During her earlier years, JoJo would listen and learn as her mother practiced her hymns. She started singing when she was two years and 3 months old by imitating her mother, putting her own spin on everything from nursery rhymes to pop and jazz tunes. On the A&E’s show Child Stars III: Teen Rockers, her mother claimed that JoJo had a borderline genius IQ. As a child, JoJo enjoyed attending Native American festivals and acted locally in professional theaters.
Let’s set the record straight: “True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet” is Valerie Bertinelli’s Lifetime debut.
“You would think it was my millionth,” the actress said of her first Lifetime original production, which premieres Saturday at 9 p.m. “Every movie I have done has been on Lifetime. I think they have had marathons of my movies throughout the decades.”
While the cablenet has a reputation for weepy films, this film isn’t that way at all. Here, Bertinelli plays the grounded family friend of a Hollywood starlet on a downward spiral. Foxboro star Joanna Levesque, better known as the singer JoJo, plays Morgan, a thinly veiled Lindsay Lohan. She looks a lot like her, though Levesque shrugged off comparisons.
After auditioning for the television show Kids Say the Darndest Things: On the Road in Boston, JoJo was given a spot to perform on the show, singing Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit “Respect”. Host Bill Cosby and the crowd at Faneuil Hall responded overwhelmingly to her performance. Soon after, The Oprah Winfrey Show contacted her, inviting her to perform. She also performed on Maury, on one of the frequent “kids-with-talent” episodes, as well as many others. Reminiscing, she has stated that “when it came to performing, I just had no fear”.
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