Tribe has spoken: Cole is 'Survivor'

Rocky Mountain News

Published May 14, 2007 at midnight

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NEW YORK - Earl Cole, a senior advertising executive in Los Angeles, was a unanimous winner in Sunday night's Survivor: Fiji finale.

The 35-year-old Kansas City, Kan., native beat Los Angeles civil engineer Cassandra Franklin, 42, and Dre "Dreamz" Herd, 25, a cheerleading coach from Wilmington, N.C., in the finals - the reality show's 14th season.

Host Jeff Probst said the 9-0 vote was the show's first shutout.

Yau-Man Chan, a 54- year-old computer engineer, made it to the final four before being voted off, despite making a deal with Herd, who reneged.

Kenward "Boo" Bernis, 34, of Lafayette, La., was voted off earlier in the episode.

According to the show's Web site, Cole lives in Santa Monica, Calif., and studied business at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Cole also works as a composer and is an accomplished musician. He plays piano, saxophone, guitar, violin and drums. He also enjoys hiking, movies, and playing chess, billiards and basketball.

Stacy Kimball, an interactive Internet producer from Boulder, was voted off in Thursday night's episode. Kimball, 27, made it to the final six.

The next edition of Survivor will be held in China, Probst said.

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