On Survivor, contestants who are voted out towards the end of the season are sent to the Jury Villa. The Jury members return for each Tribal Council, and at the finale they place votes for who they belive should win.
In previous seasons of Australian Survivor, there were nine Jury members, which meant there was no chance of a tie between the final two. Australian Survivor Brain v Brawn II was on track to have nine Jury members until Morgan Mitchelldecided to skip the jury portion and head home.
“You may have noticed that Morgan is not on the Jury. She’s decided to leave the game and go home, but the game continues,” host Jonathan LaPaglia told the tribe members after she left.
Without Morgan, there were eight Jury members casting votes, which meant a possibility of a tie vote between Myles and Kaelan. So, what would have happened if that were the case?
The Australian Survivor 2025 jury. Image: Ten.
There was a backup plan if the Australian Survivor 2025 finale ended in a tie
Speaking to Chattr the day after his triumphant win, Myles revealed that the cast was actually told about a plan that was in place if the end result was a tie, but his memory was a little hazy about the exact details.
“I remember we were told,” he said. “I can’t quite remember. I think it was some sort of Rock draw — like a Rocks draw.“
“I might be wrong, that’s what I remember, but I was also in a crazy, 47-day fatigue state at that stage,” he added.
Rocks is a concept that happens at Tribal Council when the contestants can’t decide who they want to vote out, so the players without votes take part in a game of chance, and one of those people is eliminated. Myles explained that Rocks would be slightly altered to fit a finale, in the case of a tie.
“[The jury would] go to a revote, and then if no one flips their vote over, then the Jurors draw a rock. Whoever draws the rocks on the Jury, their vote gets removed from the next revote, with the idea being that it is similar to a real Rocks draw; it incentivizes people to flip over because no one wants to risk losing their jury vote.
“Is it the cleanest thing that could happen? No, but thankfully, we didn’t have to worry about that.”
Love Triangle is starting to get spicy, with episode three seeing all the singles and their first suitors mingle at a cocktail party, where one suitor was caught saying some pretty controversial things off camera.
Payton Ellicott‘s chosen suitor, Jordan, decided to tell everyone but Payton that the two were in the “friend zone” while seeming flirtatious with Marissa.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Jordan was then sprung in an off-camera moment saying some very distasteful things about Payton, seemingly unaware that he was still mic’d up.
Admitting he’s not attracted to his match, Jordan then says, he wants someone “small, tanned, and ethnic”.
“Fuck you man, you know I’m not attracted to that,” Jordan said to someone, about Payton. “I asked for small, tanned, ethnic… She is the complete opposite in every single thing.
“Literally any other girl here I would be into,” he continued. “If I fucked her or whatever then I’m like even more of a fuckwit. Like, there’s just no way I’m not looking like an arsehole after this, dude.”
Jordan apparently forgot he was mic’d up. Image: Stan
Is it possible to forget you’re mic’d up on camera? Love Triangle stars weigh in
With Jordan seemingly forgetting in that moment that he was on a TV show, we decided to ask other people who have been part of the show how easy it is to forget you’re mic’d up.
Love Triangle Season 2 star Alan Wallacesaid it was “virtually impossible” not to know your mic was still on. “You usually ask your sound guy to mute your mic,” he said. “If you’re still wearing a mic, just don’t say anything dumb, surely it’s common sense.”
Alan from Season 2 of Love Triangle. Image: Stan
Melinda, from Season 3, told Chattr it was possible to forget but she personally couldn’t, revealing that they were mic’d up even to go to the toilet.
“I think at times you probably do forget that. For me personally, I couldn’t even pee in peace,” she laughed. “But other people might become comfortable and forget.”
New episodes of Love Triangle drop every Sunday on Stan.
Kaelan Lockhart officially took the top spot in the Survivor Hall of Fame after bagging seven Immunity Challenge wins, surpassing the previous record of five.
Kaelan not only has the most wins in the Australian Survivorfranchise, but he also holds the world record for the most triumphs in a single season worldwide.
However, despite his remarkable results, Kaelan told Chattr that he was actually throwing challenges at the start of the season so that he could fly under the radar and avoid getting a target put on his back.
“The one that Logan [Johannisen] won with the balls — the balance part is pretty much stand-up paddleboarding. I probably could have just told the balls what to do there,” the pro-stand-up paddleboarder explained.
Logan, Paaulie, Jesse and Kaelan in the Immunity Challenge. Image: Ten.
“I just wanted to not do so well in any challenges that resembled the final challenge,” he explained.
“So if I could make Logan see me as I can’t balance, I can’t stand on poles. I would try to try to get off those pretty soon. Anything with balance, I was trying to try to throw off.”
Of course, Kaelan was gracious about his fellow castmates’ victories, acknowledging that even though he held back in some challenges, it didn’t guarantee he would win more.
“They would probably beat me anyway, but there’s some I definitely could have gone a bit harder in.”
Kaelan played down his puzzle skills in Immunity Challenges
Kaelan was dubbed a Challenge Beast on Australian Survivor 2025, and he aptly adjuted his nickname to Challenge Enthusiast to lower his threat level. Every Survivor challenge involves mental or physical skills, and some require applying both.
While Kaelan’s physical strength was plain to see, the PhD student told Chattr that he also tried to play down his intellect.
In episode 18, contestants participated in a three-stage Immunity Challenge that involved balancing on a barrel, crossing a beam, and solving a puzzle. Kaelan had a clear lead by the puzzle leg but appeared to be taking his time on the challenge.
As host Jonathan LaPaglia was narrating to the group what each contestant was doing, Kaelan told the host: “Hey, don’t tell them where I’m at; don’t tell them I’m doing well. I don’t want them to know I’m good at puzzles,” suggesting that he was purposely trying to slow down the challenge.
Kaelan asking Jonathan to keep his secret. Image: Ten.
“Even when I was winning challenges, I was trying to show weaknesses in different aspects,” he explained of the moment.
“So on that challenge itself, when there was the balance beam, I jumped off it like three times or something. And then when I got ahead, I thought, nobody can see me behind this wall. I’ll get the puzzle done and disassemble it, and then I’ll finish it when people come over.
“Even Myles[Kuah] said to me that he thought I absolutely sucked at puzzles, and he couldn’t wait to go up against me in the puzzle. So it worked. Every challenge, I was trying to make it appear that I wasn’t so good at some part of it.”
Kaelan added that he wishes he had mentioned his actions at that particular challenge at the final Tribal Council.
“I didn’t think of it!” He said. “Maybe I could have gotten JLP on it and brought him into the final pitch. It would have been fun.”
Jonathan LaPaglia gives Kaelan another Immunity necklace. Image: Ten.
The strategy behind Kaelan’s attempt to lower his threat level
Any Survivor fan will know that it’s seriously impressive for a Challenge Beast of Kaelan’s calibre to make it to the final Tribal Council and not be picked off by the other contestants as a threat.
Kaelan said that his constant awareness of his threat level and his ability to manage it were strategies in themselves.
“Everything I was doing, it was quite measured,” he explained. “Even fishing — early on, people told me that in previous seasons, no one had gone out fishing or snorkelling because they were scared they’d be talked about.
“And I thought, that’s perfect. If I go out there, how innocent do I look? In every conversation I’d have people trying to explain the game of Survivor to me, and I’d be trying to act like I needed help to understand that.
“So, there were just little things, even though they were not strategic, as in making big moves. I was always trying to influence people in different ways.”
Kaelan is currently skiing the entire length of Norway to raise money for the charity Cottage by the Sea, which helps underprivileged kids. You can donate to his cause here.
Mike and Melinda didn’t get off to the easiest start after an awkward beach date that saw Mike ask Melinda numerous times if she recognised him from anywhere, trying to suss out if his new match recognised him from his controversial MAFS days.
Melinda told Chattr that the whole beach date had her out of her comfort zone for many reasons. “The beach date just had just an awkward vibe about it. I can’t put my finger on what it was,” she said.
“I mean, he did ask so many times if I recognised him, that was throwing me off, and I think, you know, it wasn’t Mike’s first rodeo,” Melinda explained.
TFW he asks you about seven times if you recognise him. Image: Stan
“He’s used to being on TV and everything like that. But for me, I was the fish out of water, like, ‘What’s a voxie? What do you mean? I was mic’d up [even] to go the toilet, all of those kind of things. So I felt very out of my comfort zone.
“But for him, you know, it was just a walk in the park, so that was kind of throwing me off a little bit as well. Then, I guess the icing on the cake was the off-camera incident that happened and that, although we tried to sort of make amends, it was just it was we were never going to come back from that.”
Love Triangle’s Melinda addresses off-camera fight with Mike: ‘It just blew up’
One of the more dramatic moments of Love Triangle so far sadly wasn’t filmed for us to see, with things turning sour not long after Melinda and Mike moved in together.
The couple had a fight off-camera after Mike went for a walk and came home to find a member of the production team sitting on Melinda’s bed.
Melinda addressed that moment with Chattr, explaining, “I was chatting with a member of production behind a closed door, and Mike came in and didn’t like what he saw. And, you know, things escalated, and he asked the staff member to leave.”
There wasn’t much love lost between Melinda and Mike on Love Triangle. Image: Stan
Melinda left and opted to stay in a hotel for the night, before coming back the next day to chat things out with Mike, telling the cameras that she’d rather “shit in my hands and clap than get to know him better”. They were unable to resolve things, with Mike telling Melinda mid-argument, “The people that are going to be watching this, they don’t all like me, but you know what? They trust me because I never tell bullshit,” to which Melinda retorted, “So, I really hate to say this but you’re nowhere near as relevant as you think you are. You are a 50-year-old washed-up reality TV star.”
Maybe most surprisingly after that mic drop, Melinda has been able to take a step back and see things from Mike’s perspective.
“I can see his side of it now that I’ve sort of stepped back from it, and my emotion’s gone, and I understand what he was trying to say,” she told us. “It was just, I think the execution in which we were both trying to explain the situation. It just blew up.”
Will Melinda and Mike be able to come back from this? We’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out!
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If you’ve been missing Dave Hand on our TV screens since Married At First Sight (MAFS) wrapped up, rumour has it we won’t have long to wait, with the MAFS groom sharing a photo with some recognisable faces from The Block on his business Instagram account page.
Dave shared a happy snap with The Block’s Foreman Dan [Reilly] and tiler Adrian Cursio, captioning the pic “The Block heads” with many fans wondering if this means we’ll see Dave on our screens for the upcoming season.
But Dave won’t be appearing as a contestant, telling Chattr, “I’m just doing some caulking on The Block to help some friends out”.
Dave is a tradie and owns his own caulking company, with MAFS fans discovering his business TikTok and Instagram page during the season and, well, suddenly a lot of women were interested in caulking. So we can see The Block being a great fit for him!
Dave is making caulking hot in 2025. Image: TikTok
Are MAFS’ Rhi and Jeff also set for The Block?
Given they’re the only couple still together from this season, Rhi Disljenkovic and Jeff Gobbels have now been plagued with rumours that they’re engaged, expecting, or more realistically perhaps, going to participate in The Block, something the pair hasn’t ruled out.
“We saw the same rumour, we’re hoping it’s true!” Jeff said in an interview with Chattr. “We haven’t had any discussions yet, but it’ll be amazing if that happened.”
Could MAFS’ Jeff and Rhi be on The Block next? Image: Nine
“I’m sure I could paint a room,” Rhi joked. “Look, I’m not very handy, Jeff is. I think it would be quite funny me going on The Block, but I’ve learned a lot of resilience being on MAFS, so I’d have enough resilience to make The Block work.”
The Jury Villa is a special holding area for the Australian Survivor contestants who have been eliminated from the game post Episode 15, who will continue to attend and observe Tribal Councils, and ultimately be responsible for deciding the winner of the game.
With every new arrival, the drama gets juicier, the dinners more awkward, and the tea piping hot.
The final member entering the Jury Villa was AJ Antonios, much to the shock of the other Jury members. Taking it on the chin, AJ said he couldn’t be happier forMyles and Kaelan to be in the final two, wondering how long it’d be until he could “gorge” himself again after seeing how much weight he’d lost after 46 days.
There was underlying tension in the Villa as AJ faced his ex-campmates, particularly Zara who he betrayed in the last elimination. He apologised to Zara for voting her out and explained his reasoning.
“When Myles won immunity, I had to decide between Kaelan and Zara, but because Myles wanted to take out Zara, it would’ve been fire between Zara and Kaelan, and I don’t think Zara can win that. And then because I put Kaelan in fire, he’d never take me to the end. So I had no choice but to vote Zara,” he explained.
Spilling the tea further, AJ told the Jury Villa that Kaelan had been “playing dumb” the whole time. “I’ve been his closest ally, and he intentionally played dumb the entire game. The real Kaelan is a lot smarter than you think he is.”
AJ fessed up to throwing challenges, saying he could’ve come second or third in many challenges instead of eighth. “I thought if I was also a physical threat, it’d just be too much,” he said.
AJ also said he didn’t think eventual winner Myles’ resume would have beaten him in the end. I guess we’ll never know!
Zara Callianiotis headed over to the Jury Villa after receiving a unanimous vote against her from Myles, Kaelan, and AJ. On her way to the villa, she said that she thought the remaining players voted her out because they didn’t want to face off against her in the final endurance challenge.
Zara’s first dinner was relatively calm — until she revealed the remaining players believed they could predict each Juror’s vote. Logan was stunned to hear AJ thought he wouldn’t vote for her, revealing that he was her ‘top vote.’
Meanwhile, Karin and Paulie found themselves fighting at the dinner table… again.
As Zara was leaving the dinner, she dropped a bombshell on the other contestants.
“I’m looking forward to the next jury dinner when whoever else — a boy — joins us,” she announced.
Fans have been speculating the finale could see a final three, since Morgan’s absence would leave an even-numbered jury for a final two, potentially causing a tie.
We can’t wait to see how this plays out!
Kate
KateGloufchis was the first juror in a while to receive a warm welcome from the other Jury members.
After Kate explained her strategy at the last Tribal, Logan told Kate about how cold both Kristin’s and Logan’s entry to the Jury was.
“You’re actually quite blessed because the last two, so mine and Kristin’s, I came in, and everyone was very mad at me, and I was very sad, and I nearly cried, and everyone was really mad at Kristin,” she said.
“I got attacked by Kaz and Paulie,” Kristin added.
The next day, Morgan and Kristin headed off for a spa day together. However, Kate noticeably didn’t mention anything about why her Survivor bestie Morgan decided not to join the Jury.
Morgan
Morgan Mitchell getting her torch snuffed on Australian Survivor. Image: Ten.
Morgan Mitchell was the fifth castaway sent to Jury Villa after she was voted out by Myles, AJ, Kaelan and Zara. However, she didn’t join the Jury.
During the Tribal Council, which took place the night after Morgan was voted out, Jonathan LaPaglia told the remaining castaways that she’d decided to leave the show.
“You may have noticed that Morgan is not on the Jury, she’s decided to leave the game and go home, but the game continues,” he said.
Kristin
Kristin Alston joined the jury in Episode 19, walking into the Villa with high hopes: “Bring on the food, bring on the bed, bring on anything,” she said.
But her welcome was a lot less than warm. Paulie confronted her immediately: “Everybody’s got their significant liar in the game, and it turns out you were mine.” Awkward.
Things escalated as Paulie accused her of throwing him under the bus, but Kristin fired back about his gameplay and lies.
“You’re saying what everyone wants to hear [but] I feel the information is different. It was always to save yourself,” she said.
“I thought, what happened was, it would go to the split vote, we’d go back and do it again, and then I thought that you and Zara get up and do a fire together, and then I was like ‘you’re going to kick her arse on the fire,’” she explained to Logan.
Yeah, dinner was… uncomfortable, to say the least.
“Well this was a different entrance than I was expecting,” Kristin summed up.
Logan
Logan Johannisen joined the jury in Episode 18, fresh from a near rock-draw elimination. “Love the drama for me,” she quipped.
She broke the ice at a very tense dinner: “Okay, what’s the vibe here? Are we all angry at me?”
“I think we have questions,” said Karin, before Laura jumped in: “Apparently there’s a big yellow bus and I’m completely under it.”
Logan defended herself, saying:“I needed to play it up and make you look like the bad guy because I was still in the game.”
Paulie didn’t hold back either. “It was pretty nasty,” he added.
Logan called it an early night. Wise choice.
Karin
Karin Gunatilake joined the jury in Episode 17, and was welcomed by Laura and Paulie, who were genuinely thrilled to see her. Karin was just as excited, and maybe even more thrilled to spot a box of Cheezels.
When she was eliminated, though, she got right to venting.
“Once again, surrounded by idiots,” she said. Oof.
After her elimination, Karin opened up about her frustration with failed alliance-building: “I said, we don’t have an alliance, I’m gonna give you one… and then we just pick them off one by one… No one took the bait,” she recounted.
“It wasn’t even bait, it was just like an opportunity. And you floundered it. Idiots.”
At least with the thought of the Jury Villa, her mood lifted: “We can just gossip about everyone else.”
Paulie
Paulie Michael was the second jury member, landing in Episode 16. “I need the tea and then I need the food,” he said as he stepped into the Villa and reunited with Laura.
He quickly opened up about how blindsided he felt:“I wish I could tell you what happened because nobody was telling me anything.”
“I wasn’t privy to any conversations because obviously people don’t trust me.” Ouch.
He threw shade at AJ and Myles for leaving him out of the loop. And given how quickly Paulie’s been confronting people he feels betrayed by, those two should hope they don’t land in the Villa anytime soon.
Laura
Laura Darras was the veryfirst Australian Survivor Jury member, arriving into the villa in Episode 15, where she got some solo time before the chaos began.
“I got got, that’s for sure,” she said after being voted out.
ICYMI, the original plan during Episode 15’s Tribal Council was to vote out Logan to break her tight alliance with Laura and dismantle the infamous “Buddy System.” But Logan trusted her gut and played her Hidden Immunity Idol. Laura was sent packing, in a move she didn’t see coming.
“They absolutely got one over on me. They completely fooled me. And you know what? Power to them.”
Hey, that’s the spirit. Right?
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Myles Kuahwas officially crowned the winner at theAustralian Survivor 2025 finale, and he caught up with Chattr to dish on all the things that went down behind the scenes at the last Tribal Council.
Myles was up againstAJ Antonios andKaelan Lockhartin the finale. The first portion of the show saw Kaelan win the final Immunity Challenge, giving him the opportunity to choose one person to take through to the end with him.
In an emotional scene, Kaelan chose to take Myles, which meant sending home his best mate AJ. Kaelan’s choice ultimately sealed Myles’s fate as the winner of Australian Survivor 2025.
“It’s like it’s a dream. It still feels surreal the next day, like today, honestly, like I still can’t believe it,” Myles told Chattr.
“For me, to get that far — when I was almost voted out on day four, and then almost voted out 1000 other times after that — was just incredible,” he laughed. “It was incredible to win, and not only win but win in the way that I did — playing the game that I did — is just unbelievable.”
The gripping finale was action-packed from start to finish, so, understandably, some things happened that viewers didn’t get to see, and Myles has spilled the details about what went down.
Did Myles and AJ get to pitch their case to Kaelan?
The Australian Survivor finale aired for just over 1.5 hours — including ads — and in that time we saw AJ, Myles and Kaelan see their loved ones, take part in a final Immunity Challenge, AJ’s elimination, Myles and Kaelan’s final pitch, jury questions, and Myles be crowned the winner.
With so much to get through, after Kaelan won Immunity and the opportunity to pick who he was taking to Final Two, there was no time for Myles and AJ to pitch their cases to Kaelan. So, Kaelan had to process his decision in front of the Australian Survivor 2025 Jury at the first Tribal Council.
“That was actually a big part of why Kaelan took us away in that final Tribal, because he obviously was getting very emotional about it all, and he wanted some downtime just to talk to us man to man, and he never got that opportunity,” Myles explained.
Myles, Kaelan and AJ at the final Tribal. Image: Ten.
Kaelan took AJ and Myles aside and spoke with them both away from the Jury and host Jonathan LaPaglia.
“That’s why tribal was emotional as it was, because Kaelan’s been holding in all these feelings waiting for final Tribal, and then they’re all coming out when we finally do get a chance to talk about it and express them.”
While Myles said he could see the emotional turmoil Kaelan went through to make the decision, he still went into the final with his eyes on the prize.
“Obviously, it’s rough because Kaelan is a lovely person, but it’s also, like, the game’s the game. At that point, I was so locked in, I was ready to demolish anyone who stood in my way at that final Tribal Council, even if it was the lovely puppy dog, Kaelan!”
Myles pitching his case at the final Tribal. Image: Ten.
Myles reveals the brutal Tribal question that wasn’t aired
Most Survivor fans know that in real life, the final Tribal is a long event — and a large portion of time is spent on the Jury questions.
Myles told Chattr that there was one specific Jury question that Myles thought clinched his win, but it wasn’t shown.
“The point at which I thought I had won Tribal was one that wasn’t shown. Laura [Darras] asked the question, ‘You both had a lot of protection throughout the season, Myles with your idols, and Kaelan with your necklaces; what’s a move that you made without that protection?'” he explained.
“I talked about the Rocks move, which was a really easy pitch for me — that I was vulnerable, and I was ready to go to Rocks, and then we won that vote.
“Kaelan talked about voting out Kristin[Alston]. But Kaelan didn’t realize that AJ, Zara [Callianiotis] and I already had a plan to vote out Kristen, and we were waiting for Kaelan to bring it up so we could pounce on it and be like, it’s actually our move.”
The jury. Image: Ten.
“So when he brought up voting out Kristen, I jumped in with Zara and I said, ‘Actually, we had this plan already. Zara will confirm that we, all the three of us, had already talked about it beforehand, so I don’t think that really counts.'”
“Obviously, that was a pretty brutal one, to be honest, because there’s no response there. There’s nothing that he can really say.”
“I think both our pitches were probably a bit long, and what you got were probably the better parts of our pitches without some of the fluff and boring bits.”
However, all in all, Myles said that he was impressed with Kaelan’s final Tribal Council pitch.
“[It] was what I was hoping. Honestly, I remember talking to him before, saying I just really wanted to see Kaelan bring the fire.
“I was so excited for that final pitch. And when he came out there, he came out swinging, and the first half of his pitch was genuinely fantastic. I was like, ‘Damn, where has this been hiding?'”
Kaelan pitching his case at the final Tribal Council. Image: Ten.
What will Australian Survivor winner Myles spend his prize money on?
While Australian Survivor Myle’s game may have been nothing short of exciting, his plan for spending his $500,000 prize money is comparably less spontaneous.
“I’m a finance bro. I’m just going to be investing it all. I’m going to be setting myself up for the future, and I’m just going to enjoy the financial freedom that this creates.”
Dave Hand was one of the first participants from this season of Married At First Sight (MAFS) to figure out how to get his social media back, and he treated fans last night to a cheeky little Instagram AMA.
While his ex Jamie Marinos recently revealed most participants don’t get their social media back until May, when the show stops airing in the UK, Dave popped up on his socials recently, keeping coy as to how he got back into his Instagram account.
While he hasn’t spilt much tea, he alluded to the fact he may have more to say about his time on MAFS at a later date, saying for now he’s trying to “stay in [his] lane” and live his life.
MAFS’ Dave spills on his currently relationship status after breakup with Jamie Marinos
When one fan asked if Dave was dating again and what he’s looking for, Dave confirmed he’s currently single.
“I think coming out of whatever the hell that was, [it] is going to take me a while to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I just want someone kind and gentle and fun. The strongest bond you can have is mutual respect, and to build each other up. Someone goofy and funny, and just chill, man,” he finished.
After having an up-and-down run on the show, where he started out as one of the most beloved grooms before people turned on him and accused him of betraying Jamie with his partner swap Veronica Cloherty, on top of dealing with the fact his father was going through chemo, Dave assured fans that he’s now doing OK.
“I’m doing fine, there’s a lot of outside noise from everywhere, I’m trying to stay in my lane and live my life, it’s all over and done with in my books,” he said.
“You don’t really know what it is until you get there and thrown in the deep end and you’re talking about your feelings every day. It’s a lot of pressure, but I loved it, I had a lot more good times than bad times, but the bad times were very stressful.”
MAFS’ Dave unfollows various cast mates, including Jamie Marinos
If you were hopeful of a reconciliation between Dave and Jamie, then we’ve got bad news. Since getting his Instagram account back, Dave has quietly unfollowed a few former MAFS co-stars, including Jamie.
Mike, 50, seemed nervous to be back on screens when he was reintroduced as a single bachelor looking for love on Love Triangle, saying he learned a lot from his MAFS journey where he loved, and lost, Heidi Latcham.
As the premise goes on Love Triangle, Mike was texting two women before choosing Melinda, with the two meeting up on a beach date before they moved in together. Mike was worried he may be recognised from his former reality TV days and seemed relieved but surprised when Melinda had no idea who he was.
Mike on MAFS, pictured with Heidi Latcham. Image: Nine
Mike came clean on the date, saying he was a “quieter” personality on MAFS, with Melinda leaving the date decided to Google him and find out more. In case you need a refresher, Mike wasn’t exactly beloved with MAFS fans, due to the sexist nature of some of his comments, including when he weighed in on the fight between Cyrell Paule and MarthaKalifatidis.
“I think groups of women under pressure don’t cope as well as groups of men under pressure. We’re seeing these girls have fallen apart, and the men haven’t,” he said on the show. “Any group of women that are put in this same type of situation just doesn’t speak to their biology … there is actually some merit in that.”
There was also an infamous scene on the beach with Heidi where it appears she was opening up to him, only for Mike to tell her “I’m not your therapist.”
So, yeah, he wasn’t exactly a “quiet” character.
What went wrong on Mike’s Love Triangle journey?
Before moving in, Melinda did her homework and confronted Mike about his MAFS days, asking him how he felt about his therapist line and whether he thought he was a misogynist.
“It’s not my finest moment, but I don’t think it matters, I think people have gotten over it now,” Mike responded.
Things only got worse from there, with the couple having a fight off-camera later that night when Mike went for a walk and came home to find a member of the production team sitting on Melinda’s bed.
The next day, as they both explained the story, Melinda called it a “shitshow” saying she’d rather “shit in my hands and clap than get to know him better”. Meanwhile, Mike questioned why the man had to sit on her bed and found the situation suspicious because Melinda’s door was also closed.
When Melinda returns to the house to clear the air the next day, the two still couldn’t see eye to eye on the situation, with Mike telling Melinda mid-argument, “The people that are going to be watching this, they don’t all like me, but you know what? They trust me because I never tell bullshit,” to which Melinda retorted, “So, I really hate to say this but you’re nowhere near as relevant as you think you are. You are a 50-year-old washed-up reality TV star.”
Well, it’s safe to say there’s no love lost between the two. But will Mike find love with the other side of his triangle, Melissa when she enters the experiment? We’ll find out soon enough.
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If one thing is for certain, it’s that Australian Survivor 2025: Brains v BrawnII was unpredictable — one minute, a castaway was flying high with immunity, and the next, they were left blindsided at Tribal Council.
During practically every season of Australian Survivor, viewers experience emotional whiplash as their faves are eliminated from the beaches of Samoa and sent home — or to the jury villa.
Long-time host Jonathan LaPaglia guided the cast through the shocking Tribal Councils (which, for the uninitiated, are where tribe members are voted off). Jonathan has hosted the popular reality TV show since its revival in 2016, totalling nine seasons.
There can only be one Australian Survivor 2025 cast member who will outwit, outplay and outlast all of their fellow castaways, and that person was Myles Kuah, who was crowned the Sole Survivor of the Brain v Brawn II season.
Myles took home bragging rights and a whopping $500,000 cash prize. Read on to find out everyone who left Australian Survivor.
Who has been eliminated from Australian Survivor 2025?
Episode 24 – Kaelan
Kaelan. Image: Ten.
Kaelan Lockhart was the Challenge Beast throughout the season, or as he liked to call it, the Challenge Enthusiast.
While Kaelan’s physical game saw him get to the final two, it was Myles Kuah who took him out at the final Tribal Council, and was crowned the winner of Australian Survivor 2025.
Episode 24 – AJ
AJ on Australian Survivor. Image: Ten.
Because he had won the Immunity Challenge, it was up to Kaelan to choose who would go to the final two with him.
Kaelan struggled with his choice, calling the experience “one of the worst days” of his life, and ended up taking both Myles and AJ aside for a heart-to-heart.
However, it was AJ Antonios he decided to vote for, meaning that Kaelan and Myles were officially the final two on Australian Survivor 2025.
Episode 23 – Zara
Episode 23 of Australian Survivor saw Zara Callianiotis narrowly miss out on making the final three.
Things went sideways for the PTA vice-president when Myles ticked winning an Immunity Idol off his Survivor bucket list, which put Kaelan, Zara, and AJ in the firing line.
After a lot of scrambling on the beach, it seemed like a unanimous decision couldn’t be made about who to vote off — Myles wanted to bring Zara to the finale, and AJ refused to vote for Kaelan.
With the threat of Zara and AJ going to fire, Myles flipped his vote at the last minute and voted Zara out, leaving himself, AJ and Kaelan in the final three.
Episode 22 – Kate
Kate getting her torch snuffed. Image: Ten.
Kate Gloufchis had her torch snuffed at Tribal Council tonight. Zara had the difficult option tonight to send home either Kate or AJ.
“I have the option of making a big move right now. I could go with Kaelan and AJ and vote out Kate,” Zara said. “She is my main competition.”
“On the other hand, Myles wants he and I to vote for AJ and we should be able to send AJ home with our two votes.”
Myles told Zara he was feeling “actually down” about voting him out, but told producers that this could be his “$500,000 move”.
“This is the correct play,” Myles told producers. “And AJ will respect that.”
At Tribal, Kaelan said it was strange not to have the immunity necklace, but he was still feeling “calm.”
Myles stunned the jury when he played his fourth immunity idol for himself, even though he said he felt “safe” from this vote.
Myles received one vote which did not count, Kaelan received one vote, AJ received one vote, and Kate received two votes, sending her home.
Zara apologised to Myles for blindsiding him, and he admitted that he voted for AJ. Could this be the nail in the coffin for Myles?
Episode 21 – Morgan
Morgan getting eliminated from Australian Survivor. Image: Ten.
After Kristin’s exit, the dominant Post-Graduates alliance (Myles, AJ, Kaelan, and Zara) were poised to target either Morgan Mitchell or Myles. But with Myles quietly eyeing Kaelan as a growing threat, Kate decided to pitch a bold plan to Kaelan: blindside Myles before he could strike first.
Then came a twist at Tribal. After Kaelan claimed immunity for a record-breaking sixth time, a surprise challenge offered up a second necklace — which Kate won.
With both off the table, the general consensus was that it would be Myles or Morgan sent home. The alliance stuck together, and Morgan was voted out 4–2, becoming the newest member of the jury.
Episode 20 – Kristin
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Zara had a lot of power tonight, with the option to stick with the Graduates alliance and vote Kristin Alston out, or flip and start working with Morgan, Kate and Kristin. The biggest hurdle on her mind is that AJ and Myles seem to be calling the shots.
“I don’t want to be dragged along with the guys,” she said. “I need to find a path to get my control back.”
Myles and Morgan butted heads during tribal, with Morgan saying that she refuses to strategise with Myles because he’s so unreasonable. After causing a bit of chaos, the woman started whispering, saying they should vote for Myles with hopes Zara would flip.
Zara stood up to speak to the women in a hushed whisper, leaving her Graduates alliance concerned.
In the end, Zara stuck with her Graduates alliance and the Tribe sent Kristin home 4 votes to 3, making her the newest member of the Jury.
Episode 19 – Logan
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It was a dramatic showdown as the tribe split evenly between voting out OG Brains Zara and Logan Johannisen.
Both women aimed squarely at each other. Zara was seeking revenge for Logan taking out her “ride or die” Karin, and Logan was hoping to return the favour. “I hope this sends you home”.
The initial vote tied at 4–4. A re-vote led to another tie, forcing the tribe into a five-minute scramble to avoid a rock draw.
Kristin argued Zara had “too many connections,” while Myles labelled Logan an “endurance threat.” But with Zara, Kaelan, Myles, and AJ holding firm, it was clear the majority wasn’t budging.
After saying, “It’s okay,” Logan accepted her fate as the Tribe voted her out unanimously, becoming the newest member of the Jury.
Episode 18 – Karin
Karin Gunatilake. Image: 10
Paulie and Laura looked on from the jury as Karin Gunatilake prepared for a Tribal she knew could be her last. Sensing the target was either her or Zara, she pulled Zara, Kristin, Kaelan, and Logan aside with a bold offer: “Russian roulette” — five votes, and if someone played an Idol, she’d go home.
She revealed the other side had asked her to flip on Zara but refused: “Not going to turn on my ride or die, am I?” Karin called out AJ for scheming, while Kristin admitted she was pushing to save Karin over Zara.
In a wild twist, Karin voted for Zara anyway. “I want to see what happens,” she said.
But it wasn’t enough. The final votes: one for Myles, three for Zara and five for Karin.
“Self-immolation is my game,” she said as her torch was snuffed.
Episode 17 – Paulie
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Paulie Michaelhad his torch snuffed after a tense Tribal Council. His paranoia got the best of him during the scramble, as he demanded that his name not be pulled out of the urn.
“He’s losing his mind. He’s actually losing his mind,” AJ said.
Seeing as only five contestants were on the chopping block — Kaelan, Kristin, Myles, Paulie or Logan— he was right to be afraid.
Myles played his immunity idol for himself, with the hopes that Kristin would go home. However, while the five votes against Myles didn’t count, Logan ended up voting for Paulie instead of Kristin and sent him home.
Episode 15 – Laura
Laura Darras. Image: Instagram
Laura Darras was sent home after another dramatic Idol play turned the Tribal Council vote on its head.
The majority initially planned to vote out Logan, hoping to break her close alliance with Laura and dismantle the lingering “Buddy System”, and move toward a more open jury phase.
However, sensing something was off, Logan trusted her gut. “I had an icky feeling today,” she said before playing her Hidden Immunity Idol, explaining that she’d “prefer to be safe than sorry.”
Logan’s move nullified six votes against her, leaving just five valid votes. AJ received two, while Laura ended up with three, making her torch the latest to be snuffed.
Episode 14 – PD
Paul Dee. Image: Ten
In a shock idol play that no one saw coming, Myles chose to save Paulie from an almost landslide elimination, leaving Paul Dee (PD)’s head on the chopping block.
Since Merge, traditional alliances have been breaking, and players have split off into pairs for safety. The only outlier, being Paulie. However, it wouldn’t be Survivor without some big moves and that’s where AJ and Myles came in with one of the most exciting idol plays we’ve seen so far.
Knowing that the majority were voting for Paulie to keep pairs strong, Myles and AJ chose to blindside the rest of the players by putting votes on PD and ultimately sending him packing.
Episode 13 – Jesse
Jesse Noonan. Image: Ten
The first Tribal Council post-merge set the stage for shifting allegiances as old tribal lines blurred. As Logan quipped: “It’s not Friend Island.”
OG Brains initially pushed for Paulie, sensing an opportunity to take him out, while AJ tried to work his charm to sway OG Brawns into flipping. But with the game opening up, Jesse Noonan’s web of connections made him a target.
The vote came down to a near tie between Jesse and Paulie, but a final vote pushed Jesse over the line, making him the first casualty of the Merge. Meanwhile, Zara (up until now the only castaway to have played on both tribes) also picked up two votes as new alliances began to take shape.
Episode 12 – Ben
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While the Brawn tribe was at Tribal Council, Jonathan revealed that no one would be sent home due to Ben Bylett’s unexpected decision to leave the game.
“I know you were expecting to vote someone out tonight, but there’s been a development that changes things,” Jonathan explained. “This might come as a shock, but Ben from the Brains tribe has chosen to leave the game.”
“As a result, there will be no vote, and no one from this tribe will be eliminated tonight.
During the show, no details were shared about Ben’s sudden departure. However, he’s since taken to Instagram to say that he left Survivor because of a torn calf muscle and other illnesses he’d developed while filming the show.
Episode 11 – No elimination
Zara Callianiotis. Image: Instagram
After Brains lost Immunity, Laura found an advantage revealing that the voted-out player wouldn’t leave the game but would swap tribes, moving to Brawns.
Trusting Zara Callianiotis with the information for the sake of their alliance, Laura was blindsided when Zara strong-armed her into exposing it to the tribe to protect herself.
Both Laura and Zara saw the move as a chance to reconnect with old allies and form new ones. “I want to go because I think it’s the next building block before Merge,” Zara reasoned, even voting for Myles instead of Laura to tip the votes in her favour.
In the end, Myles and Laura received two votes each, but with four votes against her, Laura was sent to Brawns.
Episode 10 – Noonan
Laura Noonan. Image: Instagram
The new Brawns tribe faced another tense Tribal Council, where two hidden Immunity Idols completely upended the vote.
Knowing she was near the bottom, Laura Noonan (Noonan) made a last-ditch effort to rally allies, calling AJ’s unpredictability a liability.
Before the votes were read, Paulie played his Idol, nullifying four votes against him. Sensing he was next, AJ followed suit, negating his votes despite Noonan’s attempt to dissuade him.
With both Idols in play, Noonan became the default target, and the two votes against her sent her packing.
Episode 9 – Max
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In a shocking Tribal Council, MaxWills became the latest castaway to have their torch snuffed.
After Brains 2.0 lost Immunity, they faced Tribal, but plans were upended when Myles played the Idol he won during the challenge, canceling four votes against him. Kate also picked up a vote.
Max had hoped to merge with OG Brawns Jesse and Ben by his side, but they stayed loyal to their original alliance, sealing his fate. Pretty safe to say a few saw it coming.
Meanwhile, over on Brawns, Kristin secured an Idol for herself.
Episode 8 – Ursula
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Ursula Rose became the first casualty of AJ’s “hostage” strategy — a ploy to force the new Brains to throw challenges while keeping the OGs strong for the Merge. Noonan also helped stir the pot against Ursula, but ended up taking two votes herself at the Tribal Council.
With five votes against her, Ursula became the seventh torch snuffed.
Rich Hughes‘ torch was snuffed out, with AJ remarking that “sacrifices are needed to create new alliances.” Rich himself admitted that Logan and Karin had wanted him gone “from day dot.”
In the final vote, Rich was eliminated with five votes against him, while Logan and Noonan both received one.
Episode 6 – Ally Kettle
Ally Kettle on Australian Survivor 2025. Image: Ten
After receiving the parchment from Rich, which granted him the power to exempt two tribe members from Tribal Council, Max chose Karin and Laura to sit out.
Ally Kettle, who had been rubbing some shoulders due to her fast and fast decision-making and difficulty working with others, was voted out, signalling a rift within The Coven.
Meanwhile, Myles received two votes but remained safe.
Episode 5 – No elimination
Rich Hughes. Image: Ten
A twist at Tribal Council meant no one was voted out in Episode 5. Instead, the Brains tribe had to vote one of their own to permanently join the Brawn tribe, bringing along a mysterious scroll.
Both AJ and Rich volunteered, with AJ saying he wanted find his team and call them the “Bomb Squad”. However, the Brains tribe voted instead for Rich to switch sides. Rich was up for it, saying, “Why not? I think it’s fun.”
The scroll, later revealed, grants the power to remove two players from voting at the next Tribal Council (they can’t vote or be voted for) and can either be used by Rich or given away.
Episode 4 – NashGendo
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Nash Gendo became the first Brawns tribe member to have his torch snuffed after his tribemates discovered he had thrown the first Immunity challenge.
Despite his effort to fake having an Idol at Tribal Council, his bluff was called, and the votes sealed his fate. Ursula was next in line with two votes, while Morgan received one.
Even though his bold gameplay and confidence was his downfall, Nash told Chattr he doesn’t regret his approach, and feels his fellow castaways need to spice things up.
Episode 3 – Kent Miller-Randle
Kent on Australian Survivor 2025. Image: Ten
Kent Miller-Randle got the boot after Brawn sent Brain to Tribal Council, racking up six votes — enough to snuff his torch.
The Coven secured their target as Kent, despite AJ’s failed attempt to send Logan home after deeming Kent a non-threat. It was a fitting comeuppance for the business mogul, who targeted Myles in Episode 2 and, in a wild Tribal Council moment, bizarrely admitted to burning Max’s hat and trying to frame Myles for it
Myles, meanwhile, still narrowly dodged elimination with three votes.
Episode 3 – Zen Heaton
The Australian Survivor tackle that sent Zen home. Image: Ten.
The Reward Challenge saw individual competitors from the Brains and Brawn tribes tackle each other in the hope of scoring a flag first. Zen Heaton managed to get the point after taking on Kaelen, but he hurt his finger during the process.
Ahead of the Elimination Challenge, medics came to check out Zen’s injury and found that he’d broken his finger down to the bone. He was removed from the game.
Episode 2 – Indy Saleh
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In Episode 2, Indy Saleh became the second contestant sent packing after the Brains Council snuffed her torch.
The girls initially plotted to take out Rich, but when Indy deliberately spilled the plan to him, the move backfired. Branded untrustworthy (and “as good as a boy”), she quickly became the tribe’s top target.
Myles also racked up a few votes, but in the end, Indy’s fate was sealed in a landslide.
Episode 1 – Candy Rule
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Candy Rule was the first player to have their torch snuffed on Australian Survivor. She was eliminated in Episode 1 with five votes against her — Ursula narrowly missed out on elimination with four votes.
Meanwhile, Nash sashayed into the first Tribal Council with an Idol around his neck and led the campaign against Candy. However, he ended up playing his Idol even though only three votes were cast against him, meaning that he wouldn’t have left even if he didn’t play his Idol.
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Myles and Kaelan on their way to the Australian Survivor 2025 final Tribal Council. Image: Ten.
What happened in the Australian Survivor 2025 finale?
Myles, Kaelan and AJ Antonios were the final three castaways left standing.
Before the final three got down to business in the final challenges, their loved ones came for a visit. Myles welcomed his bestie Ollie, AJ’s best mate Nabil headed in, and Kaelan was joined by his mum Lydia.
The three spectators watched on as their loved ones competed in the final Immunity Challenge, which involved standing on a variety of thin bamboo pegs and supporting their body weight for the longest amount of time.
Myles in the final Immunity Challenge. Image: Ten.
Myles was the first person to drop out of the Immunity Challenge. AJ tried to convince Kaelan to give up with the promise that he’d take him to the final two. However, Kaelan decided to weather it out.
Three hours into the challenge, AJ started to show signs that he was struggling. He ended up slipping and Kaelan won the final Immunity Challenge, guaranteeing him a spot in the final two.
In a normal scenario, players would head to Tribal Council after the immunity challenge and one person would be voted out. However, with just three players left, no one can vote for the person with immunity, and the other two players votes cancel each other out, so the Immunity winner chooses who to take to final two with them.
Who was voted out of Australian Survivor 2025 before the final Tribal?
When pitching his case to stay with Kaelan, Myles said that he’s played a “sloppy game” at times. AJ took a different approach and instead painted a target on Myles, saying that he broke six Survivor records.
With a big decision weighing on him, Kaelan chose to take Myles to the final two, meaning that AJ was sent home.
What happened at the final Tribal Council?
Kaelan and Myles faced the eight jury members and pitched their case as to why they thought they should win.
Kaelan told the jury that his play was to be “underestimated” and be the “golden retriever” of the tribe. The PhD student said that he aligned with Myles and AJ so that they could do the dirty work or strategising for him.
Meanwhile, Myles said that he deserved to be the winner because of the risks he took during the game and highlighted his journey of playing from the bottom.
The final eight Australian Survivor 2025 Jury members. Image: Ten.
Each eliminated contestant then had an opportunity to ask Myles and Kaelan a question about their gameplay.
Once that was done, each juror headed to the voting booth and scribbled the name of the person they wanted to win on parchment.
While it’s abundantly clear that Myle’s strategic game has been almost flawless, he told Chattr in an exclusive interview he actually had a pre-game strategy that he brought to the show.
The Financial Analyst used his trade skills to nut out what had happened in previous seasons and figure out the odds of when they would likely happen in Australian Survivor: Brain v Brawn II.
Myles said those predictions — including when Merge and the Tribe Swaps would happen — turned out to be true, except for one twist he missed.
“I actually built multiple Excel spreadsheets from previous seasons. So I predicted every twist, except for the Baron twist,” he revealed.
“Every single one! I could get the timings of them, because of the averages that I was looking at,” he explained. “I made weighted averages of previous twists, and I looked at the timings.”
Australian Survivor finalists Kaelan, Myles and AJ. Image: Ten.
Myles told Chattr that while the data helped him figure out when twists, like non-elimination Tribal Councils, were happening, he knew that anything was possible on Survivor, so he used the spreadsheets as a guide rather than as gospel.
“I wasn’t expecting expecting the twists because you can’t go into a Tribal Council thinking, ‘Oh, this is going to be a normal one’, in case it isn’t.”
However, Myles said that he was “very wary” during the Tribal Councils that lined up with the timings in his spread sheet.
“It felt pretty good to be right. As they came along, I was like, ‘Yep, got this one right in the spreadsheet.'”
AJ and Myles. Image: Ten.
Myles also used his data to figure out his Survivor strategy
Myles didn’t just use his spreadsheets to predict when twists would happen in the game — he also used them to plan a game strategy.
The 24-year-old told Chattr that he was on the younger side of the players cast on the show and had studied previous contestants of similar ages.
“I looked at other younger players. I had a list of all the Survivor players, and I looked at stuff like their careers, age and whatnot.
“What I found with younger players, and I really understand it now having played, is that even the ones that make it deep, often make it deep as second in commands and as sidekicks, essentially,” he explained.
There has only ever been one Australian Survivor winner under the age of 25, which was Kristie Bennett in Season 3. Myles said he considered this when devising a strategy that varied from the young players who’d competed before him.
“It was a big driver for me, especially as we hit Merge, to try and find a bit of agency and not just get swept along in the game as the really young, under-25 players often do.”
Myles in a Reward Challenge. Image: Ten.
Myles doesn’t consider himself a Survivor superfan
While Myles may sound like the oracle of Australian Survivor knowledge, he told Chattr that he only started watching the reality series recently.
“I’m actually not as big of a fan as a lot of people think I am. I only got into it a couple of years ago, but the way that I enjoy things is I get a very intense level of interest,” he said.
“I would go out there [on the beach] and I’d be rolling Survivor SAP off the top my head, and it’s like, freaked people out a lot, like, ‘Oh my god, Myles, is this massive fan.’ Like, I am a big fan, but very much a recent convert who just gets a little bit obsessive.”
Give this man the title of Sole Survivor 2025, already.
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Myles Kuah has found himself in a scenario where there’s a 50% chance he could go head-to-head with Australian Survivor 2025‘s biggest strategic threat,AJ Antonois at the finale. So, does Myles think he could take him out in a Final 2?
The finale, which airs on April 14, will see the final two players pitch their cases to the Jury, made up of eliminated players. The jury will vote to choose which castaway will be crowned the winner of Australian Survivor 2025.
In a mid-season interview, Myles told Chattr that AJ is the one person he isn’t sure he’ll be able to beat in a jury vote.
“I feel like I’d have a decent chance against anyone other than AJ,” he said.
“I’m looking at AJ as someone who I think I could potentially beat at the end, but I wouldn’t feel confident about beating at the end.”
Myles and AJ heading to Tribal. Image: Ten.
Who else did Myles say he didn’t want to face at a Survivor Final Two?
AJ added that he felt like he’d played a strong enough game to beat anyone aside from AJ andKarin Gunatilake, who was the second player sent to Jury.
“In my mind, I think I’ve got a decent chance at beating him [AJ] the in the end, because Karin was the other one. Karin probably beat most people at the end, so she was someone I did not want to take [to Final 2].
“Most other people [I could beat]. I’ve just got the most visible resume, I’ve got a great story, and I’ve got pretty good relationships, especially with everyone that’s ending up on the jury.
“AJ is my main focus as someone who I do not want to go up against at the end.”
With just three players left in the running, there’s a good chance that we may just see Myles’s worst-case scenario play out.
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AsAustralian Survivor: Brains v Brawn II wraps up, fans won’t have to wait long for their next hit — Survivor: Australia v The World is right around the corner
For the first time in history, Australian Survivor is dropping two seasons in one year, and the second — Australia v The World is a special edition that includes returning Australian and international cast members.
The new season will star some very well-known American players, as well as contestants from South Africa, Norway and New Zealand, who will face off against some home-grown faves.
Here’s everything you need to know about Survivor: Australia v The World.
Australian Survivor host Jonathan LaPaglia. Image: Ten.
When does Survivor: Australia v The World air?
Channel 10 hasn’t released the official air date for Survivor: Australia v The World yet, but South African publication Cape Argus has reported that it will premiere on June 22.
“I’m going to say no. After I just played Australia Survivor v the World, which will air in July, I’m done,” she replied.
“Five seasons of Survivor is so much Survivor, and it just changes your brain. I’m good, I’m done, that’s it for me.”
We’ll wait for an official date from Channel 10 before we get too excited, but it sounds like we can expect Survivor: Australia v The World to air after MasterChef Back to Winfinishes airing.
Who’s in the Survivor: Australia v The World cast?
The full cast has officially been announced, with many Aussie fan favourites returning, including David Genat(Champions V Contenders, All Stars), Kirby Bentley (Titans V Rebels), Shonee Bowtell(Champions v Contenders, All Stars, and Heroes v Villains), Luke Toki (Australian Survivor, Champions V Contenders), and George Mladenov(Brains v Brawn and Heroes v Villains).
Kirby and Raymond on Australia Survivor: Titans v Rebels. Image: Ten.
Mark Warnock, who competed against Kirby on Titans V Rebels and came third place in the season, told Chattr that he believes she has what it takes to take on the big international players on Australia v The World.
“Survivor Australia V The World demands that we send our best and brightest and there is no-one better than Kirby,” he said.
“With her natural charisma, cheeky personality and bombastic gameplay, I’m backing her to beat the world’s best.”
Liz, George and Nina on Australian Survivor. Image: Ten.
The Aussies will be joined by seven contestants who’ve previously played the American format of Survivor and have been confirmed for the international team. Cirie Field (Panama, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains and Game Changers), Tony Vlachos (Cagayan, Winners at War and Game Changers)and Parvati Shallow (Cook Islands, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains and Winners at War) will be among the Americans donning buffs again.
The argument and subsequent fallout of Paul’s actions was the first sign of cracks in the duo’s once-strong relationship, with Paul’s actions throughout the rest of the season coming under the microscope. The last straw for the couple was when Paul chose to go on a date with his ‘Is The Grass Greener?’ match Hannah, with Carina dumping him at Final Vows.
MAFS’ Paul and Carina at Final Vows. Image: Nine
Paul addresses his MAFS controversies in first tell-all interview
In his first interview since MAFS ended, Paul spoke to the Daily Mail about his controversial antics and edit, addressing the door punch for the first time saying he was “mentally drained”. The moment came after Carina confessed off-camera to sleeping with a rapper, which Paul said he already knew but was shocked she brought it up in front of two of their other cast mates,Jeff Gobbels and Rhi Disljenkovic.
“I was mentally drained. We were filming 12 to 14 hours a day, and I was running on five hours of sleep. I just snapped,” he said.
“It felt like she was bragging. It confused me. In her confession letter, she was ashamed of her past, and now it seemed like she was owning it proudly in front of everyone.”
Paul said he continued to stew on it and felt like Carina’s apologies were “deflective” but that he “instantly felt shame” after he lost control and punched the door.
“They [production] brought me into a private room the next day. I couldn’t stop crying. I told them, ‘If you need to kick me off, I understand.’ But they gave me another chance. I was so grateful — I wanted to make things right and show that wasn’t who I am.’
Online, fans aren’t quite buying the groom’s reasoning, saying his “excuses” aren’t cutting it.
“As a mother of two who has been through years of sleep deprivation, I can say I’ve never punched a wall due to lack of sleep. What a pathetic excuse to mask your clear anger issues,” one person commented on Instagram. “This guy is everything that is dangerous about men – no emotional intelligence and blaming everything and not owning their behaviour or being able to control emotions,” another said.
Paul addresses Temptation Week date saying he felt pressured by production
The final nail in Paul and Carina’s coffin was when he met up with his backup bride Hannah, while Carina refused to meet her backup match.
Paul labelled the move stupid, saying he felt “pressured” by production.
“Producers were like, ‘Come on, hurry up — what’s your decision?’ I didn’t think it through. I just went along with it like it was another task. I remember thinking, ‘I don’t want to be here.’ But I felt stuck. My producer said it was too late.”
Paul’s backup match Hannah told Chattr despite the pressure Paul was under, he still chose to show up and stay, saying his excuses were “weak”.
Hannah wasn’t left impressed by Paul on their date. Image: Nine
“He could’ve walked out, like I eventually did,” she said. “Feeling pressured is a weak excuse for anything. He’d been in the experiment for about 12 weeks by then, so he knew how production works.
“I don’t blame him for having regrets. He left a beautiful partner at home to go on a date where he was being confronted. My walls were way up.”
MAFS’ Paul calls out edit: ‘They didn’t want people to like me’
Ahh, it’s a tale as old as time: a controversial contestant calls out the editing by producers. Paul also questioned in his interview if production was out to get him, saying that his portrayal was unfair.
“The only thing people know about me is that I’m French and horny. That’s the meme that went around — and honestly, it’s kind of true based on what they aired,” he said.
“They didn’t show me opening up about my grandpa. They didn’t show the beautiful conversations with my groomsmen. They didn’t show my confession letter where I spoke about my heartbreaks and my hopes. It felt like they didn’t want people to like me.”
“I much rather our platonic relationship and friendship over having any animosity between one another and bad blood. It just doesn’t work [for me] and it doesn’t align with my morals,” she said.
Despite all of the drama, Paul and Carina remain amicable. Image: Nine
Paul also addressed their newfound friendship, saying they were on good terms.
“We’re amicable. She came over to my place in Sydney after the show. I made us lunch, we sat by the pool, and we laughed about it all. She’s stunning. And she has a good heart. I have nothing but affection and admiration for her.”
The final three were locked in after Myles clinched the second-last Immunity Challenge win, and Zara Callianiotis had her torch snuffed after receiving a unanimous vote against her at Tribal Council.
The finale episode will see all three men participate in one more Immunity Challenge, and the winner of that challenge will choose one other player to take with him to the last Tribal, where the Jury will vote for a winner.
AJ, Kaelan, Myles and Zara at Tribal. Image: Ten.
Zara reveals Myles, AJ and Kaelan’s skills and flaws
In an exclusive interview with Chattr, Zara, who played alongside all three men practically the entire season, broke down each their games, pointing out their skills and flaws.
“I think when you look at Survivor, with the Outwit, Outplay, Outlast [slogan], each of them have done something amazing in that ethos,” she said.
“Kaelan obviously has won every single thing out there, so that makes him a strong competitor. But then strategically, I think he struggled a bit sometimes to have to make the hard choices and hard decisions he didn’t like having to write his friend’s name down, so that was where he failed a bit,” she said.
Kaelan with one of his many Immunity Idols. Image: Ten.
Zara went on point out that Myle’s game falls in a slightly different caveat because of the record-breaking four Immunity Idols he held throughout the season.
“Myles has not had a strong game socially, but is incredibly strategic. I think a consideration will be how many idols he had, because you play a different game when you’ve been protected by idols as compared to when you haven’t.”
Meanwhile, she credited AJ for his social skills, which have seen him repeatedly protected by other players due to his strong alliances.
“AJ is just a really, really smart, strategic thinker, and he’s also incredibly social. Those players out there, every single one of that final five, AJ, was their number one. So that says a lot about why he’s still there,” she said.
It’s safe to say that all three Australian Survivor 2025 finalists are deserving of the win!
Stream Australian Survivor 2025 Sundays – Mondays on Channel 10 and 10Play.
You’d be forgiven if you thought the Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 drama was dying down for another year, but the newly-engaged Jacqui Burfoot and Clint Rice have kept the drama happening off-screen, sending a cease and desist letter to Combined Communications Specialist and Body Language Expert Scott Taylor.
Scott has been commentating on shows like MAFS for years on social media platforms, analysing the non-verbal communication of participants. He recently weighed in on Clint and Jacqui’s surprise engagement, telling Chattr, “From the MAFS [reunion] episode and all the recent socials, I believe that Clint and Jacqui are not in a true relationship. All the posts have the jeweller tagged in it as well, which would have been the promo contra for the publicity stunt.”
Scott has previously said he thinks Clint and Jacqui’s engagement was a publicity stunt. Image: Instagram
Body language expert Scott Taylor addresses MAFS’ Clint Rice’s cease and desist letter
Now Scott has shared on his socials that Clint has sent him a cease and desist letter, regarding his behaviour review videos.
“The letter, not marked as private and confidential, is attached as well as the screenshots of my reply for clarity,” Scott shared on Facebook. “I have conducted non-verbal analysis of multiple seasons of MAFS and numerous public figures (ranging from politicians and royalty through to reality TV cast members) and have done so without bias or targeting in any form.”
In his response to Clint, Scott said he will continue to share his thoughts.
“I further confirm none of my reviews is crafted with any set intent other than educating others on the behaviours I see,” he wrote to Clint and Jacqui.
Clint and Jacqui hard-launched their relationship at the MAFS reunion. Image: Nine
Scott addresses Clint and Jacqui’s latest move: ‘It is a little deflating’
Scott told Chattr he hasn’t heard from Clint again, but said he’s received a lot of support from MAFS fans.
“The support has been overwhelmingly positive from people on the content I share and also the way it has helped them in different parts of their lives. It is a little deflating that they would take this approach to send the letter, but I will focus on the positive impact that can occur from people understanding non-verbal communication better,” he said.
“The general feedback across the few thousand messages and comments that have come through is that if they are happy (and everyone deserves happiness, I have said that regularly in my videos. They both truly deserve happiness), they should just focus on the relationship and not have social media as their primary relationship focus,” he continued.
“I would imagine that they have had some negative feedback from some brands they were approaching due to their current public image trajectory, and if people don’t take accountability for their actions, they look for someone to blame. It appears I am one of those targets.”
Survivor Australia v The World will be shorter, and the cast will include iconic returnee Survivor players from both Australia and the international iterations.
With all 14 Australian Survivor: Australia v The World cast members confirmed, it’s clear that it’s going to be a helluva season.
Read on to find out who they are.
Australian cast
Shonee Bowtell
Shonee on Survivor. Image: Ten.
Shonee was on Champions v Contenders, All Stars, and Heroes v Villains. She holds the record for spending the most amount of days on Australian Survivor.
David — known as the ‘golden god’ by Survivor fans — won Australian Survivor: All Stars in 2020 and previously competed on Australian Survivor: Champions v Contenders.
Cirie has appeared on four seasons of American Survivor: Panama, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, and Game Changers. She has yet to win a season of Survivor, and her best result was on Micronesia, where she came third.
Tony is the only male two-time SurvivorUS winner. He participated in Cagayan, Winners at War, and Game Changers and won Cagayan and Winners at War.
Parvati Shallow
Pavarati on Survivor. Image: Survivor Wiki.
Parvati has appeared on four seasons of Survivor US, Cook Islands, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains and Winners at War. She won Micronesia and came runner up on Heroes vs. Villains.
Chattr spoke to fellow bride Carina Mirabileto get all the inside information about Jacqui and Clint’s relationship, and she was surprisingly positive.
“I think they have amazing chemistry, absolutely, it’s very evident,” Carina tells us. “She wanted the love story. I think everyone does… we all want love at the end of the day. We want to figure out who’s best suitable for us and how we can build a family in a life time with someone.”
She describes the pair as “really smitten and very happy”, and believes they make a good pair.
“Clint, obviously, it’s very evident that he brings the best out in her and then she made the move to Tasmania. To me, it’s pretty serious, and you can’t put a time frame on love.”
She notes that some people get married straight after they meet or choose to elope quickly, so there’s no one rule that everybody needs to abide by.
“Everyone works in different ways, and if it makes them happy, then that’s all we could wish for. I would love to go through that experience,” Carina adds.
Clint and Jacqui have been dating since November 2024. Image: Instagram
Carina criticises Jacqui’s ‘bad edit’ claim
However, Carina also tells Chattr she believes production has “done a good job with everyone’s edit”. While she thinks Jacqui is a “lovely lady” and has had many “good conversations with her”, the bride was possibly too outspoken on MAFS.
“Jacqui is a flamboyant girl and she likes to say her comments, she’s very good at speaking and very good at projecting her words and answering questions,” Carina explains.
“She’s intelligent and driven, and she just says it as it is. So you know, what you put out there, you [have] to be cautious of that. She’s got no filter. Then, of course, they’re going to use her vocals to create a narrative.”
Jacqui wasn’t afraid to stand up for herself on camera. Image: Nine
Jacqui has famously gone rogue since the beginning of MAFS and explained her side of the story on social media, something Carina isn’t too supportive of.
“Commenting freely on her open forum to the public probably wasn’t the right way to give that reassurance of a bad edit. I think it would probably have been best if she just sat back and allowed all the controversy in the comments to unfold, because you have put yourself in the public eye,” Carina says.
“Everyone will always have their views. I’ve read so many comments about myself and, you know, so many infactual [comments], but if I was to react to all of them, I wouldn’t be sleeping at night.
The castaways are so close to outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting their way to victory, with the Australian Survivor 2025 grand finale fast approaching.
This season of Australian Survivor: Brains v Brawn II has been epic. Now, with the finale right around the corner, it’s every player for themselves as they battle it out for the title of Sole Survivor.
The countdown is on. Here’s everything you need to know before the Australian Survivor 2025 finale hits our screens.
Australian Survivor host Jonathan LaPaglia. Image: 10
When will the Australian Survivor 2025 finale be on?
The finale is set to air on Monday, 14 April, 2025, on Network 10 and 10Play. So lock it in!
With just a few episodes still to go before the finale, the jury will have some new additions.
Videos from the Jury Villa are released after a castaway has their torch snuffed. You can read about all the drama happening in the Jury Villa here.
Karin, Paulie and Laura on the Australian Survivor 2025 jury. Image: 10
What happens at the final Tribal Council?
Australian Survivor is built around a voting system where contestants eliminate their fellow tribemates one by one. But in the end, it’s the Jury who decides who takes home the title of Sole Survivor.
In the finale, the final two (or three) contestants will have the chance to pitch themselves to the Jury. Usually, this involves revealing parts of their gameplay that others may not have been aware of. Each member of the Jury will also get to put the finalists on the spot with a question.
The Jury will ultimately cast their votes for the player they believe is most deserving of the title, and the contestant with the most votes will be crowned Sole Survivor.
What does the winner get?
Aside from lifelong bragging rights, the Sole Survivor will take home $500,000 in prize money.
