It looks like Rupert may get another chance. From the CBS Early Show page:
(CBS) America's favorite pirate was given the heave-ho on Thursday night's "Survivor: Pearl Islands." but for undisclosed reasons, Rupert Boneham is not available to appear in The Early Show studio this Friday morning.While CBS will not confirm his whereabouts, various online sources suggest Rupert may be on location for next season's "Survivor: All-Stars."
Internet reports put the cast of the all-star edition, to debut in the plum post-Superbowl time slot, as follows:
Richard Hatch (Pulau Tiga)
Susan Hawk (Pulau Tiga)
Rudy Boesch (Pulau Tiga)
Jenna Lewis (Pulau Tiga)
Colby Donaldson (Australia)
Alicia Calaway (Australia)
Amber Brkich (Australia)
Jerri Manthey (Australia)
Tina Wesson (Australia)
Tom Buchanan (Africa)
Lex Van Den Berghe (Africa)
Ethan Zohn (Africa)
Rob Mariano (Marquesas)
Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien (Marquesas)
Shii-Ann Huang (Thailand)
Rob Cesternino (Amazon)
Jenna Morasca (Amazon)
Rupert Boneham (Pearl Islands)
Ken Stafford (Thailand) and Sandra Diaz-Twine (Pearl Islands) are reported alternates.
Here are pictures to go with the names.
Unexpected inclusions: Alicia, Amber (?!), Tom, Rob Mariano
Interesting omissions:
Survivor 4 & 5 winners Vecepia and Brian
Gretchen Cordy (Pulau Tiga)
Jeff Varner (Australia)
Michael Skupin (Australia)
Gina Crews (Marquesas)
Helen Glover (Thailand)
Dave Johnson (Amazon)
Deena Bennett (Amazon)
Half of the contestants are from seasons 1 and 2-- it will be interesting to see if that works in their favor or against them. If I were in the game, I'd try to break up the players from matching seasons ASAP. On the other hand, rumor is the game will involve three tribes of six players each, which will certainly reduce the number of paired players before the merge.
And I say again... AMBER?!
Posted by Peter at November 21, 2003 07:43 PMWhen I first saw such nobodies on the list as Amber, Alicia, and (imo) Jenna Lewis, my first thought was that the producers were trying to balance the genders. For better or worse, Survivor has featured a greater number of memorable male players than female. But then I got to thinking, where are Vecepia Towery? Deena Bennett? Lill Morris? Colleen Haskell? These women were passed up in favor of Alicia and Amber? Maybe these women we've listed have declined to be on the show, but more likely, the cast is intentionally being stacked in favor of the first two seasons. (And despite any nitpicking from fans, it is a pretty good cast overall.)
Posted by: Scott Hardie on November 21, 2003 09:43 PMI can't believe that Gretchen, who should be there, and Amber, who shouldn't have been there in the first place, is. Amber was possibly the biggest non-factor in Survivor history. And, just as I was a trifle disappointed with Jeopardy's $1,000,000 Masters Tournament, this sounds like the same. Rather than a Tournament of Champions, which for Survivor would be a treat, we get the more remarkable players (and remembering people from Africa, Australia and Marquesas is pretty tough going). The three-tribe dynamic might be interesting.
As for the also-ran women, I suspect it's the same reason the aforementioned Jeopardy! special had women; more balance than anything else.
As far as "Pearl Islands" goes; it's not quite in the toilet yet, but a few more poor eliminations and it's crapper time.
As for the re-entry of two outcasts this year; did anyone notice we didn't get the halfway recap episode? By not kicking someone off that week, we got an extra episode of pirate mayhem. Yee-ha!
Posted by: Travis Eberle on November 22, 2003 12:25 AMOk, I was just looking around for Rob-stuff when I found this site. I have absofrigginlutely NO idea why you people cut Amber down like that! Amber is (imo) THE BEST of the women there!! I mean they have JERRI(bleh!) of all people there too! COME ON!!
And I dont know what about Gretchen, Lill, Vecepia, or Deena, that y'all find, makes them cool! I have nothing against Vecepia, really, but Deena was..Ugh!...and Lill..I am SO glad she lost in Pearl Islands! She was horrible! Gretchen too!
About Colleen, well, I'll side there but nothing else.
So as a conclusion to my ranting, AMBER IS AWESOME!! ROB M IS [more] AWESOME!! So DEAL WITH IT!!
Posted by: Nelea Ethsborne on April 5, 2004 06:00 AM