Beautiful Hollywood

Starz Sweetbitter actor and Mastro's bar alum, Jimmie Saito, talks with Melanie Camp about the reality of chasing the Hollywood Dream. From his big break scene-stealing with Terry Crews to having to go back to bar work while waiting for a season two pickup. Hear how Saito rides the highs and lows and why quitting is not an option. Plus, find out why actress Ella Purnell thinks he is a douchebag.

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*Trigger Warning. This story has content that may be triggering to anyone who has suffered abuse or violence. Ultimately, it is a story of surviving and thriving and because of it thousands of lives have been saved.

Living on the streets for several years and working as a prostitute, one night Lauri Burns almost died when gang members, on a mission to rape and kill, kidnapped her.

Burns found healing through helping and to date has saved thousands of at-risk, homeless and sex trafficked young women from the streets of Los Angeles and Orange County.

Singer Tara Macri shares her story of dream chasing all the way to the Billboard Top 100. She says songwriting is her version of journaling, helping her keep her feet on the ground as she sets goals to send her music to outer space. Next stop Mars...how about it, Elon?

At 29, Ian Doig had no car, no job, and no idea what to do with his life. Today, he works as an animal co-ordinator on many hit TV shows including; DC Legends of Tomorrow and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. It all began with a Polar Bear! Beautiful Hollywood host Melanie Camp sits down with Doig to chat about perseverance, and training cats and dogs.

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Make up artist Michelle Q glams many of the faces you see in reality television. Working on Botched, Vanderpump Rules, The Hills New Beginnings, and more! However, eight years ago Michelle arrived in Los Angeles with all her belongings in a couple of garbage bags and only a few pennies to her name. Find out how she stuck to her dream and found success.

Award-winning producer, Lauren Wilkins shares how she cracked the tough world of television, won an Emmy®, and where she keeps her statue. “I’m the kind of person who writes affirmations in the morning. I have to do my inner work before I get to work, so I’m not looking for anyone else to validate me," Lauren tells host Melanie Camp.

Dr. David Chong grew up in the most isolated city in the world, moving from Malaysia to Australia when he was five years old. A leading Australian plastic surgeon, David spends three months a year volunteering for Mercy Ships and Operation Smile saving thousands of faces, giving many a second chance at life. Almost kicked out of medical school three times, second chances saved David's future. Doctors orders; "you are going to fail, and that's OK."

Host Melanie Camp chats with entrepreneur Peter Grundberg in Budapest, Hungary and discovers how a unique hospitality concept called BrodyLand was born like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the global crash in 2008. Peter and his business partner Will almost lost everything but as Peter says, “out of crisis is born opportunity.”

Welcoming Beautiful Hollywood into her home, and bed, Astrologer & Psychic Michele Knight chats with host Melanie Camp about the magic of dream chasing and as she puts it, how you can be a “sorceress of your own reality.”