Alexis Glenn, Famous in Love

Alexis Glenn (Niki Koss)

Famous in Love is a drama series, produced by I. Marlene King (Pretty Little Liars), about making films and the love life of celebrities. Alexis is one of the film stars, portrayed as a manipulative, predatory bisexual character; her female love interests were guest or recurring roles, while her male love interests were part of the regular cast. Her bisexuality was mostly another facet of her “edgy”, “free spirit” personality – or used to promote the show.

“Alexis is a wild child! She’s this bisexual, free spirit who has this edge to her. He has a strong, Type A personality, so to sexually be with somebody who’s not like that, he’s really into that. Of course, there’s also opportunity and he’s a little start struck when he meets her. He wants to be with somebody who’s a little crazy — I mean, Paige is a little crazy. I think he sees a little bit of the same thing.” — Charlie DePew, actor (Jake Salt).

Plot Summary

Alexis was friends with two well known actors (and regular characters) Rainer Devon and Jordan Wilder, who were cast as male leading roles in a blockbuster (“Locked”), while Alexis was after the female lead role (which she didn’t get). She had sex with Jordan in the first episode, and at the end of the episode it was revealed she was also in a relationship with Dakota, an actress after the same part. They broke up (off-screen) between episodes 1×01 and 1×02.

In 1×02, Alexis offered to have sex with the film director, Wyatt, in order to get cast in Locked, and agreed to go to dinner with him. She also ran into her ex-girlfriend Rachel, and, with both of them in non-leading roles, they met up again at a Locked launch party, where Alexis told Rachel she wanted her back and kissed her.

In episode 1×03, Rachel and Alexis seemed to be in a relationship and living in the same apartment. They quarreled over Alexis not wanting their relationship to go public and uncomfortable with Rachel being in the same movie with her, and Alexis didn’t want to show affection on set. Rachel was fired from the movie because of behind the scenes issues, but thought Alexis was behind it and broke up with her.

Meanwhile, Alexis got close to regular character Jake Salt who was looking for somebody to produce his script, and left with him at the end of the episode on a romantic getaway in Palm Springs for the next 2 episodes.

In episode 1×07, Alexis was forced to ask Rachel to become her co-star in Jake’s movie. Rachel agreed with one condition: having Jake fired and replaced with a writer of her choice – which caused Jake to break up with Alexis an episode later. In episode 1×09, Alexis had a short scene in which she said she had real feelings for Jake.

In episode 1×10, Rachel orchestrated for Alexis to be kicked out of both producing and starring in the movie. Alexis accused her of being a heartless bitch and doing it because she didn’t want their relationship to become public. That caused Rachel to have regrets and apologize, which Alexis accepted, and they ended up having sex. That had been her plan all along as she filmed it and released their sex tape to the press, blaming it on Rachel in an interview. In the same interview Alexis also said she didn’t like labels, but she could be called bi or fluid and she had never tried to hide that aspect – it was quite clear that Alexis was only after publicity.

Appearances:

• 9 episodes. Missing from 1x06

Female love interests:

• Dakota (Ana Mulvoy Ten, unknown, guest, 1 episodes)
• Rachel Davis (Katelyn Tarver, lesbian, recurring, 4 episodes)

Relationship story arc with a woman: No

Male love interests:

• Jordan Wilder (Keith Powers, regular)
• Wyatt (Jason Antoon, recurring)
• Jake Salt (Charlie DePew, regular)

Relationship story arc with a man: Yes

Filter Relationship Arc:

• Male (Regular)

Storyline during sweeps? No

[1] A relationship story arc is defined as explicit, developed on screen, and lasting more than 3 episodes. It is listed as questionable or subtext if romance is only implied, mentioned instead of shown on screen, part of a dream sequence, or otherwise not explicit for the viewer.
[2] Sweeps episodes air in February, May, July and November, the periods when advertising rates are set. A character is marked as "sweeps" when there is a very limited number of episodes that address their sexuality, all air during sweeps period, and the storyline is otherwise ignore/dropped.