36: America's Next Bestseller - Jay Manuel, TV Personality, Creative Director and Author

Is there anything Jay Manuel can't do?!... Entrepreneur. Creative Director, TV personality and now Author. Surprisingly, Jay actually moved to New York as a classically trained opera singer yet found himself a career as a Makeup Artist working with some of the industry’s most creative visionaries and beauty icons. A chance he took giving Tyra Banks free glam for a photoshoot turned into an 18 cycle span as Creative Director and Judge on one of the world's most celebrated reality shows "America's Next Top Model".  His extensive career has seen him spend more than 20 years on both sides of the camera working with the world’s most celebrated magazines and Jay firmly established himself as an authority on all things fashion across many networks like E! and global red carpets. Such a career could leave you with serious stories to tell... and now as an author Jay Manuel has written his first book, a fictitious novel The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown chronicling the fast paced fashion industry that burst off the pages with larger than life characters that leave you questioning does life imitate art or vice versa? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.