{"id":936,"date":"2012-09-22T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/?p=936"},"modified":"2012-09-21T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:00:42","slug":"facts-of-life-star-lisa-whelchel-is-a-newly-divorced-evangelical-christian-and-survivor-cast-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/09\/facts-of-life-star-lisa-whelchel-is-a-newly-divorced-evangelical-christian-and-survivor-cast-member\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Facts of Life&#8217; Star Lisa Whelchel Is a Newly Divorced Evangelical Christian and &#8216;Survivor&#8217; Cast Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/14\/2012\/09\/lisa-whelchel-survivor.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-937\" title=\"lisa-whelchel-survivor\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/14\/2012\/09\/lisa-whelchel-survivor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"488\"><\/a>Well, <em>that<\/em> was the longest sentence I\u2019ve written in a while. Let\u2019s break this down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lisa Whelchel<\/strong> played Blair on <em>The Facts of Life.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lisa is also a devout Christian. She was a Christian before she was famous, and reportedly refused to film a Blair-loses-her-virginity scene on the show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1988, Lisa got married to <strong>Steven Cauble<\/strong>, a pastor at the church she attended in California. They had three kids. Lisa and Steven were both outspoken advocates of homeschooling and Christian education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lisa also records Christian music, most notably a 2009 album entitled <em>All Because of You<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, Lisa is on the comeback trail. She is going to be a cast member on the newest season of <em>Survivor<\/em>, which is in the Philippines. She isn\u2019t the only celebrity in the cast, though: she\u2019ll be joined by retired baseball player <strong>Jeff Kent<\/strong> and by a popular former contestant who had to leave the show because of injury, <strong>Michael Skupin<\/strong>. And reality TV isn\u2019t the only life change for Lisa. She quietly announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/marquee.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/21\/facts-of-life-star-lisa-whelchel-on-divorce\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">she and her husband had split up<\/a> shortly before she left for filming. Five bucks says that her next stint is on <em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em>. And that they assign her to either Tony or Tristan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was the longest sentence I\u2019ve written in a while. Let\u2019s break this down: Lisa Whelchel played Blair on The Facts of Life. Lisa is also a devout Christian. She was a Christian before she was famous, and reportedly refused to film a Blair-loses-her-virginity scene on the show. In 1988, Lisa got married to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[530,96,105,529,531,92],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-realitytv","tag-christian-celebrities","tag-christianity","tag-divorce","tag-lisa-whelchel","tag-survivor","tag-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Facts of Life&#039; Star Lisa Whelchel Is a Newly Divorced Evangelical Christian and &#039;Survivor&#039; Cast Member<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Well, that was the longest sentence I&#039;ve written in a while. 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