Helen Glover

Helen Glover (born April 28, 1955 in Honolulu, Hawaii; ) is an American contestant of Survivor: Thailand, the fifth season of an American reality television series Survivor. She also is a former host of her radio talk show.

Life Helen Olds was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the second child of three siblings. Glover became the thirteen person voted off unanimously by three other remaining competitors, finishing fourth and making her the sixth jury member.

Eventual winner Brian Heidik formed the secret alliance with other remaining players Jan Gentry and Clay Jordan. Heidik believed Glover to be "a bigger threat" and badgered Gentry into voting Glover out. Glover was voted the "third most[-]popular contestant" of the Thailand season per an online poll conducted by CBS.

2004 dismissal from The Providence Journal As Glover revealed in her March 11, 2004, column of The Providence Journal, a contestant voted off the game would "receive a meal, shower, room and a visit from the staff psychiatrist". CBS emailed to her, saying that the column violated an agreement prohibiting contestants from revealing "methods of production" of the series. Nonetheless, CBS would allow contestants to discuss "what's already been broadcast or mak predictions", and Glover agreed to let CBS review her columns before publication. However, the Journals policies prohibited submitting works to "institutions outside the newspaper" for approval, so the Journal decidedly dropped her column.

Radio career (2004–12) Self-declared right-leaning "middle-aged white woman with an opinion," Glover began her radio career in summer 2004 by performing commentaries about Survivor. She then substituted for Arlene Violet, who enjoyed Glover's commentaries and invited her to do so, and whom Glover admired as her "role model", on Violet's afternoon WHJJ (920 AM) radio show. Then WHJJ offered her as one of the stations' candidates to trial the 10 a.m.–2 p.m. time slot formerly occupied by John DePetro, who left the station on August 6, 2004, for a Boston AM station WRKO. (Before her, many of other WHJJ hosts temporarily tried out DePetro's former time slot.)

In September 2005, Glover started hosting her own 10 a.m.–1 p.m. talk show on WHJJ, pushing Jerry Springer's syndicated radio show Springer on the Radio out of the time slot. She earned an award from the Associated Press in no later than March 2006 as the "top show in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts." Throughout the show's run, she had expressed her "conservative" and "provocative" views about controversial topics, like illegal immigration She also discussed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death with a terrorism expert of the Naval War College and briefly interviewed T. Jason Smith, the author of a book Leaving Campus and Going to Work.