Mornin Bitches

A Glimpse into Stardom: Scott D. Stewart's Life Among Celebrities

S.J. Mendelson Season 2

Tantalize your ears with tales from the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry, as told by our guest, the multifaceted Scott D. Stewart. Scott's illustrious career has seen the likes of Quincy, Melrose Place, and even the creation of his own television show in Orange County. Unveiling a treasure trove of anecdotes, from red carpet interviews with renowned celebrities to his unexpected shift into figure skating, Scott's journey is as captivating as it is unique.

Bask in the glow of celebrity tales as Scott shares his experiences with Hollywood greats such as Debbie Reynolds and Zendaya. Learn about the nuances of eye lighting from Reynolds herself, and enjoy stories of sober parties at Carrie Fisher's house. Scott also opens up about his work with Twitch and shares heartfelt memories from his interview with Jeff Conaway. This episode is a rollercoaster ride of emotions and experiences straight from the heart of the entertainment world. Tune in to our Spotify channel to join us on this fascinating journey.

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Speaker 1:

Let's run it fast, let's do it. Okay, wait a minute, let me start again. Here I'm back, that's me All right, let's do that. Oh, there we go, morning bitches and dolls. And no one told you they love you today, scott. Then I love you because you're you. Who else are you going to be? Scott G Stewart, thank you for coming into my morning bitches podcast. Oh, you're very Scott. I met you on tip top. You, that energy that you have, that dick clock, phenomenal energy.

Speaker 2:

Well, thank you very much.

Speaker 1:

Morning. Tell me all about yourself.

Speaker 2:

What we're doing right now. We're trying to interview all the celebrities we can get for the TV show. So we've been doing that started out with what's up Orange County. Now we got what's up now and so we got to get all the celebrities, but we got to get them back on the red carpet.

Speaker 1:

Oh yes. So tell me about your journey, like I always think of you, like and this is a compliment, joan Joan Rivas, remember when she used to do everything.

Speaker 2:

I miss her. I love that was one, for I never was able to interview her, but I knew it would be a good time. I figured oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

So how did you start interviewing people like this? I'm just curious, how did it begin for you, Scott?

Speaker 2:

So I started acting as a child. I was on this TV show at 12 called Quincy, with Jack Klugman.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I know, I love Quincy.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I glad you remember it. And then I got a part in Melrose Place as the assistant to Heather Locker. So that's how it started. But then, living in Orange County, not an LA, only limited opportunities came my way. So I decided I'm going to create my own TV show here in Orange County and it started in one city and I got it to go on everywhere, to KDOC, and so we had to go to what's Up Now because we want to get around the world.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, I love that. So you've interviewed so many people. I love the fact that you were on Quincy, so you must have been a kid. Were you his kid? You played his kid, or what?

Speaker 2:

No, I played a friend, I played a baseball player, so I was on the field and my big line was come on, jay, get a hit, get a hit, you can do it. You can do it. That was how. But no, it was just one of the people that, I guess, is Arm. They had some kind of corner situation, but I was 12 years old.

Speaker 1:

Oh, and what about Melrose Place, one of my favorite shows ever?

Speaker 2:

Really.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I love that show so much. I love the drama the best. I love her.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I played in Heather's office as one of the assistants, so you know we didn't get no lead role, okay.

Speaker 1:

But we're in there a lot.

Speaker 2:

You know got to do what you got to do.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I know, Heather Locklear. God bless her. I think about her all the time, and her because you know I'm sober, 30, almost 38 years. So I get it. Oh, I get it, I get it.

Speaker 2:

She's that sometimes.

Speaker 1:

Beautiful. She's had a lot of beautiful women. Sweet, oh my God. She's like I just you know, I revere her in a lot of ways. So that was the beginning for you, right.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Tell me a story.

Speaker 2:

So then, we did that. Then we did you never. It's never too late for anything. So then we decided let's become a figure skater. So at the age of 35 years old, I started figure skating on a dare. And then I decided you know, I like to perform, so I can start to do it at five days a week. And then in 2008, I won the US adult figure skating championships in my 40s.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my God, oh, I've got. I was the worst skater on God. I mean I got a very you know which. I put my silly pictures up, you know, meeting my bra and underwear. Anyway, you know I'm 75, what the heck right. So what, what the fuck right.

Speaker 2:

What the fuck? What the fuck Uh. I was never too late. Maybe you and I could become a pair and maybe, you know, we could do the Olympics together in a couple of years.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that would be so great. Yeah Me, wait God, I'm going to go back because my upper body is so strong. My lower body was never anything. I always had skinny legs, so that was the hard part for me. But, yeah, maybe. Anyway, that's amazing, so we did it up. Yes, yes.

Speaker 2:

So then what? And then we decided we're going to do some interviews. So I never knew. You know that it would be so, so much fun to go on the red carpet. And so we got lucky. I met Debbie Reynolds. She let me come to her house and she was what really, I would say, out of all the interviews I've ever done, debbie Reynolds really was my the best one ever. She let me come to her house and her managers and we did like a 30 minute interview. She taught me about eye lighting, how the lights had to be a certain way for the filming, and then we got to sing together, which is one of my favorite things. You know, when I interviewed these celebrities, we're going to have a good time. We want to sing, we want to dance, we want to do it up, and it's always going to be a good time. So you never have to worry about Scott. So if I can get someone to sing with me, I'm doing it.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that is so wonderful. It was she living. Was she living at Carrie's house at that time?

Speaker 2:

They live next door to each other, I know.

Speaker 1:

I know I went to. I went to, oh, my friend. Years ago he had his sober, one of his sober parties at Carrie's house. So I have a picture of me and Debbie together. So you know, it was like I forget when I wanted my friends. She told him back in those days her gay husband. He's passed on now, oh my God, but Debbie Reynolds, what she went through what she, what her life was. Which one Debbie or Carrie?

Speaker 2:

Both of them, oh my God, and the way that they passed. But Debbie, I mean she, her, the husbands, you know, obviously, the scandal with Elizabeth Taylor.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my God.

Speaker 2:

A trooper and you know she had said about her daughter, carrie. She said the way to get you know to talk to your children is what you do is get up early in the morning and you go and you lay behind their car on the ground and then they're going to run you over or they're going to talk to you. So that's what she did to make sure she talked to Carrie on a regular basis.

Speaker 1:

Oh, oh my God. Yeah, they were very welcoming because my friend was, like you know, one of her best friends and you know then, well, whatever, very young Debbie, that's scandal because I'm 75. So very you know. So I saw all of that and everybody, oh my God, hey, did Eddie Fisher.

Speaker 2:

Hey Taylor.

Speaker 1:

Oh my God, because you know for the next door neighbor, best friends, oh they.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, yes, but you know. But anyway she was great and of course, you know, trying to do especially with the tick tock. You know we try to get those interviews on, so I've done so many of the great, you know class, you know old MGM stars, but of course they want to see Zendaya, so I got to interview I love Zendaya. We got Jennifer Lopez we're trying to get and then I was close to Twitch, so that's another story and so I've worked with Twitch several times and that was just. There's just so many things. And then I did Jeff Conaway, if you remember him from Greece.

Speaker 1:

I would say I did his.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I did his. I was fortunate enough to do his last interview of his life before he passed away. We sang go grease lie ninja, we did it. We did that. He had some issues, you know.

Speaker 1:

All these people with their issues, honey, because you know all of the non is for so many years. I know a lot of these people. They tried and they tried and they tried, and you know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Play babe.

Speaker 2:

Yep, but you and I are still young. We're still trying to accomplish as much as we can.

Speaker 1:

You're young, I'm like you know, I'm like the energizer bunny Keep you know, takes a lick in but keeps on ticking. So you know, tell me about your bad. You grew up in orange county.

Speaker 2:

I did. I was actually. I was born in la, ucla and Hospital, and then at age four we moved to orange county and I've been here ever since, realizing that if I lived in la maybe I'd have some more opportunities come my way. But we're, you know, we got to get what we can get and now so many things are on zoom. So you know, before it used to be go to the audition, then the call back, then the fitting. You see, go to la four or five times and those agents would love you close by right.

Speaker 1:

So you love. What part of orange could you know? I worked for a year almost a year, that and lake farra's being the Nounie at the lender, which is a, a bank that loans money, and that was in. I Never been to lake farra's, tony, that was. You know. I'm sick of 60. What was it? 60 miles one way, 60 miles back driving down. But it was a great experience. I got to see a whole different group of people that I had never, because orange county, what do I know? I'm a jewish girl from brooklyn.

Speaker 2:

No, is it orange? County florida is it orange?

Speaker 1:

Orange lake. Farra's tia no no, I know.

Speaker 2:

But people, when I say orange county, they always refer oh, is it in florida or is it? But you know, we're doing it up here. We got our real housewives right of orange county.

Speaker 1:

God, have you interviewed any of them?

Speaker 2:

Almost every single one from all. That's how, back when we started the show 12 years ago, I got alexis blina, then I ended up getting tamra Judge. So no, if you go like to what's up tv shows, our website dot com, you can see all my interviews with. Almost every real housewife there was, so we look you know they always bring the drama.

Speaker 1:

So what do you want people to know about you? So, like you know, feeling like I want to do the, did you want to be the next Joan rivis, or what?

Speaker 2:

I don't know about Joan rivers, but you know, mentioned at the beginning about being dick clark. I love, uh, you know so I'd love to host my own game show. So game shows are my thing. Right now I've done six game shows. Uh, from prices, right, we got the showcase showdown. I won that. One versus a hundred. We got you bet your life split second singing be people split second what?

Speaker 2:

yes, I just was. Yeah, I was just on that show a few weeks ago. That's a new one on game show network with that john michael higgins. He hosts it until you. Basically you got to be fast, okay, you got to answer fast and the quicker your answer. So I did good, I won the show. But then you go for the final 60 seconds for the Wow but didn't win the big money, but we won the show.

Speaker 1:

So no, it's fun show. Fun show, okay, good, wow, you know, yeah, I love game shows, dude. We were on. You know I'm on that show, bubby's no best on wish, like television network where we match people up or match. I am a, my grandmother was a matchmaker, so we were on the prices right. Last year we won kitchen equipment, which we still. I'm just saying because you know I don't have the equipment to last me forever, forever. Yeah, the game shows you a thing Well, with your personality, of course.

Speaker 2:

Well, thanks Right. What a person that's ever seen you. Oh, libra, me too. Oh really, I was born in October. I missed it. It's late.

Speaker 1:

September Libra. Wow Well, libra, libra. Men are flirts, is that true? Oh, what a person. What a person.

Speaker 2:

What a person. Oh, it's too early, right? No, okay.

Speaker 1:

Do you want me to stand for darling?

Speaker 2:

Oh Donald.

Speaker 1:

Oh Scott, oh God, I was going to say Scott Darling Stewart, are you parents still alive?

Speaker 2:

My mother is. My father passed away, unfortunately a couple of years ago, so I miss him a lot. But you know the Scott Stewart name, you know it's already taken. So with him and I didn't, you know, I tell my mom all the day I wish I had some kind of like fancier name, like I even thought, oh, stuart Scott was cool. Well, we find out there's a Stuart Scott already too. So we have to add that D for the IMDB and the union.

Speaker 1:

Right, right. No, you would be such a good host on a game show. I see you doing that.

Speaker 2:

We, it's going to happen.

Speaker 1:

I got to believe. Manifesting itself is really when things are going to happen. So your mom is still alive. Would you have any brothers and sisters?

Speaker 2:

I have one sister still alive, unfortunately, my brother. He passed away. You know he was had a lot of issues, you know, like we had talked about earlier. So with the drugs and it. Just he couldn't. You know that he couldn't, you know, free from a teenager. We he tried 20, 30 years in and out of prison and we just kept hoping for the best. But we think now his life was not good. He was living under the bridge. We, you know it was like. You know sometimes, you know, we think he's, he's not suffering anymore. So you, know.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for being so honest with me about that. You know my brother. I lost him in 2010 where he was a Vietnam vet. He came back with his issues from that and he you know PTSD and he never really recovered from that and it was very sudden. It was just life on my story. So you're a mama's boy.

Speaker 2:

I'm her favorite no.

Speaker 1:

Wait, I can say that. I can say, you being your mama's favorite, I am.

Speaker 2:

I'm the youngest, of course, of the children, so you know, my brothers and sisters made so many mistakes that my parents were kind of over it, so I was kind of independent at a young age at like 13.

Speaker 2:

I graduated from high school at 15 because I wanted to do full time acting and they'd only let you do four hours on the set and four hours of school. So I thought, hey, if I graduated I'm going to get more work. But it didn't necessarily work out that way, because they loved to hire 18 to play under. You know, when you're big, some but the reality is for you.

Speaker 1:

It's like you're young, so you could do it. It's like you manifest something. Like you know, I gave up acting for 25 years to raise my son and went back to it 10 years ago and created. I created my own thing now who I am, what I want to do and what I want to say in the world. So there's so many more opportunities for people old ladies and old men, like you know, old fans like me, or old ads, as I like to say, but you like. So what are your dreams and goals now that you've like established this show and what do you want to do?

Speaker 2:

I mean I am ready for some opportunities. I'm actually going back into acting myself and I actually was starting to. I was filming a feature film and then the strike happened. So now we are waiting, but I'm looking forward to dabbling into that. And then I've done a few more TV commercials. I did the campaign for visit Palm Springs. So that was great because it took place like in the 1950s, like a throwback, which was kind of cool. So I'm up for any. You know all opportunities to come my way, you know.

Speaker 2:

Well you look over from the South? No, but you know what? As funny as I did a lot of business, so I talked to customers for many years in the Texas and everything. So sometimes that country accent does come out, I love it Like people say, are you from the South?

Speaker 1:

That's JA, I went, yeah, south Brooklyn.

Speaker 2:

Exactly.

Speaker 1:

Exactly.

Speaker 2:

My South Orange County, you know. Oh, I know that honey.

Speaker 1:

So I'm just, you know, it's so important for me in having people on this show that really I just say something. I've had some incredible people with so many different messages you know on the show. So what would you like people to know about you, scott D Stewart, before we just say bye-bye, what are the things you want to? You know, speak for as long as you want about it, whatever you want to say.

Speaker 2:

Basically, I just want to say that it's all about morning bitches and my favorite show and TikTok, oh, and all I can do all day long is watch your videos. It's all about you today, okay, and every day. And for you to do the flaming hot, oh, I'm not into that. But no, seriously, it's a pleasure to meet you and I admire everything about you, and so that's what. But for myself, you I'm a survivor and I feel like everybody should never give up. I have a bucket list. I'm doing everything I want to do.

Speaker 2:

When I pass, I want to say I've done it all. People say to me all the time I can't believe you did this, I can't believe you did that, oh, my, and that's. We're not setting myself to one thing I want to do. I've done everything I can so far and I'm going to make it happen, and so stay tuned, basically. But I love everybody out there that watches my interviews they're so nice and goes to the WhatsApp now and the WhatsApp TV shows to check it out. But when I do those red carpet interviews, it's about the person I'm interviewing, okay, and so I love that because I know I'm going to shine and so. But it's right now, their time, okay, so it's going to come back to me and so I am a very big on promoting others and to try to make them successful, and I hope I'm along for the ride.

Speaker 1:

Well, of course you are, scott. You're just like, oh my god, what you just said about you. You know, like you're inspirational because I love your thing. It's like me never give up. I mean, you know, people could say, oh, I don't want tic-tac-bubby or ma kiddie arrest issue. I don't know, I don't really want her for that, because my dream is to be like you know, the center square and like Hollywood squares, like fall in. I could see you on that too. You'd be. I'd love to have been on that. I'd love to be on that show, wouldn't you?

Speaker 2:

why would be so great, wouldn't it?

Speaker 1:

be on ma kiddie, or tic-tac-bubby, what do you? You know, go all in was one of my icon. Oh my god right.

Speaker 2:

Well, maybe they're gonna come back with it. You know they're have to come up with more. Uh, you know, game shows, reality shows, because the scripted. So maybe we're we're gonna manifest that Hollywood that's my every other reality.

Speaker 1:

I love reality TV. I love game shows. I just love the. You know people hate it, but so what a lot of who cares right?

Speaker 2:

a lot of options. If you don't like it, you can turn the channel that's right, honey.

Speaker 1:

Well, scottie stewart, you leave brun that you are, you flirt. When's your birthday, october? What? October 17 so we can't really. My mom Mildred Mendelssohn's. October 17, really 1923. She was born. She passed when she was 85. Oh my god, yeah, I don't think I've ever met another person with that birthday so I gotta have you on my show.

Speaker 2:

Maybe I'm gonna get you to sing with me oh, I'd love to.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my god, yes, yeah. So I just want everybody tune in to Spotify in probably about 20 minutes, when they can hear you, when you could listen to you. Thank you for coming on my show, honey, I love you and if no one tells you they love you today, then I love you because you use God bye, bye.