New Zealand actress Jessica Lee Rose. Photo / Supplied
New Zealand actress Jessica Lee Rose, two years ago hailed as the biggest star on the internet, has returned in a new project .
The former Mt Maunganui student, who developed a huge internet following as Lonelygirl15, has returned to the internet after appearing in the failed Lindsay
Lohan film, I Know Who Killed Me.
At 19, Rose became a star posing as a 16-year-old American teenager known as Bree, or Lonelygirl15.
She appeared in videos, mostly on YouTube, which cast her as a self-possessed and literate home-schooled student pouring her thoughts into a video camera.
Lonelygirl15 attracted mill-ions of fans and made her one of YouTube's most-watched performers, despite the videos being exposed as scripted, and Bree outed as a fake teenager.
Rose, 21, has returned to the internet in a 40-episode mystery/drama, Sorority Forever, for MySpace and Warner Bros.
"I have no reservations about being a web star, if that is what I am, and I can make a living from it to pay my rent and feed my dog, who is the love of my life," Rose said.
"I didn't leave the web with the intention of not coming back and thinking it was stupid ... I did think it was a great launching pad."
In Sorority Forever, she plays the lead female role who finds out all the secrets along with the audience.
"You follow her experiences trying to solve the mystery."
- NZPA
