Ron Refresh: 5 Facts About “The Hedgehog”

1.) Ron has a Master’s Degree in Special Education from Queens College in New York. He calls his education background his “Ace in the hole.”

2.) Ron had his nickname “The Hedgehog” bestowed upon him by Bill Margold after an incident on the set of Olympic Fever, shot in 1979. He had flown in from New York to shoot the movie, and had dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, expecting warm weather. During his motorcycle ride to the set, located near Lake Arrowhead in the California mountains, the weather had deteriorated to blizzard conditions, which chilled him to the point of hypothermia. Upon arriving at the set, Ron was immediately whisked away to warm up in a hot shower. When he had finished, his skin had taken on a pink hue from the temperature extremes, and the hairs on his body were standing on end. Margold’s comment upon seeing Ron after the shower was, “You are a hedgehog, my friend. A walking, talking hedgehog”.

3.) Ron is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Appearances in Adult Films”; his entry on the Internet Adult Film Database lists more than 1,900 films in which he has performed, and an additional 275 films which he directed. No wonder his book is entitled “Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz.”

4.) Ron is a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 2006, he began a series of debates on pornography opposing Pastor Craig Gross, founder of anti-pornography website XXXchurch.com, visiting various US and Canada college campuses as part of the “Porn Debate Tour”.

5.) Jeremy posed for Playgirl after his then-girlfriend submitted his photo to the magazine, and subsequently moved into the adult film industry as a means to support himself. His first appearance in a porn film was in Snap (later renamed COD), by Chuck Vincent.

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