Post by RapunzeL on May 18, 2009 9:46:56 GMT -5
If you didn't watch this season of Survivor, you missed seeing one of the most "colorful" crackpots of all time play the game.
Coach Ben Wade came to the show as a soccer coach and a symphony conductor. But he would soon come to tell of his many adventures as an explorer & adventurer. He also claimed to be a world-class horn player, among many other stories.
Each day, he'd go through a loosely choreographed set of motions and posturing that he said only a handful of people knew. He said, "Don't bother "Googling" it, because you won't find it." Here are a few short snippets of his resume, as told to the producers at Survivor:
On Survivor: Tocantins, Ben Wade claims he must “surround himself with integrity”, yet according to one viewer of the hit CBS show, he has been caught in more than one lie recently including lying about holding the world’s record for a solo kayaking trip. No record has been recorded on either Google or Wikipedia.
Ben Wade also claims on his website that he survived a hurricane with mammoth waves and that at the top of a 30 foot wave, “God” spoke to him and saved him. The area he claims he survived the hurricane is the Mexican port of Portolabombo which according to the viewer, is not a hurricane ravaged area and has only recorded one tropical storm since 1939.
Ben Wade received his name “Coach” because he coach’s young girls soccer teams and recently he was fired from his postition because he reported to the school he worked for, that he was leaving to go for “cancer tests” when he was really competiting on this season’s Survivor. He also claims that God has called him to do the show after he prayed about it.
Rest of the article: realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com/blog/2009/03/04/survivor-coach-ben-wade-crack-pot-or-crook/