Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner won the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".
Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.
Caitlyn Jenner found out about cancellation of family reality show ‘on the news’
hollywood.comCaitlyn Jenner found out about the cancellation of her family’s reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians “on the news”.Despite having had a starring role in the program as Bruce Jenner and, after her gender transition, as Caitlyn, the 70-year-old former athlete told Australia’s The Morning Show that she “heard it on the news”.“Nobody called me, I heard it through the media,” she added.
However, she insisted that she “wasn’t surprised”.“But that show, it’s probably the greatest reality show in history. There are over 500 episodes over 14 years,” she continued. “The girls and Kris have done just an amazing job with the show and keeping it going for this long.
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