Jesse Camp

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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 canceled in 2000. He is the son of Henrietta Camp, the principal of Frank M. Kearns school in Granby, Connecticut.

1 Image
2 Controversy
3 Career
4 Other works
5 References
6 External links

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Camp attended the Loomis Chaffee prep school in Connecticut, but was not awarded a diploma, failing an 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.

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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 greatly eventually selling platinum, but Camp's band was soon dropped from the label. In late 2006, he was reportedly working at a Los Angeles-area pet supply store. In 2008 he began working for a non-profit organization called "Telefund" as a caller, raising money for non-profit liberal and progressive organizations. He works alongside Long Beach dead beat, Ulysses Cooney. ^[3]

[edit] 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 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."