Emma Stone Got Her Big Break on a VH1 "Partridge Family" Reality TV Show, 20 Years Ago. Looking Back, She Calls Experience 'Really Intense' Angela AndaloroOctober 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM 0 VH1;Getty Emma Stone on the 2005 reality series (left) and today Emma Stone first appeared on a VH1 reality series,...
- - Emma Stone Got Her Big Break on a VH1 "Partridge Family" Reality TV Show, 20 Years Ago. Looking Back, She Calls Experience 'Really Intense'
Angela AndaloroOctober 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Emma Stone on the 2005 reality series (left) and today -
Emma Stone first appeared on a VH1 reality series, In Search of the Partridge Family
The young actress was just 15 when she won Susan Dey's role, as Laurie Partridge, in the subsequent TV movie
The reality competition has come up a few times as Stone promotes her latest film, Bugonia
Emma Stone is looking back at her career's unlikely, but fascinating roots.
The actress, 36, was first introduced to the world as Emily Stone on In Search of the Partridge Family in 2005. The reality series searched for new actors to take on the classic roles of The Partridge Family cast for a TV movie.
Stone recently spoke about the experience in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, explaining, "The New Partridge Family was a VH1 reality search competition, similar to an American Idol. There was singing. There were like little scenes we would do, and every week, people would be voted off."
The Oscar-winner says the unique experience was formative for her, sharing, "I made lifelong friends there. I also ended up meeting my manager, now of 20 years, Doug Wald. It was a pivotal experience in my life, but really intense to be on a reality competition."
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Stone says the experience made her sympathetic to those on The Bachelor and other such reality competitions, "Because you sort of go into a vortex where you're like, 'This is the only thing that matters.' You lose total perspective.'"
The competition came up again during her appearance on SiriusXM's Radio Andy, in conversation with Andy Cohen and her Bugonia costar Jesse Plemons.
"To me, in a way, that actually feels like my big break by my definition, which is that I met a bunch of people who changed my life. But the, I guess exposure-wise, [it was] Superbad," she explained to the two.
Cohen didn't remember the show, prompting Stone to explain its premise, calling it "a true reality search competition, where you had to move into the Sheraton Universal in Universal City, right by Universal Studios in LA."
"I got the Susan Dey part, Laurie Partridge. And then we made a pilot episode, and then it was apparently so disastrous that the writers took their names off of it and they aired the pilot at like 10:15 on a Friday — some in between time, not 10 and not 10:30, like 10:15, one Friday. That was it. Or at least that's how I remember it. If you look it up, maybe that isn't the story, but it's what I remember it to be and how it felt to me."
In addition to meeting her manager, Stone also met other people who are near and dear to her heart.
"I met one of my best friends, Dave Petruzzi. I ended up meeting a man named Billy Mann, who was the music producer on it. And he said, 'You know what? I think you need representation or you need someone to help you while you're auditioning for all this stuff.' And so he introduced me to my lawyer, who's still my lawyer, who introduced me to my manager, who's still my manager. And it's been over 20 years with all of these people. So I like still work with everybody and I'm friends with all these people that I met. Teddy Geiger, I met there. I so many people that are so important to me still."
The opportunity also brought Stone into Partridge Family history, where she met some of the original people who gave the show its legacy.
"I never met Susan Dey. But I met David Cassidy. I met Danny Bonaduce. I met Shirley Jones. Yes. It was crazy. I mean, we met a lot of people."
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