Hot on the heels of her performance at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in the TV special Celebrating America, comes news that Demi Levato will be returning to the small screen to star in the pilot episode of Hungry.
Hungry will follow a group of friends who” belong to a food issues group and help each other as they look for love, success and that one thing in the refrigerator that will make it all better.”
Levato has been open about her struggles with addiction and an eating disorder. In March 2012, MTV aired a documentary, Demi Levato: Stay Strong, about her rehab and recovery.
However, the 2017 YouTube documentary Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated, revealed that her treatment at Timberline Knolls had not been entirely successful - there was still a long road ahead for the then 25-year-old star.
Just last year in an interview on The Ellen Degeneres Show she revealed that her struggles with bulimia in 2018 contributed to her eventual drug overdose in July of that same year. She was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious by her friends in her home after a night of partying. Fast forward to 2021 and Levato is now sober and drug-free and has her career firmly back on track.
Levato is also an executive producer on the project alongside Suzanne Martin, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills and Scooter Braun, James Shin and Scott Manson of SB Projects.
Suzanne Martin is a TV and sitcom veteran, having been at the helm of series like Will & Grace, Hot in Cleveland and Frasier.
Should it go to series, Hungry would be the first regular TV role for Lovato since she starred in Disney Channel's Sonny With a Chance from 2009-11.
