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Stephen Fishbach
2 seasons · 68 days

Stephen Fishbach

The strategic brain behind Jalapao's takeover, who ran the game beside his best friend and got shut out by him at the end.

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

Known for

Stephen figured J.T. Thomas for a good old boy he would never click with, then made him his closest ally in Tocantins. The pair survived a Jalapao tribe that kept losing numbers, and when the merge came, Coach Wade's willingness to turn on his own Timbira handed them the keys. Stephen was the engine: a hidden idol found with Taj, a memory-game immunity win, the swing vote that cut Coach, and the push to turn on Taj before she could take J.T. to the end. J.T. won the final immunity and kept their Final Two pact, then used Final Tribal to paint Stephen as the disloyal one. The jury went unanimously for J.T.

Cambodia's Second Chance vote brought him back determined to be more aggressive. He found a new J.T. in Jeremy Collins, helped the Bayon Alliance land key blindsides and won a Vote Steal advantage. His fixation on taking out Joe Anglim, though, spooked his own side. Jeremy saved him once with an idol, but at the next Tribal a split vote and Spencer Bledsoe's flip sent Stephen to the jury.

Background: Survivor Wiki

Season by season

  1. Stephen Fishbach, Survivor 18: Tocantins
    2Survivor 18: Tocantinsage 29, New York City, New York2nd of 16 · 39 days
  2. Stephen Fishbach, Survivor 31: Cambodia
    9Survivor 31: Cambodiaage 36, New York, New York9th of 20 · 29 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: Tocantins,” Wikipedia, accessed September 28, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor:_Tocantins.
  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. “Stephen Fishbach,” Survivor Wiki, accessed September 28, 2026, https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Fishbach.

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