Michele Fitzgerald
The social closer who kept landing on the bottom and kept climbing back to the final three.
Sole Survivor
- Won Survivor 32: Kaôh Rōng (2016) after 39 days.
Known for
Michele started Kaôh Rōng in a Beauty-tribe women's trio with Anna Khait and Julia Sokolowski, then held swing power with Nick Maiorano at the merge. She chose the women's alliance and helped blindside Nick. Left out of the Scot Pollard vote, she bought her way back in by turning on Julia and survived Tai Trang throwing an Extra Vote at her. A come-from-behind Final Immunity win and an unprecedented reward let her strip Neal Gottlieb's jury vote. The jury took her social game over Aubry Bracco's strategy, 5-2-0.
Winners at War started strong, with Michele helping organize Sele's cuts of Danni and Ethan. Then a swap stuck her with ex-boyfriend Wendell Holland, and after the merge she lived on the wrong side of the numbers. She scraped by on Parvati Shallow's bequeathed Fire Tokens, a lucky coin-flip immunity, two clutch challenge wins and a late pact with Natalie Anderson. She reached the end again, but the jury went to Tony Vlachos.
Background: Survivor Wiki
Season by season
Photos and logos: CBS
Where they rank
- 4thMost times at the final tribal council2 finals
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)
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- “Survivor: Winners at War,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Winners_at_War.
- “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.
- “Michele Fitzgerald,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Michele_Fitzgerald.