When I read about the death of Bulgarian Survivor contestant Noncho Vodenicharov this morning, my first thought was: ‘They have Survivor in Bulgaria? I wonder if it’s as soul-crushingly awful as the American version…’. But say what you want about American Survivor…it doesn’t kill you (though it might make you want it to).
Police say the 53-year-old Noncho Vodenicharov died Saturday despite efforts by a Filipino and a Bulgarian doctor to save him.
Chief Inspector Hilario Lelis Are said Monday that Vodenicharov had just finished an activity for the contest at the Gota Beach Resort in Caramoan township in eastern Camarines Sur province.
Bulgarian news reports say he was a town mayor and a former stunt man and singer.
Any successful show gets exported overseas and vice-versa. A few examples off the top of my head are Indian Idol, Britain’s Got Talent (the original), and Kyun Bodega Crorepati (Who Wants to Be A Millionaire in Hindi – as seen in the movie Slumdog Millionaire).
You know, if only they WOULD kill people on Survivor… or make them actually try to survive in the wilderness… instead of going between zone to zone and doing games.