LISA WHELCHEL

Lisa Whelchel rose to a degree of fame as a teen star thanks to her role as the rich teen Blair Warner on The Facts of Life. The show became a highly praised pop culture benchmark and lived on in reruns such as The Facts of Life Reunion. She earned a Grammy nomination for her Christian music album All Because of You in 1984, but after the series finished, she married a minister and became a stay-at-home mom. She also became a sought-after inspirational speaker and writer of parental and homeschooling books.

Adored by nostalgic fans, Lisa received a lot of popularity when she agreed to participate in the reality competition series Survivor in 2012. She showed a refreshingly grounded outlook on showbiz and created an impeccable balance between life and work, entirely at ease with her peculiar slice of 1980s pop culture immortality.