CBS Survivor: Gabon – Earth’s Last Eden is the seventeenth season of the reality series. Gabon started with 20 and whittled that down to a winner on Sunday night’s program. The 58 year old Physics teacher Bob Crowley took the top prize before a live television audience, cashing in on a cool million for his efforts. He is the oldest winner in Survivor history.
Bob shared some of his strategy: “I just tried to be necessary and friendly. My plan was to fly under the radar as long as I could.” It proved to be just what he needed to outplay Ken Hoang, Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, Susie Smith and Matty Whitmore on the season finale.
Ken didn’t fare well in the evenings first challenge and got the boot while Susie sailed through the House of Cards challenge. Matty and Bob went head to head in a fire making challenge to break a tie which sent Matty packing. Bob skated into the top three with Susie and Sugar and was voted sole Survivor by his “jury of peers”.
According to show host Jeff Probst, the season was plagued by shipment delays, a crane toppled over and they had problems with wild animals encroaching into their production area.
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