Janet is from my town. Our local news did an interview with her husband. Don't know if it holds any spoiler value, but here it is anyway.
Meet 'Survivor' contestant Janet Koth
02/12/2003
Reporter: Anne Steffens, News 4
(KMOV) -- 'Survivor: Amazon' contestant Janet Koth has been married to her husband, Kurt, for 23 years. They have two daughters, Kate and Natalie. News 4's Anne Steffens interviewed Kurt about Janet being a 'Survivor: Amazon' contestant.
Q: What did you say when Janet applied to 'Survivor?'
A: I said, 'Go for it!' But I also said, 'I think you're wasting your time.' And I said, 'You think they're really going to look at your tape out of 65,000 tapes?' But I said, 'If you want to, go ahead.' So she did.
Q: Had Janet watched 'Survivor?'
A: She started watching the first one, and I didn't have too much interest. She said, 'You really have got to watch this. It's really interesting...the relationships between the people and just the environment.' So I watched it one time and I got hooked, too. We've watched every episode ever since.
Q: But there's another reason she wanted to be on the show.
A: She went to a job fair where they were interviewing for a sales rep job. And she had always wanted to be a sales rep. So she went there all ready to interview and they told her that...basically, they told her she was too old. So that got her motivated. That was a few months prior to this, so she said, 'Well, I'll show them. I'm going to get on my favorite TV show.'
Q: Tell us about Janet.
A: She's very competitive. That's why she's on the show. She's very competitive. She's just a lot of fun. She's full of adventure. She's a very good mother and wife and really takes care of the family well. She's just a great person. She is an honest, good person.
I think she will do well because as we would watch the shows each episode, she would have it figured out. She'd know what certain people should do.
Q: She analyzed everybody's moves?
A: Oh yeah.
Q: What will be Janet's biggest challenge?
A: The only thing I thought she'd have trouble with is the environment, her endurance, but she really worked on that prior to going. She walked vigorously for an hour every day. It really did get her endurance up. We went camping a week before she left, and usually we'd go on hikes and she'd kind of be lagging behind, huffing and puffing, but this time she was right up there with me, and she wasn't breathing heavy at all.
Q: How else did she prepare?
A: We spent a lot of time in the hot tub talking about strategies and what it was going to be like and how she should react in certain situations. That was kind of fun.
Q: What advice did you give her?
A: Just be herself and keep it light as much as possible. We talked about alliances a little bit, when she should do that. I thought that she should get into an alliance early on because it seems like people who did get in one early on seemed to go the furthest. That didn't always hold true, but on most of the shows it seemed like it did.
I'm not following spoilers this season, but wanted to add this in case anyone is interested.
http://www.kmov.com/localnews/kmov_entertainment_030212_survivorjanet.383a3d1.html
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