Jesse Brune
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| Born | 1980 (age 36–37) Renton, Washington |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Cornish College of the Arts California Institute of the Arts Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts |
| Occupation | Co-founder, Inspire Spiritual Community Chef Personal trainer Lifestyle coach |
| Years active | 2006-present |
| Spouse(s) | Christopher Brune-Horan (m. 2014) |
| Website | jessebrune |
Jesse Brune (born 1980) is a celebrity chef, personal trainer and lifestyle coach. He is best known for his roles on the reality television series Work Out on Bravo, Private Chefs of Beverly Hills on the Food Network, and Home Made Simple on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). He is the co-founder and executive director of Project Service LA.
Brune was born and raised by Southern Baptist parents in Renton, Washington. He studied dance at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, before moving to California in 2000, at age 19, in pursuit of an acting career. He studied acting for two years at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and then moved to Los Angeles to focus on getting commercial work. Told by his management company that in order to become a successful actor he needed to pretend to be straight, he rejected the advice and decided to change course and become a chef. In 2005, he enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles. While there, he became certified as a personal trainer and started teaching boot camp classes.
In 2006, while he was finishing up culinary school, and after developing a following teaching at Barry's Boot Camp, Brune was cast as one of the trainers on the Bravo reality television show Work Out, about the goings on at a high-end Beverly Hills gym run by Jackie Warner. Featured as both a trainer and a chef, he was on the show for its entire original three-season run. After it ended, he moved back to Seattle to launch a new business venture, but with the economic downturn, he lost a key investor. He decided to return to Los Angeles, where he began studying Buddhism, meditation and spiritual living, and working as a personal lifestyle coach.
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