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It appears her name is Jessica Rose, a 19 year old originally from NZ. (You could really hear her kiwi accent at times)

 

Sometime last night, some people found her actual myspace profile and a photobucket account.

 

It seems she is being paid 30K for 10 months of Lonelygirl15, but I still don't know where it's going other than being an interesting experiment.

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Lonelygirl15 speaks out;

 

LOS ANGELES - Lonelygirl15 speaks!

 

And she says she's amazed at her newfound fame.

 

"I'm trying to deal with it right now," she told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday. "I'm not used to this much attention. It's a little bit crazy for me."

 

The actress who plays Bree on the hit Internet soap opera is Jessica Lee Rose, a 19-year-old who was born in Salisbury, Maryland, and moved to New Zealand when she was eight.

 

Just three months ago, she was one of thousands of struggling actors in Los Angeles looking to make it big in the movies or on a TV show.

 

Today, she is the unlikely star of a series of short Internet videos posted on Web sites such as YouTube and MySpace.

 

Rose was identified after fans of the "Lonelygirl15" videos began to suspect that Bree, the 16-year-old home-schooled precocious teen hosting the segments, didn't exist. Some fans who helped boost the popularity of the videos felt betrayed by what they feared was a hoax perpetrated by a big Hollywood studio to promote some upcoming film.

 

Amateur sleuths unearthed clues, and stories about the show appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other publications, finally forcing the three creators of the Lonelygirl videos to fess up.

 

While efforts were made to shield Rose's identity, she made her public debut Thursday.

 

Rose left New Zealand and returned to Maryland in 2005 after her parents split and later that year moved to Los Angeles to study acting at the New York Film Academy.

 

After graduating in April she started scouring various Internet sites for auditions and came upon a listing on the Craigslist Web site for a project called "Children of Anchor Cove."

 

"At the time I really didn't know what it was because there wasn't a lot of details on it," she said. "They just said it was an independent project."

 

After reading twice for the role, she was offered the part.

 

The show's creators made her sign a nondisclosure agreement, then told her the project was not a film or a TV pilot, but a series of Internet videos.

 

Rose became suspicious.

 

"I was hesitant because it's something I've never really seen done before," she said. "I just finished film school and had been taught to be careful of all the scams in L.A. and all the scary people and don't trust people. I was a little nervous."

 

Rose said she had never checked out YouTube and never watched a video blog. She began looking at the site after she got the part and became more comfortable with the project.

 

"I figured, what did I have to lose?" she said.

 

Rose said she pays close attention to comments made by fans and especially the angry response videos posted on YouTube after it was revealed that the Lonelygirl15 videos were not the authentic musings of a teenage girl.

 

"I can understand their disappointment," she said. "I'm sure they did invest a lot of time in the Lonelygirl15 videos. I feel bad that they invested in it emotionally and were disappointed.

 

"But Bree is still a character and she's still going to continue with this online series and they can continue to watch if they like. You can't make everybody like you."

 

Rose said she still does not have an agent and has not yet been offered parts by big Hollywood studios. Her favorite actress is Nicole Kidman and she says she would love to make the kind of movies made by another role model, Cameron Diaz.

 

"I'd love to be doing fun, goofy movies," she said, "feel-good movies that make people laugh and make people happy. I'd love to do some dramatic pieces later on."

 

But she vows she will stay with Lonelygirl15 as long as the project continues and won't leave to chase her newfound fame.

 

"I won't leave it. I won't leave them," she said.

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QUOTE(samclemens @ Sep 17, 2006 -> 10:27 PM)
if this is how people break a leg these days, hollywood has stooped to a new low. VERY low.

 

I dunno. I never bothered to look into the LonelyGirl thing until it it was all coming undone, but these days it would be silly for Hollywood producers NOT to exploit the various "new media" outlets for all they are worth. It has been a fact for a couple of years now that a cult internet following can hype a film like no other media mahine out there. Sure, in this case, there were only the sketchiest plans for a movie and what it would be, but it had built up a sizeable enough audience that the story of LonelyGirl "exposed" has been picked up by the national news and entertainment outlets. That's a pretty good viewer share, regardless of whether they have the ability to make something come of it.

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