From Fear Factor to Faux Fruit

A surprise victory on NBCs Fear Factor has resulted in resounding success for a newly-formed company. The Marble Fruit Company, importer and specialist in extraordinarily lifelike Italian marble fruit sculptures, was created by sisters Jessica (Brown) Parise and Samantha (Brown) Martin with Jessicas prize money following her outstanding victory in NBCs Fear Factor (episode 204). While other reality TV contestants use their winnings to pay bills or buy new cars, Jessica parlayed her $50,000 into an up-scale designer faux fruit business.

A surprise victory on NBCs Fear Factor has resulted in resounding success for a newly-formed company.

The Marble Fruit Company, importer and specialist in extraordinarily lifelike Italian marble fruit sculptures, was created by sisters Jessica (Brown) Parise and Samantha (Brown) Martin with Jessicas prize money following her outstanding victory in NBCs Fear Factor (episode 204).

While other reality TV contestants use their winnings to pay bills or buy new cars, Jessica parlayed her $50,000 into an up-scale designer faux fruit business.

One minute Im eating live cockroaches on Fear Factor and the next I am working with artisans in Tuscany to import their marble fruit to the United States," said Jessica.

And, just as America loves reality TV, America has been captivated by the marble fruit art, logging onto www.marblefruit.com to purchase thousands of the twenty different individually sculpted, hand-painted fruits, plus three nuts.

Marble fruit is unique because it is not mass-produced like other faux fruits. There are five Italian artisans who sculpt, paint and use a process to add texture to each individual piece therefore, not one piece looks the same as the next -- just like real fruit.

One look at the extraordinarily life-like marble fruit sculptures produced by Italian artisans in Tuscany and you will swear they are natures competition.

The response to our fruit has been phenomenal," said Jessica. The Academy Awards® goody basket contained an apple from our collection, we exhibited at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York and our fruit was displayed in Country Livings House of the Year for 2004."

The prized white Carrara marble used to create the pieces is mined from the same quarries in Italy that supplied Michelangelo with the raw material to produce his outstanding sculptures 'David and 'Pieta.