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Aussiedeb

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 07:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Age: 23
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Bartender
Hometown: Celo, NC
Luxury Item: Childhood Teddy Bear

Biography:

Gabriel Cade was born and raised in the tiny alternative community of Celo, North Carolina. His father is a doctor and his mother is a nurse. In addition, they run a small farm with goats, chickens, rabbits and fields of blueberry bushes. Cade has one brother, Jason, and a twin sister, Emily.

During his first two years of high school in Mitchell County, Cade was a competitive figure skater, a member of a singing quartet and was part of a symphony orchestra (having played classical cello since he was seven years old). He also studied jazz and ballet dancing. He then transferred to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics for his junior and senior year. As the school required community service, he spent two summers working for World Changers, an organization that assists in building homes for impoverished individuals. Graduating in 1996, he then traveled throughout Europe where he eventually began volunteer teaching English in a small town in France while also leading adventure trips for students.

Returning to the States, Cade enrolled at the University of North Carolina where he intended to pursue a double major in biology and drama with a double minor in English and French. During his freshman year, he completed a rescue scuba diving course to become certified. After his freshman year, he returned to Europe to continue leading the adventure trips. He then returned to the States and enrolled in a Sarasota, Florida-based school named New College. With no grades and no core requirements, if a course didn't exist, he was able to create it and call it an independent reading project. For a brief time, his major was French Science Fiction. While there, he was able to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing soccer with a semi-professional team while also coaching at a local middle school. In addition, he performed and taught ballroom dancing.

In the summer of 1998, Cade spent four months hiking the Appalachian Trail from Mount Katahdin, Maine, to Springer Mountain, Georgia (approximately 2,000 miles). He then returned to college, this time at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, until he decided to move to Los Angeles, California. He obtained a job writing for a national college newspaper where he ran the entertainment section. This afforded him the opportunity to interview his favorite celebrities, attend the Sundance Film Festival and participate in lavish press junkets. When he decided to leave the paper, he then began teaching an S.A.T. math prep course while bartending and serving as a chauffeur for an elderly gentleman.

Gabriel Cade's favorite hobbies are reading, writing, soccer, camping and learning new languages. He is fluent in French and moderately versed in three additional languages. He currently lives in Hollywood, Calif. His birth date is July 1.

Judy

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 07:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Whew! This Bio makes me dizzy...this guy is all over the plce with interests and talents. And he is only 23??!! Can't wait to see what he is like.

Aussiedeb

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
From the pics on the net etc...he reminds me of "Slimas"...ohh I am so quick to judge lol

Car54

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 08:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah but he is this season's bartender.
He has been confirmed for a while. I read where he is going to be the nice, smart, goofy lunkhead for this season.

Neko

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had an Ethan flasback when I saw his hair.
Wonder how matty *his* hair will be by the end LoL.
I think I'm going to like him...

Car54

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 12:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is the guy who works for/with Mike Boogie.

Moondance

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 01:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep, bartender at Belly

Amac

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 03:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Probably the single most interesting castaway of Survivor: Marquesas, based on the above bio and his pic.

Neko

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 04:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Reeeeeeeally?At Belly's you say....

Kizz

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 04:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What?? Are you serious, he works at Belly?? Holy cow! Cute but I have to wonder about that bio...it sounds a little padded. Reminds me of Greg, maybe a return to the nature phone?

Moondance

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 04:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes he was/is a bardenters at Belly... I was there last week for a birthday party and asked one of the guys that works there about Gabe and he just grinned and winked... I knew he would be on then:)

Spygirl

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 04:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What a crock! Mike gets on Big Brother and now this guy gets on Survivor? That application/selection process is so tainted.

I'm sorry, but I was really irritated by Mike's acceptance into BB2, but to have his bartender buddy "happen" to get picked for Survivor.....Unlikely. This show will eventually become a Hollywood version of Star Search.

Lurkin

Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 07:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Feb. 28, 2002

In today's paper, sharing the info. A previous article his sister said he had to prove everything that he had said that he did.





Yancey County native aims to be the 'Survivor'

By Karen Chavez
POSTED: Feb. 27, 2002 10:44 p.m.

ASHEVILLE - After spending a childhood diving headfirst off rock ledges into Linville Gorge, breaking off ice chunks from the South Toe River to go swimming in midwinter and thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, surviving the game show "Survivor" should be a piece of cake for Gabriel Cade.

Cade, a 23-year-old native of Celo in Yancey County, will appear tonight on the CBS show "Survivor: Marquesas." He joins 15 other castaways, as they try to outwit the elements and each other on the French Polynesian island of Marquesas.

Some things are just made for each other, said Cade's best friend, Jason Zink, like "Survivor" and Gabriel Cade.

Zink, 23, now a graduate student at N.C. State University in Raleigh, has been best friends with Cade since they met in the 11th grade at the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics in Durham. Zink isn't surprised Cade, who moved to Los Angeles three years ago to become an actor, made it on to prime time.

"'Survivor' -- it seems to combine all the best traits about him," Zink said. "It's not all about survival. It's his ability to act and his ability to survive in the outdoors."

And the show, which requires its contestants to compete in a variety of challenges involving strength, stamina and quick thinking, while also catching or killing their own food, building their own fires and making their own shelter, will definitely highlight Cade's adventurous spirit.

Because Cade, and all the other survivors, aren't allowed to speak to the media until they are voted off the island, his family and friends filled in some of the pieces of his young life.

The son of Marilyn Cade, an intensive care nurse at Spruce Pine Community Hospital, and Dr. Jerry Cade, a family practice physician, Gabriel grew up in Celo, a small mountain community known for its artsy atmosphere and large Quaker community.

"He and his friends all had an idyllic life living in the country and swimming in the rivers," his mother said. Cade and his twin sister, Emily, a Spanish interpreter in Asheville, and older brother, Jason, who lives in Chapel Hill, also grew up on a farm and were always out in the woods hiking and backpacking.

Gabriel and Emily were competitive figure skaters from childhood and skated as pairs until age 16, when they both went away to school in Durham, after attending Mitchell High School.

"We were best friends," Emily Cade said. "We had to do everything together because we had the same friends and went to the same school."

They both attended UNC Asheville until Gabriel left for Los Angeles. "It was hard," she said. "We have really, really high phone bills and e-mails."

The twin connection is strong enough so that whenever Emily was hurt or feeling stressed, her brother would feel it and give her a call. Unfortunately, she said, she wasn't able to sense if her brother had been hurt during the "Survivor" taping, even though he broke some teeth on the show and needed emergency medical attention.

"Every three days, Mom and I talked, and she asked me if I got a special vibe," she said.

Marilyn Cade, who admits to now being hooked on "Survivor," said she wasn't surprised her son made the cut on the hit TV show from a pool of 60,000 who applied. She said he fit perfectly the "blond hiker" type the producers were looking for, and happens to be the first Quaker on "Survivor."

His outdoor experience runs deep. Cade and his friends hiked the entire Appalachian Trail together in 1998, taking four months to backpack from Georgia to Maine. And he and Zink, along with high school friends Charley Coffey and William Hayes, started a tradition eight years ago of camping out on the winter solstice -- Dec. 21 -- on the top of Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the Eastern United States.

"We're pretty fair judges of weather, but we've been up there with 70-mph wind gusts and the tent was flattened against us," Zink said.

Last October, Zink and Hayes flew to Los Angeles to visit Cade. One night they decided to climb Mount Whitney, at nearly 14,500 feet, the highest mountain in the continental United States.

"It was very impromptu," Zink said. "We were just in tennis shoes."

Zink insists Cade is much more adventurous than he is and alluded viewers would see some of that in upcoming "Survivor" episodes. To prepare for food gathering, Zink said before he left, Cade and his brother practiced catching small animals and cracking open coconuts.

Mrs. Cade remembers her son always taking the wild road, like backpacking through Europe for his 18th birthday with his brother. Not having enough money to get on the highest bungee jump in Switzerland, she said, Cade managed to sneak his way on the cable car. Cade also managed to get the brothers food by befriending strangers in a variety of languages.

"There's something about Gabriel," she said. "He was in Italy for two weeks and had a girlfriend and played (semipro) soccer, all without speaking Italian. He has a real gift for people and gets along with everybody."

Zink thinks that gift might actually hurt Cade's chances on "Survivor," where past shows have revealed that back-stabbing and bad-mouthing are as common as unwashed bodies and intestinal parasites.

"He is the type of person that truly would not want to say anything bad about anyone else," Zink said. "He would be pretty reluctant to form an alliance on the show. He definitely had it in him to win, but he wouldn't do it by going behind anyone's back."

"He enjoys that sort of thing, being outdoors and having to fend for yourself to some extent," said Coffey, a medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who saw Cade over New Year's. "It was probably less of a challenge for him than for other people."

But viewers will have to wait and see. Although Cade returned home in late December and visited with his family and friends, none of them yet know who won.

Seeing her brother over the past couple of months, Emily Cade said he looked good, although he had lost a lot of weight while on the show. He had calculated that at some times on the island, the contestants were eating only about 800 calories a day.

"I'm so proud of him," said Emily, who bought a television last week just to watch her brother. "He glows. It's nice to see. He just went there to have a good time and not for the money."

Twiggyish

Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 08:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, he's Quaker. Do Quakers work as bartenders? Seems a bit of a contradiction there.

Nyquilbeer

Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heheh another CURLY tops. now i wonder where Ethan tonight, im sure i miss him. thanks to you Gabriel. :( hey seems he has nice biodata.

Aussiedeb

Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ethan was in the Bahamas at the Atlantis Resort with Regis and Kelly all week. I got to watch him on tv , he had that same unshaven look.soooo sexy lol

Gabe even wore glasses just like Ethan too .

Knightpatti

Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love his curly hair. He is on for awhile if he lost quite a bit of weight. He reminds me of the guy in the Blue Lagoon. In fact the island reminds me of the setting for the movie. Now who is Brooke Shields?

Trinity

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 06:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
He's a cutie, loved the glasses too. My mom always told me to watch out for guys named Jesus and Gabriel. hehehhe

Lurkin

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 07:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggy, Oh sure, that Oat Vodka they make is great! :)

Moondance

Friday, March 01, 2002 - 06:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/news/8053

Looks like Gabe breaks some teeth...

Awareinva

Monday, March 11, 2002 - 06:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow...several spoilers in here if it's true. A lot of weight loss is good :); broken teeth and medical assistance is not so good :(. Hope it doesn't affect his looks- I think he's just as adorable as that teddy bear he brought as a luxury item!!

I think Gabe will stick for a while. So far I haven't seen any signs that he will be too nice to make an alliance. After all, alliance doesn't have to mean back-stabbing.

I have a GUT feeling that he will bond with the older people like Paschal and Zoe. Often very bright young people are very comfortable with older people. I think Gabe will be a real chameleon, and get along with everyone.

Maybe it's the close watching for "superspoiling" but I really like Gabe the best so far this season.

Mindyrama

Monday, March 11, 2002 - 10:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone see shots of Ethan in that fashion show? Looks like he grew the beard back. I guess he realized everyone thought he was sexier with it. I miss that boy.