Shantel "Shan" Smith
Survivor 41's scheming queen of Ua, who had her own theme music and a knife waiting in the dark.
Known for
Shan's Ua tribe got flattened pre-merge, and she was the one who kept walking out of Tribal Council. Her trick was trust: Sara Wilson and JD Robinson both believed in her right up until she voted them out, and she even talked JD out of his extra vote before sending him home. She and Ricard Foyé, a fellow schemer, kept Ua's idol away from Genie Chen, and a summit visit bonded her with Liana Wallace. She hummed a scheming tune in an early confessional, and the editors turned it into a recurring score fans nicknamed the Shanthem.
Down in numbers at the merge, Shan flipped the script by helping build an eight-person majority with Danny McCray, Deshawn Radden and Liana. She used her extra vote to force a tie and blindside Naseer Muttalif. But she clashed constantly with Deshawn, her grip on Ricard frayed, and her allies quietly signed on to a split vote aimed at her. Ricard helped lead the blindside, and Shan left with her idol unplayed. On the jury, she voted for Erika Casupanan.
Background: Survivor Wiki
The season they played
- 8Survivor 41age 34, Washington, D.C.8th of 18 · 19 days · jury
Source
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