Wayne Gardner

Wayne Gardner is a contestant from .
Wayne was targeted almost instantly because of his age, and was seen as a liability in the challenges. However, Kakula's plan to stick together saved him over Ben Wynn. After a tribe swap, Gabrielle Richens was torn between joining her original alliance or siding with the women. In the end, she betrayed the Kakula alliance, and helped the former Moso members take out Wayne.
==Profile==
Retrieved from au.yahoo.com
In 1987 this former Wollongong kid became the first Australian to win the 500CC Motorcycle Championship. He later had a series of honours bestowed upon him, including the ABC Sportsman of the Year and Member of the Order of Australia (OAM).
Wayne announced his retirement from motorcycle racing in 1992 with 18 Grand Prix wins under his belt. In 1993, he began his four wheel racing career. By the end of the first year, he on the podium with a third place in the Bathurst 1000. Wayne went on to start his own V8 team before spending a few years driving in the All-Japan Grand Touring Championship, retiring from professional motor racing in 2003, after a quarter of a century of racing.
He now runs the family business in wholesale motorcycle parts in Wollongong but is based on the northern beaches with his wife Toni and sons Remy, 8, and Luca, 6. Wayne also has a home in Monaco.
The 46-year-old realises roughing it on Celebrity Survivor is far removed from his former jet setting lifestyle but as a matter of fact, he’s looking forward it.
“Some of the best memories of my career are from the early days when I was struggling and I was sleeping in cars and had no money,” he says. “Of course now, it’s a different scenario but I still respect and enjoyed that time so I think this is kind of winding the clock back a bit and doing that again and that for me, is good fun so I’m not scared.”
Wayne’s only slight worry is that his age may be a weakness. “Maybe 46 isn’t as young as some of the other contestants – it could be one of those things,” he says. “But I think my strengths will probably be what they were in my motorcycling career – my dogged determination, wanting to go and have fun and enjoy an experience that I think is once in a lifetime.”
As for what Wayne will miss the most, it’s naturally his wife and kids.
“I’m going to miss my family more than anything,” he says. “I’ll also miss my lifestyle and my phone – I live on it! And because I’m an adrenaline junkie, I’m going to miss riding my motorcycle."
Wayne's chosen charity is Bear Cottage.
==Celebrity Survivor Australia==
Known as one of the weaker members of the Kakula tribe, Wayne immediately formed a tight bond with Guy Leech, and despite his poor performances in challenges he was well-liked and well-respected by the rest of his tribe, bar Gabrielle Richens who he frequently clashed with and expressed contempt for, making her out to be ditzy and out of her element. The Kakula tribe were incredibly dominant from the beginning, winning the first three challenges of the season, all three being Reward Challenges with one of them providing an extra member in Ben Wynn. Wayne was almost in danger of being voted out on Day 5 due to his lack of usefulness compared to new member Ben, however Guy rallied his tribemates to stick together and keep Wayne, removing the larger threat Ben in the process.
The game was shaken up by a Tribe Switch on Day 6, however Wayne found himself with luck on his side, remaining on Kakula with allies Gabrielle and Guy. However, Wayne's clashes with Gabrielle and a lack of effort from both Wayne and Guy to keep Gabrielle within their alliance tempted Gabrielle to flip to the girls' side. Kakula would once again prove to the dominant tribe, winning the next two Immunity Challenges, however Wayne's luck would run out when Kakula lost the Day 11 Immunity Challenge to the now strengthened Moso tribe. Wayne and Guy assumed that Gabrielle would want to remain Kakula strong and meet up with David Oldfield and Elton Flatley at the merge, however both men were shocked when Gabrielle flipped and blindsided Wayne in a 3-2 vote, missing out on the merge by just one day.<tabber>Challenge History=
Episode	TribeAffiliation	Challenge 	Challenge Type	Sit-Out?	Result
1 	rowspan="10" 	Underwater Knot	Reward 	No 	
1 	Pig Wrestling 	Reward/Immunity	No 	 	
2 	Coconut Juice 	Reward 	No 	 	
2 	Bislama Memory 	Immunity 	No 	 	
3 	Basket Stomp 	Reward 	No 	 	
3 	Prison Rescue 	Immunity 	No 	 	
4 	Human Thread 	Reward 	No 	 	
4 	Plank Race 	Immunity 	No 	 	
5 	Passing Water 	Reward 	Yes 	 	
5 	Pack Race 	Immunity 	No 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	
|-|Voting History=
Episode	Wayne'sVotes	Voted AgainstWayne
1 	 	
2 	 	
3 	 	
4 	 	
5 	 	
 	 	
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==Post-Survivor==
==Trivia==
* Wayne's luxury item was a towel.
==References==
Category:Contestants
Category:Male Contestants
Category:Australian Survivor
Category:Australian Survivor Contestants
Category:Celebrity Survivor Australia
Category:Celebrity Survivor Australia Contestants
Category:Kakula Tribe
Category:1959 births
Category:Living people
Category:8th Place