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| Photo courtesy Chelsi Davis |
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| Chelsi Davis and Darcy Anderson pose backstage on TRL with an original VMA moon man statute. Davis and Anderson vacationed in New York City in August and appeared on TRL to give a shout out to Rexburg. |
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Celebrities, TV spotlight and free merchandise - for two lucky BYU-Idaho students, it was the chance of a lifetime.s
Chelsi Davis, a junior from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Darcy Anderson, a senior from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, went to New York City Aug. 20 for Anderson’s annual weeklong birthday vacation.
As an added surprise for her daughter, Barbara Anderson e-mailed the “Total Request Live” offices at MTV asking for tickets for her daughter’s birthday.
In most cases, these audience tickets are sold out months ahead of time, but in a twist of luck Barbara secured two
tickets for Davis and Anderson.
The day of the event, while Davis and Anderson were standing in a hallway, the casting director came out to pick people to give shout-outs.
Since the casting director himself hailed from Idaho, both girls were picked to give a shout-out to Rexburg.
The casting director also announced that they were going to have a contest for a VMA prize package worth over $27,000. The contest included making a VMA moon man statue out of clay in 30 minutes.
The casting director picked Davis as a contestant, who creatively re-vamped the moon man to include a potato in his right hand to represent Idaho. The audience voted with applause for each contestant and Davis received the loudest.
“Oh my gosh, I think I just won, I thought. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I never win anything! I just won so much stuff!” Davis said.
Among some of the prizes Davis walked away with were an i-Pod shuffle, valued at $300, BOSE headphones at $149, a Dooney and Borke duffle bag for $450, a Gap duffel bag priced at $170, a T3 blow dryer and curling iron lined with crystals for $340 and $320, a pair of shoes by Karen Rose for $400 and 100 free songs for her i-Pod shuffle from Apple i-tunes.
While Davis was busy making her prize winning moon man, Anderson had her own time in the lime light giving her enthusiastic shout-out to everyone at BYU-Idaho.
In addition to being on live television Davis and Anderson got to meet a few celebrities like Nick Cannon as well as Ashlee Simpson and Steven Strait, both starring in the up coming movie “Undiscovered.”
With celebrity run-ins and free loot from MTV, Davis and Anderson turned an exciting trip to New York City into the greatest event of their summer.
“We did a lot of shopping, but clothes don’t last forever and fake designer handbags don’t last forever. But the memories we made together [that] bonded us as good friends we’ll always remember. It was really a great time,” Anderson said.
