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Lindsay is a character on Total Drama Island. She is voiced by Stephanie Mills.

Contents 1 Basic Information 2 Character History 3 Trivia 4 Quotes

[edit] Basic Information

Lindsay is a member of the Screaming Gophers team on the show. Like Heather, she comes from a wealthy background and tends toward being vain, but unlike Heather, she is more kind-hearted and friendly. Lindsay is also TDI's poster girl for the "dumb blonde" stereotype; she is very pretty, has long blonde hair and is big-breasted, but she is also very naïve, absent-minded and dimwitted. She often messes up the names of many of the other participants in TDI, including Chris Maclean (whom she has called "Kyle" and "Chip"), Leshawna ("Lequisha" and "Lefawnda"), Duncan ("Doug"), Trent ("Todd"), Gwen ("Greta"), Tyler ("Taylor"), Beth ("Belle") and Eva ("Ava"). Heather, seeking to exploit Lindsay's apparent lack of smarts, recruits her (along with Beth) into an alliance which Heather says she plans to take with her into the late stages of the competition as the final three contestants.

Despite her intellectual weaknesses, Lindsay also has several strengths to her credit, one of the most notable being her skills in water skiing, which she uses to help the Gophers win a challenge. She also develops a crush on Tyler and they quickly develop a romantic relationship, which Heather interprets as a betrayal because Tyler is on the rival Killer Bass team, and Heather warns Lindsay to either dump Tyler or risk getting kicked out of the alliance. Lindsay publically agrees to do so, but she defies Heather by secretly seeing Tyler behind her back, and she continues to maintain her crush on Tyler after he gets voted off for failing a challenge. Lindsay is initially oblivious to Heather taking advantage of her for her own personal gain under the guise of "friendship", but she starts to become more aware of Heather's true nature over the course of the competition, particularly after one incident where Heather threatens to cut off Lindsay's long hair while she slept (as a result of Lindsay siding with Leshawna against Heather while pranking Heather during a cooking challenge).

Lindsay becomes the 16th camper to be voted off the island when, thanks to a betrayal by Heather, she is the last player to cross the finish line in a bicycle-racing challenge and, per a pre-race stipulation, she is automatically eliminated from the competition without a campfire ceremony. When Heather displays a non-chalant attitude toward Lindsay's elimination, Lindsay finally loses her temper and she lets Heather have it with a verbal tirade that ends with her cursing at the snobby girl and giving her "the finger" (both censored by the animators), to the delight of the witnessing campers. She subsequently reunites with Tyler at the Playa de Losers luxury resort where the eliminated contestants are staying, but she is still unable to get his name straight.

Lindsay quickly gets her revenge against Heather during a Triple Dog Dare challenge late in the game when Heather ends up drawing Lindsay's dare—getting her head shaved by Chef Hatchet, which she thought up in retaliation for Heather's earlier threat to cut off Lindsay's hair; Heather refuses the dare by kicking the hair clippers out of Chef's hand, but she ends up partially bald anyway when the clippers come back down on her and, by her refusal of Lindsay's dare according to the rule of the challenge, Heather is automatically eliminated. Lindsay returns, along with all the other eliminated players, to Camp Wawanakwa for the championship final between Gwen and Owen, and Heather attempts to make amends with Lindsay by getting her to help Heather cheat for Owen against Gwen, although Lindsay ends up bungling her part of the scheme.

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• Lindsay's name in the show's French-language version, L'île des Défis Extrêmes, is Tania
• In the original demo reel for TDI, Lindsay originally assumes the role that would later be taken by Heather—that of the spoiled, stuck-up rich girl [1]

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• Lindsay (in her audition tape for the show): I'm pretty and smart, and I get along with everyone—even the ugly girls. I love camping, even though I've never gone. I have bikinis for every season—even the ones not listed on the calendar, and I'm bilanguagal—I speak fluent English and American.