Jerri Manthey
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| Jerri Manthey | |
| Date of birth | September 5, 1970 |
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| Resides | Los Angeles, California |
| Season(s) | Australia All-Stars |
| Finish | 9th voted out (Australia) 9th voted out (All-Stars) |
| Tribe(s) | Ogakor, Barramundi (Australia) Saboga, Mogo Mogo, Chapera (All-Stars) |
Jerri Lynn Manthey (born September 5, 1970 on a US military base in Stuttgart, Germany) is an actress who is best known for her appearances on reality shows.
Jerri Manthey's father, Cyril, was a career member of the United States Army and served several years in Germany. Jerri Manthey was born in Stuttgart, Germany and attended both high school and college in Germany.
Manthey worked as a bartender in Los Angeles while attempting to build an acting career. In 2001, she appeared on the television reality show Survivor: The Australian Outback. She was frequently involved in conflicts with the rest of the cast, earning her a degree of notoriety. She managed to survive 8 staggering episodes before being voted off on the 9th episode. When voted off, she turned to all her castmates and replied "CHECKMATE- you guys got me."
Following her appearance on Survivor, Manthey appeared on The Young and the Restless, and the reality shows Blind Date, The Surreal Life and The Joe Schmo Show. She also posed nude in the September 2001 issue of Playboy.
Manthey returned in the 2004 series Survivor: All-Stars. She lasted longer than she had in her first appearance on the show, having played a less confrontational and directly manipulative strategy, but was again voted off. At the reunion show, she attempted to speak about the distorted image that viewers have of reality show contestants but she was booed by the studio audience and left during a commercial break.
Manthey's acting debut was in the movie That Championship Season (1999) using the name Jerri Lynn London. She also appeared in the movies The Limited (2000) and Destiny (2002). She worked as a sideline reporter on the TV series Extreme Dodgeball during its first season, but did not return for the second or third seasons.
[edit] Trivia
- Before either of the two were famous, she was set up on a blind date with Ryan Seacrest. He broke it off by failing to call her back after their initial date.
- She appeared in Faith Hill's video "Piece of My Heart" in 1994.
- She is one of only two Survivors to be part of two blindfold challenges without ever having been blindfolded, in the second season and the All-Star season.
- She is referenced in Scary Movie 2 when Father Harris attempts to exorcise a demon out of a young girl, saying, "...who sent your only son into the world to crush that roaring tiger, and who got that unholy bitch Jerri off of Survivor!" [1]
