The Real World's Jamie is ABC's Samurai Girl

Jamie Chung was part of the 14th season of MTV's The Real World: San Diego and being one of the most successful cast member from the show's history, Jamie has gone on to appear in 2005's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno 2, in which she was part of the winning team. She's also appeared in Adam Sandler's I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, she was on a few episodes of Greek, she was also on Maxim magazine and several music videos including Rihanna's "Umbrella". Jamie has now landed her biggest gig as the lead role in ABC Family's upcoming original series Samurai Girl.

Based on a series of popular young-adult novels, Samurai Girl follows the journey of 19 year-old Heaven (Jamie Chung), the sheltered adoptive daughter on one of Japan's wealthiest and most powerful families. Protected and watched over at all times by her loving but enigmatic father, Heaven is raised in opulent but confined surroundings, with every detail of her life tended to an extravagantly provided for in the tradition of Japan's hierarchal society. But when Heaven finds herself in San Francisco for her arranged wedding to the son of one of her father's business associates, she has no idea that her protected life is about to be shattered and that her past is linked to an ancient secret prophecy which both good and evil forces will fight to the death for control.

Sounds interesting enough to me, I'll definitel be watching this when it premieres on ABC Family this September.

RW/RR Challenge: The Gauntlet 3 Major Update

Four episodes into the season we've seen the Rookies get their butts beat in every single mission by what seems to be the stronger and wiser Veterans. We've also seen three Rookies go home after losing a Gauntlet match against a teammate.

Here's the rundown.
The rookies considered Alex from the Real World Denver cast a weak player and was sent in to fight against the Veterans' Gauntlet pick, Nehemiah (RW Austin). Alex eventually gave up and was sent home after he decided he could not pull Nehemiah's weight through the sand on the Guantlet game of selection Force Field.

On the Rookies' second lost mission, it was a female Gauntlet day, therefore, the Vets considered sending Jillian (Road Rules Xtreme) to the Gauntlet because she is indeed one their strongest female player. The Rookies deliberated and voted Angel (RR Viewer's Revenge) to go in. Both were thrown in to battle it out for a chance to continue on the competition. It was a close game of Ram It Home, where Jillian managed to push Angel all the way to the other side after both struggled for quite a while. Angel was eliminated.

The third mission came around and the veterans celebrated as they had won their third mission in a row. This time the Vets (or actually just Johnny) decided to pick RW Key West's Tyler to go into the Gauntlet and the Rookies, after a long voting procedure, chose Frank (RW Las Vegas) to go in. The game to play was Force Field, where Frank came out victorious as he managed to pull Tyler's weight with no problem. This is where we're standing so far.

~Spoiler Alert!~ - Tonight's episodes recap -

.don't read below if you don't want to know what happens.

With no surprise at this point, the Veterans win their fourth mission in a row on tonight's first episode. The rookies are now angry and wondering what they're doing wrong. During the Gauntlet, Jillian is once again picked by the Vets to go in, while the Rookies team send in their weakest (and weirdest) player Brooke (RW Denver). The game the girls play is called Ball Brawl, where Jillian wins for a second time eliminating Brook. Then miz Brooke takes her anger out on Johanna (RW Austin). Again, this goes down on tonight's first episode.

During the second episode airing tonight, the Rookies blindfolded and lead by Johanna's voice finally win a mission! It's about damn time. They're extatic, except Tyrie (RW Denver) who gets a call about his sister having open heart surgery and decided to go home in the aftermath. The rookies loose a player although they had won the day's mission and were all saved from elimination. The gauntlet must go on and the Rookies choose to send one of the vets strongest males in, Evan (Fresh Meat). Johnny Bananas (RW Key West) is then sent in by his Vets team to face Evan. This causes Johnny to blow up at his team especially CT (RW Paris) who threw his name out in deliberation. The game they play is sliders where they have to solve a puzzle. Evan pulls off a win sending Johnny home. But what's to happen with the empty spot Tyrie left in the Rookies' team? Well, MJ from the Real World Philadelphia is flown in to take his place. Interesting.