The Boston Herald reports that Survivor: All-Stars winner Amber Brkich and her fiance, runner-up "Boston Rob" Mariano, who became engaged during the show's live finale, have continued to negotiate with a couple of TV networks to have their wedding televised "sometime next year."
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The Amber-"Robfather" wedding will apparently become the second televised wedding ceremony from a romance ignited on a reality-TV show, following only the drenched-in-pink nuptials of Bachelorette Trista Rehn and her chosen husband, Vail, Colorado firefighter Ryan Sutter. Considering the abysmal failure rate of dating-show romances (for example, ABC's The Bachelor is now 0-for-5, and NBC's Average Joe is 0-for-3), there may not be too many more reality-TV weddings coming down the pike.
Meanwhile, according to the Associated Press, Amber created a stir at the Beaver Area Historical Museum, in her home region of rural west-central Pennsylvania, by donating her bikinis and other paraphernalia from Survivor. A crowd of about 200 showed up for the opening of an exhibit celebrating firefighters, which also happened to be the day that the Amber exhibit went on display. We daresay that most of the people weren't there to see the museum's 1836 hand-operated pumper.
Since their appearances on Survivor: All-Stars, Rob and Amber have been cashing in on their 15 minutes of fame by doing appearances for casinos and golf tournaments as well as a few TV ads. "Boston Rob," for example, filmed a spot for the Boston Red Sox (whose cap he wore constantly on the show). However, the Boston Herald reports that the couple was heading for some "downtime" in a rented house in Florida. Perhaps Amber wants to try out some replacement bikinis.
We think it's nice that at least some of the participants on Survivor: All-Stars have been able to keep themselves in the limelight without having to engage in lascivious behavior.