Marisa Calihan is no stranger to surviving
off the land. This 1st generation Appalachian was born on
a farm in Ohio and learned many of her survival skills from
her father. Growing up with eight siblings, in a blended
family with many adopted children, Marisa learned from an
early age how to take care of herself. “I am paying
my own way through school and have been on my own since I
was 17.”
Aside
from her early roots in farming, Marisa also has experience
working in third world conditions. While abroad, she worked
with street children in poor countries with no plumbing or
running water and it changed her life. Although after eight
years of being a free spirit and living abroad in such places
as El Salvador and Spain, Marisa returned home to go back
to school and help take care of her family.
For Marisa, the
money would go a long way in making her family’s lives better and helping her achieve a few
long term goals. “There are so many things I can do
if I just had a nest egg to start with. I won’t have
to fight tooth and nail for everything, if I just had a little
bit of money.”
Resourceful and creative, Marisa believes
she has what it takes to persevere and become the sole SURVIVOR.
Marisa is
single and currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her birth
date is July 26th."
August
26, 2009: A series of posts on Survivor Sucks elucidates
who this contestant, front and center (back and center?) in the
ads is:
- In response to a post about her picture, which could have been
interpreted as saying her first name was Kelly, brand-new poster
"secret" pops in to correct: "It's Marisa, from
Cincinnati."
-
Shortly thereafter, LoLz comes
across a youtube of
the ad, in which an interesting comment was left: "there
was this person by the nick nahilackered who
wrote: "go on and get it little sister.....you know who u r" ...if
you reverse the spellings, the person's name appears to be
Derek Calihan. so probably one of the chicks goes by the surname
'calihan'??
- Finally, longtime spoiler smokeitgood puts the two pieces
together, and finds Marisa Calihan, including new pictures,
and a TV news interview from Cincinnati, in which she was an
eyewitness to the aftermath of a high-speed police chase.
August
24, 2009: First Survivor: Samoa ads begin
to air on CBS, and Marisa is featured in a number of shots,
including the theme-establishing closing confessional: "He
could be the devil incarnate."
Marisa, mid-challenge
Gratuitous pre-game footage
Marisa, blocking (providing?) Probst's view
Marisa opines on her fellow castaway
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