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Jennifer Zamparelli speaking about her new podcast 'Just Between Us' Jennifer Zamparelli is talking about the jobs she undertook in the earliest parts of her career. Among them: cleaning toilets as a chambermaid, working in a cabling company after school, working the graveyard shift in a New York bar, and selling hairdressing promotions to passersby on Grafton Street. Graft and tenacity featured heavily in those early times, and they proved useful later on. “I suppose I’ve done so many taxing jobs – not in a financial sense but going into nightclubs at two o’clock in the morning, that kind of thing. So much hustle,” she says. “So when you’re sitting in a studio doing a radio show, or you’re going on set and shooting an ad… Declan Lowney, the director, told me years ago [on set], ‘You’re so interested. You’re always standing around watching everything.’ Only because I was so grateful. Because when you get to that level, the hustle will stand to you. You appreciate things more. And I do see it in a lot of younger [people]… I always remember some people that were newer into the business, they’d have maybe an arrogance to them, and I’m like, ‘Oh God, you’ve no idea how lucky you are.’ It’s such a lucky position.”
