Emmy award-winner Sherri Shepherd has made her share of headlines on The View with her outrageous comedy and her unabashed honesty. However, she is involved in many aspects of show business. An accomplished actress and comedienne, Shepherd hosts GSN’s The Newlywed Game and wrote, “Permission Slips: Every Woman’s Guide to Giving Herself a Break,” while maintaining her recurring role as Angie Jordan, wife to Tracey Morgan’s character on NBC’s 30 Rock, and was also in the acclaimed film Precious, alongside Academy Award winner Mo’Nique. But behind the comedy, Shepherd has an amazing story to tell.
Drew Seeley – The Resolution
In 2005, Drew Seeley was working on his demo with producer/writer Ray Cham when an unexpected opportunity came his way. Seeley and Cham began writing a song for a small, original Disney Channel Movie that would change his life forever. The name of the song was “Getcha Head in the Game” from the pop culture phenomenon High School Musical. Not only would this film spawn two sequels, but the soundtrack would go on to quadruple platinum status (selling over 4,000,000 albums!) and garnered an Emmy nomination for Seeley and Cham for best original song. Seeley was also given the opportunity to be the singing voice of the character, “Troy,” (played by Zac Efron) for the first film. Because of the success of High School Musical, Seeley was immediately thrust into the Disney limelight and went on to star in the High School Musical Concert Tour, playing to arenas with 60,000 screaming fans.
Peggi Blu – American Idol’s “Vocal Coach From Hell?”
On last week’s American Idol, Ryan Seacrest called Peggi Blu “The Vocal Coach from Hell” after a clip was shown of Blu intensely speaking with two of Idol’s youngest contestants. She was quoted saying, “You’re going to die onstage in front of all those people. I’m going to be laying in my bed watching you just croak,” and then she interrupted the girls after they started a song and screamed, “No! What is that? Sing, dammit! Do it from the top one more time, and don’t make a mistake.” In a matter of minutes, American Idol fans, bloggers, and entertainment journalists formed an immediate love/hate opinion about Blu. Some even called her “the next Simon Cowell.” So after making such a splash on America’s #1 rated show, I knew that I had to have an exclusive withjosh.com/ainow.org interview with her.
