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Keith Nale
2 seasons · 75 days

Keith Nale

The easygoing firefighter who dodged the chopping block so often it became a running joke.

2
seasons played
75 days
on the island
4th
best finish
0
final tribal councils

Known for

Keith played San Juan del Sur alongside his son Wes and spent most of it on the outside of every real alliance. He dug up an idol while telling everyone Jeremy Collins had it, played it the same night Jon Misch played his, and watched Wes take the fall. He also urged his allies at Tribal to hold the line, which was exactly the tell Jon needed. Still, he kept winning immunity when it counted and floated as a hired vote between factions, until Natalie Anderson sold him as the biggest threat at the final four.

Voted back for Cambodia, he bounced from Bayon to Ta Keo and back and hit the merge without casting a single vote. There he swung with Joe Anglim and Spencer Bledsoe toward the Bayon Alliance, then drifted into the Witches' Coven with Kelley Wentworth. Kelley even built him a fake idol, which he chose not to reveal on the night Jeremy's loyalty sent him to the jury.

Background: Survivor Wiki

Season by season

  1. Keith Nale, Survivor 29: San Juan del Sur
    4Survivor 29: San Juan del Surage 53, Shreveport, Louisiana4th of 18 · 38 days · jury
  2. Keith Nale, Survivor 31: Cambodia
    5Survivor 31: Cambodiaage 54, Keithville, Louisiana5th of 20 · 37 days · jury

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Where they rank

  • 28thMost times on the jury2 juries
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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)

  1. “Survivor: San Juan del Sur,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_San_Juan_del_Sur.
  2. “Survivor: Cambodia,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Cambodia.
  3. “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
  4. “Keith Nale,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Keith_Nale.

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