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The PR Machine That BREAKS Child Stars
The passing of Hayden Panettiere has reignited a conversation Jacki and Lyle have been wanting to have for a long time: what actually happens to child stars once the cameras start rolling, and who is supposed to be protecting them. In this episode, we take a hard look at the machinery behind childhood fame, from Bugs Life and Heroes to a lifetime of tabloid headlines, and ask why an industry that claims to manage image so carefully so often fails to manage the person underneath it.
We widen the lens from Hayden to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber, tracing a pattern that starts…
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