Kim Serafin’s career has spanned TV, radio, entertainment, politics and even musical theatre.
She currently works as a TV spokesperson and Senior Editor for In Touch Weekly, appearing regularly on TV networks including E!, TV Guide Network, MSNBC, CNN Headline News and Fox, and has appeared on shows such as Extra!, Showbiz Tonight, The CBS Early Show, Good Morning America Weekend, The Today Show, The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious, Chelsea Lately, The Insider, Good Day NY and Good Day LA to talk about the latest in entertainment news. Kim also hosts the WireImage Entertainment Report, a daily wrap-up of everything Hollywood. She has been under contract to MSNBC as a regular contributor / political analyst and has also been seen on a variety of other networks including
ESPN, G4, CNBC and Oxygen discussing everything from pop culture to politics. Kim has appeared on The
Tonight Show, was a frequent guest on Politically Incorrect, appeared in American Candidate on Showtime and was the host of Sleep Like a President, a travel show for the Fine Living
Network. For over three years, Kim hosted and produced her own weekly radio show on KABC - the ABC affiliate in Southern California - in which pop culture, entertainment and interviews with top Hollywood insiders were just as likely to be topics as were current events and human interest stories.
Kim began her career working as a Deputy Press Secretary
for Mayor Rudy Giuliani in his Mayoral administration while
attending NYU as an Honors student where she did everything from helping to organize Yankees World Series tickertape parades and coordinating Mayoral press conferences to handling the Mayor's appearances on everything from "Saturday Night Live" and "The Late Show with David Letterman" as well as on local and national news programs. Additionally she produced Mayor Giuliani's weekly radio show on WABC. Kim was also the Press Secretary
for NYC 2000, New York City’s official Millennium
Committee, where she was the spokesperson for all official
millennium events in New York. She then served as
Mayor Giuliani’s Deputy Director of Communications
and Spokesperson for his NY State Senate campaign.
In the fall of 2001, Kim was the spokesperson for the Twin
Towers Fund, the fund founded by Mayor Giuliani to benefit
families of the uniformed service heroes who sacrificed
their lives on September 11th. Kim has also worked
for Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan; first as a Deputy
Press Secretary in his Mayoral administration and then as
the Press Secretary on his gubernatorial campaign
Kim's acting credits include roles on sitcoms including Spin City, The Single Guy, Boy Meets World and Head Cases. She has appeared in national TV commercials as well as many musical theatre productions including "Oklahoma!" and "City of Angels" at Regional and summer stock theatres like Candlewood Playhouse (CT), Gateway Playhouse (NY) and Tri-State Center for the Arts (NY).
Kim is also a published writer, having authored a children’s
book on the California Missions, and, being a longtime vegetarian
and animal welfare advocate herself, a book for teens entitled "Everything You Need to
Know About Being a Vegetarian." She has written opinion pieces
for major publications including the New York Post and Cosmopolitan.
She volunteers her time with various groups in Los Angeles, such as The Art of Elysium.
Kim grew up in New York and currently lives with her dog
Derek – a rescued Pekingese – in Los Angeles.
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