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| The list. Someone contacted both Survivornews.net and Surviiivor.com on August 22, 2001, and provided each with a list of 16 names, supposedly the complete cast of Survivor: Africa. They were right, of course. This was discovered by looking at a list of domain names registered by CBS.
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| Name | Age, Hometown | Story (source) | Likelihood, caveats |
Lindsey
Richter  |
27, Portland, Oregon
Beaverton High School, 1992 |
Made first cut for S3, sent email to friends on July 4th , saying she was taing a trip for a few months. "Big Loser" on the survivorsucks EZ board revealed this to the world in July. On August 8th, Peter Carlin of the Oregonian ran a column describing Lindsey to a tee. Has been photographed by the Oregonian since returning. | Officially confirmed as a contestant by the Oregonian on August 24th, 2001. |
"Big"
Tom Buchanan  |
45, Rich Valley, Virginia. | Owns a cattle ranch and runs his own trucking business in Saltville. Most of the footwork confirming him done by Surviiivor.com. | Confirmed by neighbors, and profiled in the local
paper, which claims he lost close to 80 pounds and grew a full beard
while gone.
While the weight loss is impressive, he may have simply not shaved after being voted off. |
Yesenia
"Jessie" Camacho  |
26, Orlando, Florida. | 5-foot-8, rock-climbing mother, policewoman, and former beauty pageant winner. Found by Surviiivor.com. | Confirmed to have been on leave from the police force for
two months. Profiled by the Orlando
Sentinel on August 30th, 2001.
yesenia.com, registered in August, may be for her? |
| Franklin
Garrison
? |
43, Horseheads/Odessa, NY
Formerly from Lindley, NY? |
Only Survivor to have website registered for him independently (survivorfrank.com and frankgarrison.com). Has a deceptive friend named Jeff Heffner. | Someone purporting to be his sister-in-law confirmed he was missing from mid-June to mid-August (did so September 2, on surviiivor.com). Confirming evidence for his absence uncovered by Snewser at votedoff.tv: Frank works for Verizon, and is listed as being "on leave". |
Carl
Bilancione  |
46, Winter Park, Florida | Marathon-running dentist, who, using the vast medical knowledge he acquired in dental school, hawks magnetic insoles and wondrous (untested by the FDA) powders to millions of unsuspecting Floridians. Our choice for villain of S3. | Quickly identified due to large web presence, multi-board poster Gatorgrrrl volunteered to get her teeth cleaned, to scout out his appearance. The Orlando Sentinel confirms he's been gone for two months. He also grew a beard (see Big Tom caveat above). |
Ethan
Zohn  |
27, Formerly from Lexington, MA, currently residing in New
York
Vassar College, 1996 |
Was an assistant coach for men's and women's soccer at Farleigh
Dickinson University in 2000. No longer listed as a coach there.
Was the backup goalie for a professional soccer team, the Cape Cod Crusaders, also in 2000. |
Had been scheduled to be part of the Team USA men's soccer
team at the Maccabiah games in Israel in July, but Team USA ended up not
taking a soccer team, thus freeing him up.
Other Ethan Zohns are not forthcoming, so this is likely him. The Boston Herald seems to think so. |
Silas
"Chip" Gaither  Photo courtesy surviiivor.com |
~22, from Memphis, Tennessee, now living in Los Angeles.
University of Tennessee, 2000-1 |
Son of Silas Dwain Gaither, DDS. "Chip" was a boxer
in the 195 weight class, and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
at UT Knoxville in 1999.
chipgaither.com, registered by Darien Wilson of Boulder, CO, in April, 2001. No site linked to it (taken down?), and Darien does not return emails. |
"cgmd" on the EZ board identified Chip, remarking his nickname refers to him being a "chip off the old block," since he shares his dad's first name. cgmd says Chip recently moved to California to take up acting, and claimed to have taken off "To Italy for a few months." Awaiting further verification, but sounds like a good fit. |
Lex
van den Berghe  Photo courtesy survivorfever.net |
38, San Jose, California | Heavily tattooed drummer for several Bay Area bands.
Former spokesman for the Bay Area fusionONE company. |
Surviiivor.com states a coworker confirmed his absence; other sources have given non-commital non-responses, suggesting he's the one. |
| Diane
Ogden
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42, Lincoln, Nebraska | Divorced mother, postal service worker/mail carrier from Lincoln. According to a Lincoln Journal-Star article, a co-worker says she has been instructed not to answer questions about her, and a man (possibly her father?) told her not to answer a reporter's questions. | There are many, many Diane Ogdens in the U.S., but this one certainly behaves like a contestant. Congrats to vanillaslave for the find. |
Kelly
Goldsmith  Photo courtesy votedoff.tv |
22, Rancho Sante Fe, California
Duke University (Cum Laude), 2001 |
Within a day after the list emerged (and people found her
site), pictures of her from her personal folder on the Duke server mysteriously
disappeared.
Co-social director for Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at Duke. Participated in drama there. |
Confirmed by a San Diego radio station who called her house,
and were told that she couldn't say anything for a few weeks, and that
CBS had told them not to say anything (oops!).
Two people claiming to be friends have also posted confirming messages at Surviiivor.com's board. |
Clarence
Black  Photo courtesy survivornews.net |
24, Detroit, Michigan
Attended Hillsdale College |
Coach of JV basketball team for the Birmingham Detroit Country
Day school.
Interestingly, "astanhope" on the surviiivor.com board revealed someone fitting Clarence's description was in a Nairobi hospital near the start of August, suffering from an intestinal infection. |
Long suspected, due to anonymous tips to Survivornews.net, then confirmed by Mark Francescutti, a reporter for the Oakland (MI) Press, on September 6, 2001. Out of touch with friends over the summer, and his basketball team and school officials have been instructed not to talk. |
| What we know | What we suspect | What we fear |
| -The
Toronto Sun confirmed the final tribal council was held Saturday, August
18th, 2001. This means filming indeed started July 11th.
- Dan Bollinger (Survivormaps) has pinpointed the tent city used by the crew, and has an unconfirmed report of the site of Tribal Council. Check out his maps of the Shaba area. - Host Jeff Probst was stung by a scorpion on Day 21. Oh, the horror! We think he's more crew than cast, so we'll stand by our 0% prediction this ends up on the air. - Cast arrived at Shaba Game Reserve in Kenya on Sunday, July 8, 2001 (Daily Nation). - The final episode this year will have four people, as in S1. This cuts filming down to 39 days this time (USA Today). - Shaba is 7 hours ahead of the U.S. Eastern time zone, 10 hours ahead of Pacific. - Filming began on Wednesday, July 11, 2001 (Daily Nation). - CBS has trucked in all supplies needed, including twigs and branches for huts and fires (East African Standard). So the reality of the "survival" part, is that everything they need is actually given to them. - Cast was not allowed to kill any wild animals this time - clearly, CBS is fearful of further animal rights protests (Daily Nation). |
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CBS head honcho Les Moonves has helped stir rumors
that the rules will be different this season. We suspect he's skillfully
stretching the truth.
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Possible tribe names, in order of likelihood (for the three tribe,
post-"merge" thing): - Chances the cast will contain an active or former member of the armed forces: 100% - Chances there will be at least two people with grey hair: 100% (Les Moonves has now confirmed this). - Chances that everyone else will be perky, athletic twenty- through early forty-somethings, just like everyone on Fear Factor: 99% - Chances that product placement will be even more blatant and ubiquitous this time: 100% |
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Chances a cast member will be injured, maimed or killed during filming:
2.5%
- Chances a crew member will be: 100% (was 25%) - Likelihood crew injury shows up on the TV show: 0% - Likelihood any cast mishap, no matter how slight, will: 100% - Likelihood that "Survivor 3" will continue to dominate in the ratings: 100% (unless ABC can come up with something novel and clever, ha!) -
Chances of lame, unfair and/or rigged challenges popping up unexpectedly
to weed out unpopular, ratings-killing contestants: 50% |
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