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Entertainment Giant Fremantle Media North America, producers of hit shows like American Idol, America's Got Talent and The Price is Right, this week named former gay adult film star Billy Kemp as the company's new Vice-President of Casting and Talent. Working under the name, Jordan Young, Kemp starred in and wrote a string of hit gay porn titles in the 90's and was at one time even the roommate of legendary gay porn director and producer, Chi Chi La Rue.

Though Kemp has made a name for himself in mainstream television over the last decade working as a casting executive on shows like Temptation Island and Elimidate, his introduction to Hollywood came via the world of gay adult film, where he quickly became one of the most popular Asian performers in the history of the business starring in titles like Lost In Vegas, The Freshmen and Idol In The Sky to name a few.

Not just a performer, Kemp also wrote a number of films with his porn mentor La Rue that became quite successful and he was even nominated for a 2003 Grabby Erotic Gay Video Award for Best Screenplay in respect of his work on Falcon Studios' Deep South: The Big and the Easy.

In a 1997 interview with HX Magazine, Kemp who has in the past been linked romantically to some of the hottest names in gay porn, like Logan Reed, Sam Dixon and Tom Katt, foreshadowed his planned move beyond gay adult film and into mainstream media.

"I'd like to 'go legit,' " he told the magazine at the time. "Although I don't consider what I'm doing not legit. I don't deny it. I'm comfortable with it. It's a form of media that's out there; it's just not as widely accepted."

That said, Kemp's current professional bio omits his accomplishments in the oeuvre of gay porn.

Still, never let it be said that dreams don't still come true in Hollywood.