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"Mitchie, you are so never going to see Final Jam."
―Tess states to Mitchie

Tesslin “Tess” Tyler is the daughter of T.J. Tyler, a renowned recording artist and dreams of following in her mother's footsteps and becoming a singer herself one day. She is the main antagonist in Camp Rock and anti-hero in Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam.

She is also portrayed by Meaghan Martin.

Tess is of the sign of Leo.

Camp Rock

Tess Tyler has attended Camp Rock every year, and is known as it's "diva", partially due to her renowned talent, but also due to her arrogant behavior. Tess aspires to be a singer like her mother, and often tries excessively hard to be perfect. She invites Mitchie to stay in the cabin that she shares with her "followers", Ella and Peggy. However, when Tess hears Mitchie sing, she immediately sees her as competition, which she hates. Asking Mitchie to join her girl group, Tess casts her as a backup singer to stop her from being in the spotlight. Tess also has a crush on Shane Gray, who has been sent to camp to get his act together. When she sees that Mitchie and Shane are getting closer, she hatches a plan to tell the camp that Mitchie's mother is in fact the camp cook, and not the president of "Hot Tunes China" as Mitchie has been claiming. The plan succeeds, turning most of the campers against her. As a way to further keep Mitchie out of her way during the Final Jam, Tess frames her for stealing her charm bracelet. During rehearsal for her performance, Tess begins to verbally abuse Ella and Peggy for failing to follow the dance steps to the letter, which proves to be the final straw; Peggy loses her temper and gives Tess a verbal scolding before walking off in a huff, and Ella quickly follows suit, leaving Tess to perform her number alone. While on stage, Tess sees her mother in the crowd, but her joy is quickly ruined when TJ is distracted by a cell phone call. Succumbing to nervousness, Tess trips and nearly falls off the stage, failing the contest as a result. Completely heartbroken over her mother's distraction and her failure, Tess retreats backstage in tears. When Peggy enters as a final contestant and wins, Tess congratulates her, and after seeing Mitchie and Shane sing together, apologizes to the former for her actions.

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

In Camp Rock 2, Camp Star's top performer, many campers, including former Camp Rock diva Tess Tyler, decide to leave Camp Rock and join Camp Star along with many of the staff after Axel promises to double their salaries. Tess quickly becomes partners with Luke on all of Camp Star's performances. Although they sing very well together and look like they make a great team onstage, they constantly fight over the spotlight and believe that competition is all that matters. Later, Despite the loss, Camp Rock's performance earns great applause from the crowd and Tess is shown to feel bad about the win as she knows Camp Rock deserved it. The remaining Camp Rock staff and campers return to Camp Rock and gather and sing around the campfire one last time together. As they enjoy themselves, many of Camp Star's campers including Tess and Dana show up having seen the bonfire and ask to join in. Led by Tess, some members of Camp Star except Luke request to go to Camp Rock the next summer because it is much more fun than Camp Star, meaning that Camp Rock will have enough campers to stay alive for another summer. 

Physical Appearance

Tess

Tess is shown to have long blonde hair that goes past her shoulders, which is either curly or straight, but always loose. Her wardrobe is shown to be sequin, silky dresses, shorts, jeans, shirts with tights but mostly t-shirts. In the second movie, she has upped her style to a more colorful wardrobe as she mostly wears dresses and now has a hair fringe.

Personality

In the first film, Tess is controlling, arrogant, vain and a stereotypical popular mean girl. She is also rich, as she is shown to be driven around in a limousine. However, after Peggy stands up to her and Tess is let down once again by her mother, she somewhat begins to be a kinder person. In the second film though, she is still vain when she inadvertently switches camps and turns her back on her friends, throughout the film however, she regrets her actions and generally misses and cares for her friends. This is seemingly evidenced when she comforts Mitchie after their loss to Camp Star and at the end of the film, returns to Camp Rock and apologizes. Tess enjoys singing as well, and would never sing unless it is a solo performance, which is shown strongly in the film when she is constantly clashing with Luke Williams.

Friends

Tess is close friends with Ella Pador and Margaret Dupree, she quickly welcomes Mitchie Torres into her group after being impressed by her lie about her mother's job. However, after finding her out to be a liar, she publicly humiliates and rejects her, after Final Jam, she apologizes to Mitchie and they begin again on better terms. Tess was once best friends with Caitlyn Gellar, however, they fell apart after Tess' jealousy and arrogance came into play. After Final Jam, she and Caitlyn reconciled on their friendship, though this time not as close. Following her switch to Camp Star, Tess became friends with Dana Turner.

Songs

Solos

Duets

Solos In a Group Number

The First Film

Song Movie

Solos with

We Rock Camp Rock Mitchie, Shane, Caitlyn, Margaret, Ella, Barron, Lola, Nate, Jason and Sander
Our Time Is Here Mitchie and Lola

The Second Film

Song

Movie

Solos with

It's On Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam Luke, Mitchie, Shane, Caitlyn, Margaret, Ella, Barron, Nate, Jason and Sander

Trivia

  • Tess is one of the first campers seen in the first film.
  • Tess is similar to the character, "Myra" from "Girl vs. Monster" (another DCOM) because both characters are mean to the main character in the beginning of the film and they apologize to them later on, which could be coincidental.

Gallery

See Also: Tess Tyler/Gallery

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