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Hollywood Virgin
Breaking Into and Out of Show Business
Jason Felts (Author), Sir Richard Branson (Foreword by)
9781394323838, Wiley
Hardback, published 20 March 2025
240 pages
23.1 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.431 kg
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Hollywood Virgin has captured hearts, headlines, and high praise around the world—not just for its Hollywood insider revelations, but for its raw honesty, relatability, and universal truths about ambition, identity, success, and knowing when to walk away. From small-town Texas to Hollywood power tables, Jason Felts chronicles his meteoric rise through the cutthroat entertainment industry—creating films, shows, and music festivals, launching global brand campaigns, building a Virgin-branded entertainment empire, while rubbing elbows and butting heads with A-listers before walking away at the height of it all. Jason elegantly removes the concealer off the powerful, fake, and dishonest power players at the same time he equally shines light on the authentic, selfless, or lesser-known stories in Hollywood. This wildly entertaining and deeply honest book is packed with jaw-dropping celebrity encounters, untold industry stories, and hard-earned lessons on ambition, identity, and staying human in an industry that rewards anything but. Felts shares his rollercoaster ride of hustle and reinvention, revealing how he: And that’s just the beginning. Hollywood Virgin is a story of ambition, fame, identity, burnout, reinvention—and learning that success isn’t always what it seems. More than a behind-the-scenes memoir from the founder and CEO of Virgin’s entertainment company, it’s a bold, unfiltered crash course in how to make it, take it, lose it, and leave it all behind before it costs you everything. Raw, hilarious, and unflinchingly real, this book is for anyone chasing a dream, surviving a grind, or looking for the courage to rewrite their own script.
Prologue xi Part I Ready, Set, Action 1 Chapter 1 Peaches 3 Chapter 2 California, Here I Come 13 Chapter 3 Do Better 27 Chapter 4 Eight’s Company 35 Chapter 5 Ovitz and Favors 45 Chapter 6 Who Are You Wearing? 53 Chapter 7 Read the Tea Leaves 63 Part II Take One 75 Chapter 8 Meet a Kardashian 77 Chapter 9 Searching for Greenlight 97 Chapter 10 Scarf or Noose? 113 Part III Take Two 123 Chapter 11 Necker Island 125 Chapter 12 Becoming Limitless 137 Chapter 13 Glad Expression, Wrong Impression 147 Chapter 14 One Pulse 157 Part IV That’s a Wrap 173 Chapter 15 Kaaboom 175 Chapter 16 What Matters 187
Foreword xiii
Epilogue 199
Where Are They Now? 201
Acknowledgments 205
About the Author 209
Index 211
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
