Celebrity Survivor Australia

Celebrity Survivor Australia
Season Information
Version	Australia
Season No.	1
Filming Location	Éfaté Island, Vanuatu
Filming Dates	May 14, 2006 - June 18, 2006
Season Run	August 17, 2006 - November 2, 2006
No. of Episodes	12
No. of Days	25
No. of Castaways	12
Winner	Guy Leech
Runner(s)-Up	Justin Melvey
Tribes	Kakula Moso Tanna
Cast
Opening Sequence

Celebrity Survivor Australia, also referred to as Celebrity Survivor: Vanuatu, is the first and only season of the Seven Network incarnation, and the second season overall, of the Australian reality show Australian Survivor. It was filmed in Éfaté Island, Vanuatu. The premiere aired on Thursday, August 17, 2006.

This season featured 12 Australian celebrities vying for a prize of AUD$100,000. 41 year-old Guy Leech, a surf lifesaving champion from Sydney emerged victorious. He defeated Justin Melvey by a 3-2 vote, becoming Australia's second Sole Survivor.

Production

After the failure of the first season of Australian Survivor in 2002, the Seven Network found a loophole in the Channel Nine contract and obtained the rights to produce Celebrity Survivor. The show was filmed on Éfaté Island in Vanuatu. The series was filmed over twenty-five days, from late May to early June 2006.

Twists

• Celebrity Cast: This season featured 12 Australian celebrities. The Sole Survivor would win AUD$100,000 for a charity of their choice.
• Tribe Composition: The castaways are divided into tribes of six based on gender: Kakula was originally composed of all men and Moso was originally composed of all women. Later on Day 1, Gabrielle Richens and Justin Melvey entered the game on the Kakula and Moso tribes, respectively, making them the sole representatives of their genders on their tribes.
• Extra Tribe Member: For the combined Reward/Immunity Challenge in the first episode, it was revealed that the winning tribe would receive an extra tribe member in the form of Ben Wynn, an ex-S.A.S. soldier and survival expert. As a result, Ben became the only castaway this season to not be a celebrity nor be competing for charity.
• Self Vote: The castaways were able to vote against themselves.
• Tribe Switch: On Day 6, a tribe switch occurred, mixing the final ten into two tribes of five.
• Re-entry: In Episode 10, the three remaining contestants watched on as the four players voted out after the merge then competed for two places back in the game, with those who did not return taking two of the five seats on the jury. The two players who won their places back in the game, Guy and Justin, would go on to be the eventual finalists.
• Jury Tiebreaker: In Episode 11 a tiebreaker occurred between Justin and Nicolle Dickson. When the re-vote ended in a tie past votes came into account. Both castaways had the same amount of past votes so the jury had to decide who would be eliminated. The jury unanimously eliminated Nicolle.

Castaways

Contestant		Tribe Affiliation			Finish	Votes Against
		Original Tribe	Switched Tribe	Merged Tribe
	Kym Johnson 29, Sydney, NSW Merry Makers Australia	Moso			1st Voted Out Day 3	6
	Ben Wynn 32, Perth, WA Ex-S.A.S. Soldier	Kakula			2nd Voted Out Day 5	5
	Fiona Horne 39, Sydney, NSW Project Aware	Moso	Moso		3rd Voted Out Day 7	3
	Amber Petty 35, Melbourne, VIC Australian Red Cross	Moso	Moso		4th Voted Out Day 9	3
	Wayne Gardner 46, Wollongong, NSW Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children	Kakula	Kakula		5th Voted Out Day 11	4
	Elton Flatley 28, Tamworth, NSW Royal Children's Hospital Foundation	Kakula	Moso	Tanna	7th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 15	4
	Gabrielle Richens 31, Kent, ENG The Wayside Chapel Foundation	Kakula	Kakula		9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 19	4
	David Oldfield 47, Manly, NSW Legacy Foundation	Kakula	Moso		10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 21	7
	Nicolle Dickson 37, Sydney, NSW Starlight Children's Foundation	Moso	Kakula		11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 23	9
	Imogen Bailey 28, Canberra, ACT Cambodia Foundation	Moso	Kakula		12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 24	4
	Justin Melvey 37, Sydney, NSW Diabetes Australia	Moso	Moso		8th Voted Out Removed from Jury Day 17	6
					Runner-Up
	Guy Leech 42, Sydney, NSW Ride Aide Inc	Kakula	Kakula		6th Voted Out Removed from Jury Day 13	6
					Sole Survivor

Season Summary

Episode	Air Date	Challenges		Eliminated	Vote	Finish
		Reward	Immunity
1	August 17, 2006	Kakula		Kym	6-0	1st Voted Out Day 3
		Kakula1
2	August 24, 2006	Kakula2	Moso	Ben	5-1	2nd Voted Out Day 5
3	August 31, 2006	Moso	Kakula	Fiona	3-2	3rd Voted Out Day 7
4	September 7, 2006	Kakula	Kakula	Amber	3-1	4th Voted Out Day 9
5	September 14, 2006	Moso	Moso	Wayne	3-2	5th Voted Out Day 11
6	September 21, 2006	Guy [Elton, Gabrielle]	David	Guy	5-2	6th Voted Out Removed from Jury 4 Day 13
7	September 28, 2006	David, Gabrielle, Imogen	David	Elton	4-1-1	7th Voted Out 1st Jury Member Day 15
8	October 5, 2006	Nicolle [Imogen]	Imogen (Nicolle)3	Justin	4-1	8th Voted Out Removed from Jury 4 Day 17
9	October 12, 2006	Nicolle	David	Gabrielle	3-1	9th Voted Out 2nd Jury Member Day 19
10	October 19, 2006	Guy4	Imogen	David	4-1	10th Voted Out 3rd Jury Member Day 21
		Justin4
11	October 26, 2006	Guy [Imogen, Justin]	Guy	Nicolle	2-2; 3-05	11th Voted Out 4th Jury Member Day 23
12	November 2, 2006	None	Justin	Imogen	1-0	12th Voted Out 5th Jury Member Day 24
		Jury Vote		Justin	3-2	Runner-Up
				Guy		Sole Survivor
Notes: ^1 Combined Reward and Immunity Challenge. ^2 To assist the struggling Moso tribe, Kakula agreed to share their reward. ^3 Imogen gave up her individual immunity to Nicolle. ^4 Instead of a Reward Challenge, the first four castaways voted out of the Tanna tribe (Guy, Elton, Justin, and Gabrielle) competed in a challenge to re-enter the game. Guy and Justin won the challenge, while Elton and Gabrielle became the first and second members of the jury. ^5 As Justin and Nicole both had 4 previous votes against them, the jury (Elton, Gabrielle, and David) voted in order to break the deadlock.

Voting History

		Original Tribes		Switched Tribes			Merged Tribe
Episode		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11		12
Eliminated		Kym	Ben	Fiona	Amber	Wayne	Guy	Elton	Justin	Gabrielle	David	Tie	Nicolle	Imogen	Justin	Guy
Vote		6-0	5-1	3-2	3-1	3-2	5-2	4-1-1	4-1	3-1	4-1	2-21	3-02	1-03	3-2
►►	Guy	—	Ben	—	—	Imogen	Nicolle				David	Nicolle	None	None	Jury Vote
►►	Justin	Kym	—	David	Amber	—	Guy	Elton	Imogen		David	Nicolle	None	Imogen
►►	Imogen	Kym	—	—	—	Wayne	Guy	Elton	Justin	Gabrielle	David	Justin	None	None	Justin
►►	Nicolle	Kym	—	—	—	Wayne	Guy	Elton	Justin	Gabrielle	David	Justin	None		Justin
►►	David	—	Ben	Fiona	Amber	—	Guy	Gabrielle	Justin	Gabrielle	Guy		Nicolle			Guy
►►	Gabrielle	—	Ben	—	—	Wayne	Guy	Elton	Justin	Nicolle	Eliminated		Nicolle			Guy
►►	Elton	—	Ben	Fiona	Amber	—	Nicolle	Nicolle			Eliminated		Nicolle			Guy
►	Wayne	—	Ben	—	—	Imogen
►	Amber	Kym	—	Fiona	David
►	Fiona	Kym	—	David
	Ben	—	Wayne
	Kym	Kym
Notes: ^1 Per the rules at the time, in case of a deadlock tie, past votes were taken into account. The player with more past votes got eliminated. ^2 As Justin and Nicole both had 4 previous votes against them, the Jury (Elton, Gabrielle and David) voted in order to break the deadlock. ^3 Guy and Imogen did not vote as they could only vote for each other. By virtue of winning the final Immunity Challenge, only Justin voted.

Trivia

• This is the first Australian Survivor season not to include a reunion.