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Meet the Cast of PEOPLE’s Short-Form Reality Show The Fourth Wall

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For the first time, PEOPLE is giving you a behind-the-scenes look into the newsroom, where we publish 200 stories every day and cover the hottest in Hollywood. Before you tune into The Fourth Wall — which airs episodes three times a week and is available exclusively on the PEOPLE App — get to know the faces bringing you the latest scoop.

Charlotte Triggs

Editor-in-Chief and General Manager

Hometown: Madison, New Jersey

Childhood Dream Job: “I wanted to be a ballerina, and I went pretty far down the road of actually training to do that.”

Favorite Celebrity Interview: “I’ve interviewed Gisele Bündchen for PEOPLE a million times, starting in 2006 when I did the interview on the Victoria’s Secret private plane. I was so shy back then that when she waved to me at the party later, I looked over my shoulder to see who she was talking to.”

Leah Wyar

President

Hometown: Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Closest Brush with Fame: “I was on two reality shows…and my husband, who made an appearance or two, is the only one of us who’s ever been recognized!”

Favorite Celebrity Interaction: “Being at lunch with Cynthia Erivo during her Color Purple stint on Broadway, when she spontaneously sang ‘My Funny Valentine’ to our table of eight.”

Janine Rubenstein

Editor at Large and Host

Hometown: San Francisco

Favorite Celebrity Interactions: “Celine Dion singing me ‘Happy Birthday,’ a long afternoon at the Plaza with ’80s icon Winona Ryder, an emotional evening with civil rights shero Myrlie Evers-Williams, stealing 10 minutes in the corner at a party with Matt Damon and shooting the -ish with Snoop Dogg for an epic cover story.”

Office Tidbit: “There are no Miranda Priestlys! Just a gang of wildly talented, hard-working folks who love to chase down a good story. Oh, and the overhead TV screens toggle between Bravo and CNN only.”

Julie Jordan

Editor at Large

Hometown: Auburn, Alabama

Closest Brush with Fame: “I’m part of a small group of mom friends who go ghost hunting for fun (@ghostmoms). We have a little over 13,000 followers on Insta and have had several videos go viral with more than 3 million views each.”

Last Time I Was Starstruck: “A toss-up between Kevin Costner and Dwayne Johnson. They both make you feel like you are the only person in the room when they are talking to you.”

Andrea Lavinthal

Executive Director of Special Integrated Projects

Hometown: Livingston, New Jersey

Childhood Dream Job: “A magazine editor — for real, I’ve been obsessed with magazines since I was a kid. I also wanted to be a supermodel when I was like 11. I blame my parents for giving me a delusional amount of confidence.”

Closest Brush with Fame: “Anytime I’m on the Today show, I get messages from my family, friends and people I haven’t spoken to in years — like my fourth grade math teacher — telling me how excited they are to see me on TV.”

Dory Jackson

Staff Editor, TV

Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland

Closest Brush with Fame: “Whenever I do 90s Con, the fans have come to recognize me now and stop me to meet me.”

Last Time I Was Starstruck: “I met my celebrity style icon Emma Roberts at the Good Burger 2 afterparty and told her I loved her and she sweetly said, ‘Thank you!’ And then I freaked out because I didn’t think I’d ever meet her.”

Alex Ross

Staff Writer

Hometown: Lynnfield, Massachusetts

Favorite Celebrity Interview: “Everybody, and I mean everybody, knows how much I adore Mariska Hargitay. I’ve seen every episode of SVU, and I’ve interviewed her countless times for PEOPLE — which is a surreal thing to say — and somehow every time we see each other is more special than the last.”

Last Time I Was Starstruck: “Savannah Guthrie spotted me at her book tour stop and yelled my name. She introduced me as her friend to the people around us, and she gave me the nicest compliments, journalist to journalist, that I’ll ever receive.”

Carly Breit

Senior Platforms Editor

Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Childhood Dream Job: “I wanted to be a Radio City Rockette. I even went to Rockette ‘training camp’ over the summers in high school! Though my kicks weren’t quite high enough to make the real-life team, I fell in love with New York City.”

Last Time I Was Starstruck: “I covered the red carpet at the Met Gala last year and you name ‘em, I was starstruck by them. Ariana Grande, Gigi Hadid, Zendaya, Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish, SJP! It was a dream come true and one I happy-cried on the cab ride home from.”

Starr Bowenbank

Staff Editor, Style

Hometown: New York City

Childhood Dream Job: “Pop star… until I realized I was too shy.”

Favorite Celebrity Interview: “I loved speaking with Marina. We gabbed about having so many odd jobs before making it in our respective industries and discussed the joys of dumbphones — if you know, you know!”

Jack Irvin

Writer-Reporter, Music

Hometown: Hopewell Junction, New York

Closest Brush with Fame: “The time I made it onto Getty Images in a photo labeled ‘Rita Ora and guests.’ ”

Last Time I Was Starstruck: “I was extremely starstruck at Lady Gaga’s Mayhem album listening party hosted by Spotify. Gaga danced with fans as they heard the album for the first time, and she signed my wrist. I freaked out and cried.”

Lizzie Hyman

Writer-Reporter

Hometown: Allentown, Pennsylvania

Closest Brush with Fame: “Chili’s follows me on Instagram. We message sometimes.”

Last Time I Was Starstruck: “I can recite Step Brothers word for word, so meeting Will Ferrell on the red carpet this year was beyond my wildest dreams. He showed up in a popped collar sweat suit, and we both agreed he deserves the title of PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive.”

Brendan Le

Editorial Assistant

Hometown: Orange County, California

Favorite Celebrity Interview: “One of my first red carpet interviews was Tilda Swinton, and she was so gracious with her time and towered over me in this gorgeous feathered suit.”

Office Tidbit: “We occasionally get visits from McDonald’s Grimace, who prances around the office in all his purple glory.”



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