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  • Emily Riedel Back on Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice

    Emily Riedel is back at one of her two passions again–dredging for gold. Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice airs on Friday evenings on the Discovery Channel. The show’s second season premiered last Friday. Riedel is a rugged young woman. When not digging for gold, however, she studies opera. While the show took a break from filming, Emily went to New York City to learn to become an opera singer. She even sang on The Jeff Probst Show a few months back.

    These days Emily is earning the moniker of ‘dancing-with-death female dredger,’ as she dives deep into the water off Nome, Alaska–after cutting through as much as four feet of solid ice to reach the water. Emily does all this to dredge for gold, and she’s incredibly good at it, too.

    “We were really limited by the elements, the winds 20 or 30 below. It was very difficult conditions to make money in,” Riedel said during a recent Fox News interview. “There were a lot of barriers we needed to overcome and we are all still learning. It was a chaotic and frustrating time drilling under the ice… we aren’t certified divers and we are trying to do something that is very difficult and dangerous.”

    “There are certain goals I have for gold mining that I haven’t yet achieved, so I am going to keep on trying until I do,” she added. “The conditions might be awful, but everyone in the world wants to find gold. If you find it, it is yours. It is worth it.”

    Besides opera and dredging for gold, is there anything else the 24-year-old would even consider doing for work?

    “On a bad day I say I could stop this and become an accountant, but that’s not true. I would be a horrible accountant. We are incapable of having regular jobs. I have an uncomfortable personality in general,” she said. “Normal settings make me really anxious. I don’t feel normal in what should be normal situations.”

    Emily Riedel makes her living under exceedingly dangerous conditions. Not many young women would even consider such a profession. It does raise the question about what makes someone like Emily take on such a dangerous endeavor. Could it be the fact that her dad, Steve Riedel does the same kind of work? Might it be that universal love (some call it greed) of money? Or is it a combination of a no-holes-barred ruggedness that makes a dangerous sense of adventure flow freely through her veins?

    Do you know any other 24-year-old woman who would do this kind of work? Can you believe that Emily takes her life into her own hands in order to star on Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice? Is any amount of money worth risking one’s life?

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  • Jeff Probst Naked in Two and a Half Men Cameo

    Jeff Probst the popular host of Survivor as well as his own show that is appropriately named, The Jeff Probst Show, will be making an appearance on Two and a Half Men. The catch for Probst (but probably not for his fans) is that he will appear naked on the show. Ironically, Probst is a close friend to one of the show’s main stars, Jon Cryer, who had previously been interviewed about Two and a Half Men while appearing on Probst’s own show.

    Probst, who is a four-time Emmy winner, recently spoke with TODAY about his upcoming cameo on the hit comedy. “I’m playing a version of me. I just jokingly mean that I’m not typically walking around naked with a plate of bacon. I don’t really eat bacon.”

    When questioned about how the star ended up naked, Probst said:

    “Even though it sounds weird given that I’m on CBS, it was really straightforward. I got a call from the casting director. I happen to be friends with [Jon] Cryer and I texted him and he said, ‘I just read the script. It’s really funny. You should do it.’ That was it. And then they said, ‘Oh by the way, you’ll be naked.’ I mean, how can you turn down ‘Two and a Half Men?’ — one of the greatest comedies of all time. I was really excited. I’ve done a lot of MAD TV and that kind of comedy but I’ve never done a situation comedy like this.”

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    In the middle of Probst’s hectic television schedule, he has also been busy working with the Red Cross as part of a fundraising initiative to help sufferers of Typhoon Haiyan.

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