
Debbie Wanner
The gloriously eccentric wildcard who let everyone underestimate her, right up until she ran the vote.
Known for
Debbie brought a larger-than-life persona and a sprawling list of claimed careers to Kaôh Rōng, but she played real Survivor too. On Chan Loh she gathered the quirky outsiders to blindside Liz Markham, and after the merge she joined the women's alliance that took out Nick Maiorano. Trying to steer that group made Aubry Bracco nervous, and Aubry organized her blindside. On the jury Debbie backed Michele Fitzgerald.
Game Changers showed both sides. A blowup at Brad Culpepper made her look unstable, and she leaned into that image to stay off radars. Exile Island handed her an Extra Vote, and when Jeff Varner outed Zeke Smith as transgender, she firmly supported Zeke and scolded Varner. At the merge she was the architect of the Ozzy Lusth blindside, using the Extra Vote to lock it. That success made her overconfident, and Sarah Lacina defected from Debbie's Power Six to blindside her at the very next vote.
Background: Survivor Wiki
Season by season
Photos and logos: CBS
Where they rank
- 16thMost times on the jury2 juries
Seasons played, finishing positions, day counts, jury status, ages and hometowns come from the contestant table in each season's Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the series overview before publication.
Sources (4)
- “Survivor: Kaôh Rōng,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Kaôh_Rōng.
- “Survivor: Game Changers,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Game_Changers.
- “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
- “Debbie Wanner,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Debbie_Wanner.

