contestant
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While she was the first black woman to represent South Africa at the beauty paegent, she was not the country's first non-white contestant.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Host Jeff Probst, contestant Benjamin ‘Coach’ Wade and others discuss why CBS’ competition show continues to endure after more than 25 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
In casting her, ABC broke with its typical pattern of picking someone who had previously appeared as a contestant on “The Bachelor.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
She was the fourth contestant to be eliminated, despite achieving consistently high scores from the judges, and later said during an Instagram Live that she had been “bullied off the show.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
Then, catch this, my buddy Fang climbs out of the “soundproof” van where he’d been waiting like some cloistered game show contestant.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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