Beauty and the Geek

Dave Olsen
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Is Dave your favorite geek from season 4?
Yes! He's awesome! Go Dave!
He's not my favorite, but he's in the top half.
Not really. There are tons of better geeks.
No way. He's on the bottom of my list.


One of the contestants featured on the fourth season of Beauty and the Geek, 28-year-old David is a double major in physics and astronomy at Wesleyan University and a native of Paramus, New Jersey. He is a fire department administrator in Somerville Massachusetts who does not know where or who he wants to be in five years. During his free time, he enjoys live action role playing (L.A.R.P.), board and video games.

Dave is paired with nanny Jasmine.  Dave has won three challenges in a row, beginning with the salsa dancing challenge in the episode "Viva Mexico!" During this episode, Dave also successfully demonstrated his round-off back-handspring to the amazement of his fellow contestants as well as viewers at home. Dave also won the flair bartending challenge in "Raising the Bar," as well as the vineyard challenge in "Whine and Dine," in which Jasmine and Dave, tied together like in a three-legged race, collected and smashed enough grapes to fill three wine bottles with grape juice.

In the Comicon superhero challenge in the seventh episode "Super Geek," Jasmine and Dave created Jasmine's superhero alter-ego, Princess Bed-Head. They came in second in this challenge.

Jasmine and Dave entered the final two with Sam and Nicole, and emerged as winners of Beauty and the Geek season 5 after America's vote.

Read related Beauty and the Geek stories:
Exclusive Interview with Jasmine and Dave
Episode 4.13 "And the Winner is..." Recap
Episode 4.11 "Whine and Dine" Recap
Episode 4.10 "Raising the Bar" Recap
Geeks' Before and After Photo Gallery

Dave and Jasmine - Beauty and the Geek


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