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Athlete & celebrity, Bruce Jenner,
was born on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York.
Bruce Jenner is a U.S. track and field athlete, famous for winning
the decathlon in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Bruce Jenner placed third in
the decathlon at the 1972 U.S. Olympic trials and finished in an impressive
tenth place at the 1972 Munich games. He became an American champion in the
event and won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, setting a world record
of 8,634 points. Jenner was handed
a large American flag from a bystander in the audience as he spontaneously ran
a celebratory victory lap, a gesture that has been emulated frequently since
that time by athletes in other sports from countries around the world (and also
by John Belushi in a Saturday Night Live commercial parody). He was the 1976
recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United
States. Jenner was also the Associated
Press Male Athlete of the Year in 1976. He was inducted into the Olympic Hall
of Fame in 1986 and the Bay Area Hall of Fame and Connecticut Sports Hall of
Fame in 1994.
Following his Olympic success, Bruce Jenner
appeared on the front of Wheaties brand breakfast cereal as a "Wheaties
champion". Of several hundred athletes who have been so featured, Jenner
is one of seven Wheaties spokesmen. He was invited to the White House to meet
with President Gerald R. Ford who autographed a political cartoon that featured
the pair.
In 1980, Jenner made his acting
debut in the film Can't Stop the Music which has become a cult classic over
the years since its release. The disco-era comedy about the singing group The
Village People was a notorious flop, though, and Jenner never made another theatrical
film. However, he did appear in a few TV movies. He also guest-starred in a
handful of episodes of the 80s TV police drama CHiPs as Officer Steve McLeish
(substituting for star Erik Estrada when he was in a contract dispute with the
studio).
Since 2002, Bruce Jenner has
appeared as himself on a variety of game shows and reality TV programs. In January
2002 he participated in an episode of the American series of The Weakest Link
(US) featuring Olympian athletes. In February and March 2003, he was part of
the cast of the American series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, and
made a cameo on a season three episode of The Apprentice that originally aired
in May 2005. He was partnered with Tai Babilonia for Skating with Celebrities
that aired January-March 2006 (they were eliminated during the fifth of seven
episodes). Jenner has additionally
served as a guest judge on Pet Star on Animal Planet, and appeared with his
family on NBC's Celebrity Family Feud.
Bruce Jenner is currently married
to Kris, who was previously married to Robert Kardashian. He has two daughters
with Kris named Kendall Nicole (born November 3, 1995) and Kylie (born August
10, 1997). He is also the stepfather of Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney
Kardashian and Rob Kardashian.
Jenner's first marriage to Chrystie
Crownover (1972 to 1980) produced two children, daughter Casey Jenner (b. June
4, 1980) and first son Burt Jenner (b. 1978). His other sons, Brandon (b. June
10, 1981) and Brody (with second wife Linda Thompson, to whom he was married
from 1981 to 1983), appeared in their own reality show The Princes of Malibu,and
which featured them living with their stepfather David Foster. Brody is also
on the reality show The Hills.
In late 2007 and 2008 Jenner, along with wife
Kris Jenner, stepdaughters Kim, Kourtney, Khloe and stepson Robert (from Kris'
marriage to attorney Robert Kardashian), and daughters Kylie and Kendall, starred
in the E! reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians; season two earned
an average of 1.6 million viewers, an increase over the previous cycle, and
the show was renewed for a third season.
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