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(Redirected from Shelley Jamison) American model and news reporter (born 1962)

Shelly Leah Jamison aka Shelly Jamison (born (1962-07-10) 10 July 1962 (age 62) is a former television news reporter, and current public official, 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 (the current-day KSAZ-TV) in Phoenix, until she appeared clothed on the cover and nude inside the July 1989 issue of Playboy magazine. In the accompanying article, she predicted that she would most likely be fired from KTSP. 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.

She was hired as a sideline reporter for RollerGames, a syndicated roller derby series aired during the 1989–90 television season, after producers David Sams and Michael Miller saw her picture in a USA Today story about the controversial Playboy appearance.

She joined the Phoenix Fire Department in 1998. She is a member of FEMA's Arizona Task Force One (AZ-TF1) and has deployed to numerous national disaster situations, becoming deputy fire chief. Her broadcasting background has led her to become a department spokesperson. She retired from the role in December 2023.

References

  1. U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. "Playboy | July 1989 at Wolfgang's".
  3. USA Today article about Jamison's Playboy appearance, by Matt Roush, Life section, p. 03.D, May 22, 1989, USA Today
  4. "`Nudie' TV news reporter quits", Chicago Sun-Times, May 22, 1989.
  5. "St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri on October 8, 1989 · p. 75". 8 October 1989.
  6. "On the Rink of A Vervous Breakdown" Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, By Dewey Webb, Phoenix New Times, August 30, 1989. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
  7. "Fire Executive Staff". www.phoenix.gov. Archived from the original on 2021-05-19.
  8. "Phoenix Fire Department chief says she has breast cancer". 11 December 2019.
  9. "Doing What Matters – Deputy Fire Chief Shelly Jamison". 6 May 2015.
  10. Health Futures – Taking Stock In You with Host Bob Roth & Guest Shelly Jamison & Steve Wagner. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
  11. https://www.instagram.com/phoenixfiredepartment/reel/C1cazwmLdL7/%7C title = Shelly Jamison retires
  • "Junior Samples", Restaurant review by Shelly Jamison, Phoenix New Times, February 21, 1990. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
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