TV Personality Star, Jenna Morasca To Host The APFC 2011

October 1, 2011

American Pole Fitness Association (APFA) is proud to present Jenna Morasca as the guest of honor host of the 2nd Annual American Pole Fitness Championships in New York City, October 14, 2011. Jenna was the sole Survivor and winner of the CBS hit reality TV Show Survivor: The Amazon.

Jenna Morasca is currently part of the cast of the new season of The Amazing Race which started on September 25, 2011 on CBS network. Jenna, always in demand, is also involved in another new reality show where she is sharing the camera as host with the legendary Mohammed Ali’s daughter, Laila Ali and boyfriend, also a Survivor winner, Ethan Zohn on Everyday Health on ABC.

Morasca became the youngest contestant to ever win the CBS reality show and went on to play in the 2004 Survivor All-Stars challenge. After three episodes Jenna made a very tough decision to depart the show, regretting leaving her mother who had been in a battle with cancer for 12 years. She withdrew from Survivor All-Stars to go home and be with her mom who passed away eight days later. Commemorating the American Pole Fitness Championships platinum sponsor Pole Spin Magazine‘s one year anniversary, The publication dedicated it’s anniversary issue to raising charity awareness through a charity initiative drive, Pole For A Cause™. A portion of the net proceeds from sales of the special anniversary issue at the American Pole Fitness Championships in New York, has been earmarked for various charity donations, such as breast cancer, HIV victims, e.t.c. Full details to be posted on www.PoleForACause.com. Jenna’s mother was a victim of Breast Cancer while she was still filming on the Survivor  hit TV show. Jenna’s amazing journey and philanthropy missions are chronicled in the magazine’s October-December 2011 print issue, set to hit to hit the newsstands and bookstores October 4, 2011. Copies can also be acquired to be shipped out worldwide from Pole Spin‘s website.

Jenna as a philanthropist:

Along side her boyfriend Ethan Zohn, Winner of Survivor Africa, Morasca has taken an active role as a spokesperson and ambassador to various cancer organizations and caretaker groups, as she herself took on this role again as Zohn personally went through his own fight with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Features on the couple as they battled this disease include: People Magazine, InTouch, US Weekly, Life & Style, TV Guide, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, The Early Show, and many more. Jenna was most also named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 30 Hottest Survivor Castaways EVER!

In addition, Jenna has become a celebrity ambassador for such organizations as PETA, the National Humane Society and a number of women’s health advocacy groups.  She was also nominated for the 2011 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Women of the Year.

Modeling:

Morasca has appeared in two national PETA campaigns, including one that features her and Zohn as Adam and Eve and appeared in an anti-fur ad for with the slogan “We’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur!”

In 2003, Morasca and fellow SURVIVOR contestant Heidi Strobel posed for the cover of Playboy, which ultimately became the second best-selling cover that year.

No stranger to pageants Jenna has competed in many. She was Miss PA COED in 1999, won the Venus Swimwear Competition two years in a row (2001-2002), and was second runner-up, (in her first year competing in Miss PA USA), in the Miss PA USA beauty pageant in 2001. Morasca continues to model on a freelance basis.

Acting:

Jenna got a chance to test her acting skills when she guest-starred in the Off Broadway play “Pieces” in New York City, which ultimately led to an invitation to join the cast permanently for its six-week run.

Previous Hosting Gigs:

Jenna has hosted many shows for VH1, TV Guide Channel, CBS, MTV, and four seasons of co hosting the live Internet talk show Survivor Live on CBS.com. In addition, Jenna was the CBS host for the 2010 Comic Con event and assumed that role again in July 2011.

Jenna has been practitioner of pole dance fitness and aerial silks for at least 5 years, and patronizes Sheila Kelley’s S Factor for her training.

APFA is more than delighted to have Jenna Morasca as the host of the 2nd Annual American Pole Fitness Championships, taking place on Friday, October 14, 2011 at the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom Theater in New York City, starting at 6:30 promptly. To attend the championship, please visit the TICKET PAGE.

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