Adrian

**Adrian** is a castaway on *Survivor: Season 4*. He later competed as a houseguest on *Big Brother 38: Cliques 2*.

In *Survivor 4*, while he did originally have an apparent Final Three alliance with Rob and Trista, once his closest ally and their target Carla won immunity, their deal was put up in the air. Rob and Trista were also aligned with Arlo, and they wanted to keep him in potentially in order to have another Final Three partner. Because of this, they felt that taking Adrian out would be smarter because they believed Arlo and Carla would not align at the next vote compared to he and Carla, who would definitely force a tie. He and Carla voted for Arlo because they thought he was on the bottom. Meanwhile, Carla played her idol on Trista as a way to broker more trust with her.

In *Cliques 2*, MacArthur wins the first HOH of the season, securing her Brawn clique immunity for the cycle. Bonds, relationships, and even mutual distaste then quickly form inside and outside cliques. Within the cliques, on the Brains, Beth and Cody form a fast friendship over their shared geekiness, and later align themselves with Dian while Adrian and Omar align as former Survivor players. Dian also immediately distrusts Adrian, knowing he’s a schemer. In the Brawn clique, Benny and Naomi align together, and all four of them are quickly irritated by MacArthur’s loud personality. Within the Offbeats, they all are annoyed by each other’s eccentrics, and quickly don’t like each other. Desiree and Pete meanwhile have a slight favoring towards each other, bonding over their shared dislike of Annabelle, Sierra, and True. Finally, the Populars find themselves divided as Kiara and Sadie, and Deuce and Diego bond with each other. Ciara is annoyed by the women, so she grows close to the men. Outside the cliques meanwhile, Adrian and Kiara spearhead an early alliance consisting of all of the former Survivor players - themselves, Annabelle, Benny, Ciara, Desiree, Omar, Pete, and True. However, it quickly gets outed as Annabelle, Benny, Ciara, and True don’t trust the group, and eventually expose the alliance to HOH MacArthur and the latter three’s shared ally, Dian. Through this information, Dian throws Adrian under the bus for being the ring leader, and begins to form her own power structure consisting of herself, Benny, Ciara, three fellow LGBTQIA+ houseguests Diego, Marcos, and True, her two Brains allies Cody and Beth, and Popular Deuce, who is brought in by Cody and Diego. With the new alliance and MacArthur being told by her brewing showmance partner Annabelle about Adrian and Kiara’s early scheming, Adrian is placed as the target for the cycle. Finally, other outside clique bonds form as Cody and Deuce form an unlikely friendship despite being a geek and model respectively, Diego and Marcos form a mutual attraction to each other, Kiara and Sadie form a strong friendship with Sierra, who’s crushing hard on obsessing over Cody, and subsequently forms a one-sided feud with Beth, and Desmond aligns himself with Adrian, respecting him as a player and power. The next day, a competition is revealed where the three other cliques can compete for immunity for the cycle. In the end, the Offbeats secure immunity. Going into the nominations, the majority of the house, excluding Desiree, Desmond, Omar, Pete, Sadie, and Sierra, agree to target Adrian and Kiara for their strong allegiance to each other and scheming. At the nomination ceremony, MacArthur nominates Kiara and Sadie as pawns, with the intent to backdoor Adrian; she also doesn’t trust Kiara, and extremely annoyed by Sadie. Both Populars are shocked to be nominated, and Kiara questions MacArthur on it. MacArthur outwardly reveals that she doesn’t trust the duo, and knows they’re extremely tight. Afterwards, Kiara talks to Adrian and Sierra separately about winning the POV and taking her off the block to secure her safety. At the POV competition, Beth wins her first competition of the season. The majority of the house are thrilled over her victory, but Sierra is pissed. Kiara later on tries to convince Beth to take her off the block, promising to not target her. At the following POV ceremony, Beth takes Sadie off the block, and Adrian is nominated in her place, to his and Kiara’s complete shock. Both nominees don’t know what happened, but campaign hard against each other to stay. In the end, Adrian is evicted in a landslide 13-4 vote, only receiving votes to stay from his allies Desiree, Desmond, Omar, and Pete.