This week’s episode focuses on the cult of the Hollywood wannabe, in the town where ‘fame is an epidemic’ and people will ’sell their souls’.

Hollywood Lives updates the story of a wannabe first featured in the early 1990s who had just ’stepped off the bus’ from the Mid West. Anna Nicole Smith was yet another Playm

ate of the Year with Hollywood ambitions and the programme looks at how her life turned into a real life Tinsel Town soap opera.

Ultimately, the Hollywood vultures swooped on this naïve, but very wealthy newcomer. Her best friend explains how she was controlled and manipulated by those who surrounded her and the programme shows how now, even in death, Anna Nicole is being sold and exploited.

Also, the show follows the latest young British hopeful trying to break Hollywood and reveal the ways the unscrupulous prey and exploit the fresh faces - and bodies - as they try and seek fame and fortune in La La Land.

For those that fail to make it as celebrities, the next most desired role is that of a Celebrity Personal Assistant. With a survey revealing almost half of American teenage girls want to be Celebrity PA, Hollywood Lives explores what the role of being a Celebrity Slave / Chore Whore really entails.

Plus there is the story of the woman who ‘built a whole career on just one blow job’ - Divine Brown. Thanks to Hugh Grant’s indiscreations with Divine, she has gone from being a Sunset Strip whore to a successful record label executive and business woman.

It is revealed how Grant has effectively put her kids through private schools as she and her pimp/partner - Gangsta Brown - made so much money from the scandal.

Thursday 5 July 2007 10:00pm - 10:30pm on ITV1.