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Candice Woodcock got a lot of screen time on Survivor, thanks to all her romantic attachments. |
Candice Woodcock is smarter than she looks.
Not that the cute, 24-year-old Survivor: Cook Islands cast-off looks stupid — but her appearance is certainly deceptive.
At a glance, you’d never know she received a perfect score on the math portion of her SATs.
Or that she has a bachelor of science degree in psychology.
Or that she’s now attending medical school.
Woodcock says she had no intention of sharing that side of herself with her competitors.
“You want to be kind of under the radar, you don’t want to stand out as a target. I think everybody kind of downplayed what they did in life.”
By using her smarts, Woodcock, who currently resides in Washington, managed to make it a full 30 days in the game. But, it was not an easy road.
First, she caught the eye of delusional player, Billy Garcia, who believed she loved him based on one conversation.
Then she became the first player in Survivor history to declare mutiny and switch tribes.
Once there, she hooked up with tribemate Adam Gentry, with whom she shared a very long, passionate kiss after being voted out last week.
“It was just a fun send-off — it was funny and it made for good TV. And if it was entertaining, absolutely, I’m all for it,” she says, adding she and Gentry are no longer an item.
“Adam and I are just two totally different people — he is 28-years-old and seems like a bit of a happy-go-lucky kind of kid. I’m more of a serious person.”
With all the drama that surrounded Woodcock on Survivor, she certainly had her share of camera time.
But, maybe just to make sure, Woodcock scored more by bursting into tears twice in the past two episodes after being sent to Exile Island.
We should also mention with four trips, she holds the record for most nights spend on the secluded patch of land.
And she picked a heated fight with her rival, Jonathon Penner.
“I took some calculated risks. But I would have rather gone out on my own terms and have taken those risks, than to sit back and ride somebody’s coattails to the end,” she says.
“Once I knew I was going home … I wanted to go out swinging. I wanted to make sure it was a good episode.”
Unlike many of her tribemates, she seems more interested in helping make the world a better place than she does in an acting career.
She’s the executive director of Students for Students International, a non-profit organization that gives scholarships to students in Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
While Woodcock is always willing to help those less fortunate, her charity does not extend to 36-year-old heavy metal guitarists.
Therefore, she’s not likely to accept Garcia’s expected request for a date on the show’s finale, an intention he made clear in interviews following his elimination.
“Billy is a nice guy, but I don’t know if that would work out either.”
Survivor: Cook Islands airs tonight on Global and CBS at 9 p.m.