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Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans

Melanie Mills

Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans

iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for some sizzling hot scoop! As the lead makeup artist on DWTS, she had a front-row seat to all the drama, witnessing both the highs and lows on-screen and off. 

Emmy Award-winning makeup artist Melanie Mills joins Cheryl to dish about her backstage experiences on Dancing with the Stars, and she's not glossing over anything! From being asked by production to snoop on the professional dancers to the time Maks threw a soda bottle at her head (he missed), why she's the one who got in trouble for it, and an entire breakdown of what led to her firing and the unexpected aftermath. Grab a fan because it's about to get hot in here! 

Plus, Melanie reveals the pro dancer who didn't like her, the vainest of them all, and a not-so-glowing review on the spray tans the dancers were using, which led to the creation of her own products still being used today! For more info on Melanie Mills Hollywood, visit Melaniemillshollywood.com, and for tips and tricks of the trade, check out her book "Glitter & Glam." 

 

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Job. And I go by the name, Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circles. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday

0:24.7

for Civic Cypher on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:31.0

This is Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans with me, Cheryl Burke, and IHeart Radio podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to your favorite Dancing with the Stars podcast.

0:40.9

Today, we're peeling back the curtain on one of TV's most glittering shows with a very special

0:45.4

guest.

0:46.4

Our guest today has spent years leading the makeup team on Dancing with the Stars, witnessing

0:50.4

firsthand the highs and lows behind the cameras, to say the least. She has honestly

0:56.3

seen it and heard it all from breathtaking transformations to the intense moments before going

1:02.4

live. My next guest is the CEO and founder of Gleam, Face and Body Radiance, which is a

1:07.8

revolutionary all-in-one makeup, moisturizer and glow you can use for your face and body.

1:14.3

Two-time Emmy Award-winning celebrity makeup artists,

1:16.8

one of Hollywood's leading on-camera beauty experts who has been nominated multiple

1:20.5

times for an Emmy and a Guild Award.

1:23.0

She is also the author of Glitter and Glam and was head of the makeup department

1:27.2

on Dancing with the Stars

1:28.3

for so many years. Get your spray tans ready as this episode is going to be one that you won't

1:34.4

want to miss. Everyone, please welcome Melanie Mills to the podcast. Me and you go way back, first of all.

1:41.0

You freaking knew me back when I just was so addicted to as much glitter and as much

1:46.1

nasty spray tan as possible on my body and my eyelids that I could barely open them at one point.

1:52.1

I'm doing, I did these rewatches back in season two and I looked crazy. Like I'm so sorry. I love myself.

1:58.4

I'm not trying to like, you know, put myself down by any means, but I'm just saying I looked crazy. And that was just fresh. It was fresh off the ballroom floor, like literally fresh off the boat right onto CVAS and that lot over there on Beverly and Genesee. Before we actually get into it, though, I just, I like to ask

2:19.3

my guests who they are. Like, who is Melanie Mills behind the gleam and the glitter and the glam?

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