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puddin:
'Timber Tina' gets axed 1st on 'Survivor'
By RAY ROUTHIER

Blethen Maine Newspapers - 2.4.06

Reality TV producers love an ironic twist. So it's only fitting that on "Survivor" Thursday night the contestant known as Timber Tina was the first to get axed.

Tina Scheer, who owns Timber Tina's Great Maine Lumberjack Show in Trenton, was the first person voted off this season's installment of the hit CBS reality show.

You'd figure that a woman who can wield an axe and a chain saw with ease and dexterity might do well in a survival contest. But you'd also have to figure that a woman like that might scare the heck out of her competitors. And that's exactly what happened.

"They were scared to death of me," Scheer said Friday of the three female contestants who voted her off the show. "I'm not ashamed of what I do for a living, so I had to be honest about it. I didn't intend to go there and take charge and be the leader, but the others weren't doing anything." Scheer, 45, not only runs the Great Maine Lumberjack Show, she competes around the world in so-called timber sports events -- chopping wood, sawing, log rolling, etc.

Other contestants were afraid that Scheer would win many of the physical challenges, which give a player immunity from being voted off, and they didn't like her lumberjack's take-charge temperament and brutal honesty.

In the episode that aired Thursday, Scheer was seen finding food and water, building the shelter and fire, and telling her fellow contestants that they weren't pulling their weight.

Scheer, the third Mainer to appear on "Survivor," was the first of 16 contestants to be voted off. Scheer spent just three days in the survival show on an island off Panama last fall. The filming lasted 39 days, and episodes will air each week through May. The one person left at the end gets a $1 million prize. The show stranded 16 people in the remote location, then required them to find food, water and shelter while competing in a series of physical challenges and stunts.

The woman most adamant about getting rid of Scheer was Cirie Fields, 35, a nurse from South Carolina who said on camera during Thursday's episode that she wasn't in the best physical shape, and dreaded having to compete against a "lumberjack lady."

On camera, Fields could be seen trying to persuade the other women to vote with her against Scheer. She apparently didn't have to try too hard, as Scheer was promptly booted off.

"It wasn't tough for me," Scheer said Friday of her time in Panama. "But it wasn't fun, either. I had bug bites that lasted for a month, but I wasn't hungry or thirsty. Sleeping on bamboo was tough."

On Thursday's episode, Scheer could be seen standing on a beach alone, drawing the name of her deceased son, Charlie, in the sand and talking to the camera about his untimely death. Charlie was 16 when he was killed in a car crash in Wisconsin in June. She looked into the camera, with tears in her eyes, and asked that her words about Charlie not be shared with the other contestants. While she was on the beach, the other contestants chastised Scheer for her "odd" behavior.

Scheer lives in Wisconsin most of the year, and runs her lumberjack show in Maine during the summer.

Scheer never told the contestants about Charlie, and said Friday that she was a little surprised that segment appeared on TV.

"It kind of got to me when I saw they put that in," said Scheer. "But I did that in Charlie's honor, so I'm glad they showed it."

Scheer was in New York City Friday with CBS media representatives, and had a full day of interviews scheduled. She was planning to have a fun weekend in New York City with friends before heading to her Maine home near Bar Harbor. Her Great Maine Lumberjack Show will open for the season in June, with performances nightly.

Then, Scheer can get back to a place where her prowess with an axe isn't considered so scary.

HOW OTHER MAINERS HAVE FARED ON "SURVIVOR" Tina Scheer was the third person with a Maine connection to be on the CBS reality show "Survivor." Here's a little bit about the first two:

Zoe Zanidakis was Maine's first contestant on "Survivor." She appeared in 2002 on "Survivor Marquesas," filmed on Nuku Hiva,a South Pacific island. Zanidakis is a Monhegan Island lobster boat captain. She was the ninth person - out of 16 - voted off the island. Besides being a commercial fisherman, she now lists media personality, entertainer and motivational speaker on her resume.

Julie Berry, a Gorham native, was a contestant on "Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire," in 2004. She was the 14th - out of 18 contestants - to be voted off the island. Berry was a 23-year-old youth mentor. After the show ended, she began to date its host, Jeff Probst, and moved to California. She has been taking courses at California State University at Northridge to study counseling, with a concentration in marriage and relationships.
http://www.survivorfever.net/s12_kennebec_journal_2_4.html

puddin:
“I Figured I Would Be a Threat”: An Interview with Survivor: Exile Island’s Tina
by David Bloomberg -- 02/03/2006

 
From what we saw, Tina didn’t make any attempt to convince her tribemates that she should stick around. Was this editing at work? Did she try to counter Cirie’s scheming? Why did she put herself at risk by taking a leadership role? Tina answers these questions and more right here!
Tina was the type of Survivor player that nobody can believe went out first. Did she have any inklings that it might happen? Why didn’t she tell her tribemates her reasons for going off alone? And did she do anything to try to save herself? Tina answers these questions and more in this RealityNewsOnline interview.

RealityNewsOnline: Hello, Tina, and thanks for taking the time to answer these questions for RealityNewsOnline’s readers. I’d like to begin by passing along my sympathies for the tragedy you endured. In light of this, what made you decide to go forward with Survivor?

Tina: I had already put so much effort into being selected and with my son Charlie gone, I had felt like I had started it and I wanted to finish it.

 RNO: You were obviously in a very personal situation and wanted to be alone at times, but did you consider mentioning to your tribemates why you needed this time for yourself?

Tina: I didn’t know them well enough to share this personal loss that early in the game and I didn’t want Charlie’s death to be a factor. This information is probably something I would have shared later after relationships were built.

RNO: Considering your background and experience in the outdoors, did it ever occur to you that you’d be the first person voted out?

Tina: Yes. I figured I would be a threat.

RNO: In past Survivors, the person who steps up as leader so early in the game has often found themselves on the chopping block. Why did you assume the leadership role so soon?

Tina: I really didn’t feel like I was taking the leadership role. They didn’t have the skills necessary and I didn’t want to go without fire, water, and shelter. I wasn’t going to sit-back and pretend like I couldn’t do it to further myself in the game. I wanted the essentials for comfort.

RNO: We saw a lot of Cirie talking to Melinda and Ruth-Marie, but nothing of you doing so – did you talk to any of your tribemates about the vote before Tribal Council in an attempt to make alliances?

Tina: No.

RNO: Did you agree with the claims of your tribemates that they worked hard, just on different tasks than you?

Tina: No.

RNO: Did people think Misty had actually found the hidden immunity idol?

Tina: She alluded to it.

RNO: Your tribe seemed to become paralyzed in the immunity challenge – what happened?

Tina: The puzzle. When I walked on to the beach and saw the challenge, I thought “I hate puzzles!” Give me something heavy to lift, give me an ocean to swim across, make me run around the island 100x but NO PUZZLES!

RNO: Do you think there was anything you could have done differently to turn the vote the other way – if so, what?

Tina: I could have “not been” myself. I would have had to have faked who I was.

RNO: Is there anything else you’d like to tell our readers about your time on Survivor?

Tina: I never got hungry which I thought I would. And the smell of the camp is never portrayed over TV. Drinking the water was like drinking burnt dirty water and tasted terrible. I was surprised that it only took three days to get bitten everywhere on my body and the bites lasted a LONG time. Although the shelter provided us cover from the rain, it was a really hard bumpy surface to sleep on - -very uncomfortable. And I have no regrets.

RNO: Thanks again, Tina!

http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article5991.art&page=1

puddin:
Lumberjill Is First Axed on Survivor
by Matt Webb Mitovich
 

 
Tina Scheer may have learned to logroll when she was 7, but nothing prepared her for being thrown the way she was by the very first tribal council for Survivor: Panama — Exile Island (Thursdays at 8 pm/ET on CBS). The day after her torch was shockingly snuffed, TVGuide.com invited the logging sports promoter to get her cuts in.
TVGuide.com: First of all, is the term really "lumberjill"?
Tina Scheer: Lumberjill! One word, just like lumberjack.

TVGuide.com: It's nice that somebody at some time decided to come up with that.
Tina: [Laughs] It's better than being a lumberjackess!

TVGuide.com: Your talents sure seemed to come in handy. The older-women's shelter was the best of the four.
Tina: It appeared so! The younger-men's shelter "lacked a little." For one, it lacked a roof, and how can you call it a shelter when there's no roof on it? But ours was good, and I was happy with the way things were going in our camp — we got the fire started right away, we got water right away, we built a shelter and we had some food!

TVGuide.com: Did you think your hearty disposition would let you last at least a few rounds longer?
Tina: Well I was hopeful that that would happen, but going into it and not knowing the twists they were going do... putting me with three women alone was to my disadvantage, I believe.

TVGuide.com: I can't believe that leaf-fearing Cirie squeaked by. You rounded up a damn fish, for heaven's sake!
Tina: There's just no rhyme or reason to it. The girls felt threatened, and in their minds, they decided, "Get rid of the threat." I am sure they were confident they were going to die out there with me, so they figured their odds of getting a million dollars were better without me than with me. Good for them, I spite them not.

TVGuide.com: You expressed what all of us were thinking when you said, "Did anyone tell Cirie what show she was going on?"
Tina: Can you believe I said that?! [Laughs] It just made no sense to me. We're going to be in the wilderness — how can you not like leaves?

TVGuide.com: She may not be the biggest Survivor follower, but were you?
Tina: You know what? I'm not the biggest, no, but I've always enjoyed it. There are certain times I've watched all the shows, and others when I've only caught little pieces of it. But I like it a lot.

TVGuide.com: What did you think of the "Exile Island" twist?
Tina: I thought it was brilliant. I'm glad I didn't have to go there, because I would have hated it. I know I would have hated it.

TVGuide.com: I'm sorry about the loss of your 16-year-old son, Charlie, which was mentioned during the episode....
Tina: I appreciate that.

TVGuide.com: Was doing Survivor some part of a grieving process for you? Did you want Charlie to look down and see his mom doing something really cool? Were you trying to take your mind off it all?
Tina: I don't know. Of course I think he would have thought it was good and he would have wanted me to do it, but it was more of, "What am I going to do with myself? What am I going to do?" To have an opportunity like that when you have an empty house — he was my only child — was better than sitting home alone. It was an opportunity that we had started together [Charlie died a week before Tina was to leave for Survivor: Guatemala; CBS invited her to defer and do Panama, instead] and I just needed to finish it.

TVGuide.com: There's something poetic about leaving his name scrawled in sand some place tranquil and beautiful.
Tina: Oh, man, that just happened. Here I am walking in the sand, and you always write things in the sand, and that was the only thing I could think of. He was born on St. Patrick's Day, hence the little shamrock.... I just felt like doing that.

TVGuide.com: As short a stay as yours was, did you have fun on Survivor?
Tina: [Pauses] Yes.

TVGuide.com: "She said after a prolonged pause."
Tina: [Laughs] It's like, "Fun?!" Have you ever gone on vacation with 15 people who didn't want you there? OK, it was three people who didn't want me there. It was "interesting" and it was a good experience, but fun, to me, is going on the road with the [World Champion] Lumberjills [traveling show] and chopping and sawing. Fun is being with friends, where you're not at risk every moment of no longer being there.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Insider/?cmsGuid=%7BFEEA49C7-7434-4F3E-9EE0-DD96A99D2B5B%7D

Jeffrey Scott:
Again, I'm a bit bumemd she was voted out first. Yea, it's mostly that I'm sort of biased because she's a Wisconsin local and Green Bay Packer fan. Also the news of her child was kidn of sad, and perhaps that touched me a bit.

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