David St. John Dies: ‘I Am Jazz’, ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Exec Producer Was 56
deadline.comDavid St. John, an executive producer on such popular reality TV series as America’s Next Top Model and I Am Jazz, died December 19 of pancreatic cancer at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle.
He was 56. His death was announced today by UTA. St. John was the executive producer of TLC’s I Am Jazz for its entire 2015-2020 run, a series that followed the journey of transgender teen Jazz Jennings and won a GLAAD Media Award.
In 2021 he exec produced The Ts Madison Experience, a reality series chronicling the career of Black, trans woman talk show host Ts Madison.
St. John launched his career as an assistant at MTV, moving up to story producer on the network’s 2002 series Taildaters. In 2007 he became a supervising producer on America’s Next Top Model and would co-exec produce more than 100 episodes of the Tyra Banks competition series.
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