Ask-Elizabeth
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Ask-Elizabeth is the name of a self-help program for teen girls, set up by actress Elizabeth Berkley
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The program was set up in 2006, after Berkley's husband Greg Lauren
commented on the number of girls who came to her asking for advice and joked that she should have her own column. Berkley decided to take action and created her own website to help teen girls.
The website, which she facilitates herself is a self-esteem program and has been very successful. She regularly meets with young girls to discuss different issues and topics and to help them with any problems that they are going through and speaks of her own troubles in the past.
It is also the working title of an upcoming reality series focusing on the program's success and its continued efforts to help girls throughout the country.
The show, which is being produced by MTV
, will feature Berkley travelling around the United States
, facilitating the program and finding out the issues and topics that are most important and relevant to the teenage girls of today.
The MTV project is being developed in the network's News & Documentaries division. Amy Bailey, vice president of development in the department, said Berkley approached MTV with the idea. "She does these workshops around the country with teen girls and gets them to really open up about self-esteem and body issues," said Bailey. "We had been looking for a program that tackled the same issues, so it seemed like a perfect match."
The status of the show itself is unknown as it was originally expected to premiere in late 2008, but production has since been pushed back indefinitely.
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley is an American television, film, and theatre actress. Berkley's most notable roles were in the television series Saved by the Bell, as brainy feminist Jessie Spano, and the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls, as exotic dancer Nomi Malone.-Early life:Berkley was born and raised...
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The program was set up in 2006, after Berkley's husband Greg Lauren
Greg Lauren
-Career:Lauren portrayed Brett Nelson on The Young and the Restless and has appeared in such films as Friends & Family, The Wedding Planner, and Boogie Nights...
commented on the number of girls who came to her asking for advice and joked that she should have her own column. Berkley decided to take action and created her own website to help teen girls.
The website, which she facilitates herself is a self-esteem program and has been very successful. She regularly meets with young girls to discuss different issues and topics and to help them with any problems that they are going through and speaks of her own troubles in the past.
It is also the working title of an upcoming reality series focusing on the program's success and its continued efforts to help girls throughout the country.
The show, which is being produced by MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, will feature Berkley travelling around the United States
United States
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, facilitating the program and finding out the issues and topics that are most important and relevant to the teenage girls of today.
The MTV project is being developed in the network's News & Documentaries division. Amy Bailey, vice president of development in the department, said Berkley approached MTV with the idea. "She does these workshops around the country with teen girls and gets them to really open up about self-esteem and body issues," said Bailey. "We had been looking for a program that tackled the same issues, so it seemed like a perfect match."
The status of the show itself is unknown as it was originally expected to premiere in late 2008, but production has since been pushed back indefinitely.