If You 'Married A Baller,' Why Are You On 'Survivor'?

When I first heard that Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George was cast on Survivor, now in its 18th season, I was pretty excited because in my mind that meant that this would have been the first celebrity edition of reality competition, along the lines of The Celebrity Apprentice. Oh how wrong I was. Come to find out that Taj would be the lone celeb in a sea of nobodies, which she is far from. Taj, who was one-third of '90s girl group SWV, may not be the star today that she was back then, but she's not exactly a has been, which is who we normally see on these "celebreality" shows. In the time that she's been away from SWV, Taj married football player turned entrepreneur Eddie George and the two already had a reality show on cable network TVOne. Which begs the questions, if you Married A Baller, why are you on Survivor?

On the first and so far only season of I Married A Baller, viewers were given an intimate look into the George family and their lifestyle at home in Tennessee. They had all the trappings of people with more money than most: big cars, bigger house, assistants, etc. Why Taj would want to give all that up--even temporarily--is beyond my comprehension.

Take a look at clips of Taj in action on I Married A Baller and Survivor: Tocantins and ask yourself where you'd rather be.

Call me crazy, but if I had a choice between belly dancing with my boo or bathing in brown water with a bunch of back stabbers, please believe that I'd pick Door #1 with the quickness.

I suppose that Taj being on Survivor just reinforces what a down-to-earth and real person she is despite who she was, who she is and who she is married to. Surely she couldn't be in this for the prize money, since she's balling and all. Because not only did she marry well, but she's also an author (Player HateHer, Amistad) and she's acted in a few stage productions (The Vagina Monologues). If adventure was what she was looking for, then go skydiving, bungee jumping, walking in the hood after dark. I just don't get it.Tune into CBS tonight at 8 pm to catch the latest episode of Survivor: Tocantins to see if Taj gets voted off the island or gets to spend another day in paradise with parasites.