So, what does he do for money now? Camp is coy to discuss his current finances. I have a low overhead. Jesse, whose real name is Josiah, maintains that "Jesse" is a Kaufman-esque character and that he's not really that weirdo from MTV. The Jesse Camp you saw on television was at least 50 percent who I really am.
But was Jesse Camp a character? Oh, no doubt, yeah, it was a complete character. So, who is Jesse Camp now? According to Camp, his endgame with the whole VJ thing was to get a record deal, which he accomplished with very little fanfare. And while it's disappointing that no one bought the album, it's important to remember that he was only 18 or 19 when MTV and Hollywood Records gave him a bunch of money, so of course he wasn't thinking about his brand.
But in the harsh light of hindsight, Camp realizes that he should have tried to play the game more. Jesse told Rolling Stone :.
When you look at the stats on paper, I had a huge fan base of people that really loved me. But they loved me for my comedy and my personality. So like, if we had put out Jesse Camp Hair Oil and Jesse Camp Toothpaste, just Jesse Camp novelty-type stuff, that probably would have done a whole lot better than, like, an actual record.
This is the Jesse Camp story that's most shrouded in mystery and the very fact that it might not be real is even weirder than if he were just buying coke. He says that the whole thing was a joke, but to what end? When speaking about the alleged joke-gone-wrong, he insisted, "If anyone knew me back then, cocaine was not my drug of choice. That whole thing was me having fun and trying to do something crazy. I thought TMZ [was] kind of in on the joke.
I was trying to say something really outrageous and hilarious because TMZ [was] filming, so I just pretended to be ordering bags of cocaine.
I guess it just speaks volumes about what a crazy, bad reputation I have that people didn't realize I was joking. The Riverside Police posted to their Facebook page and asked for information about Jesse, but also said that "there does not appear to be anything suspicious at this time.
It's not known why the officer conducted the check. In May, Fontana Police booked and released the former MTV VJ for alleged possession of methamphetamine, but there was no additional information available.
He became famous for his shaggy hair and irreverence. Please enter email address to continue. Please enter valid email address to continue. What Camp lacked in finesse and qualifications, he made up for in his off-the-wall personality, his eccentricity, and his stylish yet outlandish outfits. It didn't take long for the high-pitch voiced, metal music-loving teenager to become one of the network's most popular personalities.
His popularity with MTV's youthful viewers surely meant his album would be a chart-topping success, right? After selling just 10, copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan via Rolling Stone , the band's lackluster self-titled debut album signaled an unceremonious dip in his 15 minutes of fame. Aside from his battle with drug addiction , facts about this television personality have proved elusive, thanks in part to Camp's tendency to concoct robust stories about his childhood.
This is the untold truth of Jesse Camp. After attending public school, Jesse Camp received a scholarship to enroll in a prestigious boarding school in Connecticut. He accepted, graduated high school in , and had another scholarship lined up to enroll in the drama department at UCLA. But college and a formal education weren't his cup of tea. Instead of sitting in a classroom all day and keeping his nose in the books as a college coed, Camp fueled his need for wanderlust when he and his twin sister, Marisha, packed up a Volvo and headed out on a cross-country road trip, he told Complex magazine.
Living life as a free spirit has always been Camp's thing, which may be why he only stayed with MTV for a year before bidding the network adieu. He told Rolling Stone the gig was "a whole lot more work than I thought, man," while telling Complex his time with the network equated to a "fairytale thing. Camp admitted during a interview with HuffPost Live via The Fix that drinking and smoking pot were his vices during his MTV VJ days, but after leaving the network, when he was between the ages of 23 through 29, he says he faced his "hardcore drug-time era.
He told The Fix he had cleaned up his act, but a May arrest for alleged possession of methamphetamine contradicts that claim. Despite his alleged struggle with addiction, Camp headed off to therapy for an entirely different reason. During the early days of his MTV career, he caught a lot of heat for lying about his upbringing. Rolling Stone tallied a list of many of those stories, which included a lie about his parents being divorced, a fib about his dad owning a roofing company, and the falsehood that his pa had to pull strings to help him graduate from high school.
All lies. Camp justified his tall tales by saying they were his "way of dealing with a lot of other issues. His storytelling became a major problem when he became a celebrity.
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