Illness creates opportunity for youngest ‘Survivor’ : TV : The Rocky Mountain News
February 12th, 2009 | by cwalton |Quoting from Illness creates opportunity for youngest ‘Survivor’ : TV : The Rocky Mountain News
Sent to the Brazilian highlands in October as an alternate, the 19-year-old Lakeland, Fla., native made an agreement with his parents: If he made the show, they would withdraw him from classes at the University of Florida, forfeiting his fall tuition.Spencer on Survivor Tocantins
When a medical condition forced one cast member to drop out, Duhm became the youngest person ever to compete on Survivor, the culmination of his near-obsessive passion for the show since age 11.
“I was like a 5-year-old on Christmas morning . . . I basically said, ‘(forget) school,’ ” said Duhm, who is already back at classes in Gainesville, waiting for the show to debut Thursday.
“It’s a mental game and a physical game, which made it one of the toughest things you could do. I really wanted to do it myself and see what I could do.”
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