Harvey is also the host of Objectified
a series which airs on the Fox News Channel
Sunday nights at 8 and 11 PM.
Now the concept is simple.
Harvey talks to news makers and celebrities
about some of their meaningful possessions
to uncover stories not already known to the public.
And yours truly is one of the guests.
Take a look.
Oh God. This is amazing!
Tell me about it.
So you gotta admit, huh.
I mean honest to God this is my dream.
I used to go to dealerships when I was a kid
and just look in the showroom.
This is a '57 Chevy.
Yeah. '57 Chevy.
Oh God this is beautiful!
Bel Aire and this is my dream car.
You know I told you I didn't have a lot of money
but I had a lot of dreams.
And you and I graduated the same time.
And this was the car, right?
Yeah this was the car.
This was the car everybody wanted.
Well he rarely does interviews so this is a treat.
Please welcome Harvey Levin.
(applause)
Hi guys.
Are you sitting down?
Good to see you, didn't see you get in.
So how are ya?
I'm good. I'm good, I'm excited about this.
That was fun to do.
You've got a real stage here.
I know look at this.
This is uptown huh.
I had so much fun doing this interview with you.
It really was fun.
I'm telling you guys.
He has a great story.
The journey is so interesting.
So what did you learn about me that surprised you?
You know it kind of cements it more
than surprises me
but I love people who have adversity and then learn
how to turn the adversity into something positive
and you did that along the way and you know this
but you did it over and over and over again
and you didn't get to this by accident.
No and I hope I'm still learning every time.
You hope you still are building as you go along.
Now during our interview you asked me
how my staff would describe me in one word.
So now I wanna know how your staff would
describe you.
Demanding. Demanding.
Yeah. I mean I have a great staff.
TMZ especially would not be successful
without the staff.
There's a breadth of knowledge in that office and skill
that you need one person can't do.
So this is an ensemble.
But you know listen we strive like you do.
We strive for excellence and accuracy
and fairness and those are tough marching orders every day.
Yeah well you know that was the word I said.
I admitted the fact that my staff would say
that I'm demanding because I take seriously the lives
that come here so I think
we gotta big hill to climb.
I gotta tell you something.
When we sat and did this.
When I drove away,
I was telling Ryan Reagan who's the executive producer
on the show.
I was saying you know Dr. Phil and I are alike.
And there's something every time you talked about things
I heard things in my life that made sense.
And I think we have,
by the way he's older than me.
He's one day older than me.
Yeah come on. Give me a break.
But we have this parallel path
in much of our lives.
Really it's true.
And it hit me.
Yeah that's really true.
So I work with Steven Spielberg now
because he's a co-executive producer on Bull.
He would never return my calls.
So you got one up on me there.
And so what did he have to do with your coming up
with the concept for your new show.
That's right.
I was in a pitch meeting in my office.
Where somebody was pitching me a show.
And I wasn't crazy about the idea.
And I got a call from a realtor in Malibu.
Who said you might want to put this house
that's up for sale on TMZ.
And it was some celebrity on the house
and it was just gonna be a fun little story.
And just as I'm hanging up he says by the way
he says I think I'm gonna list Steven Spielberg's
Malibu house or I might.
And he said this house is unbelievable.
He said he's had it for like 30 or 40 years.
And you go through the house and he has all this stuff
and you can track his;
I haven't been there have you been to the house?
No.
Well he said you could track his life
by looking at the stuff.
And it's one of the things you talked about
you know the lightbulb moments.
Goes boom. It was like that's the show.
That you basically use objects to as a touch stone
to get into periods of people's lives
and when you do it,
it becomes more personal to them
and in a way surprising to them
because they start remembering things from the objects.
Yeah exactly.