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Survivor: Edge of Extinction
Baamonde (c.) and the other members of her team on the television series. Photo courtesy of CBS
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
A local woman is having
her debut in one of the most
widely watched series on
television.
Victoria Baamonde, who
resides in Country Club, is a
cast member on CBS’s Survivor:
Edge of Extinction, Season
38, which premiers on
Wednesday, February 20 at
8 p.m. on the network for being
the ‘Sole Survivor.’
Baamonde is one of 18
castaways marooned on a
tropical island in the competitive
reality television show,
with one of the contestants
winning a $1,000,000 prize at
the end of the season.
She told the Bronx Times
she’s been a fan of the show
ever since she and her parents
watched the fi rst season
back in 2000 when she was a
child, and she dreamt of becoming
a cast member for a
long time.
“I’ve always loved the
show every since it fi rst
came out,” said Baamonde.
“In the beginning it was a
really cool adventure show
that was fun to watch.”
As she continued watching,
she said she came to see
the show as a microcosm of
the real world, where the
challenges of the real world
are heightened.
“I wanted to be able to test
myself. They travel to such
cool places and I wanted to
go where they go and experience
challenges you wouldn’t
in everyday life,” she said.
The show places a group
of people who don’t know
each other on an isolated
island, where, like castaways,
they have to provide
food and shelter for themselves.
She said that the show
pits the castaways into two
teams or tribes and has
them compete against each
other in adventurous physical
or mental challenges
and win each other’s trust.
After each challenge,
the losing team votes someone
out of the competition,
and those that are voted out
by a ‘tribal council’ go on to
become judges for the rest
of the series, she said.
Baamonde said that she
fi rst applied to become a
cast member online about
a year and a half before the
producers of Survivor contacted
her.
After receiving an email
out of the blue stating she
was moving on to the next
step, she had a phone interview,
completed a very detailed
application, and then
attended three interviews
in Los Angeles, where she
could have been cut at any
time.
She was thrilled when
she found out that she was
going to be on the show.
“They get thousands of
applications a year, and it
was a life long dream. To
think someone over there
thought there was something
special in the little 30
second video that I sent in is
something I am still trying
to wrap my head around,”
said Baamonde.
Baamonde told the
Bronx Times that she had
a rather typical upbringing
in Country Club, attending
P.S. 71 and M.S. 101.
Her grandmother lived
down the street from where
she grew up, and she played
softball with the Pelham
Bay Belles.
On the day the episode
debuts, Baamonde is planning
to have premiere party
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Victoria Baamonde of Country
Club is part of the competition
on Survivor: Edge of Extinction
when the series returns
Wednesday, February 20. Photo
courtesy of CBS
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