Will it be curtains for Kathy on tonight's "Survivor''?

It's Week No. 2 tonight for Kathleen Sleckman, our Manitowoc native survivor, and let's hope things go better for her than they did last week. Only Jonny Fairplay played a worse game in the "Survivor: Micronesia'' season opener, getting himself voted out at Tribal Council after basically asking his tribemates to let him go home to his pregnant girlfriend in some tearfully scripted cheeseball stunt that felt like it was in his contract from the beginning.

But we digress ....

Kathy -- or "Big Bird'' and the "Crazy Lady'' as she was quickley dubbed by her tribemates last week -- managed to put her foot in her mouth more than once. Lucky for her she grabbed the immunity idol and Airai was spared a trip to Tribal Council, because word around camp was she would be the first to go.

"I'm sure I got off on the wrong foot,'' she told the cameras. "I guess sometimes it pays to keep your mouth shut, but I can't help myself.'' Yeah, we pretty much picked up on that during her awkward exchange with Chet about his sexuality.

While folks in Northeastern Wisconsin might be pulling for Kathy, who now lives in Glen Ellyn, Ill., and works as a golf course vendor, host Jeff Probst said in the Feb. 8 issue of Entertainment Weekly that she's not exactly his favorite.

"There are a couple of casting choices on the Fans that I wasn't a big fan of. Kathleen -- I'm not sure why she's on,'' he told the mag. "She just doesn't fit. If she's not the first off I will tip my hat to her, because she will have to do a masterful job not to be the first off.''

We, however, are standing by her, even though she's 45 and still wearing her hair in two pigtails.

-- Kendra Meinert, kmeinert@greenbaypressgazette.com