Survivor: All-Stars - Casting

Casting

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Mark Burnett confirmed that two people turned down formal offers to appear on the All-Stars edition of Survivor — Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck from The Australian Outback, who had recently taken a job as a co-host of The View, and Colleen Haskell of the show's premiere season, who "had moved on with her life" and "just genuinely didn't want to go through that again." There has also been speculation that Survivor: Thailand winner Brian Heidik was asked to appear on the show, but he would only do so on the condition that he be paid a substantial sum for his appearance regardless of his standing in the game. Survivor: Pearl Islands winner Sandra Diaz-Twine also confirmed that she turned down an offer to join the show, saying that she was still recovering from parasites that she received at Pearl Islands. Survivor: Marquesas winner Vecepia Towery was pregnant at the time of the show's filming, ruling her out of the game automatically. Rodger Bingham from Survivor: The Australian Outback has said that he was considered to be on the show, but was ultimately not chosen. Jon Dalton has claimed that he also turned down an offer to appear, and Jenna Morasca, winner of Survivor: The Amazon stated that her fellow tribemate Heidi Strobel had also turned down the offer to appear on the show. Sean Rector of Survivor: Marquesas has claimed that he went through the interviewing process and was set to go, but was ultimately cut at the last minute. Burnett jokingly said that "the casting was really, really scientific. I got a yellow legal pad and wrote down 24 names, and cut down to 18. It was that quick."

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