ArchivesJessica DeBen, the first person voted out of Survivor Fiji, was previously cast for one of CBS’ other reality shows, Big Brother.
She was set to appear on the show’s fourth season, during which the producers decided to screw with some of the houseguests by sending their exes into the house. At the time, producers said none of the houseguests were aware of the twist.
But Jessica learned that her ex was going to be in the house, and she backed out. “I thought, ‘Oh my God — if they lock me in the house with this wacko, I’m never going to make it,” she told the Calgary Sun. “So I called CBS and said, I can’t do it.’” She doesn’t identify who that “wacko” was, although they’re pretty much all good candidates.
She elaborates in a separate interview with BuddyTV, explaining that she accidentally discovered the twist. “And my ex-boyfriend called me before I went into the house and said, ‘I’m going to go into the house.’ And I backed out, I said, ‘Now, I know what you guys are doing and I’m not going to do it,’” Jessica said.
She was cast for Survivor because “it ended up being the same casting director in the end, so I felt they kind of knew my personality, which maybe helped and maybe they kind of remembered that thing, the snafu from Big Brother.”
Exclusive Interview: Jessica deBen, 1st Survivor Voted Off [BuddyTV]
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