John Stallings (model) - Contestants - Jon Jonsson

Jon Jonsson (born Jon Grimkell Helgasson) was born in Reykjavík, Iceland to an Icelandic father and a Thai mother. After winning Manhunt in 2004, he modeled and signed with major agencies in Singapore, Australia, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Most notably, Jonsson was a temporary video jockey for MTV Southeast Asia, and landed covers for several major magazines such as V, Men's Health, Urban, Female, and Catalogue in Singapore. He also modeled for companies such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Ed Hardy, OCBC Bank, and headlined various runways shows and hosted the Singapore Fashion Festival for MediaCorp. He quit modeling completely in 2007 to focus on his education, however he has since returned as of 2011, signing with Click Boston, Look Model Agency in San Francisco, and resigning with Nous Models in Los Angeles. As of 2012 he is represented by AVE Management in Singapore. In 2009, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a top ranking school in the space sciences. He wrote a thesis relating to the magnetic field signatures of Jupiter's moons. In May of 2012, Jonsson graduated from the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center), a top ranking school for interdisciplinary Intellectual Property Law. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Jonsson is an avid surfer and mountaineer.