Calling all virgins: Overland Park native wants you for an upcoming reality series
An Overland Park native is on a national hunt for virgins. Justine Liese, a University of Kansas grad, is looking for a virtuous few who are 18 and older for an upcoming reality series.
Reality-TV production runs in Liese’s family. Her mother, Sharon Liese, created High School Confidential, a documentary covering her daughter’s days at Blue Valley Northwest High School. Its eight installments ran on the cable network WE in 2008.
Liese lives in Los Angeles, where she met casting director Christopher Catalano. His credits include Big Brother and Rock of Love With Bret Michaels. When Catalano got the call to find virgins, he asked Liese to join the search as an associate producer.
“I am so happy to be working for him now and was very excited to be casting for this show,” Liese says. “I am given the chance to cast people all over the U.S., but I was especially excited to be pitching the people I know from the Midwest who are virgins.”
Catalano adds: “The viewers are going to watch them go through this — being a virgin at 18 years and older. There’s only 20 percent in America that are. By the time that they’re 20 years of age, it goes down to 13 percent. They’re like a unicorn. You rarely see them.”
The Pitch recently talked virgins with Catalano and Liese. Here’s an excerpt from that conversation:
