Shay Mitchell accidentally lost a diamond bracelet during a photo shoot, but a superhero intern saved the day
An internship is always a thankless gig. Or better, it’s the only kind of “job” where a pleasant “thanks!” is somehow considered a form of payment one’s landlord and student loan providers will accept as currency. If you need proof that your internship isn’t totally terrible right now and are rethinking your life choices, just take a gander at the intern who dove into murky waters to retrieve a diamond bracelet Shay Mitchell lost during a photo shoot.
Braving coffee lines, fighting with the fickle color printer, and trying to figure out how to pronounce Yves St. Laurent on PR calls is hard enough, but have you cannonballed into the icy ocean to retrieve a $33 million diamond bracelet as if your life depended on it? We think not. (Or maybe you have, and seriously, high five.)
OK, this assistant didn’t cannonball —it would have been much more epic if he did— but he did do his intern brethren good by taking one for the team and making sure the diamond bracelet Mitchell was wearing didn’t end up as fish bait.
During a shoot for La Palme magazine in Los Angeles, Mitchell struck a pose and inadvertently flung the Derek Warburton-designed bling into the frigid water. Onlookers reported that Warburton’s assistant, a hero who had been on the job for just a week, “stripped down,” dove in, and caught the bracelet before it even hit the bottom of the ocean floor.
Talk about a good save. According to the New York Daily News, onlookers cheered the new assistant on as he dove into the “not visible” waters to catch the bracelet. “The assistant came to the surface with the bracelet and with no missing diamonds,” the source said. They added that it looked like it was “ripped from a TV series.” Apparently, the bracelet also fell off a second time as Mitchell tried to finish the shoot, but it was “on land” so no one had to strip down to their skivvies and risk hypothermia for the jewels. So maybe it was more of a construction issue than Shay’s moves.
The water was apparently “deep” and although the California temps were in the 60 degree range that day, anyone who’s anyone knows that the water temps were much lower. Mitchell posted an image from the shoot to Instagram on Tuesday and gave a shout-out to the unsung hero.
A post shared by Shay Mitchell (@shaym) on Feb 21, 2017 at 5:12pm PST
“About 5 minutes before this photo was taken I accidentally flung a very expensive diamond bracelet into the marina that Walker, (who was interning for less than a week) bravely jumped in and found,” she wrote.
Can someone give Walker a raise? Or at least a towel.
