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* Colby Donaldson was the runner-up of ''[[Survivor]]: The Australian Outback'' came close. The winner won $1,000,000. Colby won $100,000 and two cars, but also went on to a modest acting career (including razor ads, which was sad because he was gorgeous with stubble.) He also was asked back for the ''All-Stars'' and ''Heroes vs Villains'' seasons and was a finalist for ''All-Stars''' "favorite survivor" poll, which would have earned him a million.
** As of Jun 2010, he is the host of ''[[Top Shot]]'', a competitive reality show on the History channel that features marksmen and shooting challenges.
** One of the best examples from the ''[[Survivor]]'' series is Elizabeth Filarski also from the ''Outback'' season. She came in fourth place but went on to host The Style Network's ''The Look for Less'' and is now co-hosting the Emmy-award winning talk show''The View'' as Elizabeth Hasselbeck. She has also recently written a book about Celiac Disease, ''The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide''.
** Rupert Boneham of ''Survivor: Pearl Islands'', who, though only placing 8th in that season, then 4th in ''All-Stars'', ''won'' the Favorite Survivor poll and the prize of a million dollars... in other words, the only person to win a million without even placing in the top three!
*** Compare: The first winner of ''Survivor'': Richard Hatch who failed to pay taxes on his winnings and ended up in big trouble. (According to [[The Other Wiki]], he served a 51 month sentence, which prevented him from competing in ''Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains'').
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* [[Project Runway]] has had its fair share of runner-ups both breaking into the industry and generally being more well-known than the winners; the only winner, out of its eight-plus seasons, that has actually come through is Season 4's Christian Siriano (ironically, he's the youngest winner in the show's history). The most well-known players are probably Season 1's Austin Scarlett (fourth place) and Season 2's Santino Rice (third place); both have their own reality show currently airing on Lifetime, and have made a modest name for themselves.
* Shear Genius, Season 1: Tabatha Coffey was eliminated mid-late in the show; she now has her own reality show and owns a very high-end salon.
* ''[[The X Factor]]'' has played this trope straight. The runners up from the first series, the vocal group G4, were ultimately more successful than winner Steve Brookstein. In the 2009 series, runner up Olly Murs seems to have become more successful than winner Joe McElderry (whose singing career seems to have been kind of a non-starter after very publicly losing the Christmas number one single spot to [[Rage Against the Machine]]), as have [[So Bad It's Good|memorable]] and [[Anime Hair|visually distinctive]] duo Jedward, who appear to be getting into children's TV presenting and advertising. Some have suggested that the most recent winner, Matt Cardle, might be able to avert it (he's more or less a [[Trans
** ''The X Factor'' is actually interesting because the trope is only really played straight when the winner is male. Only two women have won the contest, [[Leona Lewis]] and Alexandra Burke, both of whom have enjoyed very successful singing careers so far.
** Shayne Ward has been the only male ''X Factor'' winner to more or less avert this trope so far, going on to enjoy a moderately successful career as a singer and musical theatre performer. The runner-up from that year, Andy Abraham also did quite well initially, but his career imploded spectacularly following his disastrous performance as the UK's Eurovision Song Contest contender in 2008.
** Like a lot of other singing shows, the prize (a record deal with Simon Cowell's label) for coming first is more or less worthless, because almost everyone who gets into the finals will inevitably get the same deal if they get enough hype during the show, but without the massive pressure and expectations associated with coming first.
*** If anything, they stand a better chance. The actual contract you get when you win X Factor is somewhat notorious, so runners up actually have a shot at getting a better deal than the winner.
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