When You Step Upon A Star: Cringeworthy Confessions of a Tabloid Bad Boy is a humorous—yet brutally honest—tell-all from a reformed National Enquirer bad boy who exposed celebrities' private lives while harboring deeply personal secrets of his own. Discover what inspired author WILLIAM KECK to infiltrate the off-limits realms of the Hollywood icons he grew up idolizing, and the invaluable life lessons learned along the way that ultimately guided him to protect and befriend the celebrities he'd once wronged. Filled with original celebrity-penned essays and over 150 photographs illustrating the author's decades of celebrity exposés and encounters.
Meet Jacobs Brown's latest author William Keck
William Keck began his career working for TV titan Aaron Spelling and as an NBC and CBS studio page before turning his focus to journalism and television production. He has worked as a staff reporter for the National Enquirerand USA Today, a senior editor and columnist for TV Guide, a regular contributor to People, Us Weekly, Closer Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Disney twenty-threeand the Los Angeles Times, and as a senior talent producer for NBC, Discovery Channel and Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family. He lives in Los Angeles with his Austrian partner, two dogs and a cat who know all their secrets.
“I'm a firm believer that we all have the ability to evolve and not allow mistakes made in our pasts to define who we are in the present. Even former National Enquirer reporter, William Keck, with whom I crossed paths many years ago. I applaud the mission to offer transparency, make amends and heal old wounds, in his book, When You Step Upon A Star.” --Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman) * * * “When You Step Upon A Star offers a rare look at my dear friend Adam West, and so many other beloved Hollywood legends, from the unique perspective of a celebrity reporter who was assigned to expose their secrets. The invaluable life lessons he learned during his outrageous encounters prove that any leopard can change its spots.” — Julie Newmar (Batman’sCatwoman) * * * “All of us have done things in our lives we're not proud of. It takes guts to admit it. Especially publicly. That is what Will Keck does in his book, When You Step Upon A Star—cops to the lesser him from the more enlightened him he has matured into. He does it with brutal honesty and a lot of humor. Bravo!” — Dee Wallace (E.T.) * * * “I thought I knew everything there was to know about Will Keck from our years working together on Home & Family. But until I read When You Step Upon A Star, I had no idea that while I was interviewing stars for Entertainment Tonight, he was hiding in trees and stealing celebrities’ garbage to land Hollywood scoops of his own.” — Mark Steines, TV Host (Entertainment Tonight) * * * “When I was making Lost, I crossed paths with Will Keck, who was covering our show for USA Today and TV Guide. Will was smart, engaging and witty, and he worked hard to bring his publications interesting and fresh scoops … Ironically, I was so busy making the show that I knew almost nothing about what was going on in the private lives of our actors. So I when found myself reading Will’s stories, I discovered he always knew way more about their private lives than I did. He also pressed me and my showrunning partner, Damon, for information. His questions went right to the heart of the story stuff we were trying to keep secret. It was always a challenge for us to protect ourselves from his snooping, but at the end of the day he respected the stuff that really needed to be kept secret, and we were grateful for all the coverage and attention Will gave to our show.” — Carlton Cuse (Showrunner, Lost) * * * “The confessions recounted in William Keck’s When You Step Upon A Star tell the story of a former tabloid bad boy uncovering personal secrets of Hollywood’s most notable and infamous figures...This just shows me that we all deserve the space and opportunity to evolve and show the most authentic versions of ourselves. I wish him all the best on his literary debut. Welcome to the club!” — Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie)