Don Falcone

**Don Falcone** is a contestant from *Survivor: Borneo*.

## Profile

*Retrieved from CBS.com*

Don was born and raised in Long Island, New York by his mother after losing his father at a young age. He was raised with a strong work ethic and learned quickly how to work with people. After graduating high school he went on to study Business at University and graduated top of his class. After this he went on to work in several companies and, as he descibes, started from the bottom and worked hard to get to the top. After working with various companies for a few years he went on to become an excecutive, a feat which he descibes as one of his proudest achievements in life.

Don describes himself as Hard working, strategic and self aware. He also admits to being fond of control. His perfect day would entail a relaxing day off. Usually spending time at home and catching up with his son or heading out and about in the greener parts of New York. He enjoys playing golf and lives a fairly high life. He's confident that his methodical thinking is going to get him far in the game but admits he'd be willing to step on someone else to get him farther.

## Survivor

Don made his first appearance during *Survivor: Borneo*, where he was on the Pagong tribe. He seemed to quickly step in to a male alliance with Gervase Peterson and Joel Klug, agreeing with them after they lost the first immunity challenge to vote out Joey Gladstone and then Marissa Cooper on the second. Despite her attemptin to vote him out. Pagong had a week off after winning. However after losing again, Don and the other men voted out Laura Byrne. At the next tribal Don's plan was to vote out Gianna Martello. However after Gervase Peterson made a comment around the campfire, saying that girls were the stupidest thing on the planet next to cows. This annoyed all of the female tribe members and Joel Klug was blamed for the comment. In order to stick with the majority Don voted out Joel with the rest of his tribe. At the next tribal he did the same, voting out Veronica Fera despite her campaign to vote him out.

Don was selected as the representative of Pagong to meet with Tagi's representative, Finn Hudson at a summit of the coast of Pagong's beach. The two were tasked with selecting a name for the merged tribe, as well as designing a tribe flag. Don came up with the name of Rattan, and Finn added an a to the end, making the tribe name Rattana. Over the night, Don attempted to get information, learning that Finn classes himself as one of the strongest players.

After returning from the summit Don told Pagong that they had two minutes to gather their personal items as they were moving to the Tagi tribe for the rest of the game. After the merge the ex-Pagong tribe members try to stick together, knowing they were outnumbered. Don, not liking Finn and Gervase managed to get the Tagi girls on side to vote him out as he was a big threat. However they were unable to recover from the number advantage. The next day both Don and Gervase agreed to get rid of Gianna to save Gervase. The loss of another number resulted in the Tagi alliance gaining momento and Lane and Rudy convinced Annia and Anna to vote with them and Don was subsequently voted out at the next tribal council.

At the Final Tribal Council he cast his vote for Kelly Wiglesworth to win the game, although Kelly ultimately lost to Richard by a jury vote of 4-3.

## Post-Survivor

* Don's son Mario was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2011 and lost his battle a year later.

## Trivia

* Don was the first contestant from New York.
* Don's luxury item in *Borneo* was a journal.
* Don was the first man to be voted out and be a member of the jury.
* Don accumulated the most votes against him in *Borneo*, with 11.