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Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Vanderpump Rules star turned to sex work while unemployed... as show's entire cast was fired for reboot
A former Vanderpump Rules cast member has opened up about her side hustle as a sex worker. Billie Lee, who was last seen on season 11 of the hit series before the cast were fired to make way for a reboot, admitted that she once worked as an escort during her 20s. The transgender reality star, 41, told the Oldish podcast that she was pushed into the world's oldest profession after struggling to find work in Los Angeles. 'Because our unemployment rate is so high — it still is — for trans people, a lot of us do lean on sex work because we are all so fetishized and over-sexualized,' she said. She then said that she was 'paid to do sexual things' in her early 20s - and has no regrets about it. 'I find it very empowering now,' she gushed. 'I'm a pleaser - I'm a people pleaser, which is hard if someone's mad at you - but I'm also just a pleaser in general,' she continued. 'So whenever I became a sex worker, I was like, "Oh, wow, I can get off pleasing these men and also get paid."' She went on to say that sex work became 'a way of life' for her during that time. 'I have to say, I was pretty blessed when I came to sex work,' she explained. 'There were times when I would first enter a hotel room, you do certain things that you learn. Like, I would check-in to make sure that the front desk saw me,' she continued. 'And I would check and make sure where the cameras were, security cameras. And then I would have a pocket knife up in my coat in my coat sleeve. I would do a check throughout the entire room in any cabinets in the bathroom and stuff like that before I would get on the bed. So you do like little things to protect yourself in that way.' She also hinted that she worked with high end clients instead of walking the streets at all hours. 'I had really amazing clients who like treated me with respect and wine and dined me,' Billie gushed. 'I was in hotels in Beverly Hills, you know, so I wasn't on the street, which a lot of my sisters are.' Billie appeared on multiple seasons of Vanderpump Rules, including the 11th season, which was the show's last with its original cast. Late last year in November, it was announced that the show would be getting an entirely new cast - with only Lisa Vanderpump returning. It came after the future of the series was left rocky amid a feuding cast. Original star Katie Maloney called the upcoming reboot 'cheap' in April. Maloney emphasized that she wasn't slamming the new cast, but instead wondered why the network just didn't create 'a whole different show' instead. She explained, 'To me it just feels like it's going try to have the same flavor, the same everything… When you try to replicate the recipe just based off of taste, you can't do it.' The most recent 11th season - which finished airing last year - had featured Katie as well as Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, Tom Schwartz, Lala Kent, James Kennedy and Scheana Shay. However, episodes focused on the disputes and conflicts between the cast not long after Scandoval - where Sandoval cheated on his longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix with Rachel Leviss. The new cast will consist of 'close-knit SUR-vers who are as complicatedly involved with one another as their iconic predecessor,' per Bravo.
Perth Now
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Brian Austin Green 'doesn't remember' hooking up with Tori Spelling
Brian Austin Green "doesn't remember" hooking up with Tori Spelling. The 51-year-old actor starred alongside Tori, also 51, on the hit 1990s series 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and she recently reminded him that they had a sexual experience together as teenagers, but he had no recollection of it. Speaking during their upcoming reunion on 'The $100,000 Pyramid' - which will air on May 11 - she explained: "Yes, recently on my podcast 'misSPELLING', we did talk about when we were young teenagers and we hooked up, and he couldn't remember exactly the first time we hooked up. Brian replied: "I don't remember that story at all, which is crazy." Tori joked: "Which means I was really memorable." The actress previously revealed that it was like "going through a divorce" when she and Brian lost touch once she show had ended. Speaking to Brian on his 'Oldish' podcast, she explained: "I remember our last conversation and the last thing we said to each other before those 18 years. I was crying. I remember crying that we were going to lose touch because we were so close. It was almost like going through a divorce or something." Brian explained that he did try to maintain a "connection" between them in the time that followed the ending of the show but by the time they next really saw each other, she had married Dean McDermott - with whom she went on to have Liam, 17, Stella, 16, Hattie, 12, Finn,11 and seven-year-old Beau but split from him in 2024 - and he was with his now ex-wife Megan Fox. He said: "What I remember is going by [your then-boyfriend and our former costar] Vincent [Young]'s house to see you multiple days after we wrapped and trying to keep a connection going. But it got to the point where I just never got that from you. And then I remember being at the 90210 DVD release party and you were married to Dean and I was with Megan, when we were still just dating — you guys got there and you never said hello to me once. I just kept missing you guys and then you were gone. "It was just this thing of like, 'She just doesn't want to be my friend.' I genuinely felt that way. "I tried to visit you and I would call you. When that wasn't reciprocated and so I gave up. I didn't know what was going on in your life." Tori explained that she "shied away" from her former co-star because he didnd't necessarily approve of her relationship with Vincent but insisted that she "never stopped thinking about Brian in the years they lost touch. She said: "I shied away from you because you weren't a fan of [my] relationship [with Vincent]. You had a good working relationship with Vincent but I don't think you felt like our personal relationship was something that was correct for me. "My process was different and I would shy away from those that would really fight for me. I never stopped thinking about you and never stopped wanting to reach out and reconnect."
Buzz Feed
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Brian Austin Green Talks Megan Fox Grooming Allegations
Brian Austin Green is speaking up about the Megan Fox grooming allegations. Brian and Megan met on the set of the 2003 ABC sitcom Hope & Faith. In the show, Megan played Sydney Shanowski, the daughter of Hope and Charlie Shanowski (Faith Ford and Ted McGinley). Brian played himself in a Season 2 episode "9021-Uh-Oh." At the time, Megan was 18 years old and Brian was 30. In 2010, they were married in Hawaii and share three children: Noah Shannon, 12, Bodhi Ransom, 11, and Journey River, 8. Their on-and-off-again relationship lasted for 16 years until they officially called it quits in May 2020. Megan filed for divorce (a second time) on Nov. 25, 2020. Dan is now in a relationship with his fiancé, Dancing With the Stars' Sharna Burgess, and they share a two-year-old son, Zane. On the Oldish podcast hosted by Randy Spelling, Sharna, and Brian, he explained to his fiancé why he never addressed the allegations that he "groomed" Megan. 'I think it comes from my dad," Brian said. "He's very good at cutting emotion out of something and just being logical in his choices." He continued, "I really, logically understood that if I defend myself this one time, it's never gonna stop. I'm gonna have to defend myself for who knows how long, because people are gonna believe what they wanna believe. So, to me, time is the only thing that regulates that." Brian suggested that people closest to him know that the allegations are far from the truth. "People spend more time seeing me not being that way and then they start questioning it and they start going, you know, 'We've seen him for five years. We've never once seen him being controlling or hearing any other story from anyone else about.'" Brian concluded, "It's the long game of it.' Listen to the podcast episode here.
Perth Now
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Sharna Burgess hopes to have another baby
Sharna Burgess wants to have another baby. The 39-year-old dancer already has a two-year-old son called Zane with her fiance Brian Austin Green, and Sharna has now revealed that she would love to have another child with the 'Beverly Hills, 90210' actor. During an appearance on the 'Money Rehab' podcast, Sharna explained: "I do totally want to go through this again. "This year is crazy, but I'm going to put out there that hopefully, maybe the end of next year, we're looking at getting pregnant." Sharna actually hopes to have another baby sooner rather than later. The TV star shared: "Even though my eggs are fine and medicine's wonderful. I want to be as young as I can possibly be." Brian also has sons Noah, 12, Bodhi, 11, and Journey, eight, with his ex-wife Megan Fox, as well as Kassius, 23, with Vanessa Marcil. But Sharna has revealed that she plans to use in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in a bid to have a baby girl. She said: "I think we'll do gender selection and do IVF because [Brian is] five for five on boys. Who's gonna take a chance on that?" Sharna previously admitted that although Brian has undergone a vasectomy, the loved-up couple are open-minded about the possibility of having another child. Sharna - who is best known for her appearances on 'Dancing with the Stars' - told the 'Oldish' podcast: "If we have the space and the ability to, would we love to? I certainly would. But we do have four young kids in the home and life is very, very busy. "But I certainly do love motherhood and we talk about it often, because I feel so called to it and I feel it's been a calling for me." Sharna also revealed that she was considering IVF treatment. What's more, the dancer explained that the celebrity couple were being very considered in their approach. Sharna - who announced her engagement to the actor in September 2023 - shared: "I do want the experience of us planning it together, doing the pregnancy tests, and really being on this journey with each other. So, we would probably end up having to do IVF."
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Brian Austin Green Says Dating Megan Fox After Ex Vanessa Marcil Was 'a Breath of Fresh Air Coming Out of Vietnam'
Brian Austin Green shared that he and ex Vanessa Marcil didn't have 'a loving, caring relationship." The actor said meeting Megan Fox was 'a breath of fresh air' after 'coming out of what felt like Vietnam to me,' referring to his time with Marcil. The 'Beverly Hills, 90210' also addressed claims that he "groomed" Fox after the two began dating when she was 18 and he was 31. Brian Austin Green is diving deep into his relationship history — and why his romance with ex Vanessa Marcil didn't end up working out. During the May 5 episode of his Oldish podcast with fiancée Sharna Burgess and Randy Spelling, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 51, shared how his mother's tendency of "smothering him" affected his romantic relationships as an adult. "If I'm looking for a woman, I want the complete opposite of that," he explained. "I had some major missteps because of that. I mean, the relationship that I had with Vanessa was very toxic in that way. Like, it wasn't a loving, caring relationship." Though he recognizes how much his mother "loved me," Green noted that his mother's love was given to him at "a fault." Related: Inside Brian Austin Green and Ex Vanessa Marcil's Complicated History as She Supports Megan Fox "Just everything was about me," he said. "And then with Vanessa, it was not that at all, but it was masked in. This is a relationship where that absolutely exists. So you start thinking like, 'Oh, it's just kind of a new version. Like, oh, she loves me, but this is her way of loving me.'" At first, Green claimed that he believed Mercil was "trying to help me and fix me and get me through things," but "after two years or so, you're kinda looking at yourself in the mirror and you're like, 'Who am I at this point?'" Eventually, he couldn't recognize himself. Green claimed that his relationships with everyone in his life had changed. "So that relationship ended up not working out. Then Megan [Fox], she was a breath of fresh air, coming out of what felt like Vietnam to me," he said of the beginning of his relationship with his ex- wife. Related: Megan Fox's Dating History: From Brian Austin Green to Machine Gun Kelly PEOPLE has reached out to Marcil's reps for comment. Green and Marcil first started dating in the late 1990s after meeting on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210, and got engaged in the summer of 2001. They welcomed son Kassius on March 30, 2002, though they split not long after, in 2003. The next year, Green met Fox while filming ABC's Hope & Faith, at the time, he was 31 when she was 18 years old. They began dating shortly after and later got married in 2010, eventually welcoming three children: sons Noah Shannon, Bodhi Ransom and Journey River. Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Green also addressed claims that he "groomed" Fox early in their relationship because of their near 13-year age gap. Before explaining how the two met, the actor revealed that Fox was the on who "courted" him and spend lots of time trying to convince him she was "mature enough" to be in a relationship. Related: Brian Austin Green Recalls Getting to a Point in Marriage to Megan Fox That 'Everything Annoyed Her' "When I met her, she was not even 18 yet. So it was just like, this isn't even a conversation to have," he recalled. "She was really, really persistent. She had turned 18. She decided they'd finished doing Hope and Faith, so she moved back to Los Angeles. And she would not take no for an answer." Green added that Fox's insistence is a part of "who she is," revealing how there's "not stopping her" once she gets her mind on something. At one point, he shared that Fox was at her wits end and "seemed like she had given up" on trying to pursue him. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "Like now, looking back on it, I think it was part of the tactic because she's so incredibly smart," he joked. "But she got to a place where she was like, 'Okay, well, I'm just gonna like move on then, and I'm gonna start dating other people.' And I was like, 'Woah.'" Green recalled, "So that was when I was like, 'Oh no, okay, let's just kinda see what this is.' And we got along great. Like, it was really, again, it was a breath of fresh air for me." Read the original article on People
