DEBBIE GIBSON HITS ATLANTIC CITY AND DOES THE HEYMAN HUSTLE
Dan Bristow
May 10, 2008
Deborah "Debbie" Gibson, the original pop teen princess, whose record for being the youngest person to score number one as singer-songwriter-producer (for her 1987 debut "Out of the Blue") is still intact, was a guest on this week's "Heyman Hustle" program, the flagship broadband television program for NewsCorp's new SUN-TV broadband global television network. The program took an exclusive look at the secret rehearsal Gibson produced and performed in, preparing for her new show at Harrah's in Atlantic City.
"It's not by accident that Deborah Gibson has remained above the trainwreck phenomenon most former child stars fall into," Hustle Producer/Director Mitchell Stuart, who has directed such young pop stars as Fall Out Boy, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and Kelly Clarkson, told the celebrity website OH NO THEY DIDN'T, "after dealing with her for 5 mins, you know you're in the room with a pro's pro."
The show, which can be viewed in its entirety here: http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/heyman/article1130571.ece features Gibson both performing and producing, and she comes off magnificently in both. It's amazing to see just how talented this former teenybopper truly is.
Former sports entertainment writer/producer Paul Heyman, of course, takes Gibson to the extreme. He asks how Gibson avoided the path taken by so many pop wrecks that followed in her footsteps. "Long before there was Britney Spears, there was Debbie Gibson," Heyman, known as the genius who ushered in the Extreme wrestling craze gushed. Then he then added "for me, long before there was Viagra, there was Debbie Gibson!"
"It's not by accident that Deborah Gibson has remained above the trainwreck phenomenon most former child stars fall into," Hustle Producer/Director Mitchell Stuart, who has directed such young pop stars as Fall Out Boy, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and Kelly Clarkson, told the celebrity website OH NO THEY DIDN'T, "after dealing with her for 5 mins, you know you're in the room with a pro's pro."
The show, which can be viewed in its entirety here: http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/heyman/article1130571.ece features Gibson both performing and producing, and she comes off magnificently in both. It's amazing to see just how talented this former teenybopper truly is.
Former sports entertainment writer/producer Paul Heyman, of course, takes Gibson to the extreme. He asks how Gibson avoided the path taken by so many pop wrecks that followed in her footsteps. "Long before there was Britney Spears, there was Debbie Gibson," Heyman, known as the genius who ushered in the Extreme wrestling craze gushed. Then he then added "for me, long before there was Viagra, there was Debbie Gibson!"
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