Jennifer Vasquez

Big Brother Contestant
name = Jennifer Vasquez


birthdate = birth date and age|1978|4|08
location = Dallas, Texas
season = Big Brother 6
finish = 9th (1st Jury Member)

Jennifer Roxanne Vasquez (born on April 8, 1978 in Houston, Texas) is most widely known for being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother 6", which aired on CBS in 2005. She is a certified elementary school teacher with a specialty in art and was also a cheerleader with the "Dallas Desperados Dancers" of the Arena Football League for 2 years prior to being on the show. Jennifer had graduated with her master's in counseling right before entering the Big Brother house and was also a substitute elementary school teacher in Plano, Texas where she lived (as of 2005).

Personal life

She was born in Houston, Texas but was raised in Plano, Texas. She attended Plano Senior High School, and then attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2000. It was during this time, that Jennifer became a member of the same sorority that April Lewis joined (though they attended different institutions during different years). Later on, they met at another reality show audition ("The Hilton Project"), which in turn caused them to be "secret partners" on "Big Brother 6". [http://tvguide.com/News/Insider/default.htm?cmsGuid={0FFC2C0D-5C1E-4C44-991F-4A58A2721587}] In 2005, Jennifer graduated from the University of North Texas with a Master of Education degree in Counseling. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1748840/] During Big Brother 6, Jennifer was dating someone for almost 7 years named Daniel whom Howie nicknamed "Dan Dan" and who's picture Jennifer wore around her neck during her HOH week. Daniel and Jennifer stopped dating in 2006.

As of 2007, Jennifer has left her career in the entertainment business as an actress/model and currently resides in Dallas, Texas. She is continuing her career as a teacher working towards using her counseling master's degree. She is an active member of ATPE and also volunteers at a nursing home in her community.

Filmography, Television, and Modeling

Jennifer has appeared in various local, national, and international commercials and informercials. She also has appeared as a featured extra in films and other television shows as well as working on the crew. Jennifer has also modeled for various local and national companies as well.

Actress/Model --

Commercials: Texas Lottery, Verizon, Topo Chico, Lowe's Home Improvement, House of Blues, etc.

Film: Idiocracy (2006) - 20th Century Fox Films

Television: Prison Break (Seasons 2 and 3); Friday Night Lights (Season 1 Finale)

Print Work: XM Satellite Radio, Prudential of Idaho, AT&T, True.com, Nationwide Insurance of America, Bank of America, etc.

Crew --

Film: Evil Behind You (slate/production assistant)

Television: Prison Break (Season 2 - stand in), Bridezillas (Season IV - associate producer/production assistant), Room Raiders 6 (production assistant), Real World 18 (production assistant), America's Next Top Model (Season 5 - casting associate/production assistant)

Big Brother 6

Jennifer was one of fourteen "Big Brother 6" contestants confined in a house together, with the objective of outlasting one another. At the beginning of each week, there was a new Head of Household(HoH) determined, who was able to nominate other members for removal at the end of the week. After each nomination, a vote was held amongst contestants to select one nominee to remove. In this, the sixth season of the show, known as the "Summer of Secrets", each contestant had a secret partner, that they knew before the show, who would work together. Jennifer's secret partner was April Lewis although a closer bond was formed between Jennifer and Maggie (winner of BB6). She was part of the Friendship alliance (known as "The Nerd Herd" by the other alliance) along with April Lewis, Maggie Ausburn, Beau Beasley and Ivette Corredero.

Jennifer helped her group win "meat" for the week in the food competition "Snack Shack from Hell." Jennifer's partner in the competition, Maggie, was a known vegetarian and could not participate in eating the "snake" covered in chocolate frosting. Jennifer ate both portions in under the allotted time winning their part of the competition. Jennifer also correctly spelled "mayonnaise" in the food competition "The Spelling Bee" although Kasysar spun "PB&J" for the houseguests that week. In the food competition "Matching Munchies," Jennifer not only guessed her fill in the blank sentence correct but was also chosen by her group over Janelle to participate in the bonus round. Jennifer also correctly filled in the blank giving the group another number to possibly unlock the safe in the gold room. The producers scattered clues all over the Big Brother house for the houseguests to figure out how to open the safe as well. Jennifer found the glow in the dark clue on the fish tank for the houseguests to figure out. During the food competition "The Conveyor Belch," Jennifer was grouped with Sov 6 members Rachel Plencner, James Rhine, Sarah Hrejsa, and Howie Gordon helping to win food for the week (beating Janelle, April, Maggie, Beau, and Ivette). She was once again left out of "The Friendship" and forced to pair up with Sarah and Rachel in the luxury competition "Sold Out" after Howie willingly gave up his movie ticket to Jennifer. The three girls won the comp and were awarded the opportunity to watch a premiere screening of the movie "Four Brothers" in the HOH room with popcorn, candy, and drinks while the other houseguests waited downstairs.

Jennifer became HoH during Week 7 after winning the HoH competition "Pressure Cooker" (the longest endurance challenge in Big Brother history lasting over 14 hours). During the competition, she promised newly-returned houseguest Kaysar Ridha that she would nominate two people from her own alliance in an attempt to "backdoor" James, also assuring Kaysar safety for himself being nominated.

At the nomination ceremony, Jennifer realized that she could not trust Kaysar's group to help win the veto in order to backdoor James and changed her mind on what she committed to do with Kaysar and nominated two people from his alliance, Rachel Plencner and Janelle Pierzina. She explained to Kaysar that she could not nominate two people who were close friends from her own team because it would leave her group outnumbered when it came to voting and would not be strategically wise on her part. She also explained to him the situation where Janelle and Howie tried to get her and her partner, April, to vote out Ivette while he was out of the house, therefore, making the Sov 6 group not able to be trusted. Soon afterwards, many of Jennifer's alliance members came up with the idea to backdoor Kaysar instead of James. When Rachel won the Power of Veto competition and took herself out of the nomination chair, Jennifer nominated Kaysar in her place, going against both parts of her pact now. Kaysar was then evicted from the house by a unanimous vote, making Jennifer a huge target with the remainder of Kaysar's alliance.

After Kaysar's 2nd eviction, Janelle won the HoH competition in Week 8 and nominated Jennifer and Maggie. When Janelle won the veto competition, she used her veto on Maggie and replaced her with Ivette in order to ensure Jennifer would be evicted. Jennifer was eliminated on day 49 in a double eviction week making her the first jury member.

External links

* [http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother6/_guests/_jennifer/ CBS profile of Jennifer Vasquez for "Big Brother"]
*imdb name | id=2216914 | name=Jennifer Roxanne Vasquez (II)
* [http://www.dallasdesperados.com/dancer_squad2004/squad_JenniferVasquez.cfm Jennifer Vasquez] - Profile by Dallas Desperados
* [http://www.latunafilms.com/latuna_eng.html Topo Chico Commercial] Click "commercials" and then click the left arrow button until you see the bottle and someone using their fork. Make sure you have Quicktime before clicking on the picture to view video.
* [http://www.austinranch.net/index.html Austin Dude Ranch] Grapevine, Texas (2006)
* [http://www.tvgrapevine.com/index.php/topic,13069.0.html TV Grapevine Interview]