“Ooh, you know, those Lebanese…such NICE ladies. But they really need to get a better stylist, y’know?”
You, sir, are my reality TV hero. Wanda it was. It might have been fun to see the tribe three weeks later with her singing to them. Drooling idiots sitting under the palms, too devoid of spirit to even vote her off.
It did start filming in November. The Survivor Sucks message board was very closely tracking the show once word had leaked out that it was going to have previous survivors on it. By process of elimination through who was around and who wasn’t once filming started, and by tip offs by previous survivor Coby, they had correctly worked out who was on the show long before it was officially announced.
Oh, and I think that Eliza looks quite a lot like Christina Ricci.
So the people who had been in the last season and this new season, who were sitting there during the live finale last December had already finished taping the season we are now seeing. I wonder how they kept it straight in their minds which season they were talking about?
At the risk of showing my total “out of it” uncoolness, what is the Survivor Circuit? Is it a TV show or something?
Not only that, but Amanda taped this entire season not knowing for sure if she had won Survivor China (it was obviously a long shot, but still).
There exists what you could call an alternative revenue stream for former Survivor contestants, which consists of lectures and events that they are paid to give or appear at. Not all former contestants, but definitely a core group, which I don’t unfortunately know the extent of or who’s in it offhand. They also do charity work (for example, there was a cadre of them travelling around the country doing exhibition indoor soccer for Ethan Zahn’s charity). But they do see each other relatively frequently after they’re done with the show itself.
Likewise, there’s a whole subculture of reality show contestants that do other projects and basically hang out in the same places (Mike Boogie’s (from Big Brother) Belly club was one…I’m not sure if he still runs it). There are actually reality shows starring former reality show stars (for instance, Kill Reality). It’s like a big, incestuous family. Jonny Fairplay’s girlfriend/fiancee/babymama is Michelle Deighton, who appeared on a season of America’s Next Top Model.
I’m waiting for her to use the word “sodomite”… 
Oh damn, she is hot and plays her sex like a finely tuned instrument. Of course, she is hwaaaay too obvious.
When Yau-man made fire with his glasses, I bowed to the TV.
I heard Fairplay on the Howard Stern show, and his Survivor experience started 3-4 days after he had follow-up surgery on his upper jaw and teeth after getting face-planted by Bona-douche.
Not sympathizing at all, because Fairplay appears to be an equal douche, but my guess (purely speculation) is that he was suffering badly. The head-banging by Yao Man likely freaked him out and he said he was not able to bring pain meds, and he had several root canals, and work on his jaw so he could receive new teeth and crowns. Once again, speculation, but with law suits and that stuff, there would be no mention of the Bonaduche incident, and the crafted a mutually acceptable exit.
If so, and I’m not saying it’s not possible, why didn’t he just quit? With the route it went, it’s not like either he or the production could guarantee that he would be voted out. We’ve seen seasons in the past where someone asked to be voted out, and their fellow tribe-mates refused to do so. I seem to recall that happening both in Amazon, and at least one subsequent season.
Good point… like I said, just speculating… hard to know what really goes on behind the scenes.