Bridgette

Bridgette (Brigitte in French), labeled The Surfer Girl, was a camper on Total Drama Island on the Killer Bass team. She was chosen as a cast member on Total Drama Action, but she was eliminated before she could be assigned to a team. She and Geoff currently host a show which includes all of the non participating contestants and the other campers who were voted off.

Total Drama Island
Bridgette lives on the western coast of Canada with her mother. She was born and raised on the (British Columbia, Canada) beaches. She is an only child. In Not Quite Famous, she states she can work at a surf shack after being eliminated, possibly stating she has worked at a surf board shop. She is on the honor roll at her school, and is on the school's swim team. She is known to have a few trophies for her surfing skills. She is mostly seen surfing, swimming, or anything that involves being in water. Sadly, when it comes to being on land, she can be a klutz. Some examples of it is her hitting Courtney with a light and crushing her violin, tripping and launching a ember near her team's tent and having it go a blaze, and on dozens of occasions accidentally hitting people with her surfboard and other blunt objects. Bridgette also volunteers at the local vet, and is splendid with animals. She has a lot of friends and the guys at her school can agree she's as pretty as a daisy. She is known to be a vegetarian, and does her best to take care of the earth. Her reason for entering the show was to spread the word of body surfing and love.

Bridgette originally thought she would be at a beach in the reality show she signed up for, and though there technically is a beach, they are in a lake setting rather than the ocean, which disappointed her, seeing as she brought all of her surfing gear with her. However, the first challenge was a cinch for Bridgette: diving off a steep cliff into a small area of safe water not infested with freshwater sharks. She is the first one to take on the challenge, and though her team ultimately loses the first challenge, she is safe from elimination. In Not Quite Famous, she volunteered to take part in the challenge - a talent contest - by showing off her ability to stand on her hands for twenty minutes. Courtney was unimpressed with the feat, thinking it was better suited for monkeys, but Bridgette ended up in the talent show after accidentally knocking out Courtney (and her violin), who was going to be in the contest after she had made a bet with the guys that she really could stand on her hands for such a long amount of time. Before the challenge, Bridgette ate too many chips, making her nauseous when she performed on stage and soon puked all over the stage and most of the audience. Embarrassed by the incident, she initially welcomed the idea of being sent home. However, due to Harold saving the competition, her team won and she was spared from elimination. Bridgette's clumsiness on land continued to trouble herself and the team in The Sucky Outdoors when, after going outside in the night to urinate, she was blinded by a bat and ended up kicking over an ember from the fireplace onto her team's tent, which instantly charred their only shelter to bits. This proved to be a major loss as it shortly began to rain afterwards. Bridgette's team lost the challenge, but due to the fact that it was because of Katie and Sadie's tardiness that made them lose rather than Bridgette's clumsiness, she made it through another Campfire ceremony. Immediately after this episode, the two teams gathered around a fire where they confided in each other their greatest fears. Bridgette's in particular was being left alone in the woods. Not by coincidence, the next challenge in Phobia Factor was for each camper to face their greatest fear, meaning Bridgette was forced to spend six hours in the woods by herself. Despite her attempts to retain her self-esteem, she failed to complete her challenge after Cody (who failed his challenge in defusing a time bomb of garbage) came walking towards her. Bridgette, apparently not recognizing him, screamed and ran away. Her team as a whole lost this challenge, but again, Bridgette remained safe.

Bridgette's relationship with Geoff began to show signs in Up The Creek, though at the time Bridgette did not appear to return his feelings. She confided in Courtney that he left a hand-made, heart-shaped bowl with a picture of the two together on the bottom with an inscription on the back reading "I hope you think of me whenever you drop loose change in this". Both girls (plus DJ) found this to be an extremely corny and over-the-top move, but DJ helped Geoff in this episode and in future episodes to bond with Bridgette, as he urged Bridgette to help Geoff when he was suddenly stricken with an injury (a splinter in his leg). At the end of the episode, Bridgette accidentally broke the hand-crafted heart and asked Courtney for glue so she could put it back together. Courtney suggested she not waste her time, but Bridgette was beginning to come around to Geoff by resolving she would. In Paintball Deer Hunter, Bridgette was designated a hunter along with Harold and Geoff, though was not enthusiastic about the challenge (most likely due to her pacifistic nature) until she thought about the possibility of nailing Heather with paintballs. She managed to do just that, and her team won the challenge that day.

In If You Can't Take The Heat..., Bridgette partnered with DJ for the spaghetti portion of their Italian-themed meal. DJ again attempted to help Geoff win Bridgette over when he stepped aside to allow Geoff to flirt with her, but ended up saying things that came off as insulting to Bridgette, even after she admitted that Geoff was cute. Bridgette and DJ's meal ended up playing the biggest part of the Killer Bass' third consecutive win, being the highest-rated meal by Chris Mclean. Bridgette prepared a meal again in Who Can You Trust?; specifically, preparing sashimi of the Fugu: the world's most toxic fish. She carefully prepared this meal for Geoff, who did not hesitate to test the meal despite the high risk of becoming poisoned by improper preparation. Thankfully, Bridgette's meal did not render him this way and they won this challenge. A bond of trust formed between the two after this, and they celebrated by taking a dive in the lake. Bridgette had to take part of another trust-based challenge later; this time with Harold on the blind trapeze. By trusting Harold, the two were able to score another win for the Killer Bass, although they ultimately lost the challenge due to a technicality in the final challenge. Bridgette still remained safe from elimination.

After Courtney was eliminated in Basic Straining, Bridgette became the only female left on the Killer Bass team. In X-Treme Torture, she and Gwen found a romantic haiku poem addressed to one of the girls. After humbly thinking the haiku was from Trent to Gwen (apparently noticing their budding relationship) and vice-versa, the two argued with each other over who it was really for, insulting each other's significant other in the process. They bet three nights' dessert that the haiku was meant for them, and went about the entire episode trying to find out where the haiku came from by asking some not-so-subtle questions. It turned out that neither of them were right, and the haiku was written by Harold for LeShawna. Bridgette and Gwen made up for their bickering eventually. It was her team who lost and Harold who was eliminated this episode, which officially put Bridgette in the final ten of twenty-two campers. The teams were dissolved into gender-based teams for Brunch of Disgustingness, leaving Bridgette, the only new girl to the cabin, to quickly choose an alignment between Heather and Lindsay or Gwen and LeShawna. Though she was determined to unify the girls in order to beat the guys, she ultimately sided with Gwen and LeShawna. This did not stop her from trying to keep her female team together to endure the series of disgusting meals each camper had to eat. Though Bridgette initially struggled, being a vegetarian and bull testicles being the first thing on the menu, Geoff pep-talked her into eating them, even if it meant a loss for his side. This inspired Bridgette to pull the other girls together in the future courses, such as eating live anchovies, getting the girls into meditative position in order to calmly eat their disgusting meal, and use funnels to quickly down the liquid meals. Despite her efforts, however, the guys ultimately won when Bridgette and DJ refused to eat the final course: dolphin wieners. This led to a sudden-death round in which the girls lost. No one was voted off in this episode, but the girls ultimately lost out on a weekend-long cruise and spa to the guys.

By No Pain, No Game, all teams are officially dissolved. Eva makes an unexpected return, and is furious at her former Killer Bass team for voting her off in the first place. Bridgette is the unfortunate victim of Eva's rage, but has help from LeShawna, Geoff, and the others (none of them could stand Eva). After being given a vague death threat by Eva, Bridgette and the others vote her off the island. In Search and Do Not Destroy, Bridgette is assigned to find a key to unlock an unknown treasure. It is guarded by a rabbit, but she fails to retrieve her key (though she is not the only one who fails to do so, and getting the key had nothing to do with being safe from elimination). Through LeShawna's instructions, she votes off Trent after hearing about Heather's apparent seducing of him, but becomes angry when she finds out it was all an elaborate rouse by Heather to get them to vote Trent off after she won invincibility.

Bridgette was voted off the island in Hide and Be Sneaky after Duncan creates an alliance composed of the remaining men on the island after realizing that the girls outnumber them. She was found by Chef Hatchet after being sprayed by skunks, leaving her with a smell that could not be removed for the rest of the episode. Duncan and the others found Bridgette's popularity and excellence in athletic activities a threat in the future, and despite Geoff's protests, they agreed to vote her off. The girls were aware of the guys building up an alliance, but could not unanimously decide which guy to eliminate, which resulted in the boys winning the majority vote against Bridgette. However, before she leaves, Geoff tells her that he did not in fact vote her off. Bridgette believes him and goes over to kiss him, but her lingering stench sends him away quickly. They would not reunite until after Geoff was eliminated in Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon. In Haut Camp-ture, an episode that focused exclusively on the losers residing at Playa Des Losers, Geoff and Bridgette are officially a couple, seen making out in the jacuzzi. Bridgette admits that she could not decide between LeShawna and Gwen as for who she wanted to win whom remained in the competition, as they have both been especially nice to her. However, it was LeShawna who was inadvertently voted off in this episode. Bridgette would later appear with the rest of the cast in The Very Last Episode, Really! to see the race between the finalists - Gwen and Owen. Initially, she sided with Gwen, but switched sides to Owen after he promised everyone a large party on a yacht if he were to win the competition. Owen eventually wins, and everyone throws a celebration.

In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!, Owen gives up his $100,000 to compete for one million dollars with the other campers. Geoff and Bridgette form an exclusive team to find the suitcase containing the money in the woods. Neither of them share much dialog, as they spend most of their scenes making out, showing that they are still steady as a couple. Ultimately, both of them qualify to compete for the money again in Total Drama Action.

Total Drama Action
Bridgette arrived to Total Drama Action and shared a bunk bed with Gwen. The running gag of Bridgette constantly making out with Geoff continues in this season, to the point where it appears she is not performing well in challenges because of that (though the two do try to restrain themselves). Bridgette's attachment to Geoff quickly annoys their fellow competitors, leading to both of them being the first cast members eliminated in the show. Bridgette and Geoff seem to still be more interested in each other even as they walk the Red Carpet of Shame and enter the Lame-o-sine.

Currently, she and Geoff host a talk show called TDA Aftermath, where they interview recently eliminated contestants from TDA and non-participants, and review e-mails and videos from the season so far.

Audition tape
Her friends, mostly guys, cheer her on while she attempts to whistle "Yankee Doodle" through her nose. After claiming she sucks, she then explains she is a good friend and will try her best and either win with integrity or leave with her head held high.

View Bridgette's audition tape

Camp TV
In Camp TV, Bridgette looks somewhat different than today. She has her hair braided back, freckles on her face, an earring (possibly two) and wears shorter shorts (which appear to be torn). Little else is known about her, since she was not featured in the promo. It is however notable that her eyes are very wide in her original design instead of the usual relaxed eyes she has today. She also appears to be somewhat southern.

Trivia

 * Bridgette returns to Total Drama Action as a competitor.
 * It is said on Bridgette's biography on Cartoon Network's website that her best friend is her mom.
 * She is the last female member standing of the Killer Bass team.
 * Before Total Drama Island, she was a lifeguard.
 * She is the only Killer Bass female to return for Total Drama Action, assuming Courtney fails to return as a competitor as it has been rumored.
 * She and Geoff have taken the place of Gwen and Trent on the new opening for Total Drama Action.
 * Bridgette, along with Geoff, are the only characters to have been eliminated via a double-elimination.
 * She is one of the few people on the island Gwen considers to have sanity.
 * She is the only female (other than Lindsay) to have blonde hair.
 * Surprisingly, Bridgette showed no reaction to Courtney getting voted off.