Survivor 45

What made it different

The first season to run 90-minute episodes, stretching the New Era format.

All 18 castaways, in boot order

1. 1Dee Valladares2 seasons playedSole Survivor · 26 days
2. 2Austin Li CoonRunner-up · 26 days
3. 3Jake O'Kane2nd runner-up · 26 days
4. 4Katurah ToppsEliminated · 25 days · jury
5. 5Julie Alley13th voted out · 24 days · jury
6. 6Drew Basile12th voted out · 23 days · jury
7. 7Emily Flippen2 seasons played11th voted out · 21 days · jury
8. 8Bruce Perreault2 seasons played10th voted out · 19 days · jury
9. 9Kendra McQuarrie9th voted out · 17 days · jury
10. 10Kellie Nalbandian8th voted out · 16 days · jury
11. 11Kaleb Gebrewold7th voted out · 14 days · jury
12. 12Nicholas "Sifu" Alsup6th voted out · 14 days
13. 13Janani "J. Maya" Krishnan-Jha5th voted out · 13 days
14. 14Brandon "Brando" Meyer4th voted out · 11 days
15. 15Sean Edwards3rd voted out · 9 days
16. 16Sabiyah Broderick2nd voted out · 7 days
17. 17Brandon Donlon1st voted out · 5 days
18. 18Hannah RoseQuit · 3 days

Played here, and came back for Season 50

• Dee ValladaresWinner · 26 days
• Emily Flippen7th · 21 days

Trivia from Survivor 45

• When the Survivor Auction returned in Survivor 45, what happened to the player left holding the most money?

  They lost their vote at the next Tribal — The auction had been off the air since Worlds Apart; Probst said it "had become about one thing — getting an advantage." It came back without advantages and with this penalty.

• Who won Survivor 45?

  Dee Valladares — Dee won 5–3 over Austin, closing out one of the strongest seasons of the new era.

• Whose Shot in the Dark cancelled 11 votes, the most ever voided by a single play?

  Kaleb Gebrewold — Kaleb rolled the die in Season 45 with 11 votes coming his way and came up Safe. No idol has ever cancelled that many.