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Kelly Wiglesworth
2 seasons · 63 days

Kelly Wiglesworth

The river guide whose conscience broke the first alliance, and whose immunity run nearly beat it.

2
seasons played
63 days
on the island
2nd
best finish
1
final tribal council

Known for

Kelly helped found the Tagi Alliance in Borneo alongside Richard Hatch, Susan Hawk and Rudy Boesch, and it steamrolled Pagong after the merge. Then her conscience started talking. She drifted from the bloc to vote her own way, the alliance marked her, and she answered by winning the final four immunity challenges in a row to drag herself to the end. At the final four tie she flipped her revote onto Susan, and at the last vote she cut Rudy as the bigger jury threat. Susan's rats-and-snakes speech followed, and Richard took the title 4-3.

Fans voted her into Cambodia, where she played a quiet, loyal, old-school game through two tribe swaps and linked up with the Bayon Alliance at the merge. Her bond with Joe Anglim made her a stand-in target on a night he wore immunity, and Stephen Fishbach organized her blindside. On the jury she asked the finalists to pick a number from 1 to 10, the same question that had once cost her a vote.

Background: Survivor Wiki

Season by season

  1. Kelly Wiglesworth, Survivor 1: Borneo
    2Survivor 1: Borneoage 22, Kernville, California2nd of 16 · 39 days
  2. Kelly Wiglesworth, Survivor 31: Cambodia
    11Survivor 31: Cambodiaage 38, Greensboro, North Carolina11th of 20 · 24 days · jury

Photos and logos: CBS

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: Borneo,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Borneo.
  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. “Kelly Wiglesworth,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Kelly_Wiglesworth.

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