Name Shelly Jamison | ||
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Shelly Leah Jamison aka Shelly Jamison (born July 10, 1962) is a former television news reporter from Phoenix, Arizona, who appeared as a Playboy magazine cover model and the sideline reporter on the 1989-1990 souped-up roller derby TV series RollerGames.
![Shelly Jamison in the poster of Playboy magazine](https://alchetron.com/cdn/shelly-jamison-c575db7f-30a4-4d0e-bc53-f08f6c75302-resize-750.jpeg)
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.
![Shelly Jamison in the poster of Playboy magazine](https://alchetron.com/cdn/shelly-jamison-fbdb2ae2-8ca4-4881-862a-adac003ccb2-resize-750.jpeg)
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.
![Shelly Jamison wearing an orange dress with monitors at the back](https://alchetron.com/cdn/shelly-jamison-724e3e15-9798-4813-9afb-0b2c4c4635e-resize-750.jpg)
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.
![Shelly Jamison wearing her firefighter uniform](https://alchetron.com/cdn/shelly-jamison-e282b292-01df-4503-abb4-6e954f48483-resize-750.jpg)
Since 1998, Jamison has been a firefighter in various capacities, currently serving at the rank of Captain and position of Battalion Chief of the Phoenix Fire Department.