Maryanne Oketch

Known for

Maryanne brought huge energy to Taku, and it grated on some tribemates. She survived an early vote only because the majority preferred her to Marya Sherron, earned an extra vote on a journey and shared it with the tribe. She also opened a Beware Advantage whose idol took days of awkward phrase-shouting to activate. At the merge Jonathan Young exposed her as the Taku outsider, but Omar Zaheer kept protecting her. At a Split Tribal she and Drea Wheeler both played their idols, explaining that they wanted to break the pattern of Black players being sent to the jury early, and Tori Meehan went home instead.

Then she found a second idol and saw that Omar was taking over the game. She lined up Mike Turner's idol for the final five, pulled Romeo Escobar onto her side, and used her extra vote to blindside Omar. At Final Tribal she laid out how she had downplayed her game and built several paths to the end, and the jury crowned her 7-1-0.

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The season they played

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   1Survivor 42age 24, Ajax, Ontario1st of 18 · 26 days

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