Ben Schiffer

Sister: Janine Schiffer

Brother: Sebastian Schiffer

Cats: Dorothea and Carlina Schiffer

### Placement(s)

The Mole Season 6: Spy vs Spy: 9thEscape The Room: EscapedBeauty And The Geek: N/A

Benjamin Frederik Schiffer (born 28.08.1997 in Windenburg) is a german Student and Reality TV Show Contestant created by YJB19299. He is most notably known for his participation on The Mole Season 6: Spy vs Spy.

## Early Life

Schiffer was born in Windenburg as the oldest child of Robert Schiffer, a politician and former candidate for the post of governeur against Dave Byrd, and Patrizia Schiffer, a house wife. He also has two siblings, Janine and Sebastian Schiffer. He is also the owner of two cats, Dorothea Schiffer, who was a contestant on the canceled show Leashes & Skirts, and Carlina Schiffer.

Schiffer is in the autism spectrum, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication. Despite having infantile autism, it was only discovered by doctors when he was 10 years old. His parents however raised and helped in based on his symptoms, which helped him cope a little better before the official diagnosis. Ben is an open advocate for autism and uses all his platforms to make people aware that there are complications for people with autism and other disabilities, but that they are still people. In one interview, he stated: 'I get that people might be a bit skeptical at first, I have my quirks and difficulties and people scare the crap out of me, but if we wanna be an inclusive society, everybody deserves an equal chance to be able to prove themselves. You may be scared at first and not sure how to deal with us, but I know where I stand with myself and I'm ready to communicate. If people just cave into the scare, they might lose out on a lot of unexplored potential.'

## The Mole Season 6: Spy vs Spy

In 2017, Schiffer was announced as a contestant for the 6th Season of The Mole. There he was most notably known for lacking a bit in the english department, being the only guy in the girls room and the infamous naked breakfast preparation with Giles and Wil. Despite becoming friends with Giles, Maya, Wil and Pacco, Ben struggled in the game. While he survived the first elimination, mainly due to Maddie's withdrawal, he finished last in the second quiz and was eliminated in 9th Place. Despite finishing rather low in the Fan Favourite Award, he is still considered one of the most popular early exits due to his fun antics and his hilarous attempt at an american accent.

## Escape The Room

A few months after Season 6 of The Mole was finished, Schiffer appeared as one of the castmates of Escape The Room in which he and five other contestants had to go through various escape rooms. This proved to be a much more successful stint for him since this wasn't elimination based. He was known for taking charge in a lot of escaping situations and helped his team to escape all rooms in time.

## The Mole Season 7: Unfinished Business

While not appearing as a contestant, Schiffer was hired by his good friend Katharina Ehrmann, former editor of The Mole, to be an undercover cameraman named Yan in order to get some pay back against Host Grey Winters for trying to making Ben the 'New Fabio' and taking the hosting spot that was previously promised to Ehrmann. As Yan, he played up being miserable and snappy with quite a few contestants like Indigo, Fabio and The Governeur. During the live finale, Ben revealed himself and confronted Winters about his rude and calculating ways. Yan The Cameraman was considered a fan favourite by many fans of the show and were happy and supportive of Ben's spiel and deemed his previous failure redeemed.

## Private Life

Schiffer is in the autism spectrum, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication. Despite having infantile autism, it was only discovered by doctors when he was 10 years old. His parents however always had a feeling he might be in the spectrum and adapted his childcare to his symptoms. Schiffer is very open about his disorder and wanted to use his stint on The Mole to show a more uplifting side of the disorder in order to raise inspiration, which was highly commended by the Host Agent V.

During The Mole, Schiffer first mentioned that he is bisexual. However, two years later, he changed up his statement and said he was a proud gay man. After he won Big Brother Over The Top 1, he entered into a polyamourous open relationship with his fellow castmate and showmance Callum Scott and Reality TV Star Chase Grande.

In 2019, Schiffer and his family moved from Windenburg to Hidden Springs in order for Ben to pursue his desire to study Game Development.

## Non-Canon Arc

Ben was part of the cast of Two Houses with other veteran players such as Grape Wisteria and Rebecca Pierce. Despite forming quite a few friendships, most notably with Grape and Mysti, he struggled a lot in the house, not winning competitions, dealing with emotional stress and being deemed the 'House Pawn' for multiple evictions against bigger targets like Debra, Skye and Tybalt. Still he managed to make it to the Top 5 alongside Grape, Mysti, KT! and Rebecca. The show is currently on an hiatus.

## Outside of Interactive Reality Shows

On 29th of August 2021, Ben was announced as the 9th Contestant for SRBC's Big Brother Over The Top 1, the 4th Season of this Big Brother Series. The game will take place on Discord. He is the first ever autistic person to compete in the series.

## Trivia

* To this date, Ben is the lowest finishing YJB Character alongside Brandon Cohen from Abnormality Season 5.
	+ However, Brandon was the 3rd person evicted, while Ben was the second person to leave The Mole Season 6.
* Ben is the first contestant ever coming from The Sims Interactive Reality Show community to appear in a reality show outside of the Sims Forums.