Hunter Biden Wanted A Reality Show About Him, Pitched 'Hazy Concept' In 2019: New Book

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, wanted to produce a reality show about his charity works weeks after his father announced his presidential campaign in 2019, according to a new book on Democratic politics.

The book, “Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump" by Edward-Isaac Dovere, was released Tuesday. In the book, Dovere wrote that Hunter and his wife, Melissa Cohen, had approached television producers to pitch for a reality TV show.

"A few weeks after the chair set aside for [Hunter Biden] by the stage at Biden’s campaign launch event in Philadelphia had stayed empty, he and his new wife spent the summer of 2019 in meetings with producers about a hazy concept they had for a reality TV show to highlight his charity work, which he said would also help soften his father's image," Dovere wrote in the book.

Dovere also revealed that one of the producers Hunter approached asked him whether the elder Biden, who was still a presidential candidate at the time, approved of the proposed project.

“He’s OK with this? one of the producers remembers asking Hunter. ‘I know where the line is,’ he said. ‘And my dad is understanding of what I am up to.’”

In the book, Dovere also alleged that Joe Biden’s team expected a “campaign from hell” after Hunter booked TV and newspaper interviews without their consent.

Dovere wrote in the book that Hunter “spent his life trading on his father’s name” while his father “was protective, always stepping in to help him along.”

It is unclear what charity works Hunter wanted the reality TV show to feature. Earlier this year, he stepped down as co-chair of the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children — an organization named after his late brother Beau. It works to prevent child abuse through education programs and the training of child welfare professionals.

Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow, is currently among the board members of the foundation. She and Hunter began dating two years after his brother died from brain cancer at age 46.

"I think people were confused by it," Hunter said about their relationship in his memoir, Beautiful Things. "And I understand that. I mean, I really do. To me, it's not something that is difficult to explain. Because it came out of a real overwhelming grief that we both shared. And we were together, and trying to do the right thing. And that grief turned into a hope for a love that maybe could replace what we lost."