entertainment
“DISCOVER WHAT YOU LOVE. BE NICETOEVERYONE BECAUSE YOU
NEVER KNOW WHO’S GOING TO BE YOUR BOSS.IT’S REALLY
IMPORTANT TO PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD AND SHOW
THAT YOU ARE MOTIVATED AND HUNGRY.” —DARYN CARP
KEEPING IT REAL Carp on the set of PeopleTV’s Reality Check with the cast of Jersey Shore. (From left) Vinny Guadagnino,
Michael Sorrentino, Carp, Deena Nicole Cortese, Jennifer Farley and Nicole Polizzi.
Carp researched the program
during her freshman year in college
and was accepted into it during the
first semester of her senior year.
“It was the only job Iapplied to,
but once Igot it, Ithought Ihad
made it,” she says.
Carp graduated from Lafayette
in May of 2010 and started the
program the following month.
It was a bit open-ended, she
says; pages could leave at any
time if another job came up.
She recalls learning unexpected
lessons. “When Iwas an NBC page,
I took the assignments that no one
wanted because they weren’t celebrity-driven,”
she says. “I never thought
you learned a lot from getting coffee
for celebrities.”
She also learned that shaking
someone’s hand firmly and looking
them in the eye goes along, long
way, especially in entertainment.
“If you show that you are hungry
and motivated and willing to wake
up at 4a.m., that is going to separate
you from so many other people.”
After about eight and a half
months, Carp’s boss sat her down
and told her there was a job opportunity
to be the development production
coordinator for the head of
production and development at Bravo
— a guy named Andrew Cohen. Her
boss thought this would be a great
job for her and that their personalities
would really mesh. “I turned it
down,” she says. “I looked down
at being an assistant at the time.
I thought I would become a local
reporter in Idaho or New Jersey and
work my way up to becoming an
on-air reporter.”
But with no other job prospects,
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