Shelly Jamison

Shelly Leah Jamison aka Shelly Jamison [born (1962-07-10) 10 July 1962][1] is a former television news reporter from Phoenix, who appeared as a Playboy magazine cover model and the sideline reporter on the 1989-1990 souped-up roller derby TV series RollerGames.

Jamison majored in broadcast journalism at Arizona State University. She worked as a news producer, reporter and occasional anchor on KTSP-TV in Phoenix, until she appeared clothed on the cover and nude inside the July 1989 issue of Playboy magazine.[2] In the accompanying article, she predicted that she would most likely be fired from her job at KTSP-TV (CBS 10 and now KSAZ-TV FOX 10). She rationalized that her pay for the appearance (over US$100,000) was more than five years' pay at the station: she did leave her job at the station after the magazine appearance.[3]

She was hired as a sideline reporter for RollerGames in May 1989, after producers David Sams and Michael Miller saw her picture in a USA Today story about the controversial Playboy appearance.[4]

References
  1. U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. USA Today article about Jamison's Playboy appearance, by Matt Roush, Life section, page 03.D, May 22, 1989, USA Today
  3. "`Nudie' TV news reporter quits", Chicago Sun-Times, May 22, 1989. Archived at HighBeam Research. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
  4. "On the Rink of A Vervous Breakdown", By Dewey Webb, Phoenix New Times, August 30, 1989. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
  • "Junior Samples", Restaurant review by Shelly Jamison, Phoenix New Times, February 21, 1990. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
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