Didi Conley

**Deidre "Didi" Conley** is a contestant from *Survivor: South Africa*.

Known for her 3 individual immunity wins and her chaotic relationship with Leon Petchers, Didi managed to survive with 0 votes cast against her until Day 34 where she was blindsided in a 5-2-1 vote.

## Profile

The youngest contestant so far, Didi won't let her age hurt her chances at winning this game. She is a 19 year old student at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in business. Didi plans on being a dark horse throughout the game. She wants to snatch the win when no one else is expecting it.

**If You Could Bring 3 Things With You To The Island What Would They Be:** Stylish outfits, chocolate milk, and a helicopter.

**What Past Player Will You Be Most Like:** I wanna be the youngest person on a season and win just like Kevin Jacobson did. Also, I love Grace Kim and hope to play a future season with her.

**Why Will You Be Sole Survivor:** Cause it'd be fun(ny) to become rich!

## Survivor

Didi began the game on the Tsonga tribe. Early on, she became part of the majority 6 person alliance on the tribe. The alliance consisted of herself, Irene Chen, Leon Petchers, Mason Jefferson, Marco Singh, and Lindsay Richards. On Day 3, Tsonga lost the first immunity challenge. Most of the tribe wanted to target Aaron Jackson for being the reason the tribe lost the challenge. At tribal, Didi voted for Aaron. Aaron was voted out in a unanimous 9-1 vote. On Day 6, Tsonga lost immunity again. Didi's alliance threw out Kaitlyn Sanktley's name since she was not in the alliance and didn't talk to many people on the tribe. At tribal, Didi's whole alliance stuck together and Kaitlyn was voted out in a 6-3 vote. On Day 9, Tsonga finally did something right and won immunity. Back at camp, Didi screamed and started running around the tribe camp. She celebrated the fact that Tsonga was not going to tribal that night. On Day 12, Tsonga lost immunity for the third time. Didi's alliance began noticing that Manuel Gutierrez and Mason were beginning to form a "bromance" type of relationship. This made Didi worry that Mason was not going to stick with the alliance. Her alliance decided to target Manuel so that Mason would focus back on the alliance. They let Donna Taintella know the plan for the vote. At tribal, Mason did end up flipping on the alliance and voted with Manuel, but Manuel was still voted out in a 6-2 vote.

On Day 13, a tribe swap occurred. Didi swapped to the Zulu tribe with her former Tsonga tribe member Leon. They were joined by 3 former Zulu members: Antonio Hernandez, Cody Singalay, and Daniel Jimenez. Didi and Leon decided to stick together. Each day on the swapped tribe, Didi and Leon bonded more and more. Didi even started to look at Leon as her "Survivor Brother." Leon and Didi decided to search for an idol. After a few hours of searching, Leon ended up finding the Zulu tribe idol. Zulu managed to win all 3 of the immunity challenges during the swapped phase of the game. Didi felt like she was going to make it far into the game and had a good shot at winning.

On Day 20, the merge occurred. Didi decided to be extra friendly at the merge feast. She began telling everyone funny stories and started singing her favorite songs. On Day 21, Didi became annoyed with Julio Rodriguez and his bossy personality. After the immunity challenge, she was hoping Julio would be voted out. A majority of the merged tribe started to notice that Julio and Marco were getting very close and seemed to be working together. At tribal, Julio ended up playing an idol on Marco, which caused Didi to start laughing so hard that she fell off of her stump. Julio was then voted out in an 11-2 vote. On Day 24, Didi won individual immunity. Back at camp, Didi decided to take a nap since she knew she wasn't going to be voted out. At tribal, Antonio and Daniel started going after each other. Didi knew that Daniel was close to Cody in the game, but wanted Antonio out because he won the first individual immunity and Didi thought of him as her biggest immunity threat. She voted for Antonio, who was voted out in an 8-4 vote. On Day 27, all of the OG Tsonga members decided to stick together, but excluded Irene who proved to be sneaky in the past. They decided that they wanted to target Irene before she could flip to the other side. Celeste Go and Lisa Mathieson found out about OG Tsonga's plan, and let Irene know about it. This caused Irene and Lindsay to get into a verbal altercation. At tribal, Irene told everyone that she was voting with the OG Zulu members. This gave the OG Zulu members a 6-5 majority. Right before the votes were read, Leon used his idol on himself. Irene was voted out in a 5-0 vote. Back at camp, Didi celebrated with Leon about his successful idol play. On Day 30, Didi started to become annoyed with Leon after he started offering multiple people Final 3 and Final 4 deals with him and Didi without checking with her first. Later that day, Didi won her second individual immunity challenge. Tribal was canceled that night after Lisa was medically removed from the game due to dehydration and exhaustion. On Day 32, Didi won her third individual immunity challenge. At camp after the challenge, Didi and Leon got into an argument after Didi confronted Leon about all of the deals he was making. She started to feel like she couldn't work with him anymore. Didi decided to target Marco since he was very smart at the game, and was underestimated. She let Mason and Celeste know about the plan since she knew they would most likely want to get rid of Marco as well. She decided to let Leon know about the plan as well, but he told her that he wanted to get rid of Daniel and not Marco. At tribal, Marco ended up using an idol on himself. The vote tied in a 3-3-0 vote between Daniel and Leon. Right before the revote, Didi realized that she was most likely the swing vote. Didi decided that Daniel would be a shield for her since people wanted him out due to his close bromance with Cody. She voted for Leon which made her sad personally. He was then blindsided in a 4-3 revote. Didi cried as Leon left tribal council. On Day 34, Didi barely lost immunity to Mason. Back at camp, Didi heard that Lindsay and Mason wanted Josh Sinclair out for being a social threat. Didi felt like Josh was someone she could work with in the future and didn't want to vote him out. She felt like everyone was targeting Daniel too much and not Cody. She believed that Cody was more of a strategic threat than Daniel. At tribal, Didi felt like her immunity wins and likable personality would make her a huge target. She told everyone that there were bigger threats than her still in the game. Didi was then voted out in a 5-2-1 vote. She finished in 8th place and became the 6th member of the jury.

At Final Tribal Council, Didi told Marco that his game seemed super smart and dumb at the same time. She told him that he made some brilliant game moves, but also was unaware of what was happening a lot during the game. She complimented Josh on his social game, but said all he mostly did was have regular life conversations with people and win some immunity challenges. She told Lindsay that she felt like she played a good social and strategic game. She mentioned that girl power was important to her as well. In the end, Didi voted for Lindsay to become the Sole Survivor. Lindsay ended up winning and beating Josh and Marco in a 5-3-2 final vote.