Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club

In October 2016, Lohan opened her first nightclub, in collaboration with her business partner Dennis Papageorgiou, named Lohan Nightclub, in Athens, Greece. In May 2018, she launched Lohan Beach House Mykonos on the Greek island of Mykonos followed by her second beach club, Lohan Beach House Rhodes, on Ialysos Beach, Rhodes, In July 2018, it was revealed that Lohan and MTV were producing a "Vanderpump Rules-style" reality series set at Lohan Beach House Mykonos. Later that month, MTV released a first look at the series. The diurnal club, located at the Kalo Livadi beach, was curated by Lohan after previously licensing her name to the Lohan brand, stating: "There's a business side to my life now, but I'm not in America, so no one knows about it, which is nice for me." "I really wanted to make it a family-style beach. A place where people can go with their kids and feel safe," she elaborated on the venture. She also recalled a highly publicized domestic abuse incident she suffered on a Mykonos beach as the catalyst for her decision to take over the space: "The last thing I was going to do was keep that memory [and] not make something better of it; so that's why I decided to take over the beach." In early September 2018, a clip of Lohan dancing during production of the show recorded by a bystander and shared online went viral under the hashtag #DoTheLilo, inspiring replica dances, memes and fan art. Lohan explained she agreed to participate in the show because, unlike with her previous Lindsay docuseries, she would now be directing, "I'm the boss." ==Development and promotion==

In December 2018, MTV announced that ''Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club'' would premiere in the United States on January 8, 2019, and roll out globally across Viacom's international network of MTV channels in nearly 180 countries. A trailer was released along with the show's premise which would allow viewers "to see a new side of Lohan as she calls the shots with her handpicked team of young and ambitious VIP hosts who will have to do whatever it takes to secure Lohan's name as the definition of vacation luxury." A sneak peek of the series, titled "Lindsay Lohan: Welcome to the Beach Club, aired on January 1, 2019, on MTV, The cast attended a premiere party in New York City on January 7. Future As of June 2019, Lohan had decided to sell the property to cash in on her investment and the beach club in Mykonos was closed. MTV had reportedly been "trying to make something work" for a second season, but Lohan was not interested at the time. Cast member Mike Mulderrig would later reveal in an interview that the series had a five season deal, and filming for the second season was set to start in the summer of 2019. However, those plans were scrapped after Lohan's decision to sell the club. The beach club was relocated to Alimos for the 2019 summer season under the name Lohan Seaside, closer to Lohan Nightclub in Athens so they could alternate seasonally, as a message on its official website informed. In a statement to Newsday, Lohan said: "The show was moving into a new direction. Perhaps not enough drama in my life for [a] reality-TV formula (as that's not where I am in my life). As for the club, we are simply moving the focus to a brand-new and exciting location in Athens, and also a new location and partnership to be announced in Mykonos." Lohan Seaside was later featured on the twelfth season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, with Panos Spentzos making an appearance. In April 2020, when Lohan was asked about the status of the series and her clubs, she replied: "When we did that show it was really good to tie in with the opening of the beach, we still have two [clubs] in Athens and we've been discussing what's gonna go on in Mykonos... now is not really the time to talk about it [due to COVID-19]. But we'll see, I still do have my Lohan clubs, and I still do want to open more [...] so there's all that in discussion." The Lohan Beach House Mykonos reopened for the 2020 summer season on July 1, 2020, according to its official website and social media activity, while respecting COVID-19 prevention measures. ==Cast==

• Lindsay Lohan • Panos Spentzos Ambassadors • Aristotle Polites • Billy Estevez • Brent Marks • Gabi Andrews • Jonitta Wallace • Jules Wilson • May Yassine • Mike Mulderrig • Sara Tariq • Alex Moffitt • Kailah Casillas • Kyle Marvé Cast duration ;Table Key: : = Ambassador arrives : = Ambassador is featured in this episode : = Ambassador is fired : = Ambassador is re-hired : = Ambassador is selected to officially join the Lohan brand ==Episodes==

Ratings ''Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club's premiere ranked as one of the top five new cable shows of the 2018–19 season among young adults and was considered "another win for MTV" by Billboard''. According to Nielsen, the launch delivered triple digit growth across MTV's key demos. MTV also saw substantial increases for the series viewership with delayed viewing. By the final episode, the rating was considered "steady". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 45 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Daniel D'Addario of Variety stated that the "new MTV reality series Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club is an accidental success" as the focus on the lives of the staff "falls flat" but, "as a psychological portrait of the paparazzi magnet-turned-aspiring hospitality magnate Lohan, it’s juicily riveting." Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Robyn Bahr claimed the series is "visually ugly, with the fuzzy camera unable to capture the lusciousness of the seaside or the tranquility of Mediterranean architecture". However, she acknowledged "Lohan, at least, comes off as emotionally intelligent with her staff, her deep, flinty voice and confident HBIC aura a welcome break from the participants' acrid attention-seeking". Willa Paskin of Slate considered the series "halfhearted" stating that Lohan tried to star in a reality TV show "without touching the thing with a 10-foot pole," she continued, "Lohan is the series' title character, but she is not the protagonist. [...] The most interesting thing about Beach House is the extent to which Lohan's tabloid past is treated as though it were actually a reality show, the equivalent of Lisa Vanderpump's Real Housewives." Verne Gay from Newsday also described it as "the Real Housewives meets Temptation Island" with an "unexpected, and welcome, twist — Lohan is more or less the mature presence." The Daily Beast's Amy Zimmerman commented it's "great on paper, but in practice, the show faces a number of insurmountable obstacles that make it almost unwatchable," echoing most critics displeasure with the lack of focus on Lohan, "First and foremost: This Lindsay Lohan show is barely about Lindsay Lohan. [...] Without its supposed star, all that remains is a reality TV show that barely bothers to have a premise." Decider's Lea Palmieri said: "Watching [Lohan] in a position of authority, while it's the others that hustle and grovel around her, feels triumphant," concluding, "Many will write off ''Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club'' as trashy reality show, and others will wisely accept and appreciate it for that fact." Accolades ==References==