Hayhay .

**Hayleigh** is a contestant from **MintORGs Season 1: Hogwarts**.

Having been on the chopping block several times through the pre-merge, Hayleigh found herself relying on specific close social bonds with power players to keep her alive. Hiding in the shadows, she kept the spotlight off her until merge, where her name was used in a planned idol flush by Rips and subsequently took a lot of heat.

## Profile

**Age:** 16

**Hometown:** Chicago, IL

**Current Residence:** Florida, USA

**Occupation:** Student

**Favorite Hobbies:** Theatre, Singing, Choir, Baking and Cooking

**3 Words to Describe You:** Loyal, Trustworthy, Compassionate

**Pet Peeve(s):** People chewing with their mouths open!

**What is the accomplishment you are most proud of?** Being cast as Ariel in The Little Mermaid

**What's a fun fact about you?** I love Disney and IT!!

**If you could take only three items with you on a season of Survivor, what would they be and why?** A book, coffee and my best friend to help me win!

**If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?** NYC or England. NYC because i love cities, and it’s the heart of theatre and broadway. England because i have a best friend who i miss there, and majority of my family.

**Why do you believe you can be the Sole Survivor?** I think I could just stay loyal and prove my worth. I’ve been more positive recently so it’s helping me.

## Season 1: Hogwarts

### Episode 1

Hayleigh is excited to be in Gryffindor, and has many shared interests with other players in The Great Hall. She believes Charlie's approach to this tribal (throwing his own name out) is saving her a lot of stress. She doesn't feel she's at risk, but little does she know, Hayleigh and Jamal were the two main names floating around, with Nikki and Rips pushing to keep Jamal.

### Episode 2

Another quiet round for Hayleigh, who tried to get to know more people within her new tribe. She's found lots in common with them.

### Episode 3

Hayleigh sat out of the History Of Magic challenge, but felt confident in her tribe. She started to worry that people were targeting her.

Kyle thinks Hayleigh was throwing out random votes, and he decided voting out Hayleigh at tribal makes the best sense, but then realised the vote was changing to Alli. He wasn't able to convince Riley to flip back to voting Hayleigh. Riley initially wanted to target Hayleigh, but realised he had an option to play aggressive and target Alli instead. He decided to swoop in and save Hayleigh, flipping the vote and taking charge. Tomato also planned on initially voting out Hayleigh, but later decided to switch to Alli after a conversation with Riley.

### Episode 4

Hayleigh felt well overall about how the events of tribal went down, with Alli being voted out. With the Great Hall opening, she wanted to end up on a tribe with Kieran if she did switch tribes. She found the challenge frustrating, saying Tomato messed up several times, but it didn’t matter in the end because they didn’t go to tribal.

Kyle believes his relationship with Hayleigh improved as a result of tribal. He feels like he can only trust Riley though. He also notes that whatever he says to Hayleigh will likely go back to Tomato and/or Jace.

### Episode 5

Hayleigh had a weird feeling that the Hufflepuff pair of Duolingo and Laura would somehow pull through and win the immunity against all odds. She only really trusts Kyle, and thinks that Jamal and Rips were pushing her name, with Nikki also voting her. She’s working with Kyle and Wei to get Jamal out, which puts them at a 3-3 stalemate. Fortunately, Wei managed to flip Rips, forcing Nikki to vote in the majority, with Jamal being voted out.

Jamal was feeling nervous about the challenge, and felt like him and Hayleigh did really badly in the challenge. Ironically, Hayleigh was fully blaming Jamal for their challenge performance, saying he was useless. Kyle considered going after Hayleigh this round, believing she was in alliances that didn't include him, but actually Hayleigh only trusted Kyle. Kyle and Hayleigh became closer this episode.

### Episode 6

Hayleigh found most of the Slughorn tribe were new to her. She's really missing Kyle, but is glad to have Tomato and Wei with her. Working hard on ice breakers, she was pleased to find everyone on Slughorn has at least one similar interest to her. Vinny gave Hayleigh the information about the Gryffindor Horcrux.

Vinny chose to give Hayleigh the information about the Horcrux because she was the first Gryffindor they saw.

### Episode 7

Hayleigh was feeling good about the challenge, being the one to suggest 10,013 as the target score for Slughorn. She was glad to finally have a break from tribal, but felt like her tribemates had been a little ‘bland' recently.

Tomato noted Hayleigh's efforts in the challenge.

### Episode 8

Hayleigh was shocked to see Riley gone, believing he was in a power position in Slytherin. Vinny approached Hayleigh saying they think the Slytherins are being pagonged. Vinny also suggested the idea of forming an alliance of Wes, Laura, Hayleigh and themselves.

Wei noted that Hayleigh is untrustworthy after she leaked an alliance that the two of them were both in.

### Episode 9

Seeing Meredith get voted out confirmed Hayleigh and Vinny’s suspicions that the Slytherins were getting pagonged. Hayleigh feels a little safer now that she’s back with Gryffindor.

Kyle plans on voting out Hayleigh at merge, and Tomato also doesn’t trust Hayleigh as she flipped on him and Nick.

### Episode 10

Hayleigh will miss Laura. She hopes to reconnect with Vinny and Tomato, and potentially forming an alliance with Jace. She's very much trying to build up her social connections here, with Kyle and Wei jumping to the top of her trust ranking. She was happy for Jace winning immunity. Jace told Hayleigh that Nick had said her name. She also noted that Rips and Nick were working closely together. The vote started to shift towards Andy vs Rips and away from Hayleigh. Hayleigh played her Horcrux, but didn't need it in the end.

Nick doesn't think he can trust Hayleigh. Wei believes Vinny played Hayleigh "like a fiddle". Tomato feels guilty for plotting against Hayleigh, realising she only flipped on Nick. He plans on throwing Hayleigh under the bus to the other Gryffindors. At tribal, Nick formed a plan to vote out Hayleigh, with Kyle and Rips in on it. Wei told Hayleigh and Tomato to play their Horcruxes due to the chaos.

Hayleigh played her Horcrux, but it didn't work. She didn't need it in the end, as Rips received more votes.

### Episode 11

Nikki was feeling very sensitive after the Rips vote, and was angry at Hayleigh for allegedly ‘attacking their entire character'. They tried to win immunity in the auction but failed. Then she learned Tomato told Hayleigh the lie about them. For Nick, Andy was the main target this vote. Then Hayleigh and Andy allegedly started picking on Nikki and spreading gossip about them. So now Nick's alliance want to vote out Hayleigh who was apparently doing the most of it. Tomato was torn between whether to play his Horcrux for Hayleigh and ultimately decided not to, feeling extremely guilty and upset afterwards.

Hayleigh noticed Imke was going around asking people what they wanted to bid on in the auction, which she thinks is smart. She bidded on the Cursed Necklace, which Kyle ended up taking. She noticed things were quiet the morning on tribal, which she thinks could potentially be worrying. Starting to worry about her safety in the game, she used the Flitwick immunity clue to try and find an advantage. Unfortunately, she couldn't use “Accio Horcrux”, and wasn't able to find anything. She spent her final moments in the game begging Tomato to play his Horcrux for her.

## Gallery

Hayleigh's Cast Card shown in the Season 1: Hogwarts cast reveal.
## Post-Survivor

* In April 2023, Hayleigh played **Vintage ORGs Season 1: The Twilight Zone** alongside fellow MintORGs alumni **Hunter** (Season 1), Tomato (Season 1) and **Tre** (Season 2). She managed to win this season in a 5-3-1 vote.
* In October 2023, Hayleigh won the Season 1 Fan Vote, earning her a guaranteed spot on Season 5 if she wishes to accept it.

## Trivia

* Hayleigh held the record of the most votes casted to boot, at 12, until it was surpassed by Aniya in season 3.
* Hayleigh was the only player in season 1 to unsuccessfully use the 50/50 horcrux.
* In Season 5, Hayleigh became the first player to misplay/ misuse idols or horcruxes in more than 1 season.
	+ She currently has misused 2/2 idols or horcruxes in total.