Jenn Lyon, the Survivor Palau cast member who died last night of breast cancer, attended the reunion and anniversary party a few weeks ago, where producers set aside quieter space for her to interact with her friends, and Jeff Probst says it seemed clear to him that she knew it was the last time she’d …
Fourth-place Survivor Palau cast member Jenn Lyon died yesterday. She was 37, and is the first of Survivor’s 301 cast members to die.
Five former Survivor cast members–Palau’s Coby Archa, Kimberly Mullen, and Janu Tornell; Vanuatu’s Scout Cloud Lee; and Australia’s Michael Skupin–will fast for the next three days, drinking only water in solidarity as part of the Darfur Fast for Life campaign. (A sixth, Paula’s Wanda Shirk, is fasting and blogging along with the five but isn’t …
Tom Westman, who won Survivor Palau two years ago, is now an insurance salesperson. He was a New York City firefighter, and left that shortly after the show aired to become a motivational speaker. Now, he sells “group life and disability insurance to brokers, who mostly don’t know — or care — that he skewered …
The seventh season of Survivor is now out on DVD, and the next season to be released will be the 10th season. That follows CBS’ rather haphazard release schedule; although 11 seasons have aired, only four have been released on DVD, and those are not the first four seasons, nor have they been released chronologically. …
Survivor Palau‘s Jenn Lyon writes in People this week about her current treatment for stage three breast cancer. Jenn reached the final four in Palau, but lost a tie-breaker at Tribal Council to Ian, and became one of the few people to leave the game without being voted off. Jenn writes that, last summer, she …
Survivor Palau winner Tom Westman is leaving his job as a New York City firefighter as of August 4. Tom, who’s been on leave since he won the show in May, “has hired an agent and hopes to become a motivational speaker, mining leadership skills he honed as one of New York’s Bravest,” the New …