to others. What is so scintillating about it, and why did it take years for her to say anything to him?
I'm sure the producer did that to whomever got the part in that "big tv series". She should have done something for sure, but now it's way too late. I wouldn't be surprised however, if in less than a month we start seeing rumors pop up of a producer trying to bribe young actresses for big parts on little tv shows. Things like that happen all the time in all parts of the world, not just Hollywood. It's sad but true.
another brainless actress, for her not to tell her a soul, makes her a victim and an idiot....why would you not blow someone like that out of the water, i am sure he has done it to many young actresses...the only one you are protecting is him
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This is just empty publicity for her crappy show. If we all ignore it, it will go away faster.
Because the other sexual predators in the business would circle the wagons and she'd never be hired for anything, that's why!
You are sooooooooo right ! It was stupid of her not to file a claim against him with the police. That might have saved many other young women from having the same experience. She and her husband have been out of the limelight for some time - now she has a book out and they're all over the TV talk shows. UGH ! Her big news is that she's reduced her lips - OMG !
The truth is she was protecting herself,and now she is trying to take the moral high road with the "I'm going to tell!" claim.
The facts are that most Hollywood producers have done this at one time or another,and some have done it all the time. She didn't report him because she was 24 years old and she knew that if she made a stink about it no other producers would even let her in their office,much less hire her.
I have even heard a couple of male actors say that producers have tried to have sex with them by promising them roles.
Nobody names names because of the threat of being shunned by the industry and sued into bankruptcy.
JUST ANOTHER DUMB "ACTRESS" TRYING TO SELL A BOOK.
IF YOU BELIEVE HER BS THAN YOURE AS DUMB AS SHE HOPES YOU ARE AND STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY HER TRASH BOOK.
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"I know everyone in this town..", this skank has delusions of grandeur huh??...and the part about"her lips are sealed"..too easy lol
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What is with those damn lips anyway??? She was once a beautiful woman but I could never take my eyes off those huge swollen lips.
She constantly looks like someone pounched her in the mouth!
I would have believed her statement about the proposition over the chair & even that she lost the role because she declined; but the part when all those years later & how many girls he probably had, she is scolding him that IF he ever does that again, she'll tell the dirty little secret? Did she think he was still pining over her? She sounds like an idiot now.
Her lips scare me!!!!!
you're a real pig muscleman. you know everyone in l.a.? how? do you collect their garbage and sift through it every night just hoping you'll find something you can sell so you can eat. what a crudball you are.
Her lips look nasty.