Survivor Cast Dumb New competitors
Survivor casts "dumb" new competitors
US network CBS has revealed the identities of the 18 Americans who will outwit, outplay and outlast in the next season of Survivor, and there are two very different kinds of champions among the castaways.
Crystal Cox, 29, is an Olympic gold medallist who competed at the 2004 Athens Games, while Ken Hoang, 22, is the current international champion of the Nintendo game Super Smash Bros Melee.
The electric mix of castaways also includes a pin-up girl named nicknamed Sugar, a fashion photographer, a physics teacher, and the usual mix of personal trainers, lawyers and pretty young things.
The new season - Survivor's 17th - is set in Gabon, the first time the long-running reality series has been set in Africa since season two. Host Jeff Probst revealed there will be changes to keep the castaways and viewers on their toes.
"When you go to Exile this time you can either get a clue that will help you find the hidden immunity idol, or you can get 'instant comfort'," Probst told Entertainment Weekly. "The idea was to see if anybody would be dumb enough to choose comfort over the only thing that guarantees you to stick in the game, which is immunity."
Probst hinted that there are some very dumb competitors this season. 
