Filling Her Own Shoes: 106 and Park's Julissa
By: Shaka Lias
Issue date: 2/6/06 Section: Entertainment
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Julissa Bermudez is quick to tell you that she is indeed honored to co-host but the shoes she walks in are her own.
The 22-year old Queens, NY native said she just does her best and goes with the flow.
Going with the flow includes mentally and physically preparing for BET's top video countdown.
She arrives at the studio as early as 3p.m. for the show which airs three hours later. Preparing for the show includes production meetings, hair/makeup, reviewing scripts and researching guests.
Julissa said what she loves most about the show is her connection with the audience.
"Whatever you see on T.V. that's me," Julissa said of her excitement that bursts through the screen.
She adds that she is a "normal" person who is just as crunk on screen as she is off.
As a matter of fact she's not reminded of her "celebrity" status until she's out in public.
"I'm really just a normal person, I don't consider myself a celebrity," Julissa said during a recent phone interview from her New York office.
The former Political Science and Theater Arts student
at Five Towns College, located in Long Island NY, said she enjoyed the southern hospitality she received while visiting the Atlanta University Center last semester.
"There was so much love, I was just taking it all in," she said.
In her spare time she enjoys movies, shopping and spending time with her family. She said she one day hopes to go back to her theater roots.
"I just finished a independent film. I'm taking baby steps into it," she said of her acting career.
One thing she isn't taking baby steps into is her current job. She is the first Latino to host a show on BET.
She says she sees the company getting bigger and better and being more innovative and ground breaking and she plans to walk right along with it…in her own shoes of course.
