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Everyone nowadays, it seems, has joined the cult of celebrity. We want to KNOW what its like to be one, feel what its like to have their life, get the inside scoop on what theyre thinking, wearing, doing&Are they really like what they appear to be?

Emily Fine gets the chance to actually live with a celebrity: racy, sexy Theodora Twist. She happens to live in Theodoras old house in her old home town. She was also (briefly) a friend of Theodoras back before she was famous they had both lost a father and Emily had been introduced to the young Dora (as she was known then) to help her through the aftermath.

Theodora has a particularly bad bad girl image that she needs to clean up and her agent has set her up with a new reality show shes going back to her old home town, moving in with Emilys family and is going to be a regular teenager for a while. Hahahaha! How is someone like Theodora Twist, the ultra-sexy actress who is actually dating twin brothers at the same time, supposed to become a regular teenager? Shes never been one!

Emily, on the other hand, is a regular teen. She has a few friends, but has never run with the popular crowd. No one hardly even knew who she was until its announced that Theodora is coming to live with her and that a TV show will be filmed at her house and on school grounds.

At first, Emily and Theodora are off to a rocky start. They dont have much in common&at least on the outside. But soon, Emily is helping to ground Theodora and Theodora is helping Emily spread her wings. There are the inevitable clashes with the in-crowd, but if Theodora can put paparazzi in their place, a few peroxide blondes dont phase her.

I read this book close to the same time as Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita, which was an interesting juxtaposition. Whereas Kaitlin is a good girl at heart, Theodora is the quintessential bad girl though she does have a good heart (when she listens to it). The details of her life and the secrets she lets out tell readers of a seamier side of Hollywood.

Recommended for readers aged 14 and up, especially those girls that want the inside scoop on just how bad Hollywood can really be, and for those that like to root for the underdog (which, depending on how you think of it, could be either Emily or Theodora).