Rob Shuter

Hey, thank you, Megan.

I'm a huge fan.

It's lovely making my debut on your show.

Yeah, it is a novel.

So let me just say it is fiction, but it's based on four gossip columnists, four entertainment insiders who get a morning show on a struggling cable network.

And for five days a week, they do all the celebrity gossip.

But it becomes evident very quickly that the real gossip is not about the stars.

It's about themselves.

Every one of those characters has a secret.

And as the book goes on, those secrets are revealed.

You start at the bottom.

So I came to America and I got a job as a receptionist at a big Hollywood PR company.

They were opening up a New York office and they needed somebody to answer the phones.

This was 20 years ago.

when celebrities and publicists, they didn't have telephones.

They didn't have cell phones.

Nobody had them.

We didn't have our iPhones back then.

So if you wanted to talk to your publicist, if you were a big star, if you were Cameron Diaz, if you're Whoopi Goldberg, you have to call an office.

And they had to call me.