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Friday, October 22, 2004
Studio 23 welcomes Survivor All-Stars Ethan, Jenna and Shii-Ann
STUDIO 23 welcomes three of the most memorable contestants of the hit reality series Survivor, as past winners Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca and memorable contender Shii-Ann Huang come to Manila.
Survivor's third outing, Survivor: Africa, made curly-haired heartthrob Ethan Zohn a millionaire in 2002, but his heart really belongs to sports.
A professional soccer player since 1997, Ethan Zohn played goalkeeper for Highlanders Football Club in Zimbabwe, the Cape Cod Crusaders of Cape Cod in his home state of Massachusetts, and the Hawaii Tsunamis, as well as the 1997 and 2001 U.S. National Maccabiah Team (Israel).
And his Survivor win hasn't changed that: this Vassar graduate used his winnings to create an AIDS education charity called Grassroots Soccer, which enjoins popular soccer personalities to help fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. He has also hosted "Ethan Zohn's Zone," an online journal summarizing the events of the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan.
The youngest person to win Survivor, animal lover Jenna Morasca was just 21 and a junior at the University of Pittsburgh when she took home US$1 million for outwitting, outplaying and outlasting her fellow castaways on Survivor: Amazon.
A professional swimsuit model and beauty contestant, Jenna was the center of one of Survivor's most heartbreaking moments when she walked away from Survivor: All-Stars to be by the side of her ailing mother, who was being treated for breast cancer before passing away only eight days after Jenna walked away from the Survivor camp.
Has fiery Shii-Ann Huang's on-air Survivor rep lived up to her self-dubbed nickname: "Shii Devil"? The very first Survivor contestant born outside the US, Shii-Ann was born in Taipei, Taiwan and migrated to New Jersey with her family at the age of two.
Two years later, she moved to Mesa, Arizona, where she became a state champion speech and debate competitor during high school. After high school, Shii Ann took a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature (with honors) from the University of California, Berkeley, and then earned a Master's degree at New York University/Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program.
The ninth and most current season Survivor, Survivor: Vanuatu, airs live via satellite every Friday on Studio 23 starting at 1 PM for October 22 and 29.
The live satellite broadcast will move to its new time of 2:00-3:00PM every Friday beginning November 5. Survivor: Vanuatu's primetime telecast remains on Sunday nights from 7 to 8 PM.
Ethan, Jenna and Shii-Ann will also be making the rounds of Studio 23 shows, including Breakfast and Wazzup Wazzup (October 21), PBL (October 23), Sports TV (October 30), F (October 31), Digital Tour (November 7) and the one-hour special interview Survivor in Manila: The Ryan and Drew Hour on November 2.
(October 22, 2004 issue)
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