Terrence Jackson

Terrence Jackson is a contestant from Survivor: Burkina Faso.

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Hobbies: Track running, basketball, spending time with my neighbours.

Pet Peeves: Laziness and poor health. People should always try to be the best them they can, and being fit is a part of that.

Three Words To Describe You: Strong, caring, tough.

Personal Claim To Fame: Going to a Division I school on a full-ride scholarship for track. It’s great to know that all my efforts and late night workouts paid off in a big way. Truthfully, I would never have been able to go to college without that scholarship, my family just couldn’t afford it.

Your Inspiration In Life: My mother, who worked day and night at two jobs to provide for us. Being a single mother is difficult, but she helped us get through it.

Contestant You Are Most Like: Jeremy Collins from Survivor: Cambodia. He was somebody who deeply cared about family, and he served the public in work as a firefighter, although I do it as a policeman.

Reason For Being On Survivor: I want to be able to give it back to my family and to my community, it’s the entire reason I became a police officer. I come from one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Detroit, and all I want to do is help them out.

Why You’ll Win: I have dealt with adversity all and bad living situations all my life. I grew up without a dad, in a family of six kids, so none of us ever had the opportunities that almost every other kid has. I just want for my mom, my sisters, my brothers, and all our neighbours to be happy. I don’t ever want to see a kid hungry on the streets again. In the grand scheme of things a million dollars won’t make a big change, but it will make some change.