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Austin Mahone
Another story from my teen-mag-editor days!
I was the first editor, as memory serves, to ever cover Austin Mahone. We liked being first at that magazine, and Austin was just the cutest kid, the perfect type my tween girls went crazy over. He was also a sweetheart, and was ecstatic when we focused on him, did a shoot with him in L.A. and gave him exclusive pinups. He did a date contest for me in 2012 and I later attended his first NYC gig in Times Square, at which he had no dance moves but oozed star quality.
He got my # from our photo-shoot call sheet and would text me occasionally, which I discouraged since he was a kid, but it was always just super positive stuff, like a New Year's greeting and grateful comments about our work with him.
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Before I knew it, he was on the MTV Video Music Awards pre-show dancing like Michael Jackson.
He's had a degree of success since then, though nothing to challenge Jackson's, yet his team passed me over to write his first official book (which sucked because on the phone, he seemed to already have no recollection of who I was!).
But no hard feelings, because I think he has a good heart.
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