Cover Model Interview
There is really only one criterion that we have for girls who want to grace the cover of Barstool Sports: the girl has to be from New England. Oh, and she has to have no problem sitting down on the casting couch with El Presidente. No, I’m just kidding about that part. As long as a girl lives in the area and is smoking hot then she is eligible to be on the cover of the Stool. But this week we sort of made an exception to that rule. A couple of months ago we got contacted by this week’s cover model, Jamie Walsh. Jaime is a Quincy native who now lives in Hollywood. And more importantly for us she is in this year’s Lingerie Bowl. For those of you who have your head in the sand, the Lingerie Bowl is a pay per view event that is played at half time during the Super Bowl and consists of smoking hot broads playing football in their lingerie. It usually features B list celebrities like Jenna Jameson and Hugh Hefner’s Girlfriends. This year the teams are coached by Brian Bosworth and Jim McMahon. Anyway, with the Super Bowl right around the corner, I thought the timing would be perfect to feature Jamie on the cover of Barstool Sports and learn more about how a girl from Quincy ends up in arguably the hottest sporting event on the planet.
Stool - Ok, let’s start from the beginning. Where do you live now?
JW - I live in Hermosa Beach which is 15 miles from Hollywood. I moved there 5 years ago in February.
Stool - What made you move to California?
JW - I always dreamed of being an actress. When I was in college I always talked to my roommate about how I’d love to move to California. But I never really thought it was that realistic since I was from Boston and went to school at Merrimack. Then an opportunity presented itself out of the blue. My roommate enlisted in the military and got stationed in California. Naturally I decided to fly out and visit her. I was about 23 at the time.
Stool - So how old are you now?
JW - Ummm…
Stool - Is that a non topic?
JW - Let’s just say older than a lot of people.
Stool – Well I’m turning 30 in March and I’m guessing you’re not older than me so that should make you feel good. Anyway so what happened when you visited your friend? Did you just decide that you had to be an actress or you’d die?
JW - Ha, no not at all. I really just went out to visit her. But we ended up going to a backyard barbeque in LA. It was at this huge beautiful house in Beverly Hills. I was a total fish out of the water. Anyway, this woman who used to play Nat’s wife on Beverly Hills 90210 was at this party. Do you remember that show?
Stool - Are you serious? That’s borderline insulting. Although I must admit that I didn’t know Nat had a wife.
JW – Well he did. Anyway, she came over to me and asked if I was an actor. I started laughing at her and said that I’m from Boston. She asked if I’d ever thought about it and I said of course, but stressed again that I wouldn’t have a clue on where to begin. Well Nat’s wife went on to give me an acting 101 lesson and advice on how to get started in the industry and stuff like that. After the barbecue my girlfriend told me it was fate. Not only did she get stationed in California, but I met Nat’s wife. So I flew home and came back out 2 months later and stayed with a friend of a friend for a month. I took an acting class and just learned the city. After the month was over I flew back home gave my 2 weeks notice at my medical billing job, packed my shit and moved across country. That was five years ago.
Stool – Umm, I think I can figure out the math on how old you are now. Ok, so let’s fast forward to the Lingerie Bowl. How did you get this gig?
JW – They had a tryout with an agility test.
Stool – Agility test? What was that like?
JW - Basically offensive drills, defensive drills, Blocking and Passing. There were all types of skill levels from girls that didn’t know which way to run, to girls who were pretty good, to girls that didn’t know what a football was.
Stool - Was it vicious?
JW - No, not really.
Stool - Well that’s certainly disappointing. Who are some of the famous people on your team?
JW - Kendra from the Girls Next Door is on my team.
Stool - Is she hot?
JW - Well she’s in Playboy and she is Hef’s girlfriend.
Stool - Yeah, I know, but that doesn’t really mean anything. I mean Hef is 194 years old. If you saw her and didn’t know who she was, would you say she’s drop dead gorgeous?
JW - I don’t know. I haven’t been close enough to her yet to give you an honest opinion.
Stool - I thought she was on your team?
JW - She is, but we haven’t started practice yet. But I can say Jenna Jameson who is the host of the Lingerie Bowl is gorgeous.
Stool - Really? I wouldn’t have guessed that. Rumor is she banged Tom Brady. Did you know that?
JW - Umm, can you take that back about my future husband? That really offends me.
Stool - Okay, speaking of pseudo celebrities, who is the best looking celebrity you’ve ever seen in Hollywood?
JW - Carman Electra. She’s tiny, but oh my god she’d gorgeous.
Stool - Who is the most over rated?
JW - Paris Hilton.
Stool - I’m not even sure Paris Hilton is rated. She’s gross. So as part of your Lingerie Bowl gig, do you have to go out every night?
JW - I really should. And If I lived in Hollywood I probably would, but I don’t go out that much. It’s too hard with my day job. I’m a personal trainer as well.
Stool - I hear you. I should go out every night and try to schmooze and make connections, but I don’t. I need my sleep to keep the blog firing on all cylinders. Now you probably fit the description of the stereotypical struggling actress in Hollywood. Have you ever been involved in or heard of any casting couch stories? Is this a myth or is this real?
JW - It’s very real. Luckily I don’t have any horror stories with it. And in reality it all has to do with the girls. People only get away with what you let them get away with. There are tons of pretty girls in Hollywood. Everybody in Hollywood was the prettiest girl in their high school and when they move here, they think they are going to stick out and get discovered. But the reality of the situation is that there are a million hot girls out here. And for every girl trying to work her ass off to make it, there are 500 girls behind her who are willing to suck a dick to get where they want. For example there is a girl in the lingerie bowl who was telling me how she used to see Michael Bay. She was telling me how he’s a dog, he’s a player and dates all these girls and everybody thinks he’s going to give them all these jobs which he never does. She knows it and everybody knows it. But the next day I get a message from her saying that she stayed over his house that night. This is a gorgeous 22 year old girl we’re talking about. It’s power and money and everybody wants it.
Stool - Man, Michael Bay is a weird looking dude right? I’m definitely doing Barstool in the wrong city.
JW - Yeah, he’s definitely a little weird looking. But it’s all about fame and fortune. Lots of these girls will do anything for it. I just want to be able to do the craft and pay the bills.
Stool - The Craft? You mean acting right? I think that’s what Tom Cruise calls it. Anyway, back to the lingerie bowl. I know you said there are four teams in it this year. What’s the deal with that?
JW - There is Chicago, NY, LA and Dallas. Chicago plays New York and LA plays Dallas the week before the superbowl. The two winning teams play in the Lingerie Bowl at halftime of the Super Bowl. Each player on the winning team gets $2,500. MVP gets 5K. And then for all the girls in the lingerie bowl I think you get 10K for the first million pay per view buys and then you get an additional 5K for every 500,000 pay per view buys after that.
Stool - Wow, so there is heavy pressure to win that first game huh? Also it sounds like we’re not going to know if you’re actually in the big game until after this interview is published. I’ll be rooting for Chicago so this article isn’t totally useless.
JW - Me too!
Stool - What position do you play?
JW - I want to be either QB or RB. I can’t catch. But I think I’ll be pretty good at QB. I actually can throw a spiral with both hands.
Stool - Really? I can’t even do that. Now that I think about it, I don’t know anybody who can do that. You’re kind of like Greg Oden from Ohio State. He shoots free throws with his other hand. Now what is Tackling Hollywood, which is your screen name on Myspace?
JW - Basically I called my manager after I booked the Lingerie Bowl and asked how am I going to make this work for me? After all, there are 60 girls who are doing it who are as pretty as me if not prettier. Lots of them have been in Maxim or Playboy. How am I going to stand out? I did some research and decided to do a reality show. The next week cameras were rolling. The name of the show is Tackling Hollywood.
Stool - Well the good news for you is now you can say tell all these other starlets that you were in Barstool Sports I’m sure that carries heavy weight in Hollywood. What is the status of the reality show?
JW - My production company shot 13 pilot episodes. We were in negotiations with the G4 network which is basically a new network that wants to compete with Spike. It is geared towards guys 18-35 years old. Unfortunately this fell through recently because G4 wants us to come to them with a finished product but we don’t have the money to do that. And they allocate their budget a year prior so they don’t have any money to give me to finish it.
Stool - So how do you finish it? What’s keeping it from being finished?
JW - Money. We need full scale production. My camera guy can only be there when he doesn’t have other paid jobs. I need cameras following me around all the time and ideally following other girls as well. Everybody who works on Tackling Hollywood has other jobs. They are doing it because they believe in the project.
Stool - This sounds like a Barstool Sports sob story. So here is a depressing question for you. What happens if your reality show doesn’t get finished?
JW - Hopefully, it will help create more career opportunities for me. I don’t want to be a reality TV star. I actually hate reality TV. I want to be an actress. I’ve made a ton of connections and I’ll just keep kicking doors down if this doesn’t work.
Stool - Ok, let’s try and finish up here. Would you describe yourself as a Masshole and what does that mean to you?
JW - Definitely. Being a Masshole is all about pride. I’m proud of being from here. People in LA think I’m an asshole because I’m honest and real. But that’s what being from MA is all about.
Stool - Do you have any regrets about the move to California?
JW - None. I’d do it again in a heart beat.
Stool – Well we appreciate you getting in contact with us Jamie. I wish you nothing but the best of luck and hopefully we’ll see you in the big game on Super Bowl Sunday.