Most people are looking for their 15 minutes of fame and I've had at least 500.

PBS documentary in junior high school: I was featured in a documentary about school politics as I ran for student body president. I ran again13 other people and won and my mother still has the VHS tape. This brought the school a lot of publicity and I don't think I was ever in trouble again.
Regular on TRL in high school: Thousands of people were trying to figure out how to get upstairs and I landed myself a spot in the official datatbase. I was on every show imaginable in that era and that helped me land an internship at MTV where I wrote episode summaries for my favorite shows and interviewed everyone and their mom for the TRL Celebrity Mailbox.
Finalist for The Real World Australia in college: In college I was dragged by a friend to a Real World audition and stole the show making it all the way to the end before I dropped out. My mother thought I was too young to move to Australia and have TV producers parent me.
MTV True life a few years ago: I learned so much about reality TV while filming True Life: I'm Hustling in the Hamptons. From character development and editing to permissions and titles (I had the title changed because I did not like the old one) this experience is what really gave me the credentials to teach this class.

Brittany Mendenhall

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