Gordon Lehman

**Gordon Archibald Charles Lehman** is the Sole Survivor of *Zovivor: Tibet*.

A dynamic yet volatile player, Gordon took a scorched earth approach to his game. Unafraid to make moves, he infamously threw a stray vote against Mickey Feng at Ngawang's first tribal council, sparking a season-long rivalry with Mickey and Quinn Allanson. Despite getting targeted at almost every single tribal council he attended, Gordon was able to form unbreakable bonds with Elton Allan and Sundy Samabsivam, which, in addition to a hidden immunity idol play and individual immunity win, got him to the final 3, where he betrayed Elton by voting him out. At the final tribal council, Gordon was severely attacked for his aggressive gameplay and sloppy jury management, but he was able to earn enough respect to win in a vote of 6-2, becoming the oldest Zovivor winner.

## Profile

**Pronouns**: He/Him
**Age**: 61
**Location**: Charlottetown, PEI
**Occupation**: Lighthouse Keeper
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**Pet Peeves**: ---
**What are three words to describe you?** ---
**What is one accomplishment you're most proud of?** ---
**Why will you be the Sole Survivor?** ---

## Survivor

### Cook Islands

Parvati started on the Caucasian tribe, Rarotonga, along with Adam Gentry, Jonathan Penner, Jessica Smith (also known as Flicka), and Candice Woodcock. Her tribe did not face any danger for the first six days as they won the first two Immunity Challenges. When the four tribes were dissolved into two, Parvati and Adam remained on Rarotonga while their other tribemates were sent to Aitutaki. While on Rarotonga, Parvati joined the women's alliance created by Rebecca Borman. She also flirted with the men of the tribe so she would be in a good place in both alliances. At Rarotonga's next Tribal Council, Stephannie Favor became a target for her weakness in challenges and for saying she would not mind being voted off. However, J.P. Calderon also became a target when he started annoying the tribe by bossing them around. Parvati was approached by Rebecca to blindside J.P.. At first, she was unsure of this plan, wanting to vote off the weaker tribe members, but at Tribal Council, Parvati stuck with the women and J.P. was blindsided. At the next Tribal Council, Stephannie was eliminated because her heart was not in the game. At the Double Tribal Council on Day 15, Cristina Coria was voted out, because she did not fit in with her new tribemates.

When the contestants were down to twelve, the castaways were presented with the opportunity to mutiny to the opposing tribe. Parvati's former tribemates Candice and Jonathan decided to jump back to Rarotonga, thus having all remaining Caucasian contestants on the same tribe. Parvati instantly formed an alliance with Adam, Jonathan, and Candice. Rarotonga lost the next two Immunity Challenges; Parvati remained loyal to her Raro Alliance by eliminating Brad Virata and, at the Double Elimination on Day 24, Rebecca Borman and Jenny Guzon-Bae.

At the merge, despite coming with a 5–4 advantage over Aitutaki, Parvati found herself in the minority as Jonathan betrayed his Rarotonga tribemates and joined the Aitu Four in voting out Nate Gonzalez. After alliance member Candice was eliminated, Parvati and Adam found themselves fighting for survival. On Day 31, Parvati cut her finger with the machete while opening a coconut. The medical team was called in and Parvati received stitches. This did not slow Parvati down as she was able to win the next Reward Challenge, which was the Loved Ones Challenge, along with her father, Mike. Parvati chose to send Jonathan to Exile Island. Parvati and her father Mike chose Sundra Oakley, Adam, and their respective loved ones to join them on the reward.

When the three returned from the reward, they shared the food they had brought back with the remaining tribe members. Adam and Parvati talked to Yul Kwon about voting out Jonathan (who betrayed their alliance) before he voted out either Adam or herself, in exchange for their jury votes, a plan which succeeded as Jonathan was eliminated next. On Day 36, Parvati was voted out in a 4–2 vote when the Aitu Four saw her craftiness as more of a threat than Adam's physical strength.

At Final Tribal Council, as a juror, Parvati asked Becky how she felt knowing she was competing against Yul and Ozzy, two very strong players, for jury votes. Parvati cast her vote for runner-up Ozzy Lusth citing his dominance in the game, particularly in challenges.

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### Micronesia

Parvati returned to compete for a second time as part of the all-star Malakal tribe. She initially formed a strong alliance with her fellow *Survivor* contestant Ozzy Lusth along with the duo of former *Survivor* contestants Amanda Kimmel and James Clement. After their tribe lost the first Immunity Challenge, they tried to swing Jon Dalton over to their side to gain a majority over the alliance of Yau-Man Chan, Ami Cusack, Eliza Orlins, and Jonathan Penner. However, Jon was voted out instead because he wanted to be with his expectant girlfriend. Parvati then made a pact with Cirie Fields to go all the way to the final three with Amanda. After losing the third Immunity Challenge, Parvati was targeted by the opposing alliance, but her alliance (having recruited Cirie) succeeded in voting off strategic threat Yau-Man.

At the tribe switch, Parvati and James were separated from their alliance as they moved to Airai. However, she remained safe as her tribe won the remaining tribal Immunity Challenges. On Day 20, she made a deal with Natalie Bolton to make an alliance with James and Alexis Jones, plus a final four deal with Alexis and Amanda, both of which Natalie accepted.

At the merge, Parvati found herself in a good position as she was aligned with six (Alexis, Amanda, Cirie, Natalie, Ozzy, and James) of the nine opposing contestants left. The alliance succeeded in voting out outsider and Parvati's primary rival Eliza Orlins. During the tenth Immunity Challenge, Parvati convinced Jason Siska to step down from the challenge so the tribe could have food, which worked (under the condition that the tribe would not vote for him). However, Parvati's "Couples Alliance", along with affiliate Erik Reichenbach, decided to turn back on what they had said and vote out Jason. Cirie saw this as an opportunity to blindside physical threat Ozzy who had the Hidden Immunity Idol and needed Parvati's Airai connections for it to work, which she agreed to. She recruited her Airai female allies Natalie and Alexis in on the plan, and Ozzy was blindsided in a 5–4 vote.

After Ozzy was voted off, Parvati failed to patch things up with James and momentarily Amanda (who kept her distrust to herself but eventually ended up voting with Parvati at every subsequent tribal). The five remaining women then formed an alliance to vote off the men, starting with Jason. However, when James was evacuated and Erik won Immunity, they were forced to vote off one of their own. Amanda was the intended target, a plan which Parvati did not want to be part of. She then helped Amanda find the Hidden Immunity Idol (which was buried under the tribe's flag). Parvati and Amanda debated the merits of voting out Alexis or Natalie, with the duo eventually deciding to vote for Parvati's initial target preference, Alexis on the basis that she was a bigger jury threat.

Parvati recognised the importance of keeping the idol out of Natalie's hands if Erik won the Reward Challenge and convinced Amanda to get Erik to send Parvati to exile, the plan was successful. After the alliance's plans of voting out Erik, the last remaining man, were foiled by him winning immunity, they decided to target Natalie. Following a plan made by Cirie, Natalie convinced Erik to give her the Immunity Necklace, saving herself and thus eliminating Erik. When she failed to win immunity, Natalie was eliminated due to her not being part of the final three deal made by Parvati, Amanda, and Cirie.

Parvati made it all the way to the final three with Cirie and Amanda (as promised). However, she was shocked to learn that only two of them would face the jury. She was eliminated first at the Final Immunity Challenge but was chosen to be in the Final Two by Amanda, likely because of Amanda and Parvati's strong friendship along with Cirie's strong likelihood of winning if she made it to the Final Tribal Council.

At the Final Tribal Council, Parvati tried to convince the jury to vote for her because of her aggressive gameplay compared to her previous season and her cutthroat playstyle. While Natalie and Alexis adored and admired Parvati, she was also accused of being a mean person (by Eliza) and a backstabber (by Ozzy). Despite this the jury decided to award Parvati the title of Sole Survivor, as five of the eight jurors preferred her aggressive but strong gameplay over Amanda's loyal but overdramatic and frivolous gameplay. Parvati received the votes from all of the women on the jury and Jason, winning *Survivor: Micronesia* in a close 5-3 vote.

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### Heroes vs. Villains

Parvati returned to play *Survivor* for a third time as a part of the Villains tribe, where she found herself in the minority, being considered a threat by several tribe members, mostly the men. With this, she quickly accepted an alliance with Russell Hantz and Danielle DiLorenzo. Any plotting against Parvati was postponed when the Villains tribe won the first two Immunity Challenges, but they lost the third on Day 8. Parvati was immediately targeted for being a huge social and strategic threat, and also for having a possible alliance with four of the Heroes who were tribemates with her in the past (James Clement, Cirie Fields, and Amanda Kimmel in *Survivor*, and Candice Woodcock in *Survivor*). She was spared, however, so they could get rid of the weaker link, Randy Bailey.

The Villains then continued their challenge dominance by winning four consecutive challenges. During this winning streak, a clue to a Hidden Immunity Idol was discovered, in which several tribe members agreed not to find. Wanting to usurp Boston Rob's alliance, Parvati's ally Russell attempted to look for it anyway, causing Rob Mariano's alliance of Tyson Apostol, Courtney Yates, Jerri Manthey, Sandra Diaz-Twine, and Coach Wade to target them. On Day 15, both tribes were forced to go to Tribal Council with one person from each tribe winning immunity. Parvati knew she needed immunity, but failed to get it. Back at the Villains' camp, the majority alliance decided to split their six votes between Russell and Parvati, with Rob, Sandra, and Tyson voting for Russell, and Jerri, Coach, and Courtney voting for Parvati. Knowing Rob's plan, Russell tricked Tyson into switching his vote to Parvati, under the notion that he would rather betray her for his own survival. At Tribal Council, Tyson fell for Russell's plan for voting for Parvati, and with Russell playing his idol on Parvati, Tyson was sent home in a 3-2-0 blindside.

On Day 18, the Villains lost immunity, and Parvati, Russell, and Danielle's alliance was still struggling to gain control of the game, but finally did when they persuaded Jerri to switch sides and vote out Russell's arch-rival, Rob. While the Villains were yet to vote out a female member, the Heroes assumed that the Villains side was being run by an all-women alliance, led by Parvati. When the Villains lost immunity again on Day 21, they decided to vote Coach out to further confirm the Heroes belief of that. On Day 22, the Villains won a Reward Challenge where they got to go to Outback Steakhouse. There, Parvati found a clue to the re-hidden idol and showed it to Danielle, to get her to trust her more than Russell. The next day, Parvati and Danielle both found the idol together. They decided not to tell Russell, to keep him out of the loop for a while. After the Heroes won the Day 24 Immunity Challenge, one member of the Heroes tribe, J.T. Thomas, made an unprecedented move — giving his own Hidden Immunity Idol to Russell, in hopes that he would use it to vote out Parvati. Russell, however, showed it to Parvati, along with Danielle and Jerri, and began to laugh about it. They then discussed whether to get rid of Sandra or Courtney. Parvati wanted to get rid of Sandra, trusting Courtney more, but ended up voting with the rest of the Villains to vote Courtney out.

On Day 25, the Heroes and Villains merged into the Yin Yang tribe and migrated to the Heroes camp for the rest of the competition. The Heroes were confused to see Parvati still in the game. Parvati and Russell came up with a story that they both played their idols, negating all votes and that in the re-vote they voted out Courtney. The new tribe quickly alienated Parvati, who was deemed the biggest threat among the Villains. At the Immunity Challenge on Day 27, Parvati and Danielle were the last two remaining. Parvati decided to give it to Danielle because Parvati already had an idol. Before Tribal Council, Russell gave Parvati J.T.'s idol to protect Parvati, but unknown to him, Parvati already owned one. Parvati went and then talked to Amanda, her former ally and Final Two rival in *Survivor*, to see if she could trust her. Amanda told Parvati to play the idol for herself. Judging Amanda's body language and halfhearted facial expressions, Parvati did not believe her, and, at Tribal Council, she made an unprecedented move, by playing both of her idols, one for Sandra, and another to Jerri, to everybody's surprise. In effect, the vote, that could have ended up in a 5-5 tie between J.T. and Jerri, culminated with J.T.'s demise, because of Jerri's usage of the idol that Parvati supplied.

Right after the vote, Russell was furious with Parvati for keeping her idol a secret from him. The Heroes began to work on flipping Sandra to their side, to eliminate Russell. After Jerri won immunity, the Heroes switched their target to Parvati in case Russell plays a Hidden Immunity Idol. However, the Villains had already flipped Candice to their side and their plan failed, with Amanda sent to the jury in a 6-3 vote. After Parvati won immunity on Day 31, both Heroes and Villains temporarily banded together to vote Candice out for her duplicity. On Day 33, Russell won immunity and decided to turn on his alliance. He tried to pit Parvati and Danielle against each other but failed. Russell then aligned with the remaining Heroes to vote Danielle out and, with a little help from Jerri, Danielle was voted out in a 4-3 vote. On Day 34, the final six were visited by their loved ones. Jerri and her sister won reward and chose to bring Parvati, Sandra, and their respective loved ones with them. Russell then aligned with the Heroes and decided to target Parvati. However, his plan was ruined when she won immunity on Day 36. Parvati then won her third challenge on Day 37, and they voted the last Hero, Colby Donaldson, out of the game in a 4-1 vote. After Parvati failed to win the Final Immunity Challenge, it seemed that she would be voted out, since everyone wanted her gone. Parvati wanted to get rid of Sandra, thinking she would get a lot of votes in the end. However, they voted out Jerri in a 3-1 vote, because Russell believed he would get her vote on the jury.

At the Final Tribal Council, Parvati confessed that she entered the game not knowing the threat she has become to the other castaways. She then sought help from Russell, but she did not let him treat her as a scapegoat by making her own, independent strategic moves. While she was castigated by the jury for aligning herself with Russell despite her strong abilities, she was applauded for playing an impressive physical and social game.

In the end, Parvati came in runner-up, gaining the jury votes of Coach, Danielle, and Jerri. She beat Russell, who received no votes, but was defeated by Sandra, who got the votes of all five Heroes and Courtney. At the Reunion Show, it was revealed that Parvati has played the most days than anyone else in *Survivor* history, with 114 days in her three seasons, a record that would be surpassed a year later by Rob in *Survivor*.

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**^1** In Template:Ep, Parvati used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating 4 votes against her.

### Winners at War

Coming back after a 10-year lay off from *Survivor*, Parvati got off to a better start as she related to the other parents on Sele and aligned with former rival Rob Mariano. Parvati positioned herself well ahead of the tribe's first Tribal Council, which surprised her given her reputation. Following Natalie Anderson's vote out, Parvati and the old-school alliance which consisted of Rob, Danni Boatwright, and Ethan Zohn appeared to be gaining momentum. That all changed when Danni went rogue and targeted Parvati. This left her no choice but to vote out Danni, and the *Switzerland winner was voted out unanimously that night. Parvati would once again be targeted, this time by Adam Klein, and once again alerted by Rob. Their plans to vote out Adam failed as the rest of the tribe blindsided Parvati's alliance, sending Ethan to the Edge of Extinction on Day 9. Parvati received her first Fire Token from Ethan as a result. Parvati and Rob continued to push for Adam to go next until the tribe switch.*

Parvati was left with just Michele Fitzgerald as an ally on the new Sele after the tribe switch, being reunited with *Survivor* alum Yul Kwon and meeting Wendell Holland and Nick Wilson. Wendell became the focus of Parvati's strategy in this tricky phase of the game, given his rocky history with Michele prior to this season. Their past relationship, however, gave Michele an in with the majority alliance that was unavailable to Parvati. Wendell offered to flip to her side if she gave Wendell her Fire Tokens prior to Tribal Council. Unconvinced by this offer, Parvati declined and instead went to Nick to discuss Wendell's wavering loyalty. The conversation between Parvati and Wendell continued into Tribal Council on Day 16 but nothing came of it. This led to her vote out by a 3-2 vote, with Parvati bequeathing her three Fire Tokens (two of which she received from Rob) to Michele.

Parvati was unable to obtain any Fire Tokens prior to the first return challenge, making her one of three castaways to not have an advantage. After losing, Parvati continued to be involved in the dynamic on the Edge. She and Danni found the 50/50 Coin together, selling it to her former ally Michele for four Fire Tokens. She used that to purchase a jar of peanut butter. Parvati also witnessed Natalie finding the Extortion advantage, likely having a hand in selecting Tony Vlachos as the recipient. Parvati earned two Fire Tokens by being one of the first six players to complete the coconut effort task. Those tokens allowed Parvati to have an advantage in the final return challenge, but she lost again, officially confirming her role as a juror.

At the Final Tribal Council, Parvati appeared most impressed by Natalie's gameplay, commending her tenacity and competitiveness while on the Edge. Though she voted for Natalie to win, Tony ultimately became the Sole Survivor by a 12-4-0 vote.

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## Trivia

* Gordon is the first contestant from Prince Edward Island.
* Gordon is the oldest Sole Survivor, at 61.
* Gordon is currently the Sole Survivor with the most votes against him, at 20.
	+ This surpassed the previous winner, Alejandro Jimenez, who had a mere 9.
		- Interestingly, Alejandro is the youngest winner and Gordon is the oldest.