25-year-old Gérald Babin, a contestant on the French version of the popular reality competition series Survivor (called Koh-Lanta), died during filming after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest on location in Cambodia. It was the first day of shooting for the 13th regular season of the show.

Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca have been one of America’s favorite reality couples for the last decade, but unfortunately their relationship is no more. After an emotional journey together through Ethan’s health battles and Jenna’s career challenges, the two have officially called it quits.

Lisa Whelchel, who we all know as love as Blair from Facts of Life, is going through some major life changes. As if it weren’t enough that she suddenly popped up on Survivor: Phillipines, right before she left her Texas home this March to start filming the competition show, she ended her 24-year marriage to Steve Cauble.

If I’m going to do the blonde beauty queen new contestant for Survivor: Philippines it would be bikini-hypocritical of me not to profile up the brunette right? Right! Fresh off the hot heels of former Miss Teen Utah, Angie Layton, we’ve got former Miss Delaware Katie Harmon. See Katie doing various two-pieces justice, get some bio info and catch the official CBS intro video for the woman who’s looking to become a State Trooper so she can pull you over and put you in hand-cuffs!

The cast for Survivor: Philippines has been officially announced and I know that it is going to shock you that a couple of the contestants are extremely sexy former beauty queens. Hey, there’s a reason that keeps happening folks and Miss Angie Layton from Provo, Utah is a prime and fine example why. Check out the 20-year-old doing that little thing they call the bikini some serious justice.

Survivor: One World has announced the upcoming 18 person cast for the popular reality franchise. One of these contestants is Kat Edorsson, a timeshare representative from Orlando, FL. In her bio information provided by CBS she states that she, “…talks her way out of tickets and can socialize her way to the top.” This may be the case most of the time for Kat but back in November of 2010 she was unable to get out of an arrest for petty theft and being photographed with the following mug shot.

One of the interesting things I’ve learned while profiling reality show contestants is that it usually isn’t just a one off circumstance of luck that lands them their TV gig. The folks who appear on these competition based shows usually pursue them hard, using all means necessary to score this modern age 15 minutes of fame. This is certainly the case for the sexy baseball and dating coach Albert Destrade of Survivor: South Pacific. See a video of Albert auditioning for The Amazing Race and just for fun a side-by-side of the dating coach compared to Will Smith who played a dating coach in the popular film Hitch.

CBS has announced the cast for Survivor: South Pacific and one in particular caught my red-blooded male American eye and it was lingerie football player and Playboy vet Mikayla Wingle. See many cubicle approved images of Mikayla including her shoot with the famed men’s magazine. Survivor casting director, you are a genius!

Ironically, former Special Agent Phillip Sheppard proved to America that he’s not always very good at keeping secrets on last weeks Survivor: Redemption Island, but one thing he is exceptionally good at is roller skating . . . backwards. The software brokering executive, who also has trouble pronouncing the name “Franscesa” (because of “dry mouth”), [...]

Sometimes when you have a good thing going, you shouldn’t let it go. Reality competition shows don’t have the same luxury of easily keeping around their best villains like other reality shows (ex: Real Housewives,) so what they do instead is come up with new twists and turns to bring back figures that their fans [...]