Priya

* Survivor
 Survivor: San Juan Del Sur
Tribe(s): Hunahpu, Coyopa, Huyopa
Finish: 4/20
 Survivor: Gabon

Tribe(s): Kota, Fang
Finish: 10/18
Tribe(s): La Flor, Espada, Libertad
Finish: Runner-Up/20
 Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains

Tribe(s): Villains, Yin-Yang
Finish: 13/28
Tribe(s): Malakal
Finish: 16/20
 Survivor: One World
Tribe(s): Salani, Tikiano
Finish: 8/20
Days Lasted: 30

Priya is a contestant from *Survivor: San Juan Del Sur*, *Survivor: Gabon, Survivor: Nicaragua,* *Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Survivor: Micronesia and Survivor: One World*.

She later returned as one of the sixteen veteran *Survivor* castaways as a housemate on Big Brother 1. Priya was evicted eighth on Day 51, finishing in 9th place.

## Survivor: San Juan Del Sur

Priya began *Survivor: San Juan Del Sur* on the blue Hunahpu tribe. At their first loss, David was voted out unanimously for his poor work ethic, poor challenge ability and poor social skills. Priya then made an alliance with Skye, Aisha, Leo, Ryan and Travis to secure their safety in the game. At the tribes second loss, the alliance of six voted together in sending Richard home.

Priya was then switched to the orange Coyopa tribe with his original members Skye, Leo and Ryan. The power couple formed by Leo and Skye was seen as threatening by the rest of the tribe and Skye was voted out when the tribe lost immunity. The next person to be voted out when Coyopa lost was Thomas for being a large threat.

At this point, Priya made the merge. The post-switch Hunahpu tribe stuck together and voted out Leo, Katrina and Marina. However, Travis was too much of a physical threat to their alliance and was blindsided. The post-switch Coyopa's then lost Ryan and Joel, meaning Priya was the sole post-switch Coyopa. With good fortune, Priya won the next two immunity challenges, saving herself and resulting in the eliminations of Lina and Liam. She however, did not win the final immunity challenge and was voted out, becoming the final member of the jury. At the Final Tribal Council, Priya voted for Aisha to win the title of Sole Survivor.

## Survivor: Gabon

Priya began *Survivor: Gabon* originally on the yellow Kota tribe. She formed a strong alliance of four with Domenic, Erinn and Leo but were quickly placed in the minority when a coalition containing Aisha, Thomas, Tison, Travis and Vanessa was formed. Kota was lucky enough to win the first four immunity challenges in a row. At the tribe switch, Priya was switched to the red Fang tribe along with Tison, Travis and Vanessa. The original Kota members agreed they would stick together, but Priya didn't fully trust them because they were apart of the coalition against her ally. When Fang lost their first challenge together, Priya flipped to work with the Outsider Alliance and Tison was voted out. The tribe was then evenly split along original tribal lines and Priya flipped again, causing a tied vote between Richard and Travis at their second consecutive tribal council. At the revote, Priya voted for Travis thinking fellow Fang allies would vote for him too. However, Lina and Penny flipped which left Priya on the outs and eliminated Richard.

After an immunity challenge win, Fang lost again. Priya kept a tight alliance with Lina and Penny and they agreed to vote with each other. Though the original Kota members agreed to vote for Penny, the trio voted together to eliminate Travis. At the second tribe switch, Priya was switched back to Kota along with Vanessa whilst joining Leo, Ryan and Skye. Though Priya wasn't aligned with any members of this new tribe, her and Vanessa settled their differences to overthrow the opposing alliance. At Kota's first loss, they voted for Skye in an attempt to separate her relationship with Leo. This plan was unsuccessful and Priya was made the first member of the jury. At the Final Tribal Council, Priya voted for Skye to win the title of Sole Survivor because she was able to keep her threat status under wraps the entire time.

### Voting History

 3
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 18
 22

## Survivor: Nicaragua

In her third chance during *Survivor: Nicaragua*, Priya was on the yellow La Flor tribe. The La Flor tribe won the first three immunity challenges and did not have to go to tribal council. When La Flor lost their first tribal council, Hayden was voted out for his poor work ethic around camp and in the challenges. At the Tribe Switch, Priya was on the blue Espada tribe with Kyle, Vanessa, Adelaide and Matthew from her original tribe. Priya's alliance received a setback when Adelaide was voted out. When they lost the second time, Cody was voted out. Espada won immunity challenges and were safe until the merge.

Priya was on the merged red Libertad tribe, joining with some of her old tribe mates. Priya voted with the majority on a series of times, voting out Peighton and strong challenge threats, Kyle and Richard. Her alliance dominated and continued to pick off the opposing alliance. At the Final Six, her alliance member Matthew orchestrated a blindside against Liam after becoming increasingly worried for his position in the game. This secured him and Priya a spot in the Final Three with Darcy. However, the jury felt that Priya had a weaker social and strategic game than Darcy. She received two of nine jury vote from Richard and Liam and was given the title of Runner-Up.

## Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains

Priya was placed on the Villains tribe during *Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains* for her cut-throat and scrappy gameplay. The female villains created The Villainesses early on and decided to throw the first challenge to eliminate Cody, a perceived threat. They proceeded to win four immunity challenges, saving themselves. When the lost the next three times, Brendan, Jase and Cherry were voted out. Sarah was then blindsided when she wanted to change her alliance. At this point, the women's alliance broke down and Bailey and Darcy were sent home when the tribe lost the next challenges. At this point, Priya made the merge, Bethany was the first person voted out by the Villains alliance. However, the Villains could sense distrust and placed it on Priya. She was blindsided, narrowly missing out on the jury.

## Survivor: Micronesia

Her infectious personality and villainous attitude earned Priya a spot as a Favorite on the Malakal Tribe of *Survivor: Micronesia*. The favourites lost the first immunity challenge and had to vote someone out. For already being a Sole Survivor, some of the castaways voted for Cherry. They won the next two challenges, saving the tribe from elimination. On Day 11, Priya was voted out for having a threatening style of gameplay.

### Voting History

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## Survivor: One World

In her sixth attempt, Priya returned for Survivor: One World with her niece, Rani. She was placed on the blue Salani tribe originally along with the other returning players, where Salani was the more dominant of the two original tribes. During this time, Priya formed the Salani Alliance with Amy, Ashton, Jase and Mickey. At their only loss on Day 8, this alliance voted out Karina for being least connected and physically weakest.

After an evacuation sent Wednesday out of the game, Priya stayed on the blue Salani tribe at a tribe switch with her original tribe mates Summer, Jase, Mickey and Jorge. At Salani's first loss, Mickey told his allies to vote out his twin brother Jay as a sign of his loyalty to the Salani Alliance. Priya the continued to vote with this alliance in order to eliminate outsider Benjamin. The following morning, Summer quit the game because she was worried about the condition of Wednesday.

Priya then made it to the merge to find out that the rival Manono tribe had voted out Rani at the previous tribal council. Priya thought the Salani Alliance was in the majority at the first merged tribal council by voting out Josh. The alliance ultimately decided to blindside Ashton, but their rivals still got rid of Josh. This put the Salani Alliance in the minority, leading to the consecutive eliminations of Ashton and Amy. Priya followed her allies shortly after on Day 30. At the Final Tribal Council, she voted for the eventual Sole Survivor Jase to win.

## Big Brother 1

In November 2020, Priya competed on Big Brother 1. As part of the Backwards Week Twist, Priya nominated Kurtis and Tiffany for the first eviction, but was worried when her ally Lina was nominated by the house along with Gabriel. Luckily for her, Richard won the first HOH competition and voted to evict Gabriel and save her Outsider Alliance ally Lina. Priya then kept a low profile in the second week whilst HOH Peighton nominated *Survivor: The Australian Outback* alum Bella and Cherry. Peighton wanted the house to evict Cherry because he was a former Sole Survivor, but Priya voted with the majority to evict Bella and keep Cherry around as a shield. In Week 3, Priya won the Time Warp immunity competition and decided to share her immunity with her ally Richard. Unfortunately, their ally Lina was nominated by Ricardo and she was evicted.

After winning the Week 4 HOH competition, Priya decided to nominate Lea and Spencer as pawns with the intention of replacing one of them with Alana because she won two previous POV competitions. Her plan was executed perfectly and Alana was evicted. In Week 5, Priya was in a comfortable position because Richard became the next HOH and Cherry shared his Time Warp immunity with Priya. With huge targets on their backs, Priya and her allies played it safe and weaker player Lea was unanimously evicted. Priya and Richard's targets were too large by Week 6 because HOH Tiffany nominated them for eviction. The pair were protected after Belle used the veto on Priya, and the house evicted replacement nominee Peighton over Richard.

Shortly after Peighton's eviction, the housemates competed in a weeks worth of competitions in an hour as part of a Double Eviction. Cherry became the next HOH and originally nominated Kurtis and Tim for eviction, but named Richard as the replacement nominee after Tim won the POV. This angered Priya because she considered Cherry and Richard her two closest allies in the house. Though Priya voted to evict Kurtis, Richard was evicted. Cherry's move proved to be Priya's demise because HOH Tim nominated Cherry and Priya for eviction. Tim even used the veto on Cherry and named Ricardo as a replacement pawn. This sealed Priya's fate and she became the third member of the jury in a 4-2 vote, where she voted for Tiffany to win the season.

## Trivia

* Priya is the first Indian castaway to compete on the show.
* Priya holds the record for the most number of votes cast against her during *San Juan Del Sur*, with 14.
* Priya's elimination during *Survivor: Gabon* made her the first castaway to be eliminated on Day 22.
* She is the highest ranking member of the La Flor tribe.
* Priya is the only castaway to be both a pre-merge castaway that made it on the jury (during *Gabon*) and be a merged castaway that missed out on the jury (during *Heroes vs. Villains*).
* Priya is currently the only player to return as a 'Favorite' on a Fans vs. Favorites season on their fifth attempt.
* Priya, along with nineteen other former Survivor contestants, competed in the *Survivor* spin-off, Wawanakwa Island, in January 2016. She finished in 4th place.