Former Courtland High School basketball star Adam Gentry has made it to tonight’s “Survivor: Cook Island” finale, but that isn’t earning him any respect from one of the top reality-TV bloggers.

MSNBC.com is handicapping the chances of the remaining five castaways. Gentry not only did not fare well, but was kicked around hard.

Andy Dehnart, who writes “Reality Blurred,” a daily summary of reality TV news, was brutal to Gentry in predicting the outcome for MSNBC .com.

“He’s the next logical person to go,” Dehnart writes. “However, he’s been the next logical person to go for a few weeks now. The alliance has kept Adam around in large part because he seems incompetent and dumb.”

At least Gentry doesn’t have to ask Dehnart what he really thinks.

“His greatest strength, it seems, has been flirting with women on his original tribe,” Dehnart continues. “That’s worked for him and kept him in the game this long.”

” But if he keeps performing so poorly and appearing to be such a minimal threat, he could be carried along until it’s too late for the others to get rid of him, and that could be the best strategy of all,” Dehnart writes.

The hunky Gentry, 28-year-old former Spotsylvanian who now lives in San Diego and works as a model and copier salesman, has become a bit of an Internet sex symbol because of the show.

The Web was abuzz with chatter when Candice Woodcock, a Georgetown University grad student, was voted off the show and gave Gentry a passionate parting kiss.

But Woodcock told TVGuide.com there won’t be any relationship between her and Gentry off the island.

“We are very different people and very different personalities,” she said. “In the game, you have only a few people to choose from to work with, and we got along, and he trusted me. I don’t know why he decided to trust me, but he did, and I knew that, and I knew he wasn’t going to turn his back on me, and that’s a great thing to have in a game.”

Gentry, who headed to Virginia Tech after high school, has lived in San Diego since 2002.

His mother, Beth Gentry, still lives and works locally.

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Survivor Spoilers: The Final Callanges Spoilers

Final Challenges: The finale begins busting protocol immediately with five players still in the game. Their first challenge, Burnett reveals, “is the hardest puzzle we’ve ever done, called Compass Rose.”

 Challenge producer Dan Munday spent two days, “like a mad scientist, cutting pieces of wood,” says Probst. ” Finally, he showed us exactly how it comes apart and then asked us to put it back together. I quit after 30 minutes.” It takes the winner 25 minutes to solve it, Probst reveals, adding that “this final five had the highest IQs of any final five.”

The final four’s last immunity challenge involves balancing on a very small post, one that gets smaller and smaller — 10 feet above the water. “It required balance but also intense concentration and pain tolerance, because it was made of steel and was not comfortable,” Probst explains.

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 Palm Beach Residents Cheer Ozzy Lusth

On Sunday someone will walk away one million dollars richer after Survivor: Cook Islands’ two-hour finale. While “puppetmaster” Yul has been a clear-cut favorite for weeks, Ozzy, the tree climbing waiter, has suddenly emerged as the player to beat. He’s a strong competitor and a nice guy who hasn’t had to strategize or stab anyone in the back to get as far as he has.

All that plus he knows how to slather mud all over his lean body like no one’s business!

If Ozzy makes it to the final three — and he’ll probably have to win immunity in order to do it — lots of local Survivor lovers will be rooting for him.

Andrea Holt, Ozzy’s aunt, lives in Palm Beach County. She wants everyone to know that Panama Hattie’s Cruzan Bar in North Palm Beach is hosting a Survivor party on Sunday at 7 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres will be served island style. CBS is scheduled to send a crew to the party for the finale.

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