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Jake Bronstein (born June 13, 1978), is best
known for being one of the founding editors of FHM Magazine - US edition. A self-styled "fun
evangelist," he consults on facilitating fun work environments and
engagement, and runs an alternative marketing agency called
GiantMINIATURE. [1]
Career
At 18, he was cast for the popular MTV TV show Road Rules. At 20, he wrote his first
feature for Maxim Magazine. At 21 he signed on for FHM, but took a brief break a few years
later to co-host G4 Tech TV's Video Game Vixens. His tenure at FHM came to abrupt end when he was let
go for making off-handed remarks about Howard Stern's girlfriend Beth Ostrosky.[2] He also
documented his sex life for Glamour [3] and
wrote a book about sex under the alias "Allen Jake Bronstein" [4] He
currently works in marketing and blogs at Zoomdoggle, a blog about
fun he launched with Josh
Spear.[5]
Publicity
Stunts
Other highlights include his bizarre public stunts, such as
bathing in Bryant
Park Fountain [6], taking
advantage of a loophole to get into the NBA draft [7],
eBaying the lead singer position in his band [8],
offering himself for marriage [9],
freeing a fish into New York's East River, launching a 50 Dates in
50 States quest by soliciting invites from women on the web [10], and
offering 1,000 strangers a hand-written love letter.[11] He is
also the inventor of the Fun Idea Machine [12] and
recently started a text system designed to kill boredom by letting
people text NEED FUN to 30644 for fun ideas, for free, by
phone.[13] He
appeared on CBS Sunday Morning drinking a full bottle of maple
syrup to set a new world record.
Personal
Life
He dated Kalle Dedolph during the taping of Road Rules.[14] He
once tried sending a girl a "secret signal" during a live TV
interview, but was found out by the shows producers. [15]
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