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'''''Wanna Be a VJ''''' was a show and contest on [[MTV]] in the United States. Contestants were selected from the crowd around MTV's [[Times Square]] office, and narrowed down via challenges testing the applicants' music knowledge and personality. Once narrowed down to six contestants, viewers were allowed to vote for contestants by [[telephone]] and on the [[Internet]]. The winner was awarded $25,000 and a one-year contract to be a [[VJ (media personality)|veejay]] on [[Total Request Live]]. All three events were hosted by [[Carson Daly]].

==''Wanna Be a VJ'' (1998)==
In the first ''Wanna Be a VJ'' contest [[Jesse Camp]] beat [[Dave Holmes (actor)|Dave Holmes]]. Holmes ended up hosting various shows on MTV until 2001.((more citations needed|date=July 2017))

Camp's unexpected victory caused many viewers to suspect foul play. ''[[The Village Voice]]'' ran an article in which a source, identified only by his online [[user (computing)|handle]] "UglyPig", claimed to have hacked the voting site, allowing him to vote more than 3,000 times.<ref>[http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9818/lee.php "MTV Contest Hacked"], ''[[The Village Voice]]'', May 5, 1998</ref>

==''Wanna Be a VJ Too'' (1999)==
The second ''Wanna Be a VJ'' contest was won by 21-year-old [[Thalia DaCosta]], from [[Sunrise, Florida]]. Chicago-born actress and media personality Marisa Sullivan, 19 at the time, was a runner-up out of the 12 finalists chosen from 8,000 hopefuls around the country to compete live on TRL in Times Square.

==''Wanna Be a VJ 3'' (2000)==
The third ''Wanna Be a VJ'' contest was won by [[Ray Munns]].

Munns went on to defend his job five times on a live show entitled ''TRL Presents: VJ for a Day'', where he and the contestants introduced the eleven through fifteen videos of ''[[Total Request Live|TRL]]''. Ray was the first ever half-Korean VJ (he is also a quarter-Irish and a quarter-English) and was the first contest winner to stay longer than a year at MTV.

The runner up, [[Shannon Wiseman]] of [[Dallas, North Carolina]], became a co-host for [[UPN]]'s ''[[Atlanta Tonight]]'' in 2004 and the host of ''NASCAR.COM's Post-Race Show'' in 2005.

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://dir.salon.com/ent/music/vowe/1998/05/11vowe.html "I Want My Camp TV"], ''[[Salon (website)|Salon.com]]'', May 8, 1998

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