Jesse Camp (born Josiah A. Camp III, November 4, 1979; has also gone by "Josh" and "Jason") was the winner of the first Wanna Be a VJ contest on MTV. He beat out Dave Holmes for a Veejay job on the popular music video show Total Request Live (TRL), and also hosted the short-lived Lunch with Jesse, which was cancelled in 2000. He is the son of Henrietta Camp, the principal of Frank M. Kearns school in Granby, Connecticut.
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Camp attended the prestigious Loomis Chaffee prep school in Connecticut, but was not awarded a diploma, failing a crucial English literature requirement in his senior year. He would often walk around campus with a large silver rectangular boom box and make funny announcements at all school meetings. He is vegan and straight edge.
Controversy
During the course of Wanna Be a VJ, he led many viewers to believe that he was currently homeless, in order to garner sympathy. [1]. The Village Voice reported that an Internet source, known only by the handle "UglyPig", claimed to have cast over 3,000 votes in the contest, exploiting a security flaw in the system. [2]
Career
Camp held his position as an occasional TRL host for one year. Upon leaving he attempted to parlay his MTV fame into a music career, announcing the debut album of his band Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz on the Hollywood Records label. The album sold poorly, and Camp's band was soon dropped from the label. In late 2006, he was reportedly working at a Los Angeles-area pet supply store.[3]
Other works
- He is seen doing an impromptu cameo on the documentary by Aron Ranen called Power & Control LSD in The Sixties [4].
- He was a panelist on two episodes of the hit Nickelodeon TV Show Figure It Out. During one episode of the show he was "Slimed" twice, once for saying the word "pass" and the other time because he was one of the panelists who "needed a time out."
References
- ^ Kaufman, Gil. "Where Ya Been? Willa Ford Strips Down, Jesse Camp Drops Out", MTV, March 22 2006. Accessed October 7 2007.
- ^ MTV Contest Hacked. villagevoice.com (1998). Retrieved on 1998-05-05.
- ^ Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Matthew McConaughey Shows Off Simian Dance Moves At Local Hotspot. Defamer.com (2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-30.
- ^ Ranen, Aron. "Power & Control LSD in the Sixties", YouTube, April 30 2006. Accessed October 7 2007.
