Beauty and Brains

By Kelsey DeMeire and Carli Garsow

Arielle Jamin
Imagine
waking up every day and being excited to go
to work. Excited for the never-ending fun
and challenges that come along with pro-
ducing a live TV segment.
Earning a job like that takes edu-
cation, hard work, passion, and in Arielle
Jamins case, personality. Jamin, a former
Long Beach State University journalism
student, possesses all of those things.
Little did Jamin know, her dream
of working in the cutthroat entertainment
world would come true. Jamins road to
success started at LBSU, where she was
drawn to journalism because of all the ca-
reer possibilities it could lead to, including
television news.
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internship was with NBCs late night talk
show, Last Call with Carson Daly. Through
that internship, Jamin met and had a casual
conversation with the head of NBCs human
resources department where she told her
that she had an interest in entertainment
news. That meeting eventually landed her
an internship with Access Hollywood.
When an opening came up, she
(NBCs head of HR) wanted me to come in
right away, right after my internship with
Carson Daly, but I had summer school and
couldnt make it, Jamin said. She thought
of me again the next time there was an avail-
ability and I went into Access Hollywood
and thats how it all began I guess.
After Jamins internship, Access Holly-
wood offered her a job; however, she turned
it down for graduate school.
I always wanted to go to grad school
and I wanted to be successful at it. But I kept
in touch for those two years.
Very determined, Jamin continued her
education at Cal State Los Angeles because
of their Telecommunications and Film grad-
uate program.
While attending Cal State Los Ange-
les, now living in the perfect city to jump-
start her career, she worked as a freelance
production assistant helping out on random
pilots to help build her resume with televi-
sion production.
To be honest, it didnt have to be
Access Hollywood, I just wanted to work in
entertainment news.
After graduate school, Jamin says she
bombarded Access Hollywood with emails
and her resume in hopes that a job would
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job in the entertainment world.
She started at the company in the
videotape operations department, at an
entry-level position. Her job was to archive
show footage that had been collected from
different shoots as well as help producers lo-
cate footage when they needed it for a piece/
segment.
Nine months after starting at Access
Hollywood, Jamin was promoted to her cur-
rent position as an editorial production as-
sistant. As an editorial P.A., she gets to work
on both Access Hollywood live (a morning
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talk show) and Access Hollywood (an eve-
ning entertainment news magazine show).
Jamin arrives at work bright and early
at 6 a.m. every day for the morning meeting.
Her day continues with pulling footage and
cutting it for each segment on the morning
show. She does everything again for the eve-
ning show; along with helping the producers
prep their pieces by going through footage
and logging verbatim of what people are say-
ing on camera.
When Jamin isnt assisting pro ducers,
shes focused on producing her own seg-
ment, Weekend Radar. Producing Weekend
Radar for Access Hollywoods weekend show
is Jamins biggest accomplishment to date.
Photo by Curly V.
Now that Im producing my own
segment for our weekend show, I get to decide
everything that goes into a story and I get
to write it, and its kind of like my baby you
know? Its totally mine so thats really cool.
where we actually have guests you know
come in and then the other one is a news
magazine show where we go out on shoots,
to premieres and junkets.
For me the most exciting thing was
meeting the backstreet boys. Growing up
they were the biggest things ever. I was ob-
sessed with them and I go to watch them
sing a capella two feet away from me.
After they performed, Jamin and some
her colleges (who were wearing Backstreet
Boys hats), stood outside their dressing room
and waited for them. One of the members
was in the bathroom so they knocked on the
bathroom door like crazy people to get a
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We basically stalked them. It was
super unprofessional but we got our picture.
Luckily our producers understood, Jamin
said giggling.
Those are some of the perks of
working in entertainment.
Working as an editorial production as-
sistant on two different shows every day can
be hectic, but Jamin handles it with ease.
On the busy days, she never has a
complaint, always ready to work and does it
all in a timely manner. Its inspiring,
Jamin says she enjoys coming into
work every day because every day is differ-
ent and exciting.
Its nice that Im not just working
at a news program thats one show, its two
shows, Jamin said. One is a live talk show
said Samantha Am-
oros, an editorial
production assistant
at Access Hollywood.
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producer in the
future, but shes not
limiting herself. If
theres anything shes
learned from work-
ing at Access Holly-
wood, its that she is
still learning about
everyones positions
and she doesnt want
to limit herself to just
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er.
Anytime
theres an opening
there are hundreds
and hundreds of
people applying for
the same position,
she said about the
cutthroat entertain-
ment business. You
have to be very ag-
gressive; everything
is time sensitive and
can be stressful.
Everybody wants to
get to the top so you
have to show you are
capable and will-
ing.
Along with liv-
ing out her passion
for entertainment
news, Jamin is a
trend-setting fashion
model for the notori-
ous fashion designer
Curly-V.
I just wanted to work in enterteinment news
Curly-V, a close friend of
Jamins, interned under Jeremy
Scott and David LaChapelle.
Curly-V produced a music video
staring Jamin that included over
a thousand pictures taken of her
wearing clothes from his line.
I dont take myself seri-
ously enough to model but hes
my best friend so I felt comfort-
able, Jamin said.
Jamin, who on top of it all
has an entrepreneur mindset, is
in the process of starting a fash-
ion and entertainment website
with Curly V.
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be fun and have different col-
umns with mix of entertainment
and fashion, up and coming art-
ists, and people who are starting
out in the business, she said.
Jamin has the whole pack-
age, brains and beauty. Whether
it was Jamins internships, work
ethic, education or determina-
tion that got her this far, theres
no doubt this young lady has a
bright future ahead.
Photo of Arielle Jamin at Access Hollywood
Surviving in the Entertainment Jungle:
Ariells Five Tips
1. Stop comparing yourself
to others. You are unique and
your path to success will be
too. Theres no one formula for
achieving your goals.
2. NO ones perfect, but it
doesnt hurt to strive to be the
best.
3. Dont be too critical of your-
self. Everyone makes mistakes.
What will set you apart is how
you choose to learn from them.
4. Dont be afraid to ask for
what you want and really go for
it. Even if things dont go your
way, chances are you wont be
worse off for trying.
5. Have FUN and enjoy the jour-
ney. Dont make life all about
the destination.. Your road to
success is where all the memo-
ries are made! Even the not-so-
pleasant memories make pretty
darn good stories!
Photo by Curly V.