Kasey Portero

* 25
* 21

**Kasey Portero** is a castaway from *Survivor 21* and *Survivor 25*.

Kasey was an all around package between social, strategic and physical threat in *21*. Entering the merge in the majority, Kasey was able to win two individual immunity challenges that made her an early merge target. Despite having the numbers in the game, loved one pair Loren Kang and Magnus Kang flipped against her, deeming her a threat to win the game.

Returning as a Favorite in *25*, Kasey still wanted to play the assertive and strategic game, finding herself in a middle position between the Fans and Favorties. After spearheading an array of blindsides while constantly flipping between the swapped Berhala and swapped Pemuja Alliances, Kasey's threat level grew with each Tribal Council she survived. After Talon Rowe's vote out, Kasey's middle position became aware to everyone in the game and she failed to win immunity on Day 38, her allies realized she was too big of a threat to keep in the game, causing her to fall one day short of making it to the Final Tribal Council.

## Profile

* Survivor 25

**Age:** 22**Current Residence:** Chicago, IL**Occupation:** College Student**Relationship to Significant Castaway:** Kayla's twin sister

## Survivor

### Survivor 21

**^1**  In "Survivor 21 Episode 8", Eddie used a Hidden Immunity Idol on Griffin, negating Kasey's vote against him. Because Hidden Immunity Idols were used on Griffin and Loren, and negated all the votes cast at Tribal Council, a vote restart was held between the non-immune players, Kasey voted for Dennis on the revote.

### Survivor 25

Kasey returned as one of ten Favorites that comprised the Berhala tribe. Kasey was the founder of a pact to stick together between Molan Bai, Jax Nicholson, Samir Zaman, Sammie Woodside and Ziya Bakshi. After Berhala lost the first immunity challenge, Kasey realized that she held power to blindside Samir and seize power of the tribe. As soon as they returned from the challenge, Kasey pulled Ben Dubois and Patrick Palicio to the side to expose the pact in order to gain their loyalty. Knowing that Ahmad Maseeh still held a grudge against Samir, Kasey offered him the chance to blindside Samir. At Tribal Council, Kasey the vote went her way and Samir was blindsided in a 5-3-2 vote. With Tribal Council's vote leading to a hectic night, Kasey found herself on the outside of the drama and protected from being the next threat. Kenza Bannani approached Kasey with the plan to target the public duo, Molan and Ziya, but Kasey's relationship with them allowed her to think of an alternative. When Berhala lost the second immunity challenge, Kasey was approached by Molan and Ziya on pinning their votes on Ahmad with Sammie's help. Kasey conversed with Sammie about what would be the best move for them moving forward. At Tribal Council, Kasey and Sammie ruined Kenza's plan to split the vote, by blindsiding Ahmad. For the second time after Tribal Council, Kasey held the power and direction of the vote. Knowing her position in the game, Kasey felt threatened by Ben's position as nearly similar as hers. However, her plans were halted when Berhala won the immunity challenge.

On Day 10, Kasey was one of the four Favorites that were swapped to the Pemuja tribe. The swapped Pemuja proved to be the stronger tribe when they won the first immunity challenge as a new tribe. Upon returning to camp, Kasey was approached by Clara Souza about an all-women's alliance with Adrianna Crawford and Sammie. As a new alliance of four, they held the power, which wasn't shown until Day 17 when they lost their first immunity challenge as a new tribe. Kasey attempted to get their alliance to target Talon Rowe over Patrick, but for the first time, she was overruled at Tribal Council, leading to Patrick's vote out. The next cycle, the tribe won the following immunity challenge. Clara strong-armed the swapped Pemuja tribe to stick together in an upcoming merge.

The tribe's speculations were correct when the two tribes came together to merge as the Alyak tribe on Day 20. Kasey was able to test her power of persuasion over the new merged tribe when she was able to convince everyone to name the tribe Alyak, which was her sister's name backwards. With both swapped tribes wanting to stick together, Ziya attempted to bring former favorites, Ben, Kasey and Sammie to their side. Feeling that her ability to flip sides to work with the swapped Berhala depended on Ben and Sammie. After returning from the Immunity challenge without a win, the tribe decided to search the woods for a Hidden Immunity Idol. Kasey found the idol without any suspicion from anyone. Knowing her moves were limited with two other players playing the middle, Kasey took the easy route of sticking with the swapped tribes at the first merge vote. The following day, Kasey was presented with an option to blindside Ben if Kasey voted with the swapped Berhala tribe. Unable to win individual immunity at the next Tribal Council, Kasey felt confident in her position in the tribe that she took the risk to flip her vote to Ben at Tribal Council, managing to blindside him and her alliances in 6-5 vote.

With the power back in her hands, Kasey made sure that the swapped Pemuja alliance didn't suspect her as the one to flip against them, she strengthened her trust with Clara Souza and Phenix Hernandez. While still working with the Berhala tribe, Kasey pushed for them to target Adrianna as the mastermind of the opposing alliance. At Tribal Council, the vote went Kasey's way and Adrianna was voted out. On Day 30, Clara created a new alliance between Kasey, Phenix, Sammie and Molan. The new alliance set their sights on Ziya. Knowing that Molan was closer to Ziya than her, Ziya considered turning against the swapped Berhala alliance to become Molan's number one. At Tribal Council, her consideration became action when she voted Ziya out of the game. With the second vote of Double Elimination immediately after, Kasey attempted to keep the numbers between her two alliances even by wanting to target Talon. However, Clara pushing hard for Francine and Jax jumping ship permanently on her own personal deals, led to Kasey going with the alliance.

Despite Molan's betrayal to the new alliance, Kasey worked hard to keep her from being the next target. When Jax won immunity, the two public targets were Molan and Talon, Kasey was able to convince her alliance to keep Molan for another round and vote out outsider Talon. With Clara and Sammie picking up on Kasey's game after Tribal Council, Sammie attempted to rally votes to split votes between Kasey and Molan. Picking up on the energy around camp, Kasey went hard in the immunity challenge where she was able to win and secure a spot in the final five. When returning from the challenge, Sammie wanted the tribe to focus on Molan as the primary target. Clara, Kasey and Phenix saw Jax a bigger threat in the end game. At Tribal Council, Kasey's work to save Molan paid off and Jax went home. Despite no one on the tribe confirming her suspicions about being the next target, Kasey went into the challenge feeling that it was do or die, winning her second immunity challenge. With her threat level growing within the tribe, her influence started to wear off. At Tribal Council, Molan was voted out with Kasey joining after protecting her as much as she could. At the final immunity challenge on Day 38, Kasey knew once again that this was a must-win challenge, but when she failed to win the challenge, she knew that she would be next. Despite the trust built with Clara and Phenix throughout the game, they realized that Kasey was too big of a threat to keep in the game, ending her game in a 3-1 vote, one day short of Final Tribal Council.

## Trivia

 **Days spent on Redemption Island:** | 1

* In *25*, the merged tribe was named after Kasey's sister and former player, Kayla Portero, spelled backwards.
* In *Survivor 25*, Kasey lasted the most days of any contestant before receiving her first vote.
* Kasey is one of two returnees in *25* to improve on their original placement, the other being Ben Dubois.
	+ Coincidentally, Ben and Kasey both played the same original season.