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Mookie Betts Revels in Attending First Golden Globes as a Hollywood Producer

people.com 08-01-2024 09:51 3 Minutes reading
Sean Neumann is a reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2019. His work has previously appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, ESPN, and more. Mookie Betts got the first taste of what his life could be like as a successful Hollywood movie producer on Sunday night. The Los Angeles Dodgers star, 31, attended his first Golden Globes Awards show alongside Hollywood's biggest A-listers, hoping to mingle with the industry's biggest names. Why? Because Betts, who has made a name for himself on the baseball diamond, is gearing up for a potential second-act as a producer, according to The Associated Press. Betts launched his One Media/Marketing Group (OMG) production company in 2020 as a potential post-baseball career, per the AP. The outlet reported that he and two OMG partners, Cam Lewis and Jeff Mason, attended the 81st annual ceremony in order to connect and network with Hollywood's biggest stars and strike up some partnerships. "That's the plan, right?" Betts told the AP. "Just put yourself in the surroundings and you see what happens." Betts did reportedly stumbled on the red carpet when he was asked the common awards show question, "Who are you wearing?" The athlete took a beat before responding: "I'm wearing confidence," according to the AP. But still, Betts appeared excited about the first-time red carpet experience. "This is our first time being out and being able to attend something like this," he said, per the outlet. "We watched it on TV so much." The two-time World Series champion first teamed up with OMG President Derrick Phillips and his longtime friends Cam Lewis and Jeff Mason to form the production company in 2020. In the past, Betts told PEOPLE he and Lewis have been "best friends since sixth grade" and his relationship with Mason also goes back more than a decade. "Anything that Mookie applies himself to, turns into greatness," Mason told PEOPLE then. "It's a joy every time to just see him work and grind and stay consistently at it and also teach us the same values." The Nashville-based production company - led in part by Betts, Lewis, and Mason - started off by signing deals with producers across multiple genres, including reality, drama and comedy, according to The Tennessee Tribune. In 2022, Betts and Co. made their first major announcement that they had partnered up with Propagate, a Los Angeles-based content creation company led by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning entrepreneur Ben Silverman. Never miss a story -- sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Later that year, Betts took on the role of executive producer through his OMG company on the documentary film, Jackie Robinson: Get to the Bag. Then last February, Betts' OMG company partnered with the Viral Nation content creation company to help launch original content on his YouTube page, including a series that follows his life as a Major League Baseball player, according to Business Wire. "There's this whole thing called life and you only get one of them," Betts told PEOPLE last year, upon launching his own podcast. "So, I'm not going to just waste it sitting on the couch and only thinking about baseball."

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