Randy Bailey
Gabon's professional grump, who hated nearly everyone out loud and got burned by a fake idol for it.
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Randy made his disdain for Gabon's sunnier castaways a full-time job, starting with Gillian Larson on a struggling Fang tribe. The first tribe switch rescued him: drafted onto the new Kota, he scored every goal in the next Immunity Challenge and rode a long winning streak while Fang suffered. A second switch and the merge shoved him back into the minority, and nobody would flip. So he went down swinging, trying to make the others miserable enough to vote for him, then presenting the idol Bob Crowley had handed him. It was a fake. Sugar Kiper laughed loudly, and Randy went to the jury, where he grilled Bob about the fake and still ended up voting for him to win.
Heroes vs. Villains lasted a week. He was the oldest Villain and struggled in challenges, pushed hard for Parvati Shallow as the real danger, and was voted out unanimously at the tribe's first Tribal instead, tossing his buff into the fire on the way out.
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- “Randy Bailey,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Randy_Bailey.