09:02 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Ever since Richard Hatch took his clothes off on the first edition of Survivor, in the summer of 2000, Rhode Islanders have been turning up on TV's burgeoning number of reality shows.

There are the current contestants, Peter Manfredo Jr. of The Contender and Krisily Kennedy of The Bachelor.

Besides Hatch, three area residents have tried to outwit, outlast and outplay on Survivor. (And that doesn't count the occasional Brown University or RISD grad.)

They were Cranston native Elisabeth Filarski Hasselbeck in 2001, Middletown's Helen Glover in 2002 and Jeanne Hebert of North Attleboro in 2003.

Hasselbeck managed to parley her Survivor exposure into a job on ABC's daytime talk show The View.

Kennedy is not the only Rhode Islander to go looking for love on The Bachelor.

Former Miss Rhode Island Karen Lindsay was on the show last year. She was one of the final six contestants, but was not selected for the final four by bachelor Jesse Palmer, a backup quarterback in the National Football League.