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CHERIE DEVILLE: ‘I HAD A REALLY GOOD YEAR’
interracial and bondage for video and online companies
nominations, Cherie DeVille has won her first
After six years as a performer and 11 AVN Award
including Kink.com, Girlsway, Forbidden Fruits, Spizoo
AVN Award: MILF Performer of the Year. AVN
and ScrewBox. “I had a really good year last year. A couple
caught up with her via Skype in Montreal, where
of big showcases came out [Cherie from Elegant Angel and
she was featuring by night and shooting scenes by day.
Cherie DeVille: No Limits from Zero Tolerance] and I’ve been
“The MILF Performer of the Year win is, for me, the most
doing more different types of work. I used to just do a lot
that I could hope for in my career,” DeVille said. “To get that
of subbing for BDSM. I started doing a lot of Dom work,
recognition from AVN ... Winning makes me feel recognized
more anal. ... I don’t know the ins and outs of the voting
and appreciated for all my hard work. It makes me absolutely
process but I think my increased versatility and expanding
joyous. I couldn’t possibly be happier about it.”
my porn repertoire pushed me over the edge.”
DeVille raised her mainstream profile by announcing
Of all her work last year, DeVille said, “My favorite piece
her candidacy for president in 2020, with rapper Coolio
last year was my showcase for Elegant Angel, Cherie.”
as her running mate. The announcement was promoted
Nominated for Best Star Showcase, the AVN review of
by online content site FuckingAwesome.com and featured
Cherie said, “Cherie DeVille built a reputation in the
graphics with the website name and the campaign slogan—
lesbian genre but here she goes boy-girl with a vengeance.
“Make America Fucking Awesome Again!”—discreetly
... Her libido is laced with humor. A terrific star showcase.”
downplayed with a strategically placed asterisk.
The 170-minute production features DeVille in two b/g
The announcement was covered by Huffington Post,
scenes with Markus Dupree and Prince Yahshua, a d.p.
Reason.com, DC news site The Hill and the Daily Beast,
with Dupree and Mick Blue, and a seven-guy blowbang.
which quoted DeVille as saying, “I always took it for
Summing up, DeVille said, “I love you, AVN, thank you
granted that whether the Republicans or the Democrats
so much. I’m beyond appreciative and for me, it makes
won, someone reasonably appropriate was in office even if
me feel proud that my peers and co-workers recognize all
they weren’t my choice. Until this election cycle.”
the hard work that I’ve done, it’s really satisfying to me.
Speaking from Montreal, DeVille credited her win at
And thank you to my fans for loving me enough to let me
the AVN Awards to her wide range of performances over
continue to do this wonderful job.”
the last year, which included boy/girl, girl/girl, anal, d.p.,
—Tod Hunter
2018 MILF Performer of the Year Cherie DeVille
RULE, BRITANNIA! JASMINE JAE NAMED FOREIGN POTY
Jasmine Jae’s 2018 AVN Award was the one
she craved. “I am absolutely thrilled to be the
first British performer to win Female Foreign
Performer of the Year,” she said in an email from
England. “That is the award I always wanted on my
mantelpiece. I am truly honored and humbled to win
it.”
The busty (37E) adult performer, known for the way
she throws herself into sex scenes—especially group
encounters—began her porn career in April 2012.
“I was working full time in an office job as a
marketing manager and secretly filming on weekends
and evenings. It took six months for someone in the
office to spot me on the internet, and the company
wasn’t too thrilled, as you can expect. I resigned before
they could sack me and became a full-time adult
performer.”
It was a chance meeting with veteran porn stud and
fellow Brit Keiran Lee that did the trick. “I’ve always
been a sexual woman and the thought of becoming a
performer excited me. Keiran arranged my first shoot
with him for Brazzers and I remember on the day
feeling so comfortable, like I’d been performing for
years. It really came very naturally to me.
“The next job and the next job came up and before
I knew it, I was filming regularly every week after my
office job finished. Once the company I worked for
discovered my secret life and I was forced to quit, I
decided to give the adult industry everything I had, and
I haven’t looked back since.”
That scene with Lee was shot in her hometown,
Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. Since then she
has worked continuously both in Europe and America.
“The U.K. industry is incredibly small with very little
ongoing production. I actually film very little in the
U.K. and head over to Budapest, Prague and Barcelona
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for the majority of my European films. However, the
U.S. will always be my favorite place to film due to the
large talent pool and number of top companies that are
based there.”
According to IMBD Jasmine has well over 200 titles
to her credit, mostly all-sex and gonzo but also features,
such as the AVN Award–nominated foreign productions
Blown Away and Outland 2, in which her acting was
praised.
Out of all those scenes she chooses two as her
favorites. “I think it’s a toss-up between my first double
anal gangbang and the bukkake scene I did for my Jonni
Darkko Evil Angel showcase Jasmine Jae: No Holes Barred.
Jonni always brings out the best in me and his scenes
are some of the best I’ve done. I like that he lets me get
as crazy as I want and his creative eye always makes me
look and feel sexy, empowered and beautiful.”
Offscreen she’s pretty much a homebody. “I have a 10
month-old French bulldog puppy so I tend to spend my
days off taking her on hikes in the English countryside
and hills. It’s a perfect way to clear the mind and soothe
the soul. Other than that I spend time with my family,
whom I’m very close with, and my small circle of best
friends. My schedule is hectic but I make a point of
spending quality time with them when I’m home.”
Still, she admits, she does love to see the world. “I
travel a lot for work but find myself going back to the
same cities a lot and would love to head east to Asia
and Australia and travel around backpack style and just
explore.”
Her porn future, she says, will give her fans plenty to
look forward to. “I’m working on a number of exciting
spinoff projects in the pipeline that I can’t disclose too
much about at this stage, so all I can say is stay tuned!”
—Jared Rutter
2018 Female Foreign Performer of the Year Jasmine Jae (pictured in Evil
Angel’s Anal Craving MILFs)