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Valerie, Joe and Lee

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Marc Myers
Jan 15, 2022
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The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed celebrity chef and actress Valerie Bertinelli for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Interestingly, Valerie was painfully shy when little—until she met a classmate in school who was in TV ads. Then she figured that if she was in ads, too, she'd be more popular. The rest fell into …

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