Ari Stripey

Ari Stripey competed on *Survivor: Galaxy's Edge* and *Survivor: Icons and Stars* and was the Sole Survivor of *Survivor: Sunset Rodeo* and winner of Taskmaster Series 2. They were also one of the Runner-Ups of *The Challenge: Dynamic Duos* with their partner, MJ Dawson.

I'm MJ, I'm 22, and I'm from Maryland. This is my best friend. This is my best friend. I work in finance -- and I work in advertising.
We're going on six years, almost, and we're very fun-loving, you know... we're very sarcastic and lighthearted. I think we both have really interesting backgrounds: Ari played Tumblr Survivor Galapagos, and MJ made fun of them in the tag - but then there's this whole other layer where Ari was born with a syndrome where they can't get past fifth place. We wanna win the money so we can move to Seattle and have a black cat, or a plant - like, plants are so expensive? It's like $200,000 in order for you to even think about propagating. That's like, serious. And we wanna be young when we have a plant, you know? So this is like... winning this is so much more than just life-changing.

**Favorite Survivor Player**: Sophie Clarke except everyone's gonna say that so let's go with Erik Reichenbach

**Most Used Emoji**: 🕺

**Desired Superpower**: Controlling the weather - I have very strong negative feelings about the sun

**Title of Autobiography**: We're Here, We're Queer, We're Full Of Existential Fear

**Best Advice Given**: You may find yourself in another part of the world; you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile; you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife, and you may ask yourself, "Well-- how did I get here?"

 Ep. 5 | Keegan
 Ep. 6 | Ali
 Ep. 7 | Jessie

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* Ari's superlative award at the end of the season was "Glad I Could Host The First Time You Ever Left Pre-Merge"
* Ari won the Fan Favorite Award.
* Ari won Host Favorite Award being selected by Katie Cole.

**Favorite Survivor Player**: my father coach wade

**Most Used Emoji**: 🌊

**Desired Superpower**: honestly i would not even care about the superpower i just need a dragon. not a big one. a really tiny dragon that i could put in my pocket and who would toast my english muffins and remind me that the power i need has been within me this whole time

**Title of Autobiography**: Too Gay To Function

**Best Advice Given**: Everybody makes mistakes... everybody has those days.

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* Ari's superlative award was "Okay, I Know You Hated Going Pre-Merge Last Time But You Didn't Have To Go So Hard This Time."
* Ari won the Best Duo Award with Jacob Coole

**Is there an age people should stop having birthday parties?** no, i think even after they are dead it would be nice to throw them a lil party

**Favourite kind of salad?** alright so you take a full head of romaine lettuce and chop it up, then throw in some hand-torn kale. cut a carrot into slivers and layer it in with the greens along with some small broccoli pieces. add whatever seeds and/or nuts you have on hand + some golden raisins. top it off with crispy chickpeas and a tahini dressing, and THAT'S a salad.

**What's the most iconic and/or star-like quality you possess?** my full name is arietis, which is the second brightest object in the aries constellation, so my entire existence is the embodiment of a star

**What was your favourite moment last time you played?** the music producer challenge!! i truly went all out and even though we didn't win, i personally believe our video was the best one ever made in retirement home history.

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