• CBS pre-game "Meet Abi-Maria" video (YouTube)
• CBS pre-S25 "Meet the Cast" video (YouTube)

• Official CBS Survivor: Philippines bio page
• Follow Abi-Maria Gomes on: facebook; twitter.
• Abi-Maria's beverage company: XiCocktails.com.

Images from the preview, pre-game interviews, and other circa-Ep1 Philippines footage:

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From MSN.com's Meet the Cast gallery (by Minh Nguyen):

"Abi-Maria says: 'I'm very good at reading people and situations. I know how to play my cards right. I'm smart, strategic, charming. People tend to really like me. I can adapt to situations very easily even though the game is always changing.'

Jeff Probst says: 'Abi is going to be her own worst enemy. If she's going to participate, get out there and help. But if she steps back from the group, some of those cultural differences -- Abi is from Brazil -- might get her thrown out.'"

Excerpts from her CBS.com Survivor: Philippines bio page:

"Pet Peeves: Complainers 
3 Words to Describe You: Driven, creative and charming. 
If You Could Have 3 Things on The Island What Would They Be and Why?
1) I would bring a book to distract me.
2) I would bring a pen for writing. 
3) And, I would bring a notebook to write on. 
Survivor Contestant You Are Most Like: Parvati – she is as charming as I am. 
Why You Think You’ll 'Survive' Survivor: I bring social skills and team work. I am a motivator. I will also bring a very positive energy. 
Why You Think You Will Be the Sole Survivor: I will bring my 'A' game! I am strategic, I am athletic and I have an ability to persuade situations to my favor. "

From her EW.com interview, by Dalton Ross:

"'I will win Survivor because I'm charming and bring a lot of sass to the table,' says Abi-Maria. (I'm not exactly sure how sass helps you win, but whatever.) Abi-Maria is actually coming to her Survivor party a few years late. 'I was supposed to be on Tocantins,' she explains. 'However they thought I was going to have an advantage over everybody else because I am from that area in Brazil.' As if the sass did not give her advantage enough!"

Summary of evidence for Abi-Maria Gomes being on Survivor: Philippines.

- (4/23/12) As early as before filming ended, season-spoiler beatlebum79 (warning: spoilers) had mentioned that the cast included "a Brazilian" woman.

- (7/23/12) SurvivorFever.net, citing longtime spoiling pariah Jim Early/missyae, reveals that this woman is Abi-Maria Gomes. (Sucks discussion here).

- (7/23/12) While Abi-Maria's twitter account is recently protected, a basic Google search of her twitter handle reveals that she indeed had a tweeting gap that exactly matched the filming period (absent from 3/10/12 through 4/27/12, click thumbnail at right to expand).

Who is Abi-Maria Gomes?

- From her facebook, she appears to have attended Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She describes herself as "Owner/Co-founder Xi Açai (Specialty Açai Spirit) with GRC beverages."