Survivor Cook Islands: Season 13 - Episode 9

November 16th, 2006 - Tonight’s episode of Survivor Cook Islands kicks off with a very nervous Jonathan, one of the newest members of the Raro tribe - thanks to episode 8’s mutiny - trying to prove himself as a provider for the tribe. It doesn’t seem to be working very well, but maybe they’ll come around. One thing is for sure, Candice is having no troubles getting adapted to her new spot as a member of the Raro tribe. Adam and Candice picked up right where they left of and were all over eachother, professing their allegiances to eachother until the end. Yeah right, we’ll see how long that lasts. I’ll steal a term from Big Brother for this one: Hello Showmance!

Find out what happened in Episode 9 of Survivor Cook Islands after the jump!

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By this time, every and any avid Survivor Cook Islands fan knows that this isn’t the first time Ozzy has been in the spotlight on TV, or on a reality TV show, for that matter.

The Survivor superstar was featured on Playboy’s Foursome, a reality TV show dubbed “the only TV dating program that shows everything”. There’s been a lot of talk over exactly what kind of part Ozzy played in Playboy’s Foursome, but now it’s all been laid out before us, literally.

The last episode of CBS’ Survivor: Cook Islands, which I unfortunately missed, saw Brad Virata, the open and proudly gay fashion designer from the Asian tribe, voted off the island.

Since Brad’s elimination he’s made the rounds through the media and has stirred up a few interesting rumors. Apparently he may be dating, or have dated a fellow Survivor: Cook Islands contestant. Whether there is any truth in the rumor or not is unknown, but it sounds like Brad and Mr. Manly, J.P., may have hooked up at some point.

During an interview with AfterElton.com, Brad was asked a pointed question about his relationship with J.P., to which he replied, “Um, it’s all about timing in life. I can’t answer that. JP is a great guy. You’ll have to wait for the finale.” He obviously side stepped the question all together and is either not wanting to talk about it, or is simply trying to pump up the Survivor: Cook Islands finale even more. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

In other Brad Virata news, he is also apparently pissed that the fact that he’s gay didn’t earn him more screen time or more story time. The fact that Brad is gay was obvious from the beginning, and he never tried to hide the fact, but I guess he wasn’t satisfied with how little they addressed the situation.

Find out what he had to say on the subject and Nate’s “Nancy Boy” comment, after the jump.

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Unfortunately I will be slacking off again tonight and won’t be watching Survivor Cook Islands. The Circle Craft Fair opens in Vancouver tonight and tonight is the only night my wife and I will be able to go, so we’ll be getting crafty while Survivor is on.

If you’ve never heard of the Circle Craft Fair, and you live in Vancouver, I highly recommend checking it out. Even if you don’t like crafts, it is a fantastic event. Artists, Crafters and Foodies of all forms pack into the Convention Centre, to the tune of about 250+ booths, to sell their hand-crafted awesomeness for only four days every year.

It’s a little pricier then you average craft fair, but it has so much more to offer, and it’s still not that bad, especially since they have some pretty sweet coupons.

Get your Circle Craft Fair Coupons here.

For all you Survivor addicts out there, you can get your fix from any number of sites, though I have a few favorites that are worth a look.

Survivor Cook Islands Links:

• TVGasm.com
• RealityTVMagazine.com
• Survivor.com

Tonight’s episode of Survivor Cook Islands kicks off with both teams receiving an interesting piece of treemail. Not only did the mail include the usual letter, but it also included a catalog of various different items, ranging from peanut butter to a sewing kit. It turns out the winner of tonight’s reward challenge gets to go home with two items of their choosing from the catalog. Naturally, both teams are thinking foods, thinking energy and thinking carbs. One team chooses peanut butter and bread, while the other chooses peanut butter and potatoes. Maybe not the best combo, but definitely a good source of protein and carbs, which mean energy, something every survivor needs.

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Survivor production crews invaded Vunivutu, Fiji earlier this month to begin production on the next installation of the Survivor series, Survivor Fiji.

The 6-week production schedule is estimated to generate roughly $6-million in revenue for the community and Labasa’s economy. The production will create 230 job opportunities for local residents and a drastic increase to the economy as the 250 person production crew will need food, shelter and the essentials.

Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was on site and launched the official start of the massive 6-week production.

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Survivor Cook Islands Episode 7: “A Closer Look”

Turns out tonights episode of Survivor Cook Islands wasn’t even a true blue episode. For whatever reason the folks over at CBS decided they would be better off running a recaps and never before seen footage episode instead of the usual back stabbing, fish eating, coconut milk drinking, battle to the death.

CBS branded tonights episode as a never before seen footage episode, but mostly recapped the past six episodes, adding in unseen footage here and there. So instead of boring everyone and writing about all the crap you can already find in old survivor recaps, I’ll highlight the unseen footage they decided to air.

Find out what you missed after the jump!

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Tonight’s episode of Survivor Cook Islands started off with Adam and Christina getting into a bit of a fight, of sorts. Apparently Christina doesn’t like to be called annoying or bitched about by everyone without her knowing it. I wonder why.Over at Raro Playboy Foursome star Ozzy is fishing up a storm, catching a boat load, as usual. Jon is in his usual seat on the boat playing the fish holder boy. It also comes out that Jon is feeling threatened and sees Ozzy as the biggest threat in Raro. Duh!

Back at Aitu Cao Boi gets into it with everyone, again. This time it’s because he wants to bring the immunity idol to the reward challenge, even though it’s not needed. Apparently he has some kind of weird attachment to it and the spirit it represents and thinks it would be good to bring it every where they go. Jon confronts him and tells him no, cause it’ll be like rubbing it in the other teams face and Cao Boi ends up giving up.

Survivor Cook Islands Reward Challenge

Tonight’s reward challenge is a special one and comes with an interesting twist. The winning team will get to chow down on lamb shanks, bread and apple cider, but will also have to go to tribal council and vote one of their tribe members off the island. But, in another twist of good news, they wll get to chow down on their food while sitting in the jury section, listening in to the other tribes tribal council. Now, on to the reward challenge:

• Each tribe must select 3 of its members to hold on to a post as hard as they can
• The remaining members of each tribe then attack the person on the post of the opposite tribe in groups of two, trying to pull them off the post and drag them over the finish line

Becky and Jessica latch on to Jenny and manage to pull her off her post and across the finish line first. While Parvati and Rebecca have a heck of a time getting Candice off her post and over the line. She fights back hard and raro ends up losing a lot of time. Nate is the second to be pulled from his post and dragged across the finish line, while the other team finally manages to get Candice across the finish line. Quickly making up ground are Adam and Brad as they manage to pull ozzy off his post and across the line fairly quickly, but not quick enough, as Becky and Jessica get Christina across the line and win it all for Aitu!

Back at Aitu Cao Boi wakes up and tells Yul about some crazy dream he had. Cao Boi’s dream gave him an idea, an idea on how to really mix things up in Aitu. Cao Boi’s “voodoo” plan is to get the tribe to split the votes, 3 for jonathan, 3 for someone else, in the hopes of sucking the hidden immunity idol out of Jonathan. Only problem is, Jonathan didn’t find the idol, Yul did, so naturally, Yul loves the idea.

Back at Raro Nate catches another octopus and Christina is chatting it up with everyone, trying to earn herself a second chance. After working on nate a little, he heads over to chat with Sundra and they consider keeping Christina around. It also comes out that the girls in general don’t seem to like Jonathan and they all seem to get a kind of untrustworthy creepy vibe from him. That’s no surprise, just look at his eyes.

Aitu Tribal Council

Cao Boi decides to bring the immunity idol to tribal council and it starts an entire line of questions from Jeff Probst. The whole Q&A portion is pretty much taken up by talking about Cao Boi and Jonathan.

Revealed Votes

• Jonathan votes for Cao Boi
• Jessica votes for Jonathan
• Cao Boi votes for Candice

Final Votes

1. Cao Boi
2. Candice
3. Jonathan
4. Cao Boi
5. Cao Boi
6. Cao Boi

Cao Boi is eliminated from the Aitu tribe!

The remaining Aitu tribe members file over to the Jury section and sit down to enjoy their lamb, bread and apple cider as the Raro tribe members enter tribal council to vote off one of their tribe members.

Raro Tribal Council

And before the votes are cast, Jeff Probst reveals yet another twist. The winning members of Aitu get to pick one person from the Raro tribe to kidnap and have join their tribe until the end of the next reward challenge. Making the right choice protects the person from being eliminated and adds more strength to the Aitu tribe for the next reward challenge.

Revealed Votes

Adam votes for Christina
Brad votes for Jenny

Final Votes

1. Jenny
2. Christina
3. Jenny
4. Christina
5. Christina
6. Christina

All of Christina’s begging and pleading wasn’t enough and she ends up the second person voted off Survivor Cook Islands in tonight’s episode.

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Welcome to the Cook Islands and the October 12th Survivor Cook Islands Recap:

This weeks episode kicks off with a pleasant site, the boys of Raro sitting around, chatting and “brushing” their teeth with make shift toothbrush crafted from what looks like pieces of bambo? While sitting around socializing, the guys get to chatting about the girls and start to get themselves a little worried, so what do they do? *gasp* They actually work! Everyone shoots off in different directions. Nate rounds up a big ol’ pile of firewood, brad goes fishing and adam goes crabbing. I wonder if the girls notice the sudden change of pace? Hehe, yup, they sure did.

Survivor Cook Islands Info

Apparently, before coming a big time Survivor star, Jonathan was a star of another kind. In fact, he starred in a movie along side Jason Alexander, better known as George from Seinfield. The movie, Down on the Waterfront, even scored itself an Emmy nomination. How cool is that? It turns out Ozzy isn’t the only one that’s acted before.

Back on the Aitu beach, the girls are having a gross out event of their own, comparing armpit hair. Yummy! It’s a good thing Cao Boi decided to go fishing, if he was around he may have joined in and probably would have lost. Yuck.

Survivor Cook Islands Reward Challenge

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Survivor Cook Islands Recap

This weeks episode of Survivor kicks off with a sulky and emo sounding Ozzy, complaining about how he feels like an outcast in the new tribe. I have to say, I can see why, he’s the only member of his original tribe left on his new tribe and he doesn’t really seem to fit with anyone else in the tribe. Although, you’d figure he might be a little more comfortable, he seemed to manage in Playboys Foursome no problem, I’m sure he can manage Survivor.

Candice returns from Exile island and the lazy ass boys on Rarotonga make a pact to stick together. I guess they don’t realize that the girls out number them, but they’ll realize that soon enough.

Survivor Cook Islands Reward Challenge
Reward: 3 Blankets, 2 Pillows and 1 Hammock.

• Two tribe members attached together by a rope.
• The remaining tribe members must push, pull and drag the teathered tribe members through an obstacle course.
• Once through the course, one member must swim out to a marker, dive down and retreive a ships wheel decoder.
• Once back on land the team must use the ships wheel to successfully decode a sentence.

Everything starts off as all square and both teams manage to stay even through the second portion of the obstacle course. It isn’t until Rarotonga gets hung up on their ropes that Aitutaki breaks into a pretty big lead.

Ozzy for Aitutaki busts it into the water and is back on the beach, starting to decode before Rarotonga has even managed to get themselves untangled. But Rarotonga’s luck runs out briefly as they get stumped by the puzzle and Aitutaki recovers fully. Both teams are scrambling to decode the sentence, but only one team manages to pull it off first and Aitutaki walks away with the win and some comfy bedding. But before they walk away as survivor reward challenge winners, they send Adam of Rarotonga to Exile Island.

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