S29: Julie McGee

[Tommn1]

Model/Owner of Spray Tan Business

 

Relationship to Significant Castaway: John Rocker’s girlfriend

Official Bio

 

She seems bland to me.  

[Nashville]

She seems bland to me.

From the article:

Reason for Being on SURVIVOR: The experience and for the possibilities of future Survivor shows. I would love to compete more than once.

Oh crap. Another wannabe PRSC*. :(

* PRSC = "Professional" Reality Show Contestant

[ottoDbusdriver]

Model/Owner of Spray Tan Business

Don't forget -- actress

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5431824/

Which pretty much solidifies the PRSC comment upthread.

Edited September 25, 2014 by cooksdelight

[Rick Kitchen]

I wonder how "long term" this relationship is.  He had a different girlfriend, fitness model Alicia Marie, back in 2006 when he interviewed with Deadspin about all of his right wing views.  A 2012 Huffington Post article about his right wing book said he was still dating Alicia Marie, although she apparently dated Alex Rodriguez somewhere along the way.

Edited September 25, 2014 by Rick Kitchen

[blackwing]

I was indifferent to her before, but now I'm going to dislike her for the idiotic comment of wanting to compete more than once.  Presumably this is taken from her application, I can't believe she says this even before even starting.  How exactly can you say you want to compete more than once when you haven't even experienced it?  Perhaps you will hate it.  So yeah, she's just looking to further her "career".  I'm surprised she doesn't walk around topless, or "accidentally" lose her top during challenges by tying it too loosely.

[ratgirlagogo]

I've been kind  of slow catching up with Dalton Ross's EW recaps this season, so I hadn't caught that he already pointed out that Julie and her huge fake cans make her literally a Boobs McGee:

I can’t believe it. Either I wield some sort of awesome mind control power I never knew existed or this is a coincidence of epic proportions. Can I actually will things into existence? Is that what’s happening here? I have to ask, because regular readers of these here Survivor recaps are well aware that last season I dubbed a certain someone from Survivor: Cagayan "Boobs McGee." It was a stupid nickname, to be sure, and once the season ended I kind of forgot about it. But here we are for the unwieldy-titled Survivor: San Juan del Sur — Blood vs. Water and producers HAVE ACTUALLY CAST A BOOBS McGEE!!! (In the form of surgically enhanced contestant Julie McGee.) But see, now I can’t refer to her as Boobs McGee because that would just be confusing. (Chesty McChesterson, perhaps?)

[Tryangle]

Silver lining for Julie is that there's no Rocker-related target on her back now, which would have been relatively huge if Rocker survived that last vote. Now she can carve her own identity on the tribe (well, besides Boobs McGee as suggested above, heh).

[cooksdelight]

She told me she was forced to wear that swimsuit by production, that it wasn't her taste at all. And if you notice, poor Baylor is barely filling hers out. I hate when they try to exploit a woman's chest for TV.

[Tryangle]

She told me she was forced to wear that swimsuit by production, that it wasn't her taste at all. And if you notice, poor Baylor is barely filling hers out. I hate when they try to exploit a woman's chest for TV.

 

That, I can definitely believe. Some of the swimsuits are totally inadequate for anything other than a photo shoot. As for running and jumping, yeah.

[Brookside]

She told me she was forced to wear that swimsuit by production, that it wasn't her taste at all. And if you notice, poor Baylor is barely filling hers out. I hate when they try to exploit a woman's chest for TV.

Oh I know.  It's so awful when you're forced to go on reality tv and then get called fake because of silicone and collagen and botox.

[cooksdelight]

She's a beautiful woman in person. If she's had plastic surgery, I didn't see it.

[Xena]

Edited because if you can't see the silicone, you are blind.  Her 'enhancements' do not look natural nor attractive, but they did get her a douchebag boyfriend and a stint on a fading reality show.  Dream big girls, dream big.  Sigh.

Edited October 11, 2014 by Xena

[cooksdelight]

She was in Last Vegas and she's up for more roles in major films. Not porn.

[Xena]

I'm not picking on you cooksdelight, I promise.  I did edit our my previous comment, it was mean spirited, I was not saying she was in porn, just that her enhancements are porn-level-big.  The one I left is not much better I know. 

 

I know you want to defend her because you have met her - and I really do get that.  But she is dating Rocker.  Some of us that have read what he himself (not a magazine editor) has written see him as not-a-good-guy.  Julie is going to share some of that as her views must be similar to his - if not, she would not be dating him. 

Edited October 11, 2014 by Xena

[cooksdelight]

I wasn't defending, just pointing out a fact. No harm. :)

[Xena]

You're a good cat cooksdelight.  :)

 

Ok - back to Julie - does she have a shot?  I can't tell, it's too early.  I DO think that those who have their 'blood' go early can work the angles a little bit differently than those where both sides still remain - they are, in effect, a free agent.  

 

 

[cooksdelight]

She didn't tell me much, other than how hungry she got and that she ate a lot of snails. She's very social, so who knows?

[Brookside]

She's a beautiful woman in person. If she's had plastic surgery, I didn't see it.

You really think those flotation devices are natural?

[cooksdelight]

I really don't care one way or another. And I think degrading remarks about a woman's appearance are low blows, no matter who she is or who her boyfriend is.

[Brookside]

I really don't care one way or another. And I think degrading remarks about a woman's appearance are low blows, no matter who she is or who her boyfriend is.

Hello pot, there's a kettle calling you.  Talking about "poor Baylor" barely filling her bikini isn't degrading?

[NutMeg]

Good on her for not getting all bitter, must be tough when your whole tribe cheers your guy's ouster.

 

Monica at least had people consoling her after hubby was voted out, but if I remember correctly she still reacted more aggressively.

 

Sweet of Keith to ask her if she was ok. 

[cooksdelight]

"poor Baylor" barely filling her bikini isn't degrading?

It's not Baylor's fault that production gave her a bikini that didn't fit her, which was what the statement meant. In fact, if you read closely, I followed up with how much I hate it when Production tries to exploit the women with what they give them to wear.

[Special K]

Every woman should have a sports-bra-type top available to them for challenges, like the Twinnie is wearing.   I actually feel sorry for Julie in that ridiculously small bikini.  She was even wearing it at TC!  Usually they put on more clothes for that.  I sincerely hope that TPTB didn't single Julie out and make her wear just a bikini and buff to TC. Imagine sitting for hours on that wooden post with your butt hanging out.

 

It seems that, in the past, "older" women are given more leeway in the bikini-top department.  Trish (not sure if that's her name, Pilates teacher from Boston) was super thin and fit, yet her "bikini top" was a sports bra (that I actually also own from Lululemon).  Of course she was accused of looking like a man, so maybe the producers don't care.   That ER doc in Marty/Sash's season (can't remember her name), the competitive cyclist with the red hair, she actually wore a one-piece bathing suit. 

 

Do the male watchers of this show really enjoy watching woman hitching up their bikini tops during the challenges?  

 

 

ETA:  I think it's hilarious (and pathetic) that I remember Trish's bra top but am not sure about her name.  :)

Edited October 17, 2014 by Special K

[Xena]

I also don't like it when degrading remarks are made about a woman's natural body. 

 

A person who has CHOSEN to have extremely large silicon implants placed into her body?  I'll snark on that all day long. 

 

To my eyes there is no difference between making fun of this, than making fun of the bagel-heads (saline injected into the forehead).  Both are examples of a culture obsessed with appearances; the difference being ONLY that one is normalized; one is fringe. 

Edited October 30, 2014 by Xena

[cooksdelight]

I just caught something interesting when watching The People's Couch. They are watching the episode where Julie quits. As they are leaving the feast, she says "I'm going to take the rest of this" and starts to pour the trail mix into her bag and someone offscreen says "Good call Julie"....??? So someone of the bunch knew she had it all along. I wish I could figure out who's voice it was, but it was a male voice.

[peachmangosteen]

I mentioned that as well, in the ep thread. It's part of why Trail Mix Gate was so confusing. At least one person knew for a fact that Julie had the trail mix, so why all the mystery over it? 

Edited November 19, 2014 by peachmangosteen

[BigRedCheese]

I think the mystery was over whether or not she had any left.

[ProfCrash]

I think the mystery is why wasn't the trial mix brought out to share with the rest of the tribe. They knew Julie had it and went straight to her bag to pull it out.

[cooksdelight]

Julie forgot about it and hadn't really thought about it until Alec or whoever started making those loud comments about trail mix. Instead of saying "Julie, do you still have that trail mix?" like most people would do. I'd be pissed too if people were talking over and behind me where I could hear every word. I don't blame her for not sharing it at that point.

[Special K]

But at the point that Alec made that comment, hadn't Julie already been sneaking off to eat it in secret?  Or was that just editing messing with the sequence of events?

 

It was certainly shown that way, along with a talking head of hers saying that she was keeping it for herself.

 

Or am I remembering it wrong?

[cooksdelight]

Or was that just editing messing with the sequence of events?

She told me she forgot about it. Then heard the comments, Then did the TH's about how she'd eat it and share it with who she wanted to. Not everyone. Meaning, not bigmouth Alec and his cohorts. I don't remember where in the sequence of actual events she was eating some of it in secret, but I have to guess it was after the loud comments.

[riley702]

I wouldn't share it with them at that point, either.

[peachmangosteen]

I wouldn't have shared it with them to begin with lol. Truthfully I didn't have any problem with her keeping some back consciously. If she just forgot about it and then decided to pull it out and eat it secretly after Alec was a douchebag I have even less of a problem with it.

 

I just watched my recording of The People's Couch and I'm pretty sure it's Missy who commented after Julie put the trail mix in her bag. If Missy had just been like, 'hey Julie do you still have that trail mix' when the whole thing first started all the stupidity could've been avoided. But maybe she forgot about it, too.

 

Speaking of The People's Couch, I loved that all of them thought the others were assholes and were on Julie's side. That was how I felt watching as well so I was glad they felt the way I did.

Edited November 19, 2014 by peachmangosteen

[cooksdelight]

Missy is a pot-stirrer. I wouldn't have put it past her to run to bigmouth Alec and put a bug in his ear. So that she's not seen as the bad guy. No wonder she and her daughter were so disliked.

[AngelinaMaria]

To me, it appeared that everyone was helping carry back to camp what they didn't finish at the merge feast.  So, it looked to me that Julie was holding back the trail mix for herself when everything else was probably put together with their "kitchen" stuff for everyone to share.  The bag did appear to be very full of the trail mix and I don't think she just "forgot" about it.

[cooksdelight]

The bulk of the food was in bowls or containers. When she got back to camp and hung up her stuff, she went for a swim and tried to decompress. She said she forgot it, I have no reason not to believe someone who looked me in the eye and said that. Heck, I'd have probably forgotten about it also. But there was one other person who knew she had it and chose not to say anything when Alec brought it up.

Anyway, it's over and done and that's allI know.

[Xena]

These people are very hungry.  They have subsisted on rice\beans for weeks. 

 

There is no WAY she 'forgot' about food in her bag.  Absolutely no way.  She is simply trying to make herself look better after the fact.

 

 

 

 

[Jersey Guy 87]

Totally agree with Xena.  Especially since Julie was one of the people complaining a lot about how hard it was out there.  She took the food because she was hungry, she didn't forget about being hungry.