Crush Girl Week – Day 5 – Kate Upton

The surprise Crush Girl to wrap up this week is a girl taking the supermodel world by the storm. Kate isn’t at the top of her career yet, but we couldn’t wait to make a post so to wrap up this summer’s Everyday Blogs we’re gonna tell you everything we could find out about Kate…

Quick Bio

• Full Name: Katherine Elizabeth Upton
• Birthday: June 10th
• Birthplace: St. Joseph, Michigan
• Siblings: Christie, Callie, Laura
• Twitter   LINK

Career Thus Far

• 2008 she was signed at a casting call for Elite Model Management
• She first modeled for the Garage clothing line then Dooney & Burke
• 2010-2011 she became the face for Guess
• Her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue shoot was this year and she won the title of Rookie of the Year
• She now models for Victoria Secret and Beachbunny Swimwear
• 2011, a viral vid of her doing the dougie became very popular
• She was a selected celebrity for this year’s MLB Legends & Celebrity Softball game during the All Star Break
• She has a guest appearance on the show Tosh.O

Random Factoids

• She has competed nationally as a horserider winning 3 world championships with her horse Roanie Pony
• Her uncle Fred is a Michigan congressman
• According to her twitter she’s a New York Jets fan and her sister works with them

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She might possibly be the hottest crush girl, so fair warning, it’s gonna get hot fast…

Crush Girl Week – Day 4 – Caroline Wozniacki vs. Maria Sharapova

We’re doing something a little different this time with today’s Crush Girl post being a Versus. Also we don’t do a lot of athletes so picking out the two hottest tennis players today and seeing which one I think is better Crush Girl, all just in time for the end of the U.S. Open too…

Round 1: More Interesting Tennis Grunt

I think that’s what they call it when the female players make the “ughhh” when they hit the ball back. It’s become almost trademark to hear it in female matches, though there seems to be a rule against it now.

EVIDENCE

Winner – Sharapova

Woz was way louder but it was technically a scream, her normal grunts are just “umphs”. Sharapova sounds like she’s getting stabbed over and over again. Definitely this is going to be our weirdest category in Versus so far.

Round 2: Joking with Male Players

Especially around Novak Djokovic, both of these ladies have played pranks on other pro tennis players. Nothing too drop dead funny about their jokes, but its fun to see athletes with a sense of humor, also if anything the accidents make everything twice as hilarious.

EVIDENCE

Winner – Wozniacki

Giving this one to Wozniacki because it seems like she pulls these pranks more on her own then with a corporate sponsor behind all of it. While Sharapova probably wouldn’t have done so if there wasn’t money involved.

Round 3: Hotter Tennis Outfit

Since no one in women’s pro tennis wear the same thing its become sort of a fashion affair. Amazingly these outfits that these players come out of Addias, Nike, and such. Too lazy to go through their entire outfit catalog, so who wore the better outfit at this year’s U.S. Open?

EVIDENCE

Winner – Wozniacki

Maria’s looks like someone tried too hard to make it. While Woz’s is simple and classic looking (the pleated skirt part I guess). And really the thing is basically see-thru, so yay! Guess its also a Nike vs Addidas thing too.

Round 4: Looks Better in a Bikini

Now the “guy stuff” round. It’s sort of mandatory for the Crush Girl post…

EVIDENCE

Winner – Sharapova

Well this one is one sided since one is just candid photos and the other is professional. But Sharapova does pull off a bikini really well even if there might be some airbrushing involved. She gets this one.

Round 5: The Better Tennis Player

Once again it’s like I rigged this entire thing to get to a round 5. Anyways the last obvious category to do is who is better at playing tennis. Since we at iAre Productions can’t get them on a court at the same time and have them duke it out, we’re going with basic stats (yay numbers)…

EVIDENCE

Maria Sharapova

• 408 wins, 100 loses
• Aus Open (2008), Wimbledon (2004), US Open (2006), WTA Champs (2004)
• 2011 Results – Aus Open (4th), French Open (Semi), Wimbledon (Finals), US Open (3rd)

Caroline Wozniacki

• 288 Wins, 102 loses
• US Open Finals (2009), Australian Open Semis (2011), WTA Champs Finals (2010)
• 2011 Results – Aus Open (Semi), French Open (3rd), Wimbledon (4th), US Open (Semi)

OVERALL – Maria has beaten Caroline 5 out of 7 face to face matches

Winner – Sharapova

This one is a hard one to call, since Sharapova was good back in the mid 2000′s, while Wozniacki is starting to kick off her height of her career now. We’re giving it to Maria based on their head to head, especially the one she won this year’s Italian Open. But since Maria won this one that means…

Ultimate Winner – Maria Sharapova

Though Wozniacki is my generation’s tennis crush, Sharapova shows she still on top. Maria is now and Caroline is tomorrow, and Anna was way way back when. But proving once again, you’ll never know where you’ll find a new crush girl. I decided to add in a general gallery below for both now.

Crush Girl Week – Day 3 – Janina Gavankar

After a quick 1 day delay we are back to the Crush Girls and today we’re going to introduce you to an actress that you may or may not know, Janina Gavankar.

Quick Bio

• Full Name: Janina Zione Gavankar
• Birthday: November 29th
• Birthplace: Joliet, Illionis
• Parents: Pete and Mora Gavankar
• Notable Schooling: University of Illionis at Chicago
• Twitter  LINK

Career Thus Far

• Janina’s acting career began all the way back in 2001, when she starred in the short film Why Is God…
• Her first major film role was in the comedy Barbershop, she also appeared in Barbershop 2, she played 2 separate minor characters
• From 2004-2009, Janina appeared in various guest roles on many different TV shows including: Strong Medicine, Girlfriends, My Boys, Stargate: Atlantis, Grey’s Anatomy, and NCIS
• She starred in another film, this time horror called Cup of My Blood
• Janina’s first recurring TV show role was as Papi on the Showtime drama The L Word, which she was apart of for 4 seasons
• 2009-2010 led to another string of guest roles on Dollhouse, The Cleaner, and Men, Interrupted 
• She got a short recurring role on FX’s The League as Shiva and a recurring role on the short lived ABC drama The Gates as Leigh
• 2011 saw her on another short lived tv show on Fox called Traffic Light and she is currently on this season of True Blood as the shapeshifter Luna Garza

Random Factoids

• She used to be in a relationship with the CEO of deviantArt Angelo Sotira
• She’s reviewed video games for the show Up All Night for a couple of episodes
• She used to be a member of the music group Endera
• She has some songs licensed to movies and has even played the marimba in some film scores
• She is “Ms. Dewey” for the Windows Live Search
• Her nickname is Nina
• Claims she was the first celebrity to join twitter

Coming Soon to…

• Satellite of Love (drama – supporting role, 2012, theaters)
• Victory or Death (drama – lead role, 2011, theaters)

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Crush Girl Week – Day 2 – Nina Dobrev

This is the second day of the Crush Girl Week that will wrap up the Summer Everyday Blogs. On day 2, we’re gonna introduce you to Nina Dobrev or if you watch the CW let you know more about her besides the vampire stuff…

Quick Bio

• Full Name: Nina Konstantinova Dobreva
• Birthday: January 9th
• Birthplace: Sofia, Bulgaria
• Notable Schooling: J. B. Tyrrell Sr. Public School , Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts, Ryerson University
• Twitter  LINK

Career Thus Far

• Nina’s career began in 2006 when she appeared in the pitch short version of Repo! The Genetic Opera, she would not show up in the actual film
• ’06-’08 would be a long string of small films and TV movies, she got the lead roles in Too Young to Marry, The Poet, Fugitive Pieces, The American Mall, Mookie’s Law, My Daughter’s Secret and Never Cry Werewolf 
• Her TV series debut came in 2006 when she got the role of Mia Jones on the Canadian teen series Degrassi: The Next Generation for 46 episodes
  
• She appeared on another TV show in 2008 called The Border for 2 episodes
• Her first major film role came in 2009 in the thriller Chloe alongside Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried, she had a small role in it
• Continuing with her role in Degrassi, she appeared in the film Degrassi Goes Hollywood
• Nina’s breakthrough role came in 2009 when she was casted in a duel role of Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce in the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, which is heading into its 3rd season
• Recently Nina appeared in the thriller film The Roommate alongside Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly, she has a small role in this one
• Nina has also done voice acting for Merry Madagascar, The Super Hero Squad Show, and Family Guy

Random Factoids

• She has lived in Canada since she was 2
• She has compete internally in aesthetics gymnastics representing Canada
• She speaks French, English, and Bulgarian fluently
• One of her hobbies is making jewelry
• Shares an apartment in Atlanta with Vampire Diaries costar Kayla Ewell

Coming Soon to…

• The Vampire Diaries (season 3, the CW, 9/15/11)
• Arena (action flick – love interest, theaters, 2011)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (book adaptation – supporting role, theaters, 2012)

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Crush Girl Week – Day 1 – Jillian Murray

To close out this year’s Summer Everyday Blogs there will be 5 days this week of Crush Girl of the Week posts. Mostly cause I’ve been slacking on those for the past month (sorry guys). But you get 5 of them this week so yay, the schedule is as followed…

M – Crush Girl (Jillian Murray), T – Crush Girl (Nina Dobrev), W – The Drop (Summer Hits), R – Crush Girl (Janina Gavankar), F – Crush Girl (Emily Browning), ST – Summer Watch List, SN – Crush Girl (???)

Anyways here’s today’s Crush Girl, Jillian Murray…

Quick Bio

• Full Name: Jillian Leigh Murray
• Birthday: June 4th
• Birthplace: Reading, Pennsylvania
• Siblings: Meghan (younger)
• Notable Schooling: Sacred Heart Elementary, Wyomissing Jr. High, Hendersonville High School
• Twitter  LINK

Her Career So Far

• Jillian’s film debut came in 2003 in the TV movie, Deep Toad
• Her TV debut came on the Nickelodeon show Drake & Josh as Drake’s girlfriend for 2 episodes
• Her first leading role came in the TV movie Cheerleader Camp
• She was one of the actresses chosen to have their likeness captured and did voice acting for the character Liara T’Soni in all 3 Mass Effect games
• Her next lead role came in the teen comedy American High School as Gwen
• 2008 was her scream queen year appearing in Forget Me Not and The Graves
• Her next recurring TV show came on the Disney channel sitcom Sonny with a Chance as Portlyn Maddison for 4 episodes
• She would get 2 more guest roles on the TV shows Rules of Engagement and Awkward.
• Her recent film career included another horror flick Visible Scars, the 4th film in the Wild Things series, the sequel Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown

Random Factoids

• She knows sign language
• One of her pets is a Yorkshire terrier named Bijou
• She is a champion chess player
• She knows how to ride motorcycles including a Kawasaki ninja
• Dating Dean Geyer

Coming Soon to…

• Bad Ass (action, theaters, 2012)
• The Graves 2: Return to Skull City (theaters?, 2012)
• Mass Effect 3 (reprising Liara T’Soni, video game, 3/6/12)

Do you see the similarities?

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