Kelley Wentworth is a contestant from Survivor: Edge of Extinction.
After her impressive showing in Cambodia, Kelley returned for a third shot at the game in Edge of Extinction. Her previous game made her a big target from the outset of the season, but she managed to position herself in the center of the Manu Alliance alongside close allies Lauren O'Connell and Wardog DaSilva. Though she saw a rare streak of success after the merge, her run came to an end at the final nine when Wardog successfully blindsided her with her Hidden Immunity Idol still in her possession.
Profile[]
Retrieved from CBS.com
Age: 31
Hometown: Ephrata, Washington
Current residence: Seattle
Occupation: Marketing Manager
Previous season: Second Chance, San Juan del Sur
Hobbies: Photography, walking my dogs, and witchcraft on the weekends.
Pet peeves: Unseasoned rice, games involving balls, and people who think they're basically badasses.
Three words to describe you: Independent, expressive, and stubborn.
What's your personal claim to fame? "Wentworth, does not count." x9
Who or what is your inspiration in life? Anyone who won Survivor on their first try.
If you could have three things on the island, what would they be and why?
Amazon Prime Fresh delivery, because... food.
Clothing options that cover all of my body because... weather.
Toiletries, 'cause hygiene is important.
Which Survivor contestant are you the most like? Kelley Wentworth from Survivor: Second Chance and I think she was also on Survivor: San Juan del Sur.
What's your reason for being on Survivor? I have one thing left to do in this game: win.
Why do you think you'll "survive" Survivor? I survived for 38 days last time. I think I can handle one more day.[2]
Survivor[]
Kelley was one of four returning players to compete in Survivor: Edge of Extinction. Kelley, along with David Wright, joined the Manu tribe, where she bonded with Lauren O'Connell and soon founded the majority Manu Alliance against Reem Daly, Keith Sowell, and Wendy Diaz due to them isolating themselves from the rest of the tribe. After Manu lost the first Immunity Challenge, Kelley and Lauren were targeted by Reem for being a power couple, but the Manu Alliance wanted to target Reem as her motherly instincts rubbed most of the tribe the wrong way. Wendy's allegiance to Reem soon caused the alliance to split the vote between the two. At Tribal Council, Reem tried to throw Kelley under the bus, as her gameplay in Cambodia made her a legend. Despite this, the Manu Alliance stuck to their plan in splitting the votes between Reem and Wendy, voting the former out first.
The result of Reem's "elimination" led to a strategic rivalry between Kelley and Reem's closest ally Wendy, as the latter continued to target her as she was the leader of the Manu Alliance. Kelley's closest ally Lauren soon found the tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol and kept it secret after Kelley led an open idol hunt to prevent Wendy from finding it. After losing the second Immunity Challenge on Day 6 to Keith's expense, most of the tribe targeted Keith for his weakness in the challenge. As Kelley and Wendy continued to target each other, David, Chris Underwood, and Rick Devens wanted to target Kelley for being a bigger threat. When Chris approached Wardog DaSilva to get a fifth vote against Kelley, Wardog tried to convince Chris to get rid of Keith instead and use Kelley as a shield. Despite feeling paranoid as the trust she put in other people cost her the game in her past two seasons, at Tribal Council, Kelley was spared due to Keith being a liability in challenges.
After Manu lost their third Immunity Challenge in a row on Day 8, Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog targeted Wendy after she hid the tribe's flint to prevent them from cooking the chickens they won in the Day 7 Reward Challenge. However, Chris leaked the plan to Wardog about targeting Kelley after David instructed him not to, leading the trio of Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog to change the target to Chris. At Tribal Council, the three got their way when David and Rick betrayed Chris for supposedly being untrustworthy and to prevent Kelley from knowing that they were against her.
On Day 9, a tribe switch occurred, and all the original Manu members left except Wendy were switched to the new Lesu tribe. When Lesu lost the following Immunity Challenge on Day 11, Kelley and Lauren targeted Rick for being the most likely to get along with the rival Kama tribe at the merge, while David and Rick targeted Lauren after she got sick and couldn't eat and also in fear that Kelley had an idol. This left Wardog as the swing vote. At Tribal Council, Wardog stuck with Kelley and Lauren in voting out Rick. After Rick was voted out, Wardog tried to convince Kelley to target her closest ally Lauren due to her illness, and Kelley took it into consideration. However, Lesu finally won immunity on Day 13, and for the first time this season, Kelley abstained from Tribal Council. After losing the following Reward Challenge on Day 14, Kelley became frustrated by David and Wardog's poor challenge performances and the fact that Joe Anglim was carrying the rival Kama tribe in every challenge. She soon became frustrated by Wardog's scheming against Lauren and his laziness around camp. On Day 16, Lesu and Manu lost the Immunity Challenge, which sent them to a Joint Tribal Council. Before Tribal Council, Wardog suggested targeting Wendy in hopes that her tribemates would not risk a rock draw tiebreaker to save her, but Kelley and Lauren were again frustrated by Wardog's refusal to listen to anyone else's ideas. Lesu then searched for the idol which Kelley found and shared with Lauren, who in turn told Kelley about her idol she found back on Manu. At Tribal Council, Lesu went with their plan voting Wendy while Manu voted Lauren, forcing a tie. In the revote, Eric Hafemann, Gavin Whitson, and Victoria Baamonde joined Lesu in voting Wendy out unanimously.
The three tribes merged the next day, but to their surprise, the six previously voted out players returned to compete in a re-entry challenge. Jeff Probst revealed that they'd been living on the Edge of Extinction waiting for their chance to return to the game. Ultimately, Rick won the challenge and joined the newly merged Vata tribe. After the merge feast, Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog tried to spread to the Kama majority by targeting Rick again. Although the Kama minority alliance of Aurora McCreary and Joe were open to Kelley's plan, Julie Rosenberg was appalled by the Lesu trio's cruelty to send Rick back to the Edge after he returned. After the first individual Immunity Challenge on Day 19, the Lesu trio continued to target Rick, but unbeknownst to them, Julie leaked Kelley's plan to Rick, this in turn caused him and David to rally votes against Kelley. At Tribal Council, Joe and Kelley's alliances split their votes between David and Rick, while David and Rick voted Kelley. However, amidst their conflict, the Kama Six alliance took the opportunity to blindside Joe due to him being a physical threat.
Following Joe's elimination, Kelley, Lauren, and Wardog plotted to align with Aurora and regroup with David and Rick to dethrone the Kama Six alliance, but David and Rick had aligned with Kama Six leaders Eric and Ron Clark for long-term safety. After the Day 22 Immunity Challenge, Wardog took the opportunity to convince Kama Six members Julia Carter, Gavin, and Victoria to turn against Eric and Ron. At Tribal Council, Kelley's plan worked as David had regrouped with Kelley and Aurora, Gavin, Julia, and Victoria flipped and joined the Manu Alliance in blindsiding Eric.
Despite voting with the Manu Alliance, Julia wanted to regroup the Kama Six alliance. After the following Immunity Challenge, the Kama Six's quiet behavior around camp alarmed the Manu Alliance. In a chaotic Tribal Council, Julia and Aurora's comments stirred up a series of conversations with Julie feeling like she was on the bottom of the Kama Six and openly said she was ready to "jump ship" and join the Manu Alliance and threw out Julia's name. The chaos that ensued led to the entire tribe except Aurora voting out Julia.
Now in a new majority alliance, the new alliance of Kelley, Lauren, Wardog, Julie, Gavin, and Ron targeted Aurora, feeling that her comments cost Julia the game. However, after their plan was thwarted when Aurora won the following Immunity Challenge, they decided to target David. David and Rick scrambled to recruit the former Kamas into targeting the tight Lesu trio, but at Tribal Council, the former Kamas stuck with the new alliance in voting David out, with Rick as the next target. However, Rick shocked everyone when he won the next Immunity Challenge with the help of an advantage he received from David on the Edge of Extinction. Following the Immunity Challenge, the majority alliance decided to go with their earlier plan in targeting Aurora, but Wardog decided to betray Kelley for being the last returning player standing by recruiting Aurora, Rick, Ron, and Victoria. At Tribal Council, Kelley voted with her alliance against Aurora, but she was blindsided when Wardog betrayed her, sending her to the Edge of Extinction with her idol still in her possession. When she arrived on the Edge, she told the others about her and Lauren's idol.
The next day, Kelley was devastated by her elimination and how her time competing on the season was disappointing, but Reem managed to reconcile and share an emotional moment with her. On Day 35, Kelley competed along with ten other castaways in the second re-entry challenge, but she lost the challenge to Chris, eliminating her along with nine others.
At Final Tribal Council, Kelley leaking Lauren's idol to Chris on the Edge of Extinction became a major topic as it helped benefit Chris's time back in the game. Kelley then stated that she built a closer bond with Gavin out of the Final Three. Kelley voted for Gavin to win the title of Sole Survivor, but he lost to Chris in a 9-4-0 vote.
| Episode | Tribe Affiliation |
Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manu | Social Network | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost |
| 2 | Serpent Turf | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost | |
| 3 | Losing Face | Reward | No | Won | |
| Beyond the Wheel | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| Switched Tribes, Day 9 | |||||
| 4 | Lesu | Yank Your Hank | Immunity | No | Lost |
| 5 | True Grit | Reward | No | Lost | |
| A Bit Dinghy | Immunity | No | 2nd | ||
| Rod Screw-It | Reward | No | Lost | ||
| In Through the Out Door | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| Tribes Merged, Day 17 | |||||
| 6 | Vata | Audio Slave | Immunity | Lost | |
| 7 | Planks a Lot | Reward | Lost | ||
| Keep on Your Toes | Immunity | Lost | |||
| 8 | Bo Diddley | Immunity | Lost | ||
| 9 | Squatty Probst | Immunity | Yes1 | Lost | |
| Faulty Towers | Reward2 | Won | |||
| Paddle Out | Immunity | Lost | |||
| Voted Out, Day 27 | |||||
| 13 | Vata | Don't Call It a Comeback | Re-entry | Lost | |
| Eliminated, Day 35 | |||||
| Notes: | |||||
| Episode | Kelley's Votes |
Voted Against Kelley |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wendy | Reem |
| 2 | Keith | Wendy |
| 3 | Chris | Chris, Wendy |
| 4 | Rick | - |
| 5 | Lesu Tribe Immune | |
| Wendy; Wendy1 |
- | |
| 6 | David | David, Rick |
| 7 | Eric | Eric, Ron |
| 8 | Julia | Julia |
| 9 | David | - |
| Aurora | Aurora, Rick, Ron, Victoria, Wardog | |
| Voted Out, Day 27 | ||
| 10 | On Edge of Extinction | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| Eliminated, Day 35 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Gavin | |
^1 In "It's Like the Worst Cocktail Party Ever", the vote ended with a 4-4 tie between Lauren and Wendy, forcing a revote. Kelley did not change her vote on the revote.
Trivia[]
- Kelley's 32nd birthday fell on Day 9 of Edge of Extinction.
- Kelley is the highest-placing returning player in Edge of Extinction.
- She is the first person to be the highest-placing returning player in a season and not reach the Final Tribal Council.
- Kelley received votes at seven different Tribal Councils in Edge of Extinction, tying the record held by Jonathan Penner in Cook Islands, Phillip Sheppard in Redemption Island, John Cochran in South Pacific, and Keith Nale in San Juan del Sur.
- She is both the only woman and the only returning player to accomplish this.
- Kelley lost 20 lbs. (9 kg) during her time in Edge of Extinction.[3]
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