Heather

Tribe(s): Sa'ula, Ta'alo, Manumalo
Finish: 4/24
Days Lasted: 38

Heather is a contestant from *Survivor: Island of Secrets*.

## Survivor: Island of Secrets

For living in Massachusetts at the time of filming, Heather began *Survivor: Island of Secrets* on the the green Sa'ula tribe with castaways from eastern regions of the United States. Heather and the other new players of Sa'ula agreed that *The Amazon* veteran Julia was an extremely dangerous player and decided to ostracise her from the tribes strategic decisions. After refusing to send Julia to the Island of Secrets on Day 3, Heather visited and won Tatianna's Legacy Advantage from *Millennials vs. Gen X*. At Sa'ula's first loss, Heather voted with the tribe to unanimously eliminate Julia. After Christopher accepted the offer to mutiny, he chose to switch him and Sneha with Anthony and Rahul. Heather and the original Sa'ula agreed to throw the challenge to keep Christopher and Sneha safe, but they were unsuccessful and Christopher was voted out during the Double Tribal Council. During this round, Heather went to the Island of Secrets again and won Kay J's Extra Vote from *Thailand II*.

Heather was unselected at the tribe dissolve and became a member of Ta'alo by default along with her original ally Sneha. There was a clear division on this new tribe due to the rivalry between Anthony and Christian that began on *David vs. Goliath*. Due to the bad blood between the Laumei and Sa'ula castaways, Heather voted for Anthony with Christian, Danni, Davis, Doug and Sneha at their first loss on Day 18. However, Danni and Doug flipped to blindside Davis. As part of the Double Elimination on Day 20, Heather threw her vote to Christian in order to avoid a tie before voting with the numbers to eliminate him at the second tribal of the night. After the merge at the Final Thirteen, Heather's SALT Alliance decided to keep a low profile and worked with the original Laumei and Ta'alo castaways. On Day 22, Heather went to the Island of Secrets again and won Chanelle's unusued Hidden Immunity Idol from *Mamanuca Islands*. At the first merged tribal council, Shannon was voted out when Heather's group of ten split the votes between her and Imani.

Sa'ula then decided to work with the Laumei castaways by splitting the votes between Doug and J'Tia from Ta'alo. However, Heather was blindsided at tribal when Laumei gathered outsiders Imani and Micah to flip the votes and eliminate Sneha. Feeling on the outs with Declan and Elias, Heather was sent to the Island of Secrets once more on Day 26 but failed to obtain an advantage. The Sa'ula castaways voted for Doug but a null vote occurred when Doug, Harmony and Heather all saved themselves with an idol. In a shocking twist, Harmony used Johanna's rock from *The Australian Outback* to cast the sole vote to eliminate Declan. With the tribe fractured, Laumei and Sa'ula agreed to work together at the next vote in order to unanimously eliminate J'Tia.

The rivalry between the Laumei and Sa'ula castaways had begun at the mutiny and had dissipated by the Final Nine. However, Elias and Heather were still angry that they had lost Declan and managed to bring in the rest of the tribe to turn on Laumei which led to Joshua's blindside. Heather worked her way into the majority at the next two votes, leading to Micah and Doug's elimination. At the Final Six, Heather began to envisage herself at the Final Tribal Council. In addition to her alliance with Elias, Heather made a Final Three pact with Danni and Imani. Her first course of action was to get rid of her biggest threat Harmony. At tribal, Heather used her Extra Vote to split the votes between Anthony and Harmony. She also used her Legacy Advantage to guarantee herself a spot in the Final Five, which led to Harmony's elimination.

At the Final Five, it appeared that Heather would vote with her core alliance of Elias and her other alliance of women in order to eliminate Anthony. However, Danni and Imani convinced Heather that Elias was the biggest threat left in the game because he won a majority of the individual immunity challenges. Heather decided she wanted to go to the end with the women and was confident that they would stick together to vote out Anthony at the next tribal anyway, so she voted with the women to eliminate Elias. After Imani won the final individual immunity challenge, Heather voted with her allies to eliminate Anthony. However, the girls turned on Heather because they considered her the most aggressive player left in the game and she became the final member of the jury. At the Final Tribal Council, she voted for Danni to win the title of Sole Survivor.

## Trivia

* Heather was the highest ranking member of the original Sa'ula tribe.
* Heather and J'Tia hold the record for the most visits to the Island of Secrets, with four.
	+ She holds the record for obtaining the most advantages through the island, with three.
	+ She is also the highest ranking player on *Island of Secrets* to win an advantage.
	+ Heather holds the record for the latest play of the Extra Vote, being on Day 36.