In the countdown to the Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans premiere on Wednesday, February 25, Inside Survivor’s Rob Brodeur will be posting a history of stats for each of the 24 returning castaways.
Today, we are looking at Survivor 45 castaway, Dee Valladares.
- Original season: Survivor 45 (Winner)
- Age on original season: 26
- Age on In the Hands of the Fans: 28
- Dee is the youngest woman competing this season.
- Dee is the only Survivor contestant who was born in Cuba.
- Dee was the only member of the final 3 in Survivor 45 to never find an idol or advantage.
- Dee holds the record for most money spent on an item at an auction. She spent $900 on a milkshake in the Survivor 45 auction.
- Dee is one of 4 Latin-American winners of Survivor after Sandra, Chris U, & Yam Yam.
- Dee was the first woman to win the final immunity challenge and go on to win the season after the forced final 4 firemaking was introduced.
- Dee is the only former winner this season who didn’t have the highest confessional count in her winning season.
- Kyle & Savannah both had the highest confessional counts in their season.
- Dee, Kyle, & Savannah are the 28th, 29th, & 30th winners to play multiple seasons of Survivor.
- Vecepia, Brian, Chris D, Earl, Todd, Bob, Natalie W, Fabio, Mike H, Chris U, Tommy, Erika, Maryanne, Gabler, Yam Yam, Kenzie, & Rachel have only played on one season.
- Dee was the first new era winner to win her season with a vote total other than 7-1-0.
- Dee, Kyle & Savannah all won their seasons with 5 votes.
- Dee, Kyle & Savannah all won the first tribal immunity challenge of their season.
- Both female winners on this season started on red tribes in their original season.
- Dee started on Reba in Survivor 45
- Savannah started on Uli in Survivor 49
- Dee & Savannah are the only female first-time winners to come from a red starting tribe.
- Amber & Sandra were on red starting tribes when they won their second seasons.
- Dee is one of 3 former On Fire with Jeff Probst co-hosts on this season.
- Rick and Charlie are the other two.
- Charlie & Dee are on Kalo, while Rick is on Cila.
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