Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George
Tocantins' bubbly social connector who built the alliances, held the idol, and got cut by her own guys.
Known for
Taj landed on Jalapao and told her tribe she was married to NFL player Eddie George, which left some of them feeling she needed the money less. Sent to Exile with Timbira's Brendan Synnott, she talked him into sharing the idol clue and forged a cross-tribe Exile Alliance, later pulling in Stephen Fishbach and Sierra Reed. She figured out the idol was back at camp, found it, and handed it to Stephen for his pockets, then crafted a fake using the real one as a template. When J.T. Thomas stumbled on it, the Jalapao Three was born.
Down in numbers at the merge, the trio thrived as Timbira turned on itself. Taj flipped on Brendan, helped blindside immunity machine Tyson Apostol, and kept surviving. Late in the game, though, Stephen feared she would win the last immunity and take J.T. instead of him, so he talked J.T. into blindsiding her. At Final Tribal she demanded to know why, sparked a finalist spat, and voted for J.T.
Background: Survivor Wiki
The season they played
- 4Survivor 18: Tocantinsage 37, Nashville, Tennessee4th of 16 · 37 days · jury
Source
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