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Eating a Sanjaya Sandwich with Stephen Baldwin of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!
by Troy Rogers
 After
becoming a frontrunner to walk away as the sole
Costa Rican celebrity survivor on NBC's I'm a
Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!, actor Stephen Baldwin
fell victim to the unexpected competition of not
only his fellow celebrity tribe mates but also
the heat of the jungle. Although Stephen became
the last Baldwin standing after fans handed his
brother Daniel celebrity walking papers only weeks
before, the heat of celebrity surviving in Costa
Rica became too much and the former Fear Factor
champ took himself out of the game.
Despite being favored to win I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!, Stephen faced some unexpected yet stiff competition from former American Idol contestant, Sanjaya Malakar, who Baldwin originally took lightly as a celebrity competitor. After catching up with Stephen on a conference call to follow up on his voluntary celebrity exit, Baldwin gave credit where credit was due when it came to Sanjaya who outlasted most of the surviving celebs. As well, Stephen also shared his thoughts on who he thinks will walk away with the I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! title of "Queen of the Jungle".
THE DEADBOLT: So was this tougher than Fear Factor?
 STEPHEN
BALDWIN: Oh, this was way, way beyond anything
that I ever did before. I mean, I lost 22lbs
over 18 days and that's a fact when you only
have a cup of rice and beans for breakfast,
a cup of rice and beans for lunch, and then
a meal that you share with everybody that's
kind of a regular meal.
But it's probably ... If you went out to go get a normal dinner at a restaurant, it still only amounts to one third of what you'd normally eat with an appetizer, dessert, and all of that. It's way more difficult. That coupled with the fact that the elements themselves, like being in the jungle and the downpour of the rain, being in the rain forest; I mean, all of it was just really way more wild than I anticipated.
THE DEADBOLT: I talked to you and Janice before the show started, and I'm going to make you eat your words a little bit, but you didn't think Sanjaya was going to make it.
 BALDWIN:
[laughs] I know, dude. I was so totally eating
my Sanjaya hat there. I thought homeboy was
going to punk on us in the first five minutes.
It turns out that he has this little hidden
kind of Mowgli vibe going on that nobody could've
anticipated.
THE DEADBOLT: Who do you think is the strongest one now, Torrie?
BALDWIN: Well, again, you know, ultimately it's going to be up to the American viewing public. But my guess is going to be either Lou Diamond or Torrie are going to finish. I love Lou, but Torrie is a buddy of mine. I know her fiance and his best friend is one of my best friends, so I think Torrie would be an outstanding 'Queen of the Jungle'.
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