Survivor (TV series)

Survivor is a popular reality television program produced in many countries throughout the world. The show consists of contestants isolated in a remote location competing for a cash prize. The format was created by Swedish production company Strix. It is now considered to be the father of reality TV, because since its premiere reality TV has gained a nationwide popularity, and other reality TV shows similar to Survivor have appeared.

Survivor Trivia and Interesting Facts

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• In all, there have been 166 different American Survivor players over the 11 seasons, 20 of whom got to play twice. (All players, Stephenie LaGrossa, and Bobby Jon Drinkard.)
• Of the 150 different players from the 10 seasons, only five have never been eliminated from the game: Vecepia Towery, Brian Heidik, Sandra Diaz-Twine, Chris Daugherty, and Tom Westman. Four other winners lost in their other season (Richard Hatch, Tina Wesson, and Ethan Zohn in and Amber Brkich in ). Jenna Morasca never had her torch snuffed out because she won and quit .
• The 11 players voted off to start the game each season: Sonja Christopher (the very first Survivor ever to be voted out), Debb Eaton, Diane Ogden, Peter Harkey, John Raymond, Ryan Aiken, Nicole Delma, Tina Wesson (who won but was the first out on ), Brook Geraghty, Jolanda Jones and Jim Lynch. However, Jolanda was not the first to be eliminated in , because Jonathan Libby and Wanda Shirk were eliminated by default in the tribal selection process that started the season. However, Libby was technically eliminated first as all the other men had been chosen before the women.
• Both winners in the British series won the grand prize by a 7-0 vote. No grand prize winner on any of the other series have won by a 7-0 vote. On the American version, three winners won by a 6-1 vote (Jenna Morasca, Sandra Diaz-Twine and Tom Westman), two winners won by a 5-2 vote (Ethan Zohn and Chris Daugherty), and five winners won by a 4-3 vote (Richard Hatch, Tina Wesson, Vecepia Towery, Brian Heidik, and Amber Brkich).
• Series host Jeff Probst declared that strategic mastermind Rob Cesternino from was the greatest player in history to never win.
• Survivor: Guatemala is the first season to have the first three players voted off "unanimously." Jim Lynch was voted off 8-1 (the one vote was his; for Margaret Bobonich), Morgan McDevitt was voted off 8-1 (the one vote was hers; for Lydia Morales), and Brianna Varela was voted off 7-1 (the one vote was hers; also for Lydia).