Jamie Kern

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American contestant on a TV game show called Big Brother, a show set in "real time." It is not scripted and is not intended for younger audiences as the language and situations have the spontaneity of real life. Ten young adults, strangers to each other, were selected to live for three months in a closed environment in order to observe their interaction, entering their Big Brother house on 7/04/2000. After voting one of their housemates off every week, the last remaining contestant wins $500,000 on 9/30/2000. Jamie is a 5' 6", 156 lb Sales Rep. She celebrated her 23rd birthday while in Big Brother House. Jamie holds a BA from Washington State University, where she graduated first in her class with a 4.0 grade average. She is the current Miss Washington USA (no sign of a tiara in her luggage) and was recently accepted into the MBA program at Yale University. Eager to live life to the fullest, Jamie says she laughs as much as possible, tries whenever possible to "stop and feel the moment," and is determined to figure out how she can make a difference. She likes to know what the experts think, and is, as a result, an inveterate collector of famous quotations. For fun, she loves to salsa dance. Jamie enjoys the poetry of Maya Angelou, seeks inspiration from self-help bestsellers like "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" and Maria Shriver's "Ten Things I Wish I'd Known: Before I Went Out into the Real World." At the movies, she found inspiration in "Dead Poet's Society," taking "Carpe Diem" to heart. Jamie takes full advantage of her adopted home town. She loves to visit Seattle's historic Pike Place Market, explore the diversity of Capital Hill's Broadway Street, and check out the comedy clubs in Pioneer Square. Jamie would love to travel to Italy some day, ride the gondolas, tour the cathedrals, meet a hot Italian guy and eat as much pasta as possible. Nicknamed "Hollywood" by her housemates, Jamie signed with ICM casting agency but has done nothing more theatrical than serving as a "win-a-date" prize on a Seattle talk show (which was heard on 10/30/2000). She posted pictures of herself wearing a Big Brother half-shirt and bikini bottoms on a website. Link to Wikipedia biography