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  After recent swim and screen tests in Santa Monica, Calif., Jennifer Hill,
26, co-host of Global TV's popular sports trivia show Game On, was
short listed for a role in Baywatch Hawaii. Producers for the TV show
told Hill to hang by the phone. Unfortunately, when the call came, she
missed out. A big disappointment for the vivacious Hill but, undaunted,
she continues to audition regularly for TV and movie roles.
Hill, a Toronto girl born and bred, has become something of a pin-up
girl through her role in Game On. Had she won a part in Baywatch Hawaii,
her looks and figure would have been front and centre on millions of
TV screens. While some dismiss the show -- nicknamed Babewatch --
as sexist, Hill wasn't fazed by the idea of being ogled by men.
"If you want to be taken seriously as an actress then you have to get established,
so it couldn't hurt to have millions of men watching me," she says.
A former student of Oakwood Collegiate, Hill has never been shy
about coming forward. Her first TV role was as a smiling 11-year-old
in a Red Lobster advertisement. "As a young child I was always putting
on little plays and skits for the family with my older sister Julie," she
recalls. Mom Ashley spotted Jennifer's potential and she soon landed
her daughter parts in commercials after signing with an agency. Work
followed with Red Lobster, JVC, Black and Decker and Commodore,
among others. When she left school, Hill was desperate to be an actor
but cautious enough to pursue a more traditional career. For
seven-and-a-half years she worked as a director of administration at
a Toronto advertising agency. "I wanted to get a real career behind me.
It was better than waiting tables and doing the acting thing," she says.
Commercials still came her way, plus the Game On audition.
"I went to the cattle call, as the girls call it, and got lucky," she says, smiling.
Hill, a vegetarian who works out 45 minutes a day, is single.
"I'm dating," she says, "but nothing serious. My goal is a career in acting,
so it's difficult for me to focus on a serious relationship."
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