It's one thing to plug professional poker, as they will with contestant Jean-Robert Bellande. CBS is really dealing with the devil on this one, heaping praise on the controversial World Wrestling Entertainment (the week after the untimely death of another of its former wrestlers) and getting in bed with Playboy--both signs that a flailing Mark Burnett and CBS are scrambling to keep the old franchise fresh and attract younger viewers in its 15th season.

Check out Ashley's video interview on the Survivor site, in which the naked lady wrestler takes time to plug Vince McMahon's WWE, saying, "I couldn't be happier. I have the best job in the world and I work for the greatest company ever, I mean they just take such good care of us and I just really love my job."

Could the handjob be a result of the tough negotiations to get her on the Survivor? "For WWE to let me go for such a long time there was definitely a little arm wrench in there..."

In fact, the entire interview seems to be scripted. Do ordinary folks refer to posing on the cover of Playboy (which Ashley does, about a minute into the tape) as "gracing" the cover? "One of the other things that I'm pretty proud of and that I never thought would possibly happen, did--was gracing the cover of the Playboy magazine. April issue. It was unbelievable, Seeing yourself on the cover of Playboy is sort of just like, surreal, you know, it, it's you know, it's just really awesome."

Anyway, stay tuned... and... by popular demand...NSFW photos of Ashley...

after the jump...

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Ashley Massaro is a SmackDown! sweetie who won the 2005 RAW Diva Search 2005 and was on the cover of the April issue of Playboy.

Leslie Nease is a Christian radio deejay who says she was raped as a child, spent her teenage years as a drunk and kept drinking through four pregnancies before getting in shape, winning the 2001 Miss North Carolina pageant, auditioning for Kelly Ripa's gig on Live with Regis & Kelly when Kelly was on maternity leave and pouring all the booze down the drain-- giving her life over to Jesus along the way.

Actually, they should have a lot in common.

Another notable contestant is...

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The sixteen Americans will start out in downtown Shanghaim, then move to HuangPu Mountain's Mi Tuo Temple for a Buddhist ceremony where they will be instructed to leave all of their worldly possessions behind. The castaways will then be marooned with the clothes on their back at two separate islands on Zhelin Lake (translation: the Land of 1,000 Lakes) located in the Jiangxi Province. They'll will split into two tribes, Fei Long (translation: Flying Dragon) and Zhan Hu (translation: Fighting Tiger), and will each be given a copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War for tribe motivation and assistance throughout the game.

Survivor: Human Rights Scandal will once again include Hidden Immunity Idols, which can save someone from elimination at a future tribal Council, or, if the contestant chooses, be used to free a political prisoner. Not.

The contestants, their hometowns and real-life occupations... after the jump...

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Yau-Man Chan, the granddaddy of Survivor players in season 14, spilled the beans to his local newspaper at a food bank fundraiser in Vallejo, California when he said the Survivor convention is among the other appearances he's scheduled since his time on Survivor: Fiji changed him from "computer geek" to minor celebrity (even fourth-place finishers become celebs these days).

And he had other revelations about his five weeks of competition on the small Fiji island of Macuata, Vanua Levu...

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