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Seamonkey

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love the transcribing... Bass Cal = Paschal

And "Have a fashion" = "Have a passion"

and they cleaned up the neleh comment because she certainly did say neleh was a sweetheart, would go far.. pause.. in life or in the future :)

I liked what she said about Sean always shining..

Juju.. thanks for defending.. she's not as much of a villian as people want to make her, the nude shot was tasteful, the son is not grown up but about 16, she didn't watch survivor because she doesn't have cable.

She was as evasive as Gabe in some odd ways.. hard to pin down.. not saying they are at all the same.

Remember it was Jane who brought up Playboy, not Zoe.. she just went along with the question.

I certainly thought she was trying to portray herself as this party animal, and could be true but wasn't a pleasant image.

She should have saved the belt buckle for Howard Stern.

Moondance

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hmmm... under edit profile, click 'Information About You' then it should allow you to change the e-mail... let me know if you have gotten this far.

Moondance

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 12:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Juju for your post... I agree:)

Squaredsc

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 01:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
moon, i did that but it doesn't let me change the email address, just my name, i kept clicking on the email and all it did was hi-lite but couldn't do anything else.

Fanny

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 01:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Seamonkey, I agree with almost everything you just said! She does tend to come across as evasive, but in my very HO it's because she can't think of what to say quickly. She's not a very good communicator, which is probably not an issue when you're out catching lobsters.

As far as her not watching Survivor in the past, I doubt she'd need cable to see it...she may very well get it on one of the "three" channels she said she gets. To me it sounds like she's just not very interested in TV period.

I don't see her as a villain, either. She's just not as interesting as some of the other bootees. She's definitely out of her element in media settings. Maybe if we saw her doing what she's good at we'd think more highly of her. Actually I'm kinda feeling sorry for her, like a sheep thrown to the wolves. Maybe she ought to get an agent to help her deal with this publicity. She's not doing too well on her own, so far.

Just

Shakes

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 01:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Has anyone figured out the mystery of the belt buckle...what it said, looked like, anything?

Willi

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 01:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm so naive I just thought it said "honk if you're horny."

I guess not.

Mygetaway

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 02:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Squared.. Not my business.. but I think you probably have to email Gail or Admin to change that feature (email addy).. :)

Squaredsc

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 02:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh thanks mygetaway, i will try to do that tomorrow. thanks a bunch.

Moderator

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 02:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's already done. :)

Square, check your folder.

(M)

Squaredsc

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 02:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks moderator, i appreciate that.

Seamonkey

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 03:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmm what was that I said about cable.. sigh.. brain is fading fast. Yeah I suspect if you get up and out and on the water at 4am, you may not be watching much evening tv. She also has the family guesthouse much of the year and likes to ride her bike and has a teenage son.

I hope Letterman and Howard Stern don't trash her (but she did put herself out there).

And of course they had plenty of uncomfortable clips to play. I'm just glad she didn't pee on anyone :) (in a clip, not in the studio!)

Crazydog

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 05:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree that she would have been better off not doing the interview, she came off as very unappealing and very unintelligent. She porked out as well in the tradition of Colby, and for some reason I thought the way they shot the camera, showing her entire body in the chair, was very unflattering. She also did not come across as a very warm person. Playboy is going to call? Yuck, I think I would cancel my subscription if I had one.

I agree with Juju, I also got a lesbian vibe from her from the very beginning. She's very masculine, from the way she talks, dressed, captains a fishing boat, the body, etc. Not that there's anything wrong with it. Why is it that there is always a gay man on every reality show, but never an openly lesbian woman? (I don't count Sonja since nobody got to know her.)

Moondance

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 05:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks to GroovyKat at SS

Zoe's CBS web chat

Survivor Host: Hi Zoe, welcome and thanks for being here to chat with us today.

Survivor Zoe: Hi, very glad to be here to speak with you all!!

Q: Goodday Zoe, you seemed surprised to be voted off last night. Do you think you would have tried harder at the immunity challenge if you thought you were next?
A: Well, I just lost my balance to tell you the truth! *laughs* The stilts were very heavy and I hadn't done any stilt walking on those sort of stilts in a long, long time.

Q: What's the feeling of being voted by all of the people in the tribe?
A: I went out with a bang! *laughs* When there was somebody we wanted to vote off we all just got together and decided, so it kind of made sense.

Q: did this experience help you learn alot more about yourself and if so in what ways?
A: It did help me to learn alot more about myself - Learning my strengths and weaknesses, how in the future I can address these strengths and weaknesses in my life.

Q: Did you feel you were in your element on the island? And how did you use your skills as a fishing boat captain to help you in the game?
A: I did feel very much in my element. I experimented with fishing on the island and I'm sure that was something for me that was an asset - having an island experience growing up.

Q: How did your approach to the game change after the tribal switch?
A: I didn't really have any change in my approach, I was still sort of the same, y'know... as far as surviving was concerned. I wasn't really into the game yet, I was just exploring - finding different foods and things on the island that might be an asset to the tribe.

Q: Zoe, Good Job I wish you stayed longer. My Question is when you learned about the fruit and crabs on the other beach why didn't you all hike over there and get some good food???
A: That would have been nice but it was more than a hike away. We were not near each other in a sense where we could go. If we were there a little while longer, sure i would have explored the whole place because that's the way I am.

Q: Zoe, you and Gabe were my favorite Rotu. What was your reason for voting off Gabe?
A: Gabe for me was the biggest competition. It was just how I felt. Gabe was one of my favorite players, I had a lot of fun with him on the island and will continue to.

Q: Zoe, what made you vote against John? Did you feel that he was too controlling?
A: Well, there is the perfect answer to the question!! *laughs* It was about time for him to go, there was too much negative drama going on unecessarily.

Q: Were you surprised at what Tammy was saying about you last night to the cameras?
A: *laughs* No, not at all. I told her how I felt and that's the way she felt so I was pretty blunt with her, telling her that I liked her as a person, I admire her strength and focus but I didn't trust her in the game.

Q: How come we didn't see you talking to the cameras that often?
A: I was constantly on safari you might say. I enjoyed so much more exploring the island than sitting around camp. I wanted to be out doing things so maybe they couldn't catch me! *laughs* I was just out there having some fun.

Q: They showed several alliances with you Zoe, but to whom did you feel the closest on the island?
A: Well, probably I spent most of my time with Kathy when I wasn't by myself. She liked to explore so we did alot of exploring together.

Q: Did you ever feel that you were back being Kathy's friend after the Rob thing?
A: I did but I don't know if she did. I tried to explain to her what happened and initially I believe that she believed that we had a strong friendship and a bond and I think part of the reason for getting her vote on my final day there was that she believed I was more of a competition than the General.

Q: Are you flattered that they thought you were more a threat than the General?
A: Well, I guess I'm not easily flattered but yeah, certainly. Who wouldn't be?

Q: Robert gave a goodbye speech at tribal council last night before the votes were cast. How was Robert led to believe he would be voted off last night?
A: Well, I think because of this so called alliance, it was him feeling that the next three voted off would be Tammy, myself or him so since Tammy won the immunity again he might be on the chopping block.

Q: How is the fame been treating you? Do you think they showed the real Zoe on TV?
A: Fame's been treating me well, I'm having fun with it. The whole state of Maine has been a huge support, it's been so awesome. I've met so many people through this experience. They showed a lot of the real Zoe on TV, I had some funnies they might have left out but basically I'm kind of on my own a lot and always have been and I like to learn through experience so that's how it happened for me.

Q: On the Early Shoe you said that you'd never seen a Survivor episode before you were on it yourself. How different was Survivor from what you expected?
A: Oh, good question...I thought it wasn't real, that there was some staging to it, y'know as far as a script or someone out there powdering your nose...I hoped that after applying for it and getting into it that that wasn't the case. The fact that we didn't have any food and had to go out there and just do it. That was the ultimate- it was awesome. To realize that there was nothing made up. What you saw is what you saw. I was very excited about the whole process.

Q: what was on your belt on the morning show today?
A: *laughs* I got this belt at a shop here on Amsterdam and 79th, but I'm not sure...Al and Susie's - a second hand shop with a lot of wild crazy stuff. It's my bull**** belt. It's embroidered on the belt.

Q: WHat did you think about Tammy saying that you were sucking up ?
A: Well, I'd been making stuff from the get-go. At that point we didn't need to forage as much for food so there was extra time to kick back and relax and I enjoy using my hands and being creative that way so I just made some jewelry. I ended up repairing some jewelry for the General and it's just something to do. It Had nothing to do with sucking up. Maybe that was a way for them to get some bad vibes going - who the heck knows?!

Q: did it bother your that Rob was constantly trying to cause problems in camp?
A: I had a crewman that was like that and you know it was always a pleasure to have him on the boat because when things were getting boring he'd come up with something...I was kind of liking the driving force but he was the entertainment. Rob was entertainment! He was a fun guy. I'd love to have him on my boat to go fishing. He actually said he'd come out with me sometime.

Q: What happened after Rob figured out you had lied to him about you alliance with the General, Tammy & John. Do you think thats why he got all mad at you & telling a bunch of stuff about you to Kathy?
A: Well, when I talked to Rob the alliance was really loose with me. I'm sure that was part of his motivation for doing that and he saw some stuff going on and just wanted to exploit it so that was part of his strategy from the get-go: to make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Q: Zoe, on your walking exploration of the island, did you ever find anything interesting? Is so, What was it?
A: Oh, my God! There were so many interesting things everywhere. From the paipais (the ancient dwellings of the Marquesan people where rituals were performed) - those were huge and all over! Huge rocks that these ancient people moved with no cranes. Their mechanical advantages were their bodies most of the time. Between that and the waterfall and exploring to find different foods like bread fruit and apples...being able to swim...there was just no lack of things to explore. If you were there the full thirty-nine days there still was more to explore and to learn.

Q: Hi Zoe, What would you say was your favorite part about being on the island?
A: Hello back at ya'! My favorite part of the island was the sea water, swimming in the ocean because of its warmth and all the life within it. Then there was also the freshwater - the waterfalls. A different spectrum because of having to walk through the woods to get there. I was just as spectacular but in a different way.

Q: Bianca and croc420 were wondering: Hypothetical..... you are given a time machine, to what point in the game do you *zap* back to help you last longer?
A: Oh, wow, that's a great question! *laughs* Maybe it would have been when John mentioned something about an alliance...the dreaded alliance... *laughs*

Q: Who surprised you the most with their deceiving ways?
A: Oooooh...that's an intriguing question... *laughs* giggle, giggle...you know I think I'm going to have answer that question when we come down to the final vote because it's going to take some of that to be the last one standing.

Q: Zoe, when did you realize that you all had shown your alliance's cards at the coconut challenge?
A: *laughs* I know I really messed up that one. I thought I should just knock John off then.

Q: I thought there was as abundance of food on the island. What's with this one-meal-a-day stuff?
A: *laughs* We had one big meal a day, we had little snacks but because of some of the preparation time, the best time to get some of the shellfish we were eating was at low tide because we had to do things like challenges that really that's all we had time for. As far as abundance of food - at Rotu there really wasn't an abundance. We were always going out further and further to search for limes and waiting for apples to ripen on the tree and we had a lot of competition in our food sources such as little piggies and goats - which we were also trying to eat... except the goats, they're sacred so we couldn't eat those.

Q: zoe, did you ever get to see jeff p. or the camera men eating?
A: No, we weren't allowed to interact so I never saw them eating. They were working their butts off - we had them on the move!

Q: What does your son think of you being on survivor?
A: He thought it was really cool and said he might like to try it himself. I went a lot further than he anticipated I would go just because of the way I am - not a real game player... as far as trying to connive...all that sort of negative aspect of it.

Q: Zoe, Did you find that you were attracted to any of the fellow survivors?
A: Well, Gabe was an awful cutie but he looked as though he was as old as my son so...

Q: Did you hear John's final words? Did you find them funny?
A: Yeah, that was kind of funny... he was too serious about the game and I think his mom loved him for what he is and wouldn't worry about her retirement as long as he took care of himself.

Q: Was Sean's gas really that bad?
A: OHHHH, YEAH! I was sleeping right next to the bugger!! *laughs* Oh, man!!! I thought I was bad, everybody's got their moments when all you're eating is coconuts, tarot root and conch shells but I don't know what he was eating on the side there but boy, he had some turbo farts...

Q: Why did you bite Jeff Probst when he was feeding you the snickers?
A: *laughs* I was looking for a little extra protein! It was that cannibalistic native coming out of me! Because he's a cutie!!

Q: John said that he and 2 other survivors got matching tattoos. Are you one of the people he was referring to?
A: I'll never tell...

Q: What was your favorite challenge?
A: The diving challenge and flipping the boat over.
A: That was one of the toughest challenges and we did really well. I enjoyed it because of all its different aspects that we had to work together to do.

Q: Living your life on and by the sea, were you disappointed you didn't do better in the "stand on the raft" immunity challenge?
A: Honestly, I was close with Kathy and I knew she felt a need for immunity on that challenge and I was kind of out there dancing around. I could have stayed out there a little longer but I felt Kathy needed the immunity so I kind of took a dive, y'know? I probably should have been more vocal about it and let her know - maybe that would have cleared any thoughts in her head about mistrust. I didn't take too seriously and I knew that she needed the immunity.

Q: ZOe, on the show, it SO looks like you, General, Tammy and John had an alliance...but then it seems that everyone denies it... was that inaccurately portrayed?
A: *laughs* No, it wasn't inaccurately portrayed - there was a certain agreement but it got **** out of proportion.

Q: Zoe, you seemed to still be pretty well built and healthy. Did you lose alot of weight while you were there or were you getting enough to eat?
A: I did lose some weight and that's a good thing because that was actually one of my incentives to go out there! *laughs* I'm never going to be Twiggy - that's for sure, but there are a few extra pieces of chocolate on my thigh but I lost about fifteen pounds out there.

Q: If you were stranded on a deserted island, which of your survivor castmates would you want to be stranded with, and why?
A: Ooh, good question! I'd want all of them there! *laughs* That's too easy,,,okay, well! Let's see... some of the people I didn't get to meet like Hunter - obviously he knew a lot about what he was doing, but he got voted off for a reason. *laughs* I guess it would have been fun to have been out there with Kathy and Gabe. I don't know, if we could be out there and not have to play the game, that'd be the ultimate but that's just not realistic.

Q: Zoe, would you consider yourself to be an honest person.
A: Yes, I would you consider myself to be an honest person.

Q: Zoe, you chose a necklace as you personal item. What significance does it have that you chose it over all kinds of other practical things?
A: I actually brought something different for my luxury item and practicality wasn't the issue because none of the luxury items were practical. The necklace I wore on the island was an arrowhead from Monhegan island that was very old from when the Native Americans came to hunt in the summer months where they'd fish and dry it and store it and my brother found it. The arrows are made out of flint that they would chip.
A: But the luxury item I actually chose to bring were lucky bones which are small, little white bones that float in the head of fish side by side each other and I'd go down to the fish beach and get them out with a hammer and screwdriver with my mother and we'd collect them and make jewelry out of. They're small bones that help the fish keep their equilibreum. I guess that's why they call them lucky bones, I don't know.

Q: Do you get to keep your buff and any of the items from the mail? (kite, chop sticks, ect.)
A: I did keep my buff and my son has been sporting it and I kept the magnifying glass that we made fire with and I brought a lot of shells and fiber from the Hibiscus tree back home with me to make necklaces and bracelets and jewelry.

Q: Hey Zoe, you were the hardest player ever to figure out, do you just have a natural talent at hiding your feelings?
A: Yes, I do.
A: ...at times anyway...because I'm a very emotional person and it's hard to hide that.

Q: When the switch occurred, you looked mad! What was going through your head when you were the first to pick up a new buff?
A: We were getting played! That things were going to change drastically.

Q: Zoe, what next? are you going to continue with your fishing boat?
A: Well, it's hard to say. I've been lobstering on my own with my own boat for twelve years. I spent two years as an apprentice before I got my own boat so I've been doing it fifteen years full time. my son's sixteen now so he's looking to go to college and being on his own. I'm not running a bed and breakfast on Monhegan island which I did in conjunction with taking care of my mother and her bi=polar illness. She passed away in 1996 and now it's time to explore some new avenues so after a long answer to an easy question - I'd like to give up lobstering and do something else.

Survivor Host: Unfortunately we're all out of time with Zoe today. Zoe, thanks so much for being here today to chat with us. Do you have any final comments for the Survivor fans?

Survivor Zoe: We are all survivors! Best wishes down the road - keep following your dreams.

Hippyt

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 06:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Moon! She doesn't come off bad there at all! Of course you can't see her or hear her!! I have no problem with Zoe,but you should have seen my Husband's face when I mentioned she wants to be in Playboy!!!!

Moondance

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 06:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL... she is a woman that works hard... doesn't really watch tv, lives on an island, etc... so socialization isn't her speciality:)

Sia

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 10:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Zoe comes across as really well-spoken in this web-chat. Do you think she might have been speaking her answers aloud to someone a bit more eloquent, who then typed responses for Zoe in order to make her sound more polished? Just a thought. No disrespect intended here.

Squaredsc

Saturday, April 27, 2002 - 07:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks moon, now if we only had this to go on, we would have a different impression of her, she sounds like a regular person. but a regular person we really didn't get to know that much about just from the show, 'cause she didn't say anything. she said more in this chat then the whole time she was on the show, so glad to see another side of her and hope that she can enjoy the aftermath.

Sia

Saturday, April 27, 2002 - 10:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Zoe seemed very well-spoken today on the CBS Saturday show this morning (the show with Russ Mitchell and the new girl, I can't remember her name! Darn-it, just bring back Thalia Assuras!!) Did anyone catch that today?

Gina8642

Saturday, April 27, 2002 - 04:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone see Zoe's EW interview?

I just read it from a link at Survivor Fever's website. That woman is ambitious. She says she wants to do feature films.

She did this for the exposure in my opinion. She looks big and bad enough to play the bad guy. Please no one take this the wrong way, but she looks like she could be one of those professional wrestler women. Kinda pretty, kinda not, definately a menecing physical presence. She sounds like she likes to party and play hard.

I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, but I'm beginning to think we saw so little of her because we wouldn't have liked her if we did?

She's trying too hard IMO in all these interviews. However, if you want to make it in show business you have to try too hard. Who knows? I doubt it will work out for her, but stranger things have happened.

Car54

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 07:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Zoe is on Letterman tonight. Previews show her at Hello Deli with Rupert.

Tksoard

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Stephanie (on the phone) asked her if she saw or touched any monkeys, and she said she never saw any, but as far as touch... (giggle). She said there was hanky-panky!! Was she just kidding??? or was there something with her and John?? or Robert?? or ??Tammy???

Seamonkey

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good grief.. she's 35 going on 16..

Well I'm going to try to force myself to watch Letterman until her segment is over.

Did Rupert ask what her personal item was? That seems to be his "thing" and then the monkey question is another.

Sunshinemiss

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
She was trying a little too hard to be funny I think. Came off better than the Early show appearance though. (it would be hard NOT to!) Actually she seemed pretty well spoken, and looked nice, in a Xena sort of way.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 12:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Cool.. I'm waiting waiting for them to get to her.. then I can sleeeep.

Dave's talking in general about the show now.

(btw, I think Dave makes most of them nervous.. )

OK he mentioned her name, so.. there's Rupert.

So much chatter without even seeing the survivor..

He's talking about the Ted Danson movie that "everyone watched".. er.. well I didn't.

arrgh.. commercial..

So far she seems ok and definitely better than the early show.

Paul asks dumb question if she has seen ZZ top in concert.. No

Rupert.. did you catch any fish? NO.. shellfish

Dave asks do you know who will win and do you care? Don't care.

Stephanie asks the see and touch monkeys question again..

didn't see any but we'll leave the rest.. rupert says that's a hanky panky question.

she doesn't want to go back to lobstering.. world is her oyster.

and she gets to vote on the jury.

would do again..

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

She was fine.. specially since Dave doesn't give a **** :0 (fill in any four letter word that you favor)