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Apr 13, 2008 8:32 pm US/Pacific
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Sexy Erika Landin (BB4, All-Stars) Was No Victim
The Popular Reality Star Is Marrying A 'Survivor' Hunk!
(CBS)
To fans of "Big Brother" All-Stars, it looked to all the world like sexy Erika Landin was being played and played badly by Mike "Boogie" Malin, the eventual winner.
But to hear Erika tell it, she wasn't not only being played, she considers getting to the final 2 spot, despite the "showmance" that was more show than mance, great considering she was a bit of a floater going back and forth from alliance to alliance.
Given that strategy, Erika was far more cunning and game-worthy than most in the house gave her credit for.
Erika came to CBS 2 to set the record straight. Not only about her season 4 experience (she was plunked into the house with her ex, Robert), All-Stars (in which Will and Boogie showmanced Janelle and Erika, respectively), but whether or not she thought the show portrayed her as a victim.
Erika jokes, "So many people came up to me [after All-Stars] and they would say, 'I'm so sorry' and I would laugh...why? It's a reality show." Erika insists when she said things like "'I have found my soulmate,'" the audience didn't see the full picture. "Anyone who knows me," she declares, "knows that I would say something like that I'm saying it sarcastically. Or I would roll my eyes. You never saw me roll my eyes. They don't show that part!"
Shame that. Those pretty eyes of hers could charm the cream out of sour cream.
That said, Erika wanted to let the world know she wasn't sitting in a dark room pining for Mike "Boogie" Malin. Far from it.
These days, Erika is not only busy casting bachelors (she found the current Bachelor, Matt Grant, for ABC's "The Bachelor" in London) but she is making one bachelor a groom very soon. She is planning her own wedding to a former "Survivor" contestant, blond hunk-o-muffin Adam Gentry from "Survivor: Cook Islands".
You might think you know Erika but you don't. Listen in as she chats up friend and former housemate Marcellas Reynolds about life after "Big Brother."
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