The Australian Survivor 2025 jury is growing fast as the 2025 finale creeps closer, and so is the tension inside the Jury Villa.
FYI 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.
FYI, the Jury Villa is a special holding area for Australian Survivor contestants after they’re eliminated post-merge. They’re out of the game, but they’ll still attend Tribal Councils, and they’ll ultimately decide who wins.
With every new arrival, the drama gets juicier, the dinners more awkward, and the tea piping hot.
Here’s a quick recap of everything going down behind the scenes, thanks to the jury videos shared on 10Play.
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.
Kate also dropped a shocker when she admitted to Logan that she, Kate Gloufchis and Morgan Mitchell didn’t really understand what going to Rocks meant.
“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 very first 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?
