Quoting from reality blurred + Benjamin Wade fired as college soccer coach
In a follow-up story, Ben told the News-Leader’s Matt Baker that how he came across on the show had nothing to do with his firing. “I’m going to be made out to be a hero. It was just the timing of me going [...]
Quoting from Daily Herald | Palatine High School grad now looks to ‘Survive’ By Kimberly Poh
Bobbing up and down somewhere in the Brazilian state of Tocantins, Debbie Beebe describes her clownish tendencies to a CBS cameraman.
“I may be the one in the middle of the dance floor and do a back-handspring,” the 46-year-old Beebe [...]
Quoting from SBU soccer coach fired | News-Leader.com | Springfield News-Leader Matt Baker
Time taken for TV show not explained early on.
“Survivor” contestant Ben Wade might survive the Brazilian Highlands, but he couldn’t get through his day job.
Less than a week after Wade premiered on the CBS reality TV show, Southwest Baptist University fired Wade [...]
Quoting from Survivor: Tocantins – Completely Arbitrary Pre-Season Predicitions, 16-9
Still the best reality show on TV (save any arguments you might have – if you disagree, you are wrong), Survivor: Tocantins boasts an intriguing cast of beautiful people, seemingly likable people, along with a few wild cards. We have a Grammy nominee, the wife [...]
Quoting from Survivor: Tocantins – Completely Arbitrary Pre-Season Predictions, 8-1
When making silly Survivor predictions, as I have done below with Survivor: Tocantins, it is important to remember that making large, sweeping judgments about people you know little to nothing about is the most desirable path. Someone’s photo rubs you the wrong way? They are [...]
Quoting from reality blurred + Spencer Duhm: “I want to be a follower, because that way they just overlook me”
When discussing his strategy, he talked about how Brian on Survivor Thailand “was able to manipulate” those around him, but said that’s not always possible. “You get a season like last season [Micronesia], where everybody [...]
Quoting from Illness creates opportunity for youngest ‘Survivor’ : TV : The Rocky Mountain News
Sent to the Brazilian highlands in October as an alternate, the 19-year-old Lakeland, Fla., native made an agreement with his parents: If he made the show, they would withdraw him from classes at the University of Florida, forfeiting his fall [...]
Quoting from By Mark Washburn
Season premiere at 8 p.m. Thursday.
Jerry Sims has one of those jobs that prepared him well for “Survivor.”
Sims, 49, of Rock Hill is one of 16 contestants on the popular CBS reality series, which returns for its 18th installment Thursday.
He’ll mark 27 years of service in the S.C. National [...]
Quoting from JG-TC.com > Features > EIU alumna to be on ‘Survivor’
AUBURN, Ala. — “Survivor: Tocantins” contestant Debra (Staton) Beebe was forced to lie to her employers — the Auburn (Ala.) Board of Education.
“They were led to believe I was going to take leave without pay in order to visit other countries to examine [...]
Quoting from Lakeland Native Ready to Shine When ‘Survivor’ Begins | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL
Now 20, Duhm (pronounced “doom”) is prepared to become a celebrity of sorts. The Lakeland native is the first person from Polk County selected for the show, now in its 18th round of twice-yearly seasons. A CBS [...]
Quoting from Duhm Wary of Being Defined by His Sexuality | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL
“Survivor” has had at least five gay contestants during its previous 17 seasons. Richard Hatch emerged as champion of the first series, “Survivor: Borneo,” in 2000, and Todd Herzog captured “Survivor: China” in 2007. Rafe Judkins took [...]
Quoting from SBU Soccer Coach Takes on “Survivor”
“The mental part of it, the leadership part of it, the adventuresome part of it, it’s like the show was made for me,” says Wade. And Coach Wade says he was made to change the game. “I was tired of watching the manipulation, the back-stabbing, the lying,” [...]
Quoting from reality blurred + Candace Smith: “I don’t want my strength or confidence to be blatant”
Candace laughed at CBS bio’s description of her as “brutally honest” and “a total bitch,” but said they’re accurate. However, she added, “I’m not planning on coming out of the gate as a ruthless bitch everyone hates. It’s [...]
Quoting from reality blurred + Sierra Reed: “I’ll be the most opinionated one”
But from all that, she learned how to manipulate younger Survivor contestants. “The younger they are, the better, because the less of a guard they have, the less jaded they are,” Sierra said. “It happened to me; it goes in a full [...]
Quoting from reality blurred + Taj Johnson-George: “I’ll [be nurturing] while I stab them all in the back–they’ll love me for it”
Taj was recruited because “they were casting for an NFL wife; I fit the profile” mentioned in an e.mail sent to NFL teams that was forwarded to her and that she responded to. [...]
Quoting from reality blurred + Stephen Fishbach: my “goofy, benign demeanor” is “going to serve me very well”
Stephen worried that he may have been “coming off as too geeky” in front of the other contestants, and the Yale-educated corporate speechwriter and marketing consultant also fears he might run up against the other contestants’ “anti-Ivy [...]
Quoting from reality blurred + Brendan Synnott: “I want to win; when I play games, I love to win”
Brendan’s cautiousness came into play as he answered a few questions When I asked him about impressions of others, he said he has a “pretty good sense of how pecking orders work and how personalities are,” [...]
Quoting from knoxville.com – Tele-buddy’s Tinseltown Tales
Knoxville native Benjamin Wade, in his first local interview, says he doesn’t like the reputation he’s getting even before the first episode of “Survivor: Tocantins” airs. And, his intention going into the game was to be honorable, not sneaky and backbiting. Before Wade started officially playing ‘Survivor: Tocantins [...]
Quoting from Orlando Sentinel – “Survivor”: Lakeland man says it’s “definitely an honor” to be the youngest player in the show’s history by Hal Boedeker
Duhm, a student at the University of Florida in Gainesville, was 19 when the show filmed. He was the last player added to the cast.
“I was officially the male alternate [...]
Quoting from Why does that reality show contestant look so familiar? – VIDEO – TV Squad
If that isn’t weird/awesome enough for you, also arriving on the next season of Survivor (with little fanfare, mind you) is Tamara “Taj” Johnson-George, one-third of the 90s R&B trio SWV (she also penned the book, Player HateHER: How [...]
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