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WJLA Nightline January 13, 2015

Does she really . Do you hate skinny people . But first the nightline 5. How does animation work . You need a team. Working together. Doing all kinds of jobs. And the best place to find any job in any industry is on the worlds number one job site. Indeed, how the world works. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good even. Thaning for joining us. Perhaps its inevitable in our oversharing culture that there are some couples willing to share every detail of their life and love with millions of viewers. And no were not talking about the bachelor. Tonight youre about to meet selfmade youtube Reality Stars who figured out the secret formula for turning their love stories into profit. Heres abcs david wright. Will you accept this rose . Reporter the bachelor is by no means the only one whose love life is on full display. Now on youtube there are noteworthy examples of people who star in their own homemade reality shows. You wanted a story we got a story for you. Reporter case in point, Colleen Ballenger and josh evans. Theyre . Branton, missouri. Its joshs birthday. Theyve been dating for five years. And, you guessed it josh is about to pop the question. The proposal captured for posterity on video. Will you marry me . Yes, of course. Reporter and posted to youtube. 2,600,000 views and counting. You guys make a living at this . We do. I have a tour so theres some income from that. Then on youtube theres ad revenue. Stop reporter there are some things you wont see on their youtube channel. So weird. What about sex . What about sex . Do we see it . No absolutely. Its not that kind of a channel, my god. Reporter but their channels are hugely successful. Colleen and josh have 500 million views between them. Sometimes i like to take baths reporter she has two youtube personalities. Appearing as her wacky alter ego myrrh ran dashes other times as herself. Look how wild she is. Reporter miranda was featured on comedians in cars getting coffee, Jerry Seinfelds online comedy show. Are we going to give the interview after the coffee . This is the interview. You havent even asked me any questions. Reporter josh is a rising star on youtube. A singer and a personality. Back of the head just like blogging reporter known as joshua dutown with a huge following of his own. This is a marriage or a merger . This is a marriage. Its a marriage. I mean, its real. We just happen to be putting it all on the internet for everyone to watch. Reporter much of their life vlogged, video blogged, right here from this room. At the end of the every video i do i say, be nice to people. Be nice to people. Be nice to people. Be nice to people. And its become this thing thats taken off. Put it on shirts now all these kids are Walking Around town wearing a be nice to people shirt. You keep saying kids. Uhhuh. Who are these kids . The mass majority of our audience is 13 to 21. Reporter those young viewers get a front row seat for the romance, the intimacy and the occasional conflict that comes with any love story. Its so disgusting. Reporter we are at the l. A. County museum as they shoot their engagement photos blogging the whole time. Ive got to ask, were in this romantic setting. But he stalked you on facebook . He stalked me. He saw my videos on youtube. And my miranda videos. I fell in love with miranda. That should be a warning sign. Im going to have to red flag this. Now were true best friends. Hes like theres got to be more to this. He found videos of me my myself with my sister on my facebook page. He stalked me on facebook a little bit. Stalking is a harsh word i think. I looked into her. Reporter they actually vlogged their first date. Have you ever posted that anywhere . No we were waiting until its a nightline exclusive. We will be getting married once i get a ring. She says my god, yes. Reporter in an era when traditional soap operas like all my children have bit the dust, this is where people are turning for serialized romance. Its not a small audience. How many followers at this point . A lot. On my channel, on my two channels collectively theres 4 million. Theres a lot of eyes a lot of people who are interested in different parts of your life. Reporter try vlogging with them at an l. A. Shopping mall as we did. In 30 seconds youll see, sure enough, some High School Kids recognized them. Josh and colleen are in good company. The internets biggest star cutie pies other half goes by cutie pie. Theyre out there vlogging too. Anthony padilla just broke off his relationship with another popular youtuber. They explained their separation in this video. We are no longer together. Yep. A i know a lot of people are probably shocked, obviously. Give them a moment sweetheart. Reporter some take it a step further. Putting their whole family into the mix. Were here at the park. Audrey is apparently in charge. She told me i cant ride that. How come you get to ride that but i cant ride on it . Can i ride now . No dad. Reporter britney and austin were inspired to start vlogging at it for five years through the birth of their children. A lot of people watch because of the kids. They like to see them grow up. They see them come into the world, like theyre part of the family. Cool and a little weird. I love how you and your sister pop up right away. That white noise goes off, boom. Reporter vlogging is a fulltime job for them. Parents, take note they get to be with the kids fulltime and make a pretty good living. I used to get super offended when people are like you arent doing this right. Now i realize people mean well most of the time. Im david at the l. A. County museum of art with Colleen Ballenger and josh hey, guys. Theyre going to teach me how to rvlog. Reporter they showed me dos and donts of vlogging. My arm is a little bit sore thats an occupational hazard. Im against cell people. Reporter richer or poorer, better or worse, happily ever after, so they hope. If worse come to worst, who gets the followers . Ill take them. Ill take on the responsibility. Is there a prenup . No, no. Prenup with followers . No maybe. Im kidding. Im taking them. Reporter one things for certain. Theyll keep us posted. Im david wright for nightline in los angeles. Up next the controversy surrounding a new movie based on the highs and lows of Whitney Houstons troubled life. And the unexpected portrayal of her tumultuous relationship with bobby brown. Over 200,000 people are hospitalized every year with flu complications. So to kill the germs that may make your family sick, we recommend using lysol disinfectant spray every day. Lysol is approved to kill 80 germs, including hard to kill viruses that can live on surfaces for over 4 weeks. It works on hard and soft surfaces to help stop the spread of bacteria. 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We spend days booking gigs then weve gotta put in the miles to get there. But its not without its perks. Like seeing our album sales go through the roof enough to finally start paying megs little brother i mean,our new tour managerwith real,actual money. We run on quickbooks. Tha ts how we own it. Do you suffer from constipation or irregularity . Trust dulcolax® for dependable relief. Try free at dulcolaxoffers. Com dulcolax® tablets are comfort coated for gentle, overnight relief. Hurry try free at dulcolaxoffers. Com. Dulcolax®. Designed for dependable relief™. Whitney houstons powerhouse vocals and meteoric rise to stardom were always larger than life ran tonight we go behind the scenes with firsttime director Angela Basset whose new movie, just like houston herself, filled with talent and tragedy, is stirring controversy. Heres abcs nick watt. I want to dance with somebody reporter everyone has a favorite Whitney Houston song. This is mine. I want to dance with somebody. With somebody who loves me reporter and everybody it seems has an opinion on the choices she made in life the man she loved, the way she died. Making a film about Whitney Houston isnt easy. This is the first time anyones tried. Open the door whitney. You need to protect your voice. Reporter we all know what Whitney Houston looks like we know what she sounds like. And you have to recreate that . Yes, i had to study even in the lip synching. What shape does her mouth make . What are her hands doing . Im your baby tonight reporter yaya de costa, seen in lee daniels the butler and americas next top model plays houston, one of the most successful female recording artists of alltime. It definitely was a daunting task. Reporter Angela Basset who played another giant, tina turner, strutting her whats love got to do with it stuff, she directs this diva premieres on lifetime. You could have picked an easier topic you think . How did you do it . Reporter basset and whitney knew each other. They starred together in waiting to exhale in 1994. I was just i was excited about it. Having worked with whitney before. You know, and loving her as i do, as i did. Its my baby dont mess with my baby. Reporter we met at house of blues in los angeles to talk about the film which focuses on Whitney Houston and bobby brown. I love you, bobby. You are the one i love. Reporter the movie is in one sense, startling. I came out of this movie feeling sorry for bobby brown. Not everyone is as bad and no one is perfect. I felt sorry, i felt sympathy, empathy for him. Up until this point, i havent felt any of those things for bobby brown. Amen. Reporter hits like if it isnt love. You have girls screaming and clawing for you at 13. And you see how you mature. As director as actor. We began to think about those things and we looked through it prisms. Reporter before he went all bad boy, when he went solo. Reporter every little step i take, his biggest hit. You know whats funny . Reporter basset met him in 94 while working wit houston on exhale. When you actually met him, when you were in a room with him, was he the bad boy . No he wasnt bad at all, he was charming. He was bright. He was respectful. He was in love with his woman. Reporter the woman who sold over 200 million records and was at that time at her peak. For the movie, one of houstons old labelmates deborah cox recorded those songs in the studios then yaya de costa took them onstage. I actually asked for it to be played out loud. So even the audience that we had could hear deborah costa singing whitneys songs and me singing at the same time. Okay okay. What do you say . Reporter when they met, bobby was 19. Whitney was 26. Id get in there i just hope its not bobby brown. Reporter whitneys mom sissy is portrayed as dead against the union and is dead against the biopic that represents as told in a statement they are very disappointed Angela Basset never personally reached out to them and that we cannot help but question the veracity of a story about whitney and bobbys personal relationship. She claims that none of spoke to anybody who actually knewde deknew whitney, youre telling a tale you dont really know. A friend said to me, its an honest portrayal. It may not be truthful because who can know each and every truth of each and every situation. Reporter dionne warwick, whitneys cousin has seen the movie. She appreciated it, she loved it. She said, thank you, thank you this is good. Reporter for a woman who sang so much about love she was unlucky in it. A relationship with brown incident greated into a mass of alleged Domestic Violence and addiction. Their demise was played out in public. Come back to the feeling that people have that your husbands controlling and that you cant get away from it any more than an abused wife. Its a magnet that pulls you back. A magnet that theyre talking about is my love and my protection for him. Reporter houstons public shocking end nearly three years ago, aged 48 she drowned in a bathtub, drugs in her system thats not even mentioned in this movie. Not even in a postscript. Why steer totally clear of that . A full rich complicated life, theres no way to do that in a television movie. And thats not a story that i was interested in telling. Reporter the story she wants to tell is about a woman who could make you feel like this with her voice. I will always love you reporter i will always love you. Hearing that iconic grammy performance, one of the bestselling singles of all time. Im nick watt for nightline in los angeles. I will always love you you can catch whitney on lifetime on january 17th. Coming up the next generation multiplatinum artist Meghan Trainor already has one of the bestselling singles of alltime. Find out why shes moving. Double wings, extra ranch. We need to do someing different. Callahans . Ehh, i mean get away. Like away away. Road trip . Double wings, extra ranch. It feels good to mix it up. The allnew, fuelefficient Volkswagen Golf tdi clean diesel. Up to 594 miles of adventure in every tank. Introducing the allnew Volkswagen Golf family. 2015 motor trend car of the year. Eh, you dont want that one. Yea, actually i do. Its Mucinex Fastmax night time and its got a nasal decongestant. Is that really a thing . It sounds made up. I cant sleep when im all stuffy. I take offense to that. Im not going to argue with a talking ball of mucus. I think youre being a little hasty. Hes not with me. Mucinex fast max night time. Multisymptom relief plus nasal decongestant. Breathe easy. Sleep easy. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Since the song behind that catchy single where shes singing about her curvy bottom and all about that bass Meghan Trainor is out to prove shes more than a onehit wonder with a new album when the drop the 21yearold dishes with my nightline coanchor dan harris about everything from middle school drama to whether she really hates skinny witches. Im all about the base about the base reporter heres a funny thing. When she was filming this video she was actually feeling anything but comfortable about her own body. I was like this is what i wish i felt like. I wish i was all about the base. All about my curves. And i was like this is not how i feel. Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top do you feel that way now . Yeah. Reporter today, her whole universe has turned upside down. All about that base is one of the bestselling singles ever. The video has nearly 500 million hits on youtube. The song has recess resonated with millions of people eager to feel better did about their bodies and its done wonrs for the young woman who wrote and it sings it. All my fans tell me stories, they hated themselves and werent happy, until they heard this song. Now they live a happier life. All because of a threeminute song. Its actually helped me. While singing this over and over again, doing the dance moves, i walk off that stage like im a boss. I am Meghan Trainor. I look bombed. And everyone supports this right now. Reporter Meghan Trainor who just turned 21 a few weeks ago has improbably become a pop star. Check by every week. Reporter we caught up with her filming a clinique commercial the other day. Eye line over top as youre feeling groovy. Reporter also performing a concert. In advance of her new album title which drops tomorrow. She never thought this could happen. At some point some guy said ill date you if you lose weight. That is true . I looked real good that day. Hes like, youd be so hot if you were ten pounds lighter. And i was like oh. Im not going to eat now. Because that was so awful. I was just very upset with myself, which i shouldnt have been, because i was adorable. I still love myself and i wasted a lot of years not and i regret them. I didnt think i looked like a pop star. I was insecure, i didnt think i had the body shape for it. Reporter by 13 she was recording her own muse oak garage band, the computer program. I would show my parents and they were very proud and like oh, cute a good hobby. And i was like, yo i need a tour bus, we should be on the road. Reporter but success has not been all easy. The internet is flooded with spoof versions of her song which make fun of her for allegedly hating skinny people. When i look atkinny people i think they should die do you think theres anything to that criticism . Do you hate skinny people . I dont hate anybody. I dont hate anybody, i have plenty of skinny friends. I go no im just playing even you think youre fat, im here to tell you youre perfect. Reporter the most persistent question she gets is whether she can successfully capitalize on her newfound success. Do you feel pressure to keep it going . Piece of cake. I got it. Because i got the songwriting down. Ive proven it i have two hits. Reporter that second hit lips are moving hit number five on the billboard chart. A good sign that young pop stars career will not fizzle out. Shes got perhaps the most important asset of all confidence. For nightline, this is dan is in new york. Thanks for watching abc news. World news now is coming up soon with overnight breaking news. Tune into Good Morning America tomorrow. As always were online at abcnews. Com. Good night, america. Hi hello, sweetie. Theres your birthday present but you cant open it till tomorrow. Welcome, mom and dadinlaw. lowkey hello, robert. joyously hello, raymond ray hey. How ya doin . Pat, i remember how much fun you and raymond haddoing that puzzle last year, so i bought one. The ten commandments. All of which i love, by the way not a stinker among em. Weve already done that puzzle. Damn guess i gotta work on this one right here. So, mom, dad, you guysll be sleeping in our room tonight. Yes, i think youll be very comfortable in our room. We have a great bed. Youre really gonna enjoy it. Not. Enjoy enjoy.

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