Deborah "Debbie" Gibson, the original pop teen princess, whose record for being the youngest person to score number one as singer-songwriter-producer (for her 1987 debut "Out of the Blue") is still intact, was a guest on this week's "Heyman Hustle" program, the flagship broadband television program for NewsCorp's new SUN-TV broadband global television network. The program took an exclusive look at the secret rehearsal Gibson produced and performed in, preparing for her new show at Harrah's in Atlantic City.

"It's not by accident that Deborah Gibson has remained above the trainwreck phenomenon most former child stars fall into," Hustle Producer/Director Mitchell Stuart, who has directed such young pop stars as Fall Out Boy, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and Kelly Clarkson,  told the celebrity website OH NO THEY DIDN'T,  "after dealing with her for 5 mins, you know you're in the room with a pro's pro."

Paul Heyman, of course, takes Gibson to the extreme. He asks how Gibson avoided the path taken by so many pop wrecks that followed in her footsteps. "Long before there was Britney Spears, there was Debbie Gibson," Heyman gushed. Then he then added "for me, long before there was Viagra, there was Debbie Gibson!"

 

Here's the link to the Heyman Hustle featuring Deborah "Debbie" Gibson:
http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/heyman/article1130571.ece