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William Bruce Jenner (born December 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York) is a U.S. track athlete.

He was an excellent high school athlete, Bruce Jenner earned a football scholarship and attended Graceland College (now Graceland University) but a knee injury forced him to stop playing football and switch to the decathlon. He became an American champion in the event and won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

He is widely known to have stuggled with dyslexia and after retiring from sports, he built a successful career as a motivational speaker. In addition, he has acted in a number of telervision shows and motion pictures.

Jenner's image has suffered in recent years, partly due to the grotesque mutilation of his face from bad cosmetic surgery, and partly from the sordid "blow job" photos he posed for with Actor Ernest Borgnine. In his early twenties at the time, Bruce was desperate for money and the nortoriously closeted gay actor was more than willing to "help". After Borgnine's death in 1999, the photo's surfaced on the internet after being found stuffed inside a full sized action figure of Borgnine's old pal, actor Joe Flynn, who played Captain Binghamton on the McHales Navy television show. What Borgnine did with the full sized doll is anybody's guess, but Borgnine's ex-wife Tova reportedly said his nickname for the doll was "Old Bigbottom". Reportedly, several people fell ill after viewing the photo's, which show full frontal Borgnine nudity. An unconfirmed report (later proven to be false) told of the Army's attempt to use the photo's as a torture device against military prisoners at Guantanimo Bay in Cuba.

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