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Quote: "I'm in this game because I want to change it," says Wade, who kayaked 6.132 miles from Baja, California, to Colombia-alone. "it's become survival of the weakest. I want the strongest to survive. I want to team up with worthy opponents. May the best man or woman win."

Education: Full music scholarship to the University of Tennessee. He later received his Masters of Music in Conducting from the University of Nevada 

Credits: Head Women's Soccer Coach at Southwest Baptist University, an NCAA institution in Bolivar, MO

In 1996 he paddled 6,132 miles to set the world record for the longest solo kayak expedition. He paddled for six months on the Pacific Ocean from San Felipe, Mexico to Colombia, South America

Ben became the first kayaker to solo-navigate the full length of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers in 1998

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Quote: First he sold his Bear Naked Granola business to Kellogg's as part of a $122 million dollar deal. Now Synnott's got to test his mettle. "I think it's healthy to have everything taken from you and then have to rebuild" he says/ "That's good character building.

Credits: Education: Vanderbilt University

Former talent manager for Saturday Night Live

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Quote: "The potty thing is freaking me out," says the self-described adventure seeker, who left the comfort of her eight bedroom home to rough it. "Digging a hole and going Big Bathroom in the middle of nowhere...having to wipe with your hands...Is my body going to shut down because I can't do it?"

Education: Master's degree in Physical Education from Chicago State University, Bachelor's degree in Physical Education from Eastern Illinois University

Credits: Attended high school and college in the Chicago area 

Has applied for Survivor many times. Was repeatedly turned down because she didn't have enough body mass. After seeing all of the ridiculously skinny people on the last few seasons, she contacted SEG and told them she wanted to play. Has been missing for several months

Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George

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Quote: There's a stigma that comes with being married to an NFL player," says the wife of former Tennessee Titan Eddie George. "People think we're pampered. But I'm not. I'm a 5'9", 190-pound tomboy. I'm gonna tear 'em up when I get out there."

Education: Graduate of Belmont University, where she received her bachelor of business administration in marketing

Credits:  is best known as "Taj," one third of the nineties multiplatinum R&B group SWV—Sisters with Voices. She is married to former NFL star Eddie George, with whom she stars on the reality television show I Married a Baller on TV One. She runs her husband's nonprofit organization, Visions With Infinite Possibilities

They live in Nashville, where George played with the Tennessee Titans for nine seasons -- with apartments in Columbus and Los Angeles

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Quote: How will she outlast the competition? "I plan to make alliances with the athletic guys," she say. "They are cute and they'll be good at the challenges." And plan B? :If I've gotta flirt, I'm gonna flirt. Work with what you've got. Right?"

Credits: SHAPE and SELF magazine, WOMEN'S DAY magazine, THE BUCKLE, PROTECT-A-BED, RIPE TV, CHARLOTTE RUSSE, FOX racing, CONVERSE, 3 DOTS, KEWI, INFANTINO, CLEAR CORRECT, GLITTER and OCEAN magazine, etc.

Candace Smith

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Quote: Fertilized eggs? Insects? "I'll swallow it," says Smith. "Having to eat something [weird] for a chance to win a million dollars is nothing to me. I grew up eating chitlins."

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Education: graduate of the University of Dayton and Northwestern University School of Law.

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Quote: Not only did this beauty not have to try out to get on Survivor ("I was at a taco stand when the recruiters came up to me," she says), she doesn't need the prize. "Money comes and goes," says Reed, who turned down a Tommy Hilfiger campaign to do the show. "If I'd saved when I was just starting out, I'd be a multimillionaire by now.

Credits: Sierra Reed attended Carlsbad High, where she was on the basketball team. But her absences mounted as she pursued a modeling career, and she was advised to switch to an alternative school.

She enrolled in the academy and headed for New York, where she eventually rented an apartment. Each morning, she'd wake up at 6 and take the subway to casting calls.

Now she lives in Santa Monica, where she leads what some would see as a glamorous life, dating celebrities and modeling. She appeared on MTV's reality series, "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County."

"You have to start early in this business because by 25, you're done," she said.

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Quote: This hyper, tattooed grandmother knew she was perfect for Survivor, so she flew to Seattle to be the first to audition. "My willpower is phenomenal," she says. "On a scale of one to 10, it's a 12."

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Quote: Call him a speechwriter, a spam master or a Muppet. (He thinks he looks like Kermit.) But don't call him "Fish." "That's my nickname at home," he says. "I can't [use it] here because when I can't fish, I'm going to look like an idiot."

Credits:  Homebase: New York, NY
Title: Strategeer, Writer
Affiliations: Massify, MTV, mtvU, MusicWorks
Education: Yale BA, English Special Skills: Mime 1 year's training at Celebration Park in South Paris, Maine
Interests and Activities: Conspiracy theories, Masonic lore, bubonic plague and the history of infectious disease, gold

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Quote: Warning: This cowboy knows how to take down prey. "Deer, turkey, wild hog, coyote-everything you're allowed to hunt in Alabama I've hunted," he says. "I'm a country boy."

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Quote: Survivor fan Duhm has been studying the game since he was 11. That's why he plans to trust no one, saying, "You have to assume they're going to screw you before you screw them over."

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Quote:  First Sergeant Sims may have charmed his 100 soldier Army Reserves company "with a smile and a little manipulation," but things will be different on Survivor. "I don't want to be the boss," he says. "The leader gets axed too early."

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Quote: How did this fire-spitting Panamanian-American prep for Survivor? "I got lasered from head to toe," she says. "Because I'm ethnic in the hairiest sense of the word. And I did not want to scare people with my overgrown armpits."

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Quote: Why do Survivor? "Because I'd be good at it. May as well go and win," says the former pro cyclist, who rides 31 mph. "And $1 million in two months isn't a bad paycheck." All he has to do now is perfect his strategy of "pushing people's buttons."

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Quote:  Lobdell says she can get a stranger to trust her within five minutes. It's a gift she hopes will pay off. "I work at a nice salon, so if this works out for me, I'll be the new owner when I get home."

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Quote:  Dowdle's strategy? Persuade and evade. "If it works, I will have pulled off something miraculous. If not, I'll get pretty far anyway. I told my mom before I left. "I'll see you out there."