Name Roxy Jacenko Role Businesswoman | Spouse Oliver Curtis (m. 2012) Siblings Ruby Jacenko | |
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Children Hunter Curtis, Pixie Curtis Books Strictly Confidential: A Jazzy L, The Rumour Mill: A Ja, The Spotlight | ||
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Roxy Elise Davis-Jacenko (born 8 June 1980) is an Australian businesswoman and media personality, socialite and author, best known for her appearance on the 3rd season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia. Her husband is former investment banker, and convicted criminal, Oliver Curtis, who was convicted for insider trading.
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- The mark bouris show uberpitch with roxy jacenko
- The REAL Roxy Episode 1
- Career
- Television
- Publishing
- Personal life
- References
The REAL Roxy || Episode 1
Career
Jacenko is the owner and director of Sydney-based public relations firm, Sweaty Betty PR, founded in 2004 when Jacenko was 24 years old. The company once boasted more than 70 clients including brands Peugeot, Coles Supermarkets, Oliver Peoples and Harris Scarfe. and celebrities Maude Garrett and MasterChef Australia contestant Hayden Quinn.
Television
In early 2010, Jacenko signed a deal with the Seven Network to star in a semi-scripted reality television show called The Sweat Box (a play on the name of her PR agency). It was announced that the show would be similar to the US television show, The Hills, but would focus on Sydney's affluent Eastern Suburbs. Later in 2010, Channel Seven announced that production of the show had been cancelled.
In 2013, Jacenko appeared on the Australian version of The Celebrity Apprentice. Her appearance was characterised by conflicts with media identity Prue MacSween and swimmer Stephanie Rice and by accusations she favoured some team-mates over others. In the season final, Jacenko, John Steffensen and Jeff Fenech were named as runners-up to Rice who was named Celebrity Apprentice.
Publishing
In 2012, Jacenko published her first book, Strictly Confidential: A Jazzy Lou Novel. It was published by Allen & Unwin and is a semi-fiction "behind-the-scenes" view of the public relations and fashion industries. Reviewing the book before its official release, columnist Ros Reines suggested many of the characters were, "so thinly disguised as to almost be see-through" - that many were, in fact, caricatures of real and well-known Sydney socialites. In a 2013 Good Weekend feature, Jacenko admitted she shared several significant character traits with the novel's main character including an "extreme" dedication to her career, a passing addiction to Nurofen and "strict" dieting.
Jacenko’s second book, which was to be titled The Insider, was due to be released in December 2013. Instead, in November 2013, Jacenko released The Rumour Mill: A Jazzy Lou Novel, the second novel in her "Jazzy Lou" series.
Personal life
Jacenko has two children, daughter Pixie and son Hunter. Prior to marrying Oliver Curtis, she was dating Nabil Gazal, a Sydney property developer and owner of real estate investment company Gazcorp, until 2010. In 2017, Jacenko was seen kissing Gazal, despite still married to Curtis at the time, however in regards to her marriage to Curtis she said on TV show The Morning Show "all is fine".
For her 37th birthday, Jacenko hired a white Rolls-Royce Dawn worth $749,000. She submits her own PR media news articles about herself to multiple publications including 'Mail online'. Comments in 'Mail online' are always moderated but those that are published by readers to these 'stories' are overwhelmingly negative towards her narcissism.