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In case anyone is wondering, here is a list of the rumored, "likely" favorites for next season.

Spoiler!

Andrea Boehlke, Redemption Island
Brandon Hantz, Season 23
Brenda Lowe, Season 21
Corinne Kaplan, Season 17
Dawn Meehan, Season 23
Erik Reichenbach, Season 16
Francesca Hogi, Season 22
John Cochran, Season 23
Malcolm Freberg, Season 25
Phillip Sheppard, Season 22

Pretty lousy casting if you ask me. I get that they can't go back to the Rob/Russell well every season with returnees, but really how many people there either made enough of an impact that deserves a return, or were really actually fan favorites? Sure you can make a case that players like Andrea, Malcolm, and maybe Cochrane (even though I ended up strongly disliking the guy) should be on there, but the majority of the rest are straight up terrible choices. The only person who could make things interesting would be Phillip, but even he could get tiresome fast. They couldn't even bring back a previous winner, or ask Jeff Kent to come back? He deserves to be there more than most of the these other chumps.

I am quite disappointed with these choices, and may not care enough to watch most of next season if they are confirmed.

I doubt Rob will ever come back, which is unfortunate. No tribe would ever be stupid enough to let him get far in the game, so why would he even bother coming back? That is unless they do a season with only previous winners, then maybe he could get further in the game.