Karly Jameson

Chelsea Karly Jameson (née Ryder) (born October 11, 1982), known professionally as Karly Jameson and formerly as Karly Ryder, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 2000s who pioneered the "Internet trash TV" format on her program Karly's Show as well as the American, British, and Australian adaptations of Vote for the Girls and narrator of Caprice & Ella. She is the sex-crazed friend of Ava Zinn and currently works as a radio DJ.
==Appearance==
Karly stands at 5'5", has green eyes, curly brunette hair, orange-tinted tan skin, and a strong somewhat oval chin.
Karly's home on the southwest side of Fort Wayne is much in style with the 1950s-1960s.
==Personality==
Karly is highly astute and often gives advice to her friends. She is also a frequent voice of truth, owning up to the wrongdoings of the group despite not always acting appropriately herself.
===Sexual Behavior===
If Karly could be summed up in just one word, it would be 'sex pervert'. 
Karly also seems to have an affinity with rape because her bed is equipped with mechanical arms in order to physically grab, strip and restrain any male or transgender female in a position ready for sex. Her cabin sofa is similarly equipped although it reacts to Breeanna only when manually controlled with a button on the wall.
She also does not seem to care exactly what she has sex with as long as the person has a Y chromosome and she's happy. Although Tabitha does detect the scent of a woman whom Karly had sex with, Karly corrects Tabitha that she had sex with "Three men" only to realize that the third was a trans man. This realization prompts Karly to run and cry at the horror of having sex with a transsexual man.
It is shown that Karly doesn't always use protection when having sex, she has made jokes about this and is even shown to trick men and trans women into believing she uses protection during intercourse.
==Character==
Karly is a friend of the Zinn family and hangs out in the alley drinking cola with Rachael and Ava. She is a radio DJ and a confirmed bachelorette with a taste for fast cars, trans women, and tiger-print bikini underwear. She drives a 1965 Lincoln Continental, which she has owned since 1998 attending Speedway High School.
Karly's friends seem to consider her a source of good advice. She has a good relationship with Ava but occasionally loses her patience with Rachael's insanity yet seems to be close to her, as it's revealed in an episode that she and Rachael leave every year on a Memorial Day fishing trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They presumably don't invite Ava due to her constant talking down of the group. Karly also gets annoyed with Donna's inferiority complex (though respects her for helping her get over a man). She is frequently the voice of truth and reason in their group.
==Romantic life==
Sometime in her past, Karly formed a relationship with Kathi Jameson, whom she loved. Unfortunately, she lost her due to COVID-19 complications and has since tried to fill the hole she left by having sex with transgendered women.
Although considered something of a playgirl by her neighbors on the southwest side in Fort Wayne, Caprice discovers that Karly’s secret weapon for attracting men and trans women are merely barraging men/trans women until one finally agrees to go out with her. She also has trouble getting over break-ups. When Kathi died from COVID-19 in November 2020, Karly spent three days sitting in her hot tub. Breeanna said she has never seen a woman so sad and so relaxed than when Karly was recovering from a broken heart. 
==Early Life==
Karly Jameson was born in Terre Haute, Indiana to talk show host and dancer Joesph Ryder (b. 1946 d. 1990) and longtime Indianapolis news anchorwoman Karly Cox (b. 1951). Jameson did not use her legal first name (Chelsea) in her stage name. Her uncles included news anchormen Cole Cox and Jackson Cox, from whom she was estranged. Born into a life of luxury, she was raised next door to the Letterman compound in Speedway, Indiana with her older sister Shanna (b. 1980), and younger siblings: Ken (b. 1984 d. 2017), Allison (b. 1985) and Ariana (b. 1987).
Ryder attended Marian University.
==Career==
She has been a program director and announcer at a radio station in Indianapolis since the late 1990s, and later worked in various markets around Indianapolis, including WBRI, WNOU, and WFMS. Like her mother, Ryder pursued a career in television news, freelancing at WEVI and WIND. She filed a few news reports. 
In 2008, Ryder was a talk show host at WHBU-AM in Anderson, Indiana, where she employed her abrasive style. She was fired in 2010. She was replaced on WHBU by Clark Howard, who has held the time slot ever since via his national syndication. Ryder also had a stint on WINO-FLP in Fort Wayne where she unsuccessfully tried to get other on air personalities to submit to drug testing. Ryder's first effect on American culture came from her popular, yet short-lived, syndicated late 2000s television talk show, The Karly Ryder, Jr. Show.
===Pro-LGBT activism===
On January 22, 2015, Jameson, a devoted pro-LGBT activist, hosted the Indiana State Rally for Equal Rights to protest the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. At that time, she was also working to help promote LGBT rights in Indiana.??
====Caprice & Ella and other projects (2021-present)====
Jameson was working as a producer as well as voicing Angie Willis on Queen of the Willis when she was asked by Ava Zinn, who was about to end the 12-year run of Vote for the Girls with Ava Zinn and Alexandra Moffitt. Zinn created the series Caprice & Ella after she adopted a domestic shorthair cat, Caprice in February 2021. Jameson accepted almost immediately. She portrays the narrator as well as herself making her first on-camera appearance on the conclusion of the 14-part miniseries "Breaking Boiling Point" in which she announces new cast member Breeanna Sorensen as well as paying tribute to Ragdoll Kitty and Grey Poupon, the latter two died at the beginning of production of the miniseries.
==Personal life==
Karly and Kathi Jameson started dating in 2012. Karly and Kathi quietly wed on September 1, 2015, during a courthouse civil ceremony in Indianapolis. Karly did not announce the marriage until the final episode of Australian version of Vote for the Girls airing on November 25, 2015. Kathi died on November 28, 2020.
Shortly after Kathi's death from COVID-19, Karly gets two new pet cats named Cami and Skye. 
===Automobiles===
Jameson is an automobile enthusiast and collector, and she owns a collection of about 10 cars, including a large Lincoln car collection. In 2022, Jameson purchased property on the far southeast side of Fort Wayne where she built a $250,000 garage to store part of her collection. In the Caprice & Ella miniseries "Breaking Boiling Point", it was revealed that Karly drives a 1965 Lincoln Continental she maintained since acquiring it in 1998.
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