Colby Donaldson

Donaldson grew up in Christoval, Texas. He played high school football for and graduated in 1992 from Christoval High School.{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Precker |date=February 1, 2001 |title=Christoval residents stake a claim on Survivor II castaway Colby Donaldson |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |at=Texas Living section, p. 1C |via=NewsBank }} He earned a college degree in business marketing from Texas Tech University in 1996.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/20502/ |title=Survivor: All-Stars (season 8) – Cast: Colby (biography) |website=CBS |archive-date=2022-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126185328/https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/20502/ |access-date=2025-05-28 }} Then he briefly worked as an HMO's sales representative and then became a self-employed car tuner in San Angelo.{{cite magazine |first=Tom |last=Gliatto |date=February 5, 2001 |title=The Brawny Bunch |url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-brawny-bunch-vol-55-no-5/ |magazine=People |access-date=November 15, 2022 }} He moved his business to Dallas in late 2000.

Donaldson's father, an architect in San Angelo, and mother divorced a few years before Survivor.

Donaldson first appeared on Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001) as part of the Ogakor tribe, which was divided between two alliances: one led by bartender/actress Jerri Manthey, whose flirtations Donaldson grew weary of;{{cite magazine |first=Bruce |last=Fretts |date=February 19, 2001 |url=https://ew.com/article/2001/02/19/mitchell-gets-voted-survivor/ |title=Mitchell gets voted off Survivor |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=November 16, 2022 }}{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Philpot |date=March 2, 2001 |title=Player leaves Survivor without vote – Michael suffers burns in campfire accident in last week before merger |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |at=News section, p. 20 |via=NewsBank }} and another including Keith Famie and Tina Wesson. His Texan flag was notoriously used as a rooftop for the tribe's camp.

After two Ogakor members were voted off,{{cite news |title=Now Kel, of Survivor, isn't one, but those Michigan men hang on |newspaper=The Grand Rapids Press |agency=Associated Press |at=Entertainment section, p. C5 |date=February 2, 2001 |via=NewsBank }}{{cite news |title='Mad Dog,' not Mitchell, off Survivor |newspaper=The Jersey Journal |location=Jersey City, New Jersey |page=1 |date=February 9, 2001 |via=NewsBank }} in the season's fourth Tribal Council (and Ogakor's third), Manthey's alliance voted against Famie, but Donaldson voted alongside Wesson's alliance against a member of Manthey's alliance and singer-songwriter Mitchell Olson, leading to the 3–3 tie and then the 2–2 retie. Votes cast in prior Councils weighed in to break the deadlock. Famie was not voted before, but Olson was voted once, leading to Olson's elimination.{{cite news |first=Ed |last=Bark |title=Fit to Be Tied – Standoff ends with ouster of Mitchell |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |page=33A |via=NewsBank }}

When the Ogakor and Kucha tribes merged into the Barramundi tribe, ten overall contestants remained—five each of their own tribe.{{efn|A Kucha member Michael Skupin was medically evacuated before the merger due to burn injuries from falling into a campfire after passing out.}} Furthermore, the former Ogakor tribe was still divided between the two alliances.{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Long |date=March 8, 2001 |title=Tribal ligation – The last 10 contestants now come together to tear each other apart |newspaper=The Detroit News |at=Features section, p. 1D |via=NewsBank }} One of ex-Ogakor members Keith Famie won the season's first Individual Immunity challenge,{{cite news |title=Baramundi is born – The latest casualties in the Outback—Kucha, Ogakor and Jeff |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Grand Rapids Press |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan |at=Flair section, p. C4 |date=March 9, 2001 |via=NewsBank }}{{efn|In the season's first Individual Immunity challenge, ten remaining contestants stood on their own pillars at a river. After ten hours and eighteen hours passed, only Famie and Tina Wesson remained until she stepped down from the challenge, leading him to win the Individual Immunity necklace.}} making ex-Kucha members unable to vote against Famie. In Barramundi's first Tribal Council, the ex-Ogakors, despite division among them, voted against an ex-Kucha member Jeff Varner, but ex-Kucha members, still unable to vote against Famie, voted against an ex-Ogakor member Colby Donaldson, leading to the 5–5 tie and then the 4–4 retie. To break the second tie, Varner was eliminated based on votes cast against him in prior Councils, while votes against Donaldson had never been cast previously.{{cite news |first=Kevin |last=Williamson |date=March 9, 2001 |title=Hostile Takeover – Jeff First Victim of Merger |newspaper=The Calgary Sun |at=Entertainment section, p. G2 |via=NewsBank }}

The ex-Ogakors held majority advantage and voted out another ex-Kucha member.{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Kiska |date=March 15, 2001 |title=Famie survives again |newspaper=The Detroit News |page=2A |via=NewsBank }} Then heavily disliked Manthey was voted off.{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Philpot |date=March 30, 2001 |title=Jerri wins trip, but is voted off show |at=News section, p. 27 |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram }} Then eliminations of other remaining ex-Kucha members{{efn|Before Jerri Manthey was voted off the tribe, the Ogakor alliance primarily targeted one of remaining ex-Kucha members Nick Brown. Brown won the Individual Immunity necklace from one challenge, making Brown immune from elimination until the next immunity challenge.}} and another ex-Ogakor member Amber Brkich, who still aligned with Manthey post-merge, followed.{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Kiska |date=April 13, 2001 |title=Survivor gets nasty; Amber voted off |page=2A |newspaper=The Detroit News |via=NewsBank }}{{cite news |title=Tribal Cleansing |newspaper=The Herald-News |location=Joliet, Illinois |page=A12 |date=April 27, 2001 |via=NewsBank }} When three players remained, Donaldson won the season's final immunity challenge, "Fallen Comrades", the quiz about eliminated contestants.{{cite news |first=David |last=Bauder |date=May 4, 2001 |title=Wesson is crowned the final Survivor on CBS |agency=Associated Press |via=NewsBank }} This was his fifth consecutive individual immunity win.{{cite journal |first=David R. |last=Dreyer |date=April 2011 |title=Learning from Popular Culture: The "Politics" of Competitive Reality Television Programs |journal=PS – Political Science & Politics |volume=44 |issue=2 |page=410 |issn=1049-0965 |id={{ProQuest|861103573}} |doi=10.1017/S1049096511000254 |s2cid=154981082 |doi-access=free }}

As the only player eligible to vote while possessing the Individual Immunity necklace, Donaldson voted off Famie, whom Donaldson found unworthy to be one of the final two,{{cite news |first=Phil |last=Rosenthal |date=May 4, 2001 |title=Survivor: Season finale – Victory is sweet |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |at=Section 2 (Features), p. 48 |via=NewsBank }} placing Famie third, and kept Wesson as promised.{{cite news |first=Bill |last=Keveney |date=May 7, 2001 |title=Tina wins after Colby keeps his word |newspaper=USA Today |at=Life section, p. 4D |via=NewsBank }}{{efn|Keith Famie stated that, if he won the "Fallen Comrades" immunity challenge, he would have voted out Donaldson as a potential threat. Tina Wesson stated that, if she won the challenge, she would have voted out Famie and kept Donaldson as promised, figuring that Donaldson would be popular to viewers.{{cite news |first=Virginia |last=Rohan |date=May 7, 2001 |title=Loyal Until the End |newspaper=The Record |location=Hackensack, New Jersey |page=F8 |via=NewsBank }}}}

In the Final Tribal Council, Donaldson and Wesson revealed onscreen to the jury their own core alliance that helped maintain the Ogakor tribe's strength. They both further revealed using and holding Famie as part of their voting strategy from Olson's elimination to the final three.{{cite news |first=Caryn |last=James |date=May 5, 2001 |title=Surviving Survivor with Ms. Nice Gal |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/05/arts/critic-s-notebook-surviving-survivor-with-ms-nice-gal.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B9 |id={{ProQuest|2232346698|91830536|431759535}} |access-date=November 18, 2022 }}{{cite news |first=Ted |last=Cox |date=May 4, 2001 |title=Tina's mastery at mind games pays off in end |newspaper=Daily Herald |at=News section, p. 12 |location=Arlington Heights, Illinois |via=NewsBank }} Donaldson became the runner-up to winner Tina Wesson by the 3–4 jury vote.{{efn|One of the three jurors who voted for Donaldson, Nick Brown, cited Donaldson's challenge winnings. Another who voted for Donaldson, Rodger Bingham, cited his "play[ing] the game a little bit harder".{{cite news |title=The Jury Speaks |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-jury-speaks/ |date=May 4, 2001 |website=CBS |access-date=November 21, 2022 }}}} For the runner-up placement, Donaldson earned $100,000 ({{inflation|USD|100000|start_year=2001|fmt=eq|r=-3}}).{{cite news |first=David |last=Bauder |date=May 4, 2001 |title=CBS draws more than 36 million viewers for final Survivor |agency=Associated Press |via=NewsBank }}{{efn|Tina Wesson stated that Donaldson "deserved to win" for his gameplay, that she felt more like a runner-up than a winner, and that the final result was "unfair".{{cite news |title=Survivor: Nice people can win |newspaper=The Oak Ridger |location=Oak Ridge, Tennessee |agency=Associated Press |date=May 7, 2001 |at=State News section |via=NewsBank }}}}

Donaldson later sold on eBay a Pontiac Aztek that he won in one of the season's reward challenges.{{cite news |first=Sharon Silke |last=Carty |date=March 18, 2005 |title=Carmaker not reality winner |newspaper=USA Today |page=5B |via=NewsBank }}

After The Australian Outback, Donaldson appeared alongside other Survivor players in the May 8, 2001, episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show and received from Rosie O'Donnell a Harley-Davidson motorcycle,{{cite news |title=Back from the Outback to chronicle contestants' return to society (Filarski surviving a whirlwind of interviews) |newspaper=The Providence Journal |page=G-04 |via=NewsBank }} one of his answers he made in The Australian Outback Final Tribal Council.{{efn|By no later than August 2001, The Australian Outback winner Tina Wesson bought him another Harley-Davidson motorcycle as promised.{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-home-for-survivor/ |title=New Home For Survivor |date=August 14, 2001 |website=CBS News |agency=Associated Press |access-date=November 25, 2022 }} Alternative title by the AP: "Wesson Spends Survivor Winnings" – via NewsBank.}} He was one of Australian Outback players appearing on Hollywood Squares on the week of May 14, 2001.{{cite news |date=May 19, 2001 |first=Ed |last=Bark |title=Hot Corner |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |page=14C |via=NewsBank }} He was a representative and spokesman for a Make-A-Wish Foundation fundraising event at its West Texas branch (Permian Basin) on May 16, 2002.{{cite news |first=Laura |last=Wheeler |date=May 17, 2002 |title=Survivor star credits his West Texas roots |newspaper=Midland Reporter-Telegram |via=NewsBank }} He appeared in a Saltgrass Steak House commercial.{{cite news |first=Greg |last=Hassell |date=September 26, 2001 |title=Colby steps out with Saltgrass |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |at=Business section, Marketing column, p. 1 |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson moved from Dallas to Los Angeles in summer 2001 and then began taking acting lessons.{{citation |first=Ed |last=Bark |date=September 5, 2005 |title=Back-to-back – Outback |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |page=10E |via=NewsBank }} He debuted his acting career in a television film Another Pretty Face, which first aired on PAX on November 8, 2002.{{cite news |first=Phil |last=Rosenthal |date=November 8, 2002 |title=What Are You Looking At? |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |at=Features (2) section, p. 55 |via=NewsBank }} In the film, his character has marital issues and is the son-in-law of its main character (Mel Harris), a middle-aged newscaster who is fired from a news station for being too old and then, after makeover and plastic surgery, poses as a younger woman for her new job in another news station.{{cite news |first=Raymond A. |last=Edel |date=September 26, 2002 |title=People in the News: Ex-survivor wins role |newspaper=The Record |location=New Jersey |page=A2 |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson narrated an IMAX film Texas: The Big Picture, which premiered in the IMAX Theatre of the Bullock Texas State History Museum on May 3, 2003.{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Garcia |date=May 3, 2003 |title=The clash over Texas |newspaper=Austin American-Statesman |at=Lifestyle section |via=NewsBank }} He also appeared in televised Schick commercials by no later than early 2004.{{cite news |first=Ed |last=Bark |date=February 1, 2004 |title=Player introductions |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |page=5G |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson competed in Survivor: All-Stars (2004) as part of the original Mogo Mogo tribe.{{cite news |first=Sandra |last=Diaz-Twine |author-link=Sandra Diaz-Twine |title=Winners Take Warning: You May Be Next |page=C1 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |via=NewsBank }} Mogo Mogo and Chapera absorbed the remaining members of the Saboga tribe, which dissolved after finishing last in a rowing challenge. Then Donaldson secretly arranged to oust the Borneo winner and another Mogo Mogo tribe member Richard Hatch, whom Donaldson perceived as a threat, making Hatch the fifth player eliminated.{{cite news |first=Scott |last=Tady |title=Hatch Is Scratched |newspaper=The Beaver County Times |location=Beaver, Pennsylvania |via=NewsBank }} After asserting leadership for Mogo Mogo, Donaldson was eliminated by the 3–2 vote due to his potential threat status, despite his efforts to oust The Australian Outback returnee Jerri Manthey.{{efn|The Australian Outback player Jerri Manthey appeared in All-Stars as a Saboga tribe member.}}{{cite news |first=Rome |last=Neal |date=March 11, 2004 |title=Colby Gets a Surprise |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colby-gets-a-surprise/ |website=CBS News |access-date=November 30, 2022 }}{{efn|After the Chapera tribe won a tribal immunity challenge, Chapera selected one Mogo Mogo player Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien to temporarily join the Chapera until after Mogo Mogo's Tribal Council, which Kathy could not participate at the time.}} At the reunion show, Donaldson was voted the sexiest Survivor male player.{{cite news |first=Scott |last=Tady |date=May 14, 2004 |title=Boneham wins; Amber, Rob hint at televised 'I Do's |newspaper=The Beaver County Times |location=Beaver, Pennsylvania |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson portrayed himself in "The Survivor" (2004), an episode of American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. In the episode, he is mistaken for a Holocaust survivor,{{cite news |first=Roger |last=Catlin |date=May 13, 2004 |title=Survivor Audience Joins In |newspaper=Hartford Courant |page=D8 |via=NewsBank }} and he and an actual Holocaust survivor argue at a dinner table over whose survival experience was tougher to endure than the other.{{cite news |title=Critics' Notebook |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |date=March 14, 2004 |page=3G |via=NewsBank }}{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Teicholz |date=December 24, 2004 |title=The Award Goes to... |newspaper=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |via=NewsBank }} He portrayed also a high school sweetheart of one of leading characters in the Good Girls Don't episode that aired on Oxygen on July 9, 2004,{{cite news |first=Ted |last=Cox |date=July 2, 2004 |title=Freedom of speech? Let's talk about the N-word |newspaper=Daily Herald |at=Time Out! section, p. 29 |location=Arlington Heights, Illinois |via=NewsBank }} He portrayed a cop, unbeknownst to a main character Bridget (Kaley Cuoco) who entered a club with a fake ID card and became attracted to him there, in the 8 Simple Rules episode that aired on ABC on November 12, 2004.{{cite news |title=TV today |newspaper=Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |location=Little Rock, Arkansas |at=MovieStyle section, p. 42 |via=NewsBank }} That same year, he portrayed a love interest of Brittany Hodges (Lauren Woodland) in The Young and the Restless{{cite news |editor-first=Jim |editor-last=Davis |date=July 25, 2004 |title=People Watch – Colby gets Restless |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |page=24A |via=NewsBank }} and a dim actor and rival of Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) in three episodes of Joey.{{cite news |date=December 26, 2004 |first=Nicole E. |last=Rogers |title=The Gone, the Bad, and the Prescribed |newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal |page=G2 |via=NewsBank }}{{citation |first=Louis B. |last=Hobson |date=August 23, 2005 |title=Donaldson an Industry Survivor |newspaper=The London Free Press |location=London, Ontario |page=C3 |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson was among People magazine's "50 Hottest Bachelors" of 2004.{{cite news |title=Orlando Bloom Among Hottest Bachelors |agency=Associated Press |date=June 17, 2004 |via=NewsBank }} He was one of celebrity judges for Animal Planet's Nuts for Mutts, a contest for mixed-breed dogs, that same year.{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Hughes |date=October 18, 2004 |title=TV Best |newspaper=USA Today |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson and Survivor host Jeff Probst made guest appearances on Mad TV in 2005.{{citation |date=June 12, 2005 |first=Amy |last=Amatangelo |title=Watch This – Saturday June 18 |newspaper=Boston Herald |at=The Edge section, p. 33 |via=NewsBank }} He and singer Gloria Gaynor hosted an episode of fourteen-part Animal Planet series The A-List (2007) covering survival of strong animals.{{citation |title=In Brief |date=December 6, 2007 |newspaper=The Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |page=E4 |via=NewsBank }} Donaldson frequently appeared in talk show Rachael Ray.{{cite news |first=Gail |last=Pennington |title='Hey, I can cook,' Arnold woman shows Rachael Ray |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |page=E1 |via=NewsBank }} He hosted Speed's American Thunder in 2009 and appeared at a Make-A-Wish Foundation motorcycle-based fundraiser "Rumble to the Summit" on June 12–13, 2009.{{cite news |first=Rick |last=Bentley |date=June 10, 2009 |title=Donaldson joins Rumble to the Summit |newspaper=The Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson competed for the third time in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains (2010) as part of the Heroes tribe,{{citation |editor-first=Leslie |editor-last=Snyder |date=2010-02-12 |title=Survivor: Week 1 |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |via=NewsBank }} which early in the season lost its four members as result of losing four of five tribal immunity challenges.{{citation |editor-first=Leslie |editor-last=Snyder |date=2010-03-12 |title=Survivor: Villains triumph again |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |via=NewsBank }} After one Hero and one Villain were eliminated in the same episode,{{citation |editor-first=Leslie |editor-last=Snyder |date=2010-03-25 |title=Survivor: Blind-side mania |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |via=NewsBank }} when both tribes merged, ten players remained—five each from Heroes tribe and Villains tribe. Then the remaining Heroes were systematically eliminated.{{efn|Three votes against a Hero member J. T. Thomas, who gave a Hidden Immunity Idol to a Villain member Russell Hantz, were cast. Two Hidden Immunity Idols, including one given by J. T., were used by Parvati Shallow to nullify votes against returnees Jerri Manthey and Sandra Diaz-Twine of the Villain tribe, leading to Thomas's elimination.{{cite news |first=Joyce |last=Lee |date=2010-04-23 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/survivor-jt-ejected-after-tribes-merge/ |title=Survivor: J.T. Ejected After Tribes Merge |website=CBS News |access-date=2022-12-02 }}}} When he was eliminated, Donaldson was the last remaining Hero and finished in fifth place.{{cite news |first=Derrik J. |last=Lang |date=May 17, 2010 |title=Bank teller Sandra Diaz-Twine wins Survivor |agency=Associated Press |via=NewsBank }}

Donaldson hosted reality competition series Top Shot (2010–2013),{{cite news |first=David |last=Martindale |date=2010-06-19 |title=Colby Donaldson goes from Survivor to competition-show host |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |via=NewsBank }}{{citation |title=BBQ Crawl |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |date=2013-08-28 |via=NewsBank }}

The Butcher (2019),{{citation |first=Rosemary |last=Boggs |date=2019-05-19 |title=On the cover |newspaper=Arkansas Democrat-Gazette |at=TVWeek section, p. 12 |via=NewsBank }} and

Mountain Men: Ultimate Marksman (2022–),{{cite news |last=Lyons |first=Margaret |date=2022-10-31 |title=Watching: Spooky Witches |newspaper=The New York Times |id={{ProQuest|2730353819}} }} all on the History network.

He was one of three celebrity judges for the fifth annual Pennzoil Victory Burnout Challenge,{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Reed |date=2012-05-20 |title=Bowyer wins Burnout Challenge |agency=Associated Press |via=NewsBank }} part of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.{{cite press release |title=Field Set for Fifth Annual Pennzoil Victory Burnout Challenge |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/field-set-for-fifth-annual-pennzoil-victory-burnout-challenge-152087965.html |work=PR Newswire |date=2012-05-18 |access-date=2022-12-03 }}

Donaldson will return for the show's 50th season In the Hands of Fans, which will air in 2026.{{cite news |title='Survivor 50' Cast Revealed: Mike White, Cirie Fields, Aubrey Bracco & Colby Donaldson Among Returning Players |url=https://deadline.com/2025/05/survivor-50-cast-revealed-mike-white-cirie-fields-returning-1236412155/ |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=2025-05-28 |access-date=2025-05-28 }} He will be appearing along with his Heroes vs. Villains competitors Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick, Cirie Fields, and Benjamin "Coach" Wade, and All-Stars contestant Jenna Lewis-Dougherty.{{cite web |title=Meet the cast of Survivor 50 |url=https://deadline.com/2025/05/survivor-50-cast-revealed-mike-white-cirie-fields-returning-1236412155/ |work=Entertainment Weekly |date=2025-05-28 |access-date=2025-05-28 }}

In 2016, Donaldson married long-time girlfriend Britt Bailey. Donaldson and his wife reside in Austin, Texas.{{Cite web |last=Quintana |first=Anna |date=22 May 2019 |title='Survivor' Alum Colby Donaldson Is the Host of History's New Reality Series, 'The Butcher' |url=https://www.distractify.com/p/colby-donaldson-the-butcher |access-date=5 December 2020 |website=Distractify |language=en}}

Donaldson inspired Survivor: Caramoan contestant Sherri Biethman to name her son after him.{{cite web|url=http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/01/14/survivor-caramoan-fan-sherri-biethman-flirting-is-part-of-my-arsenal/|title='Survivor: Caramoan' Fan Sherri Biethman: Flirting Is 'Part of My Arsenal'|last=Holmes|first=Gordon|date=January 14, 2013|work=Xfinity TV Blog|publisher=Comcast|access-date=January 2, 2014}} It is estimated that over 2,000 babies were given the name Colby in 2001 because of Donaldson's popularity.{{Cite web|url=http://babynameinstitute.com/Blog/Survivor-Baby-Names.html|title=Survivor Baby Names|website=Baby Name Institute|access-date=May 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929171126/http://babynameinstitute.com/Blog/Survivor-Baby-Names.html|archive-date=September 29, 2018|url-status=dead}}

Main source: The Dallas Morning News (2004){{cite news |first=Ed |last=Bark |date=November 11, 2004 |title=Colby's credits in TV land |page=10E |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |via=NewsBank }}

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• {{cite interview |first=Colby |last=Donaldson |date=2010-05-17 |title=Colby (Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains) |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a220355/colby-survivor-heroes-vs-villains/ |website=Digital Spy |access-date=2022-12-04 }}

• [http://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/39398 Colby Donaldson biography] for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains at CBS.com
• {{IMDb name | id=0232084 | name=Colby Donaldson}}

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