Recently, I saw a girl from my high school. That may not seem very strange to you, but it is. Let me explain: I’m 2,000 miles away from where I spent the 18 years of my life before college — a small, conservative town named Washington, Miss., with a population of about 13,000. Now, it wasn’t like I just ran into her on campus or in Wal-Mart or anything. No, I saw her naked. That still might not seem that strange to some of you, but 3,150,000 paid subscribers to Playboy magazine also saw her naked. That’s right — Miss March, a.k.a. Jillian Grace — went to my high school. Now, that’s strange.
Back then, she wasn’t quite “Jillian Grace,” she was just Jill. And honestly, I never would have thought that I would find her as the
centerfold of Playboy magazine, especially at 19 years of age, although she was always a pretty girl. She just wasn’t that knock-down, stop-in-your-tracks-to-check-her-out kind of girl. In fact, her freshman year picture is shown in her biography, which is the Jill I knew, braces and all.
I wouldn’t call us friends, although we knew each other and said “hi” to each other in the halls. She liked to party and that wasn’t really my scene, although we did hang out one night at a small get-together. There were just six or seven of us there, and we were all pretty trashed. Like normal high school kids, we began to play a “girls versus boys” game of strip poker. Now, before you start getting any kind of ideas in your head, I’ll tell you that none of the girls got naked. Sorry. No, we kicked those boys’ asses very quickly, and they were the ones begging for mercy. Jill, my friend Megan and I did not give it to them. That’s mainly how I remember Jill.
A friend told me over Christmas break that Jill was going to be Miss March. We couldn’t help but laugh. That never happens to anyone from our small home town. No, the closest we got to fame was Jack Wagner, who played the recurring character Dr. Peter Burns on “Melrose Place.” But he’s not nearly as scandalous as Jillian Grace.
Not only is Jill the newest Playmate, she is also the very first girl to ever be picked by shock-jock Howard Stern. Hundreds of girls go on his show in hopes that he’ll send them on to Hugh Hefner, but before Jill, it had never happened. Her mother had written Stern a letter explaining Jill’s dream to become a Playboy bunny, and Stern felt he had to at least get her to come in. Apparently, he was very pleased with what he saw, calling her “a Playmate in every sense of the word. Boom!” He made Jill’s dreams come true.
Just last week she was on “The Howard Stern Show.” It was her first big appearance since her pictorial had come out, and she was there to spill the beans on her newly found fame and fortune. She talked about the parties at the Playboy Mansion, although she was quite aloof and shy about it all. She did confess that she watched Hef getting it on with several of the bunnies, and that there were wild times she didn’t want to discuss on the air.
She did come clean about the first celebrity she slept with, however. I warn you, this is not pretty, so prepare yourself: She slept with Pauly Shore. That’s right, Buuuuudddie. The guy who played Stoney Brown in “Encino Man.” The guy who was in “Son In Law,” “Bio-Dome” and
“A Goofy Movie!” That’s right,
readers; Jillian Grace had sex with Pauly Shore. Take a moment to
compose yourselves.
So, if you’d like to see a naked girl (who doesn’t?) from a tiny little town in Missouri where I’m sure the rumors are flying, check out the March issue of Playboy. Paris Hilton’s on the cover, but no, she isn’t featured in the magazine. And don’t buy Jillian Grace’s little “country bumpkin” act. She may be from the country, but she’s not that innocent.
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