James "J.T." Thomas Jr.

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J.T. was the guy people wanted to see win, and some said so outright. He locked in with Stephen Fishbach on Day 2, and when the merge left Jalapao outnumbered, Coach Wade's Timbira fell apart around them. J.T. charmed the people he voted out, stacked up late immunity wins when the target finally landed, honored his pact by taking Stephen to the Final Two and won 7-0 without a single vote ever cast against him.

Heroes vs. Villains flipped the script. He ran the Heroes Alliance and found an idol, but grew convinced the Villains' women were purging their men, so he wrapped the idol in a note and handed it to Russell Hantz at a challenge. Russell kept it, and after the merge the Villains blindsided J.T. with his own idol in play. Game Changers went sideways too: stuck on a switched Nuku, he leaked his tribe's plan to Brad Culpepper at a Joint Tribal Council, costing ally Malcolm Freberg, then left his freshly found idol behind the night Sandra Diaz-Twine led the blindside against him.

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Season by season

1. 
   1Survivor 18: Tocantinsage 24, Mobile, Alabama1st of 16 · 39 days
2. 
   10Survivor 20: Heroes vs. Villainsage 25, Mobile, Alabama10th of 20 · 27 days · jury
3. 
   16Survivor 34: Game Changersage 31, Mobile, Alabama16th of 20 · 13 days

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