Benjamin Wade was a contestant on Survivor Brazil, also known as Survivor: Tocantins The Brazilian Highlands. To follow Benjamin Wade's journey on the show, please view our Survivor spoilers and gossip page. He was voted off in 5th place and will join the other voted off contestants at Survivor Ponderosa.

Tom Gauthier recently wrote a about him, titled A Voyage Beyond Reason: The Epic Saga of Survival Based on the Journals of Benjamin Wade on March 10, 2009, based on Wade's 6,000 mile solo kayak journey.Amazon.com: A Voyage Beyond Reason: An Epic of Survival Based on the Original Journals of Benjamin Wade

Benjamin Wade describes himself as an "alpha male" and a "renaissance man." He has accomplished a variety of things, including conducting the Susanville symphony in California, holding the world record for longest solo kayak expedition and more. He's had a variety of experiences with wildlife, including having been stalked by a jaguar, attacked by a tiger shark and bitten by a piranha.CBS: Benjamin Wade Survivor Biography

Not even one week after the season premiere of Survivor, Wade was fired from his job as the head coach of the Southwest Baptist University women's soccer team. The school maintains that Wade never informed them the reason why he took a leave of absence was to be on television and that he was only approved to take a week off. He returned 8 weeks later, in December, only to be fired after the premiere in February.News-Leader.com: SBU Soccer Coach Fired (February 18, 2009) It was later reported the staff of the school asked each member of the soccer team if they wanted to keep Coach Wade, and while the majority said they did want him to stay, he was fired despite their request.News-Leader.com: Report: Players Wanted to Keep Survivor Coach (February 25, 2009)

*"With friend and foe, we march to the battle plain,

• Some to seek success, others to seek fame.

• We play with honor, for the love of this game,
• And with armor or without, we will toil in vain.

• So that someday, someone, somewhere,
• Will remember our name."—poem written and read by Wade on Survivor

"You have to find out what everybody wants, what everybody needs, what they think they want, what think they need and then you have to be the person that solves everything."—on relating his coaching skills to SurvivorCBS: Benjamin Wade Survivor Biography

"That kind of offends me, because my approach to the game was the absolute opposite. I absolutely detested how they played the game."—on being compared to Ace Gordon and being called the villain of the SurvivorKnoxville.com: Knoxville's Survivor: Tocantins Contestant: I Am Not a Villain! (February 4, 2009)

"There's never been anybody like me on this show, I think. The diverse background and being able to relate to a lot of different people... I can relate to a lot of people and I feel like I've have good intuition coaching women for 13 years to kind of read people and what they need and what they want. I've been there and done that."YouTube Video: Meet Benjamin Wade of Survivor Brazil (Time: 3:03)