Jenna Lewis

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Jenna Lewis (born July 16, 1977 in Maine) and moved to Franklin, New Hampshire as a child. She was a contestant on Survivor: Borneo (season one), finishing eighth, and Survivor: All-Stars (season eight), finishing third. She is also known for her sex tape from 2004.

She has twin daughters, Sadie and Sabrina.

[edit] Survivor

During Survivor: Borneo, the final nine castaways were supposed to receive videos from home, which they would compete to get to see. Lewis appeared eager to see her daughters, but Jeff Probst announced that the tape never came in. Lewis was voted off the island by three contestants who had an alliance and by Sean Kenniff, who was voting based on alphabetical order. Lewis was voted out 4-3-1.

In the first episode of the All-Star season, Lewis successfully lobbied for Tina Wesson's elimination on the grounds that a former winner (in Wesson's case, the second season in the Outback) shouldn't be allowed to win again. Lewis survived to the final three, but after losing the last Immunity Challenge, was voted out by Rob Mariano.

[edit] Sex Tape

In 2004, an explicit 42 minute long sex tape emerged featuring Lewis and husband Travis Wolfe engaging in sexual acts and intercourse in a Las Vegas hotel room[1]. It was originally thought that Lewis and Wolfe made the sex video purely for their own private use and that it was somehow accidentally leaked onto the internet. In interviews, Lewis had even talked about the embarrassment she said she felt at the prospect of anybody being able to see her naked and performing sexual acts. However, this started to come into question as reports appeared suggesting that in fact Lewis decided to deliberately release a sex tape of herself to increase her fame and make money from it. In December, 2004, the New York Daily News reported that she and her manager were behind the website selling the tapes and were receiving 70% of the sales profits. [2] It is still not confirmed whether or not Lewis did release the tape deliberately (and it's therefore unknown if she made any money from it). What is clear however is that the sex video, which quickly spread throughout the internet, certainly did increase Lewis's level of fame, especially worldwide where US Survivor is not broadcast and she was an unknown. Interestingly, Lewis had previously turned down an offer to pose nude for Playboy after Survivor; a decision she reportedly later regretted. Lewis and Wolfe later divorced.

[edit] TV Work

In the summer of 2005, Jenna was cast in a made-for-TV movie, The Scorned, which featured a cast made entirely of Reality television stars, including Jon Dalton, Trish Schneider, and Steven Hill. Hill played Lewis's love interest in the movie and the two are now dating. The filming of the movie was documented and released as a reality show, Kill Reality.

Lewis and other Survivor castaways have appeared in an episode of Nash Bridges.

Recently, she has been announced as one of the judges on the second season of Jenna's American Sex Star, which screens on Playboy TV.

[edit] Miscellaneous

According to a Loveline episode aired on May 23, 2004 in which she was a guest, she grew up Mormon. She also appeared in Eminem's video "Without Me"

[edit] External link

• Jenna Lewis at the Internet Movie Database
• CBS Survivor profile
• Documentary on The Sex Tape - Contains Explicit Scenes