Ryan Ashley

Tribe(s): Samburu, Moto Maji
Finish: 7/24
Days Lasted: 34

Ryan is a contestant from *Survivor: Africa*.

## Survivor: Africa

Ryan began *Survivor: Africa* originally on the red Samburu tribe, which was initially dysfunctional because Angelo, Maria, Victoria and Yvie all wanted the tribe run their way. Over the first few days, Ryan and her closest ally Sarah found themselves in an anti-Victoria alliance with Angelo, Emily, Maria, Ray and Yvie. When Samburu lost the first immunity challenge, this majority alliance eliminated Victoria. With their biggest target now gone, tension within the alliance grew to the point that Angelo and Yvie argued as they fought to be the new leader of the tribe. At Samburu's second tribal council, Ryan and Sarah voted out Yvie with majority of the tribe for being too confrontational. Having worked with every player on the tribe at one point in the first week of the game, Angelo, Sarah and Ryan thought they were in the most powerful position. However, the girls were soon informed that Angelo was trying to get the tribe to turn on Sarah. At tribal council, Sarah and Ryan worked with Colby, Curtis, Lance, Ray and Shelby to eliminate their untrustworthy ally Angelo.

On Day 12, both Samburu and the rival Boran tribes were told they would be attending a Double Tribal Council. Angelo's remaining allies Emily and Maria tried to target Ryan, but Sarah and Ryan kept their majority to eliminate Ray. At the tribe switch, Sarah remained on Samburu along with Emily, Lance and Ryan whilst being joined by Benji, Fenella, Heath, Sharn and Shonee from the original Boran tribe. Despite being down in numbers, Benji and Sharn told the original Samburu players they would only be safe if they voted together for Fenella. Sarah agreed to these conditions and, with Benji and Sharn switching their votes to Shonee, Samburu had the majority to eliminate Fenella. This was only a temporary truce because Sarah and Ryan then flipped on Samburu at their next loss to eliminate Lance. This majority then agreed to go after Emily, but Sarah and Ryan switched their vote to Sharn at the last minute in the rare case that Emily had a Hidden Immunity Idol.

With their two targets now eliminated, Sarah and Ryan feared the original Boran castaways would pick  one of them off next. However, Benji approached the girls once again and Heath was blindsided at Samburu's next loss. When the tribes merged on Day 25, Sarah and Ryan were confident in their relationship with Benji but knew they were in a 7-5 minority position against the original Boran castaways. Their luck appeared to turn for the better when Palesa wanted to work with Samburu and force a tie, but Maria shared this information with Boran and Palesa was blindsided at the first merged tribal council. The Samburu Four voted for David at the next tribal council, which forced a tie between him and Curtis when Boran split their votes between Curtis and Ryan. Ryan voted for David again at the revote and he was eliminated when Ethan and Sophie switched to their vote against him.

Despite Samburu still holding a minority position, Benji wanted them to vote out Sharn and assured Sarah and Ryan that she didn't hold an idol. This was only a ploy however, because Sharn played her idol at tribal council and Sarah was voted out with the second most number of votes. The Samburu castaways remained in the minority at the next three tribal councils, leading to the consecutive eliminations of Shelby, Curtis and Ryan. As the sixth member of the jury, Ryan voted for Ethan to win the title of Sole Survivor.