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The show, which will appear on Time Warner Cable's Channel 60 in Waterville, starts at 10:30 p.m. and will feature Greene in three episodes out of eight over a period of several weeks, according to Christel Wheeler of E!'s public relations.
The show follows Lohan's mother, Dina, sister, Ali, brother, Cody, and grandmother, Nana, as Dina Lohan launches Ali's music career, Wheeler said this week.
Greene, 25, is a pop, rock, rhythm and blues singer-songwriter who on the show helps produce an album for Ali Lohan, 14.
Produced by Bunim-Murray Productions and Maloof Television, it was filmed at the Lohan home on Long Island, as well as at the Palms Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, where shooting started after Christmas, Greene said.
"The first episode is drama, from jump," Greene said this week while on a break in his hometown. "It's entertainment, just through and through. The show is great."
Greene, whose manager is Jessica Simpson's father, Joe, was catapulted into the spotlight in January when "Life & Style" magazine reported Lindsay Lohan referred to Greene as her "new boyfriend" when the pair were seen outside a hotel in New York.
The Morning Sentinel interviewed the 5-foot-9-inch, brown-haired, blue-eyed Greene after the incident and he said he was filming the "Living Lohan" show with Lindsay's family.
At the time, he said his publicist told him not to answer questions about whether he was dating her. On Tuesday, he said the rumors were, indeed, false.
"I am not dating Lindsay Lohan," he said.
But talk of the incident made its way into the reality show's first episode. Greene says the Morning Sentinel story and photograph of him taken by a Sentinel photographer will appear in a scene as cast members discuss the dating rumors.
In the first episode, Dina and Ali Lohan meet with producers to find songs Ali can use to record a demo and Ali doesn't like any of the options, Wheeler, the show's public relations spokeswoman, said Tuesday. Ali is determined to record tracks that show who she really is as an artist, and will lead to a deal to record a full album, she said.
"Dina tracks down a young songwriter/producer named Jeremy who creates a series of tracks for Ali to record that she instantly loves," Wheeler said.
Greene says working with the Lohan family was pure delight.
"We just hit if off," he said. 'I really like the family. Dina protects her kids 100 percent. She's a great manager, she's a great mom and she's a friend of mine."
He said Ali Lohan is very talented as an artist.
"She's a good kid. She's just a typical 14-year-old. Cody, who is 11, just wants to be a kid. All he wants to do is play soccer."
Greene has come a long way from his roots in Waterville. Born in Winslow, he grew up in Waterville's South End in an environment where alcoholism and drugs were the norm, he said.
He spent three years at Good Will-Hinckley School in Fairfield, where he said he got the help he needed to turn his life around. He made a name for himself as a pop, rock, rhythm and blues singer and songwriter and now he is a producer as well.
He divides his time between Los Angeles and Waterville, where he said he comes to relax, away from the craziness of Hollywood. He said he loves Waterville and is in the process of buying a house here.
"I'm just chillin' right now cause it's summer, the birds are singing, the weather's beautiful and I'm going to enjoy some lobster," he said.
Greene says he is extremely happy that he recently reunited with his father, Arthur, from whom he was estranged for several years.
"It's cool," Jeremy Greene said. "We opened up a hot-dog stand called, 'Psycho Dogs (on Bay Street in Winslow).' It's gourmet hot-dogs with sweet-potato fries."
Greene's MySpace site had received 52,000 hits on Tuesday alone, by 2:25 p.m. that day and he is listed as one of the top MySpace artists in the world. Through MySpace, he is launching a new clothing line called Hick Royalty, as well as an energy drink and shoe line.
He will soon star in his own reality television show in which he and friend Chris Dawes travel across the country on a tour bus to enlist America to help him complete his album, he said.
"It's going to be the first online interactive television show ever," he said.
Dawes, a native of Sidney and a Messalonsakee High School graduate, is Greene's day-to-day assistant as well as manager of Greene's 3M Music Co. Dawes, 21, says he also appears in "Living Lohan." The show airs on Channel 64 in Portland, according to a Time Warner spokeswoman.
Bunim-Murray Productions, the same company co-producing "Living Lohan," is producing Greene's upcoming MySpace show.
Amy Calder -- 861-9247
acalder@centralmaine.com
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