Starts MAY 31, on CBS
Could you do it if it meant a chance to win up to $1 million?
Christa DeAngelo tried.
No word if she succeeded.
The 29-year-old Tamaqua native and former basketball star is part of the 16-member cast of “Pirate Master,” a CBS reality series filmed over 33 days in March and April that will be televised nationally at 8 p.m. Thursdays beginning May 31.
DeAngelo is seventh on the Tamaqua Area High School girls basketball all-time scoring list, with 1,082 points scored during her career from 1991 to 1995.
She is now back home with her daughter Iris, 5, and is contractually unable to speak about her experiences on the reality series until the winner is revealed.
According to her biography on the CBS Web site, DeAngelo attended St. Francis College in Brooklyn and Alvernia College in Reading before joining the Army, where she worked as an administrative assistant. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Park University in Missouri.
DeAngelo was also named Miss Hawaiian Tropic in 2005 and has had roles as an extra in “The Sopranos,” “The Knights of Prosperity” and a new film, “The Tourist.”
According to the Web site, the contestants sail a three-masted, 179-foot ship around the Caribbean island of Dominica, “risking life and limb” hunting through rugged terrain for clues to a pirate treasure that will total $1 million.
Each week, the “pirates” embark on expeditions where they will decipher clues in search of the missing treasure — gold coins, real money the contestants take with them when the show is over. The pirates will strike deals with each other or plead for long-term security using the coins.
“They are tough,” Mark Brunett, the series creator said in a press release. “The daunting physical demands make Survivor’s challenges look wimpy.”
Thousands of people applied to be part of the show.
“I like her chances,” DeAngelo’s long-time friend, Willie Frantz of Allentown, said Thursday. “She is a great athlete and she has a military background. What is more difficult than military training?”
Frantz said DeAngelo is driven and makes things happen.
“I am impressed with her persistence,” Frantz said. “She is in the best shape of her life right now, she had a chance to do this and she took it.”
DeAngelo’s uncle, Frank Wenzel, wasn’t surprised to hear she was going to be on a reality show.
“I would never put it past her to do something this different,” Wenzel said. “She really thought she would make it right from the start.”
Wenzel said DeAngelo wasn’t able to discuss the show, so he and the other family members will get together to watch when the premiere is televised.
In addition to receiving a large share of the week’s riches, one pirate will become the captain of the ship and will assign roles and chores to the remaining crew members, which may result in law and order or mutiny.
One pirate will be “cut adrift” each week during the Pirate’s Court. In the end, one will be the first to find the largest booty, worth $500,000 and claim the title “Pirate Master.”
“I don’t know how well she did, but she said she was satisfied with the way it ended,” Wenzel said. “We will have to wait and see.”
Frantz said DeAngelo told him the challenge was easier than she thought.
“But she didn’t count on being without deodorant for almost 40 days,” he said.
Some of the other contestants, both male and female, include a musician, a marina owner, a dive master, an auto parts salesman, a district attorney and a scientist/Chippendale dancer.
“She is very smart and I think that will give her the edge over the other contestants,” Franz said. “She trains hard and is the most bull-dogged person I know. Don’t let that blonde hair and pretty face fool you, she is a fierce competitor.”
Could you do it if it meant a chance to win up to $1 million?
Christa DeAngelo tried.
No word if she succeeded.
The 29-year-old Tamaqua native and former basketball star is part of the 16-member cast of “Pirate Master,” a CBS reality series filmed over 33 days in March and April that will be televised nationally at 8 p.m. Thursdays beginning May 31.
DeAngelo is seventh on the Tamaqua Area High School girls basketball all-time scoring list, with 1,082 points scored during her career from 1991 to 1995.
She is now back home with her daughter Iris, 5, and is contractually unable to speak about her experiences on the reality series until the winner is revealed.
According to her biography on the CBS Web site, DeAngelo attended St. Francis College in Brooklyn and Alvernia College in Reading before joining the Army, where she worked as an administrative assistant. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Park University in Missouri.
DeAngelo was also named Miss Hawaiian Tropic in 2005 and has had roles as an extra in “The Sopranos,” “The Knights of Prosperity” and a new film, “The Tourist.”
According to the Web site, the contestants sail a three-masted, 179-foot ship around the Caribbean island of Dominica, “risking life and limb” hunting through rugged terrain for clues to a pirate treasure that will total $1 million.
Each week, the “pirates” embark on expeditions where they will decipher clues in search of the missing treasure — gold coins, real money the contestants take with them when the show is over. The pirates will strike deals with each other or plead for long-term security using the coins.
“They are tough,” Mark Brunett, the series creator said in a press release. “The daunting physical demands make Survivor’s challenges look wimpy.”
Thousands of people applied to be part of the show.
“I like her chances,” DeAngelo’s long-time friend, Willie Frantz of Allentown, said Thursday. “She is a great athlete and she has a military background. What is more difficult than military training?”
Frantz said DeAngelo is driven and makes things happen.
“I am impressed with her persistence,” Frantz said. “She is in the best shape of her life right now, she had a chance to do this and she took it.”
DeAngelo’s uncle, Frank Wenzel, wasn’t surprised to hear she was going to be on a reality show.
“I would never put it past her to do something this different,” Wenzel said. “She really thought she would make it right from the start.”
Wenzel said DeAngelo wasn’t able to discuss the show, so he and the other family members will get together to watch when the premiere is televised.
In addition to receiving a large share of the week’s riches, one pirate will become the captain of the ship and will assign roles and chores to the remaining crew members, which may result in law and order or mutiny.
One pirate will be “cut adrift” each week during the Pirate’s Court. In the end, one will be the first to find the largest booty, worth $500,000 and claim the title “Pirate Master.”
“I don’t know how well she did, but she said she was satisfied with the way it ended,” Wenzel said. “We will have to wait and see.”
Frantz said DeAngelo told him the challenge was easier than she thought.
“But she didn’t count on being without deodorant for almost 40 days,” he said.
Some of the other contestants, both male and female, include a musician, a marina owner, a dive master, an auto parts salesman, a district attorney and a scientist/Chippendale dancer.
“She is very smart and I think that will give her the edge over the other contestants,” Franz said. “She trains hard and is the most bull-dogged person I know. Don’t let that blonde hair and pretty face fool you, she is a fierce competitor.”
I agree about the argh matey though,hopefully most of those will be edited out.
