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Old 10-02-2003, 09:22 AM   #51 (permalink)
wry1
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Location: Far too far from my Angel....
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Originally posted by Daval
Who did you know and what kind of things did you hear? And did you know in advance who the final two were etc.?

You can't just leave us in the lurch here.
That's it.....BEG!!BEG!!BEG!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Okay, just kidding on the begging and evil laughter thing. You want to know? I'll tell....

My brother-in-law was a contestant (Mike - fell in a fire on Season #2) and I just happened to be a guest at his house for a few months when I moved back to Michigan; this coincided with the airing of Season #2, so I got to hear quite a bit from the other contestants - and meet a few of them in the process.

No, I did not know who the final 2 contestants were. As a whole, the contestants did not discuss things like that at all. What they did discuss were the little behind-the-scenes things that didn't make it into each episode. But perhaps my all-time favorite would be the reaction to Jerri's Today Show interview the day after the episode aired where she was voted off.....

Mike and I were out running around town, so his parents agreed to tape the early-morning interviews for him. Having finished our little missions for the day, we stopped by their place and popped the videotape into the VCR. Soon enough, the interview comes on and there's Jerri trying her best to look sweet and non-bitchy for the cameras, smiling widely and telling the interviewer how she really wasn't as vicious and heartless as she appeared on the show - that there's 72 hours of taping from several cameras that has to be edited down for each 1-hour episode.....

She went on to mention that there were many "tender moments" among the contestants which never were aired. Now in a supreme twist of cosmic irony (okay, coincidence), it was just at that moment that one of Mike's 2 cell phones rings. It's Tina (the eventual winner) calling to ask Mike if he watched the Today Show interview; when he told her that we were watching it right then and there, she asked if we'd seen the "tender moments" part. He answered that it had just happened and Tina came back with a comment that she would have loved to have seen some of those from her! That all she ever saw was attitude and bitchiness.

As this is happening, Mikes other cell phone rings. Now you have to know this about Mike - being on one phone will never stop him from answering and talking on the other one....even if he's driving his car! So he answers the other phone and guess who it is???? Colby! Colby goes through the same list of questions that Tina just posed, and comes back with the same response Tina did - that he too would have loved to have seen something other than Jerri's attitude. It was just too priceless!

And then there's the one about Colby never getting recognized. I heard this one from Mike, so I can only tell it as a third-hand recollection.... According to Mike, Colby and Nick (also from Survivor 2) went to a nightclub for a night on the town. At one point, several girls came over to Colby and one of them cleared her throat to ask him a question.... Colby, thinking that his notoriety would finally work for him, was all ears - but the girl wanted to ask him if the guy with him was Nick from Survivor.

Colby was devastated. I would be too. Imagine: you make it to the very end, and nobody knows who you are!

Well, gotta run. Glad I could help answer your questions.

Last edited by wry1; 10-04-2003 at 08:18 AM..
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