Elisabeth Filarski

Elisabeth Hasselbeck (born Elisabeth Del Padre Filarski) was a contestant in Survivor: The Australian Outback. She was the last member of Kucha to be voted out in Day 39.

Profile
Elisabeth Del Padre Filarski was born in Cranston, Rhode Island. She is the daughter of Roman Catholic-school teacher and lawyer Elizabeth DelPadre and architect Kenneth Filarski. She has one brother, Kenneth, Jr., a lawyer and aspiring musician. As a child, she lived in Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island.

Hasselbeck was raised Roman Catholic and attended St. Mary School in Cranston, followed by St. Mary Academy - Bay View in Riverside, Rhode Island, where she graduated in 1995. She then attended Boston College, where she captained the women's softball team for two seasons, winning consecutive Big East championships. With a concentration on large paintings and industrial design, Hasselbeck graduated with a Fine Arts degree in 1999. Hasselbeck started working for Puma in 1998, while attending Boston College. After graduation, she worked for Puma shoes as a member of its design team before her television career.

Survivor: The Australian Outback
Hasselbeck was a fan-favorite from Survivor: The Australian Outback, and was originally a member of the Kucha tribe. She was known for having a father-daughter relationship with Kucha tribemate Rodger Bingham, even vowing not to vote for him. She was the last remaining member of that tribe in the game before being voted off on Day 39 and finishing fourth overall. Her luxury item was a self-made headdress.

Post-Survivor
On July 6, 2002, Filarski married her college boyfriend, former professional football quarterback Tim Hasselbeck. The couple has a daughter, Grace Elisabeth, born in April 2005; and two sons—Taylor Thomas, born in November 2007; and Isaiah Timothy, born in August 2009.

Elisabeth became one of the hosts of The View in 2002.

Hasselbeck is a supporter of breast cancer awareness initiatives in the form of an internet-only PSA on breast cancer diagnosis.

As revealed in the Surviving Suvivor special, Hasselbeck is living with celiac disease. She has written a book on the subject, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, which has appeared on several best-seller lists. On June 23, 2009, a lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Massachusetts alleging that her book was plagiarized from a self-published book by Susan Hasset. Hasselbeck released a statement calling the allegations baseless. The lawsuit was dismissed in November 2009 when the plaintiff's lawyer declined to pursue it, saying to the press that he believed some degree of plagiarism occurred, but it was not sufficient to justify monetary damages.

She was invited to join in Survivor: All-Stars and also offered a slot in the Heroes tribe in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, but declined both offers.

Trivia

 * Hasselbeck and Keith Famie were the only contestants in Survivor history that reached 39 days, but did not make it to the Final Tribal Council, since the season was three days longer than the previous season and subsequent seasons.
 * Since the merge, Elisabeth has voted an Ogakor member (except Tina Wesson) twice in a row.