Ahhh the glamorous life of a PR person (insert sarcasm)…

It’s true, sometimes doing our job means attending amazing parties, dining at fabulous restaurants and occasionally even rubbing shoulders with celebrities.

Often times, our JPR team has been responsible for planning these high profile events, not only working closely with our clients to make sure everything is seamless, but with the talent as well to negotiate typical PR-ish logistics including photos, interviews, etc. Because of the types of clients we serve, our team has become quite adept at dealing with the various challenges associated with Hollywood-types. Not much surprises us anymore, however, as many times as we do celebrity-driven events, seeing the fruits of our labor result in fantastic media placements for our clients is ALWAYS a thrill.

But truly, nothing could have had prepared us for this.

Perhaps you’ve heard of a little MTV show that has become quite popular these days called Jersey Shore?

Or maybe you’re even guilty of a FIST PUMP! or two while dancing at a club or using Bumpits! to get that poof picture perfect? Come on. You KNOW it’s your guilty pleasure.

I digress.

Last weekend, Mike “The Situation” from the wildly popular show paid a visit to our client Stingaree. And WOW. Just WOW.

Jessica and Lauren took one for the team and took Mr. Situation and his manager to dinner at Ra and then on to Stingaree where he danced in the go-go cage, drank and seemed to have a good time. He dutifully posed for pictures. And, strangely enough, was approached by more guys than girls – throwing “high fives” and FIST PUMPS! aplenty. It was a good night and fun was had by all.

Seasoned as we are in dealing with “15 Minutes of Fame-types,” even we were shocked at the fascination the press has with this kid. And vice versa. It honestly blew our minds. Don’t get me wrong. He was a decent guy. Affected? Yes. Punch-drunk with the taste of fame? Absolutely. But nice enough. And most importantly to us, he honored his appearance contract with minimal gripe, unlike past celeb visitors we have encountered (cough* cough* Jamie Foxx). Don’t even get Jessica started – we have photo evidence.

And as the post-party hits kept rolling in on Monday morning – People Magazine, Us Magazine, Star Magazine – we all sat in the office, looked at each other and giggled.

We knew we had done a great job for our client, but had to laugh at the absurdity that is the job we love sometimes.