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25 Facts About Colby Donaldson

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Colby Donaldson was born on April 1,1974 and is an American television personality.

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Colby Donaldson became the runner-up of Survivor: The Australian Outback.

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Colby Donaldson then competed on two more Survivor seasons, Survivor: All-Stars and Survivor: Heroes vs Villains.

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Colby Donaldson has hosted reality competition shows, such as Top Shot, Top Guns, The Butcher and Alone, all on the History network.

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Colby Donaldson played high school football for and graduated in 1992 from Christoval High School.

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Colby Donaldson earned a college degree in business marketing from Texas Tech University in 1996.

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Colby Donaldson moved his business to Dallas in late 2000.

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When three players remained, Colby Donaldson won the season's final immunity challenge, "Fallen Comrades", the quiz about eliminated contestants.

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Colby Donaldson later sold on eBay a Pontiac Aztek that he won in one of the season's reward challenges.

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Colby Donaldson was one of Australian Outback players appearing on Hollywood Squares on the week of May 14,2001.

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Colby Donaldson was a representative and spokesman for a Make-A-Wish Foundation fundraising event at its West Texas branch on May 16,2002.

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Colby Donaldson moved from Dallas to Los Angeles in summer 2001 and then began taking acting lessons.

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Colby Donaldson debuted his acting career in a television film Another Pretty Face, which first aired on PAX on November 8,2002.

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Colby Donaldson narrated an IMAX film Texas: The Big Picture, which premiered in the IMAX Theatre of the Bullock Texas State History Museum on May 3,2003.

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Colby Donaldson appeared in televised Schick commercials by no later than early 2004.

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Colby Donaldson competed in Survivor: All-Stars as part of the original Mogo Mogo tribe.

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Colby Donaldson portrayed himself in "The Survivor", an episode of American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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Colby Donaldson portrayed a high school sweetheart of one of leading characters in the Good Girls Don't episode that aired on Oxygen on July 9,2004, Colby Donaldson portrayed a cop, unbeknownst to a main character Bridget who entered a club with a fake ID card and became attracted to him there, in the 8 Simple Rules episode that aired on ABC on November 12,2004.

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Colby Donaldson was among People magazine's "50 Hottest Bachelors" of 2004.

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Colby Donaldson was one of celebrity judges for Animal Planet's Nuts for Mutts, a contest for mixed-breed dogs, that same year.

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Colby Donaldson competed for the third time in Survivor: Heroes vs Villains as part of the Heroes tribe, which early in the season lost its four members as result of losing four of five tribal immunity challenges.

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When he was eliminated, Colby Donaldson was the last remaining Hero and finished in fifth place.

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Colby Donaldson hosted reality competition series Top Shot, The Butcher, and Mountain Men: Ultimate Marksman, all on the History network.

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Colby Donaldson was one of three celebrity judges for the fifth annual Pennzoil Victory Burnout Challenge, part of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

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Colby Donaldson inspired Survivor: Caramoan contestant Sherri Biethman to name her son after him.