Canadian ditches bid for Charlie Sheen internship to work for Ryan Seacrest
Posted June 7, 2011 9:12 pm.
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This time, Charlie Sheen isn’t winning.
A Canadian man who was one of the final 50 candidates for a job as Sheen’s intern has ditched his bid and accepted an offer to work for Ryan Seacrest instead.
Phill Pallen of Belleville, Ont., says he didn’t want to wait any longer to hear from Sheen’s team, which was supposed to have named the “Tigerblood intern” a week ago.
The 22-year-old Pallen graduates from Full Sail University in Florida on June 30 and will go immediately to Los Angeles to start July 5 as an intern with the digital team at Ryan Seacrest Productions.
He expects the job to last eight to 10 weeks and focus on social media and websites for the “American Idol” host.
Pallen also turned down an offer from NBC in New York, where he’d applied in February.
“If I could pick anyone in Hollywood to intern for, it would be Ryan Seacrest,” said Pallen. “I would pick Ryan Seacrest before I would pick Charlie Sheen.”
Pallen had campaigned hard for the Sheen job, setting up a website called tigerbloodphil.com to promote his bid to work for the fired “Two and a Half Men” star, who has ranted publicly about “winning” and his “tiger blood.”
More than 82,000 people from 181 countries, 2,832 of them Canadians, applied to work with Sheen and handle his social media musings as his “TigerBloodIntern!”
Sepy Bazzazi, 25, who works in social media for Earls Restaurants in Vancouver, is the other known Canadian left in the Sheen intern contest.
