Colleen Marie Haskell was a contestant on the first season of the
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reality show
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Survivor
Haskell was a contestant on the original season of
Survivor. She was a castaway on the Pagong tribe, a tribe composed primarily of young adults, especially when compared to the Tagi tribe. Early on, Colleen was linked with contestant Greg Buis, and fellow Pagong member
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speculated that the friendship had become a romance. Both Buis and Haskell adamantly denied there was a romance, with Colleen ultimately joking that "it was all about the
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After the two tribes merged, members of Pagong were surprised by Tagi's strategy of voting them out by one at tribal council. Colleen was the last remaining original Pagong member to be voted out.
After being voted out, Haskell told the remaining castaways "Be nice, play fair." She said this just before her torch was snuffed. Once she was gone, Richard Hatch commented that she was "a wonderful person."
Some expected Haskell to reappear on
Survivor during the
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edition in 2004. Producer
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later confirmed that Haskell was indeed offered a spot on the show but turned down the offer, saying that she "moved on with her life and just genuinely didn't want to go through that again."
Other roles
In 2001, she starred in the feature film comedy
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, playing
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's love interest. Schneider said in the DVD version of the film that working with Colleen was one of the more entertaining elements of making the movie. Haskell also appeared in an episode of
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, as a love interest of Hyde's. She later went on to work as an assistant producer on
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in 2003.