As happens often in political contests, as election-day approached lines between the contestants blurred.
It gets no love just hovering down there in the darkness during the contestants' performances.
In this one the contestants invoke Voltaire on the streets and murmur sweet nothings in bed.
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"The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%, " said the station's current chairman, Laurens Drillich.
The question will be how long they stick around and that will come down to the contestants.
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Always wearing a flower on his lapel, Dawson was also known for his witty banter with the contestants.
The 33-year-old revealed he would be one of the contestants while appearing as a guest on The One Show.
The contestants began the show in colourful fashion with a cover of Scissor Sisters' I Don't Feel Like Dancin'.
Ritual praise songs and poems are dedicated to the contestants in the events.
For many of the contestants on that show, as with Mr Berman, it was Princess Diana who fired their enthusiasm.
All three of the judges show favoritism in the way they critique the contestants and they greatly influence the votes.
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But the contestants' lawyer, who is also involved in several other cases, said the ruling spelt the end for illicit practices.
Last year, they tackled the competition in slippers that became so cold and wet the contestants shed them and ran barefoot.
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Viewers seem to have enjoyed the chance to decide the contestants' fate: 3.3m people took part in the last expulsion ballot.
Who knows - the contestants may be forced off the airwaves before they have had a chance to demonstrate their karaoke skills.
Shugart stressed to Matt Lauer on The Today Show that the contestants are not, in fact, driven by hopes of world peace.
The first night is when the contestants perform, and on the second night, we learn how America voted and who gets eliminated.
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Being of tubby build Mr Perez declined to take part in the races himself but would follow the contestants on a motor scooter.
"I had this whole concept in my head of The Biggest Loser, " she says, referring to the intense (and compulsory) training the contestants get.
The contestants are also learning something--at least in the TV games that I produce--which is that likeability is as important as capability in life.
Next week the circus moves to New Hampshire, where the contestants will be joined by Mr Lieberman and Mr Clark, who both skipped Iowa.
You may have had a bad year in the market, but the contestants in our annual stock picking contest have had a positively rotten one.
If Prof Beard had read our flyers, she would have seen that the protest was directed against what the contest represents, rather than the contestants.
At the recent Greenville tournament, McKinnis gave a pep talk at the end of each day: "Be emotional out there, be yourself, " he told the contestants.
The contestants include a Caribbean-born transvestite who totters across the mud in stilettos and a germ-phobic choreographer who dons rubber gloves while trying to herd sheep.
Academic Germaine Greer, who walked out of Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year, accused the show of adopting "superior" bullying tactics and treating the contestants "irresponsibly".
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Among the contestants were Tom Longboat, an aboriginal runner from Canada whose inclusion was fervently opposed due to his race, and Dorando Pietri, a 5ft 2in, 22-year-old Italian pastry chef.
American Idol is ultimately about the contestants, and for over a decade the judges have been able to avoid the appearance of trying to make it about themselves.
The result is a musical that plays like a cross between "The Full Monty" and "Twelve Angry Men" (yes, one of the contestants turns out to be a bigot).
The contestants had been given several volumes of rules, well beforehand, and had been asked to design their own fleet of warships with a mythical budget of a trillion dollars.
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