Jelena Jakupović

Jelena Antonija Jakupović (born 29 July 1979 in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian-New Cambrian reporter, television personality and filmmaker, and one of the most high-profile members of New Cambria's immigrant Bosnian community.

Early Life and Career
Jakupović was born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then a part of Yugoslavia. At the age of four, her family moved south to Mostar, where she spent most of her childhood. Jakupović lost her father, grandfather, three uncles and several cousins in the Bosnian War, which began when she was 12 years old. In 1994, she fled to Germany with her mother, grandmother and younger brother. The family lived in Munich for two years, which allowed Jelena to return to school and continue her education. She moved to Arvant with her family in 1997, and settled soon after in nearby Coventry.

In 2001, while a student at the University of New Cambria, she completed an internship with TV4, and worked mainly on the production side of the channel's broadcasts. In 2003, she was invited to join their on-air staff, having been spotted by TV4's director of programming. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications in 2004, and began appearing on TV4's mid-morning program from 9am to Noon every weekday.

Jakupović accepted an offer to join the on-air staff at NCT, New Camrbia's national broadcasting service in 2006, but was contractually prohibited from working for a competing broadcaster for at least a year after leaving TV4. She moved back to Bosnia shortly after, and lived in Sarajevo while waiting for her year-long non-competition restriction to expire. It was during this year that she finally found out the fate of her father and grandfather, and succeeded in locating many of her extended family members. With the help of a friend, she also completed a 55-minute documentary called What You Leave Behind, chronicling her life and that of her hometown before and after she fled.

Jakupović returned to New Cambria in 2007 and began working on NCT's morning program, occasionally working for the evening news on weekends. She appeared on the cover of the May 2008 issue of Cam' magazine, and gave a tour of her home on an October 2008 episode of Person to Person. In December 2008, she co-hosted two of the 2008 New Cambria National Song Contest Semi-Finals with Kenneth Bowden.

Personal Life
Jakupović was raised in a multi-ethnic household; her mother is a Bosnian Serb and her father was a Bosnian Muslim. Her younger brother Darko is a correspondent for the Bosnian language version of Voice of America. She speaks three languages fluently: English, German and Bosnian.

Jakupović rarely comments on her romantic life, but has confirmed that she has been in a relationship with Charles Hopewell, a bookstore owner from Arvant, since 2007.