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12 Facts About Jesse Camp

1.

Josiah Jesse Holden Camp IV is an American musician and television personality who was the winner of the first Wanna Be a VJ contest on MTV.

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Jesse Camp beat fellow contestant Dave Holmes for a VJ job on MTV Live.

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Jesse Camp held his position on TRL with Carson Daly as the main host for over a year.

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Jesse Camp hosted two additional programs of his own for daytime MTV audiences.

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For over a year, Jesse Camp hosted the contemporary rock program MTV Rocks Off interviewing artists such as Joey Ramone, Henry Rollins, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Sugar Ray, Garbage, Peter Steele, Silverchair and Metallica.

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Jesse Camp cowrote the album with Alex Kane, Bam Bam and Jo Almeida and Share Pedersen.

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Jesse Camp's father was a college professor and his mother was an elementary school principal.

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Jesse Camp attended public school in Granby through the eighth grade.

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For high school, Jesse Camp received a scholarship to Loomis Chaffee, a New England boarding school, graduating in 1997.

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Also in 1997, Jesse Camp received a scholarship to the drama department of UCLA but never attended.

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On July 19,2018, Jesse Camp was reported missing by his sister Marish to the Riverside Police Department.

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On July 24,2018, the Riverside Police Department confirmed that Jesse Camp was found safe.