If I know anything about TV’s Blair Warner, The Facts of Life’s petulant rich witch, it’s that she would voluntarily sleep outside, particularly not for 39 days, even if you dangled a million dollars in front of her. For one, her idea of roughing it was probably a hotel without room service. For another, she didn’t really need the money.

Lisa Whelchel, apparently, is not Blair Warner.

Of course, the actress inhabited Blair’s effortless snobby boarding school shoes for nine years, but while Blair’s story ended somewhere post-high school in whatever business she and Cloris Leachman and the girls were running by the time the show got cancelled (because high school doesn’t usually last nine years, at least not voluntarily), Whelchel’s story continued as a mom and Christian speaker.

And now, she’s going to be doing something incredibly un-Blairlike - appearing on Survivor.

Whelchel apparently is a huge fan of the show and has been trying to get on for a while. She’s hoping that the younger contestants will have no idea who she is, but is prepared to do something a lot of other famous-esque contestants haven’t -- she’s gonna just admit it and move on. (I loved when Gary Hogeboom was like “No, I’m not that NFL player also named Gary who looks just like me! Nope! Nothing to see here, folks!”)

I don’t always love the celebrities on this show, because they get voted out usually. But I love that Whelchel is representing for the 40-50 crowd, and that she’s a big fan rather than someone who just wants to be on TV. Or is named Hantz. I am so sick of those people. (And I know I brought them up, but can’t you feel Probst scanning the globe right now for new ones? I feel it. And it feels itchy.)

She’ll be joining MLB MVP Jeff Kent as well as three returning players (boo) who were evacuated for medical reasons including Mike Skupin, who burned the skin off his hands; Jonathan Penner, who was already a returning player, and Russell “Not Hantz, Thank Goodness” Swan, who collapsed and made everyone think he might be dead. I hate returning players, but these three at least went out for reasons other than being voted off. So … we’ll see.

But Go Blair.