Manhunt: The Search For America's Most Gorgeous Male Model is an American reality television series broadcast by Bravo. The series premiered on October 11, 2004, while its eighth and final episode aired on November 30, 2004. Filmed in Los Angeles, California, the series depicted a competition among thirty men were required to travel around the United States and compete against one another in a variety of challenges. American model Carmen Electra hosted the series.
Guest judges include former male supermodel Bruce Hulse, model Marisa Miller, former model and photographer director Kimberly Metz, and Stuff magazine editor Courtney Kendall. Jon Jonsson won the competition, receiving a four-year contract with IMG Models worth $100,000.
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John Stallings is an openly gay American model. He has appeared on The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, having been selected as a model by Janice Dickinson for her eponymous agency.
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Jon Jonsson (born Jon Grimkell Helgasson) was born in ReykjavÃÂk, Iceland to an Icelandic father and a Thai mother.
After winning Manhunt in 2004, he modeled and signed with IMG Models and several major agencies in Singapore, Australia, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
He also modeled in campaigns for companies such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Ed Hardy, OCBC Bank,... landed covers for several major magazines such as V, Men's Health, Urban, Female, Catalogue Singapore,... and headlined various runways shows and hosted the Singapore Fashion Festival for MediaCorp. Most notably, Jonsson was a temporary video jockey for MTV Southeast Asia
Known for shying away from the media and his disillusionment of the fashion industry, he quit modeling completely in 2007 to focus on his education. However, he returned in 2011, signing with Click Boston, Look Model Agency in San Francisco, and resigning with Nous Models in Los Angeles. In 2012, he was mainly represented by Ave Management in Singapore, but decided to focus on his legal career, having passed the California bar exam.
In 2009, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He wrote a thesis relating to the magnetic field signatures of Jupiter's moons.
In May 2012, Jonsson graduated from the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center),
He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and in 2013, became a registered patent attorney in the State of California.
On Sunday, February 23, 2025, Jon Jonsson died while hiking with friends in Carmel Valley, California. Jon felt unwell and sat to take a rest on the hike, passed out, and then died. Specific cause is unknown at this time.