
Jonathan Young
The towering provider who carried tribes on his back, then came back with a strategist's brain to match.
Known for
In Survivor 42 Jonathan was Taku's engine, hauling the tribe through a water challenge the other tribes could not even finish, and a core member of the Taku Four. After the merge his blunt, sometimes condescending edge frayed those bonds, but his loyalty won him a new partner in Mike Turner. He made a deep run against all expectations until Mike beat him at fire, and he cast the lone jury vote for Mike.
In the Hands of the Fans, he still provided and still won, but he also schemed. When Dee Valladares and Kamilla Karthigesu blindsided his ally Charlie Davis on the swapped Cila, he took revenge on both at the merge, casting the swing vote on Kamilla and calling out Dee's lies until she went too. Working with Joe Hunter and Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick, he helped pick off threat after threat and used the Power Broker twist to vote at both halves of a Split Tribal Council. He beat Rizo Velovic at fire this time, but the jury favored Aubry Bracco's game, 8-3-0.
Background: Survivor Wiki
Season by season

2Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fansage 32, Gulf Shores, Alabama2nd of 24 · 26 daysSurvivor 50 profile, moments and fantasy scores →
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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 42,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_42.
- “Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_50:_In_the_Hands_of_the_Fans.
- “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
- “Jonathan Young,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Young.

