became the first unanimous winner of Survivor, with a vote of 9–0–0. After Survivor: Fiji Cole has hosted or appeared on several talk shows, including CBS's The Early Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, BET's 106 & Park and MTV Fuse. He was also voted as one of People'''s Sexiest Bachelors in 2007, and also hosted shows on the TV Guide Channel, a Canadian reality show in 2009 and the Style Network in 2010 (where his luxurious, beach wedding, at the St. Regis Princeville, in Kauai, Hawaii, was featured on Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?). He has traveled to more than 40 countries and has been featured in various domestic and international magazines from Australia to South Africa. Cole has also been interviewed by the foreign press, appearing on television in Hong Kong, China, South Africa, Singapore, The Bahamas and Australia. Cole founded a creative management company that has booked various reality television participants and artists to participate in worldwide military tours with Armed Forces Entertainment (Asia, South Pacific, Europe and Diego Garcia). He has worked with celebrities from Survivor, The Amazing Race, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance and Big Brother. Cole, who is also a musician/composer/songwriter, served as tour manager for a multi-city concert tour of Japan, in 2011, which featured a cast from various seasons of American Idol. He helped arrange a private show for the children of Misawa Air Base in Japan, the closest base to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster epicenter. Cole has an endowment with the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he established the Perthes Kids Foundation (Earl Cole Fund), a global charitable foundation for children with Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease, a rare hip bone disease Cole suffered from as a child. Now a global organization located in four countries, USA, UK, Australia and Colombia, Cole serves as Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board. Cole was considered to return for Survivor: Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, Blood vs. Water, and Game Changers. He was also recently considered for Winners at War, but had to decline due to family matters. In 2020, Cole co-founded startup company The Smart Tire Company with blockchain engineer Brian Yennie. On March 16, 2021, the company revealed its first product called METL tire, a bicycle tire made of airless aluminum alloy based on shape-memory alloy (SMA) technology from NASA engineers used on martian and lunar rovers. Smart