Mooyou wrote:

---

And if I can seem to recall, there was a couple or someone else... Ah! John and Scott from Season 9 who hardly knew each other... I think I read that somewhere...

Out of all people, John and Scott?!



Their bio listed them as "lifelong friends" and I really can't imagine ANYONE ELSE being friends with that beast other than another socially-shunned gay fairy.
If they were going for the whole "stereotypical gay friends" angle then casting really hit it out of the park by pairing these two.


Another friendship that was faked:


Flight Attendants Christie and Jodi

Jaime and Cara basically told interviewers that ["at least we were real people"] some of the teams in their race season faked relationships to please casting/get on the show.

Now idk if it applied to more than one team but Christie said herself that she first applied with another friend, casting got back to her and told her how they would rather her apply with another flight attendant (for easier labeling). So she did and found herself someone she barely knew, Jodi.

Pfft, goes to show you how ridiculous some of these casting techniques are. Not that I'm complaining though, these two teams were fucking amazing/entertaining.

I knew Laura (along with Natalie and Ashley) originally applied for TAR but wow
They probably felt bad so they shipped her over to Survivor

It all comes full circle.

Zzunk wrote:

---

Based on the number of times they had teams jump in water and/or strip off clothing, they are casting
for sex appeal more than ever before.

I don't think casting was banking on any of these three VERY similar teams to ooze sex appeal