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 48 castaway, Kyle Fraser.
- Original season: Survivor 48 (Winner)
- Age on original season: 31
- Age on In the Hands of the Fans: 31
- Kyle is the only returning male winner this season.
- He’s also the only returning winner who didn’t start on a red tribe in his original season (he was on Civa, an orange tribe)
- Kyle, Dee & 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.
- Kyle was the first winner since Nick in David vs. Goliath to swap tribes during his season.
- Kyle had the most confessionals in Survivor 48 with 92 total confessionals.
- The only other player to have more confessionals than him in a new era season is Sam from Survivor 47.
- Kyle has the highest confessional count for winners in Survivor (92 confessionals)
- He beat out Richard in Borneo who had 91 confessionals.
- Both players won their season and played again on an all-returning player season.
- He beat out Richard in Borneo who had 91 confessionals.
- Kyle had a perfect voting record on Survivor 48 and was the first winner to achieve this since Tony in Cagayan.
- Kyle, Dee & Savannah all won their seasons with 5 votes.
- Kyle, Dee & Savannah all won the first tribal immunity challenge of their season.
- Kyle & Savannah both used an extra vote advantage on their winning seasons.
- Kyle is one of 6 Black winners of Survivor, after Vecepia, Earl, Jeremy, Wendell, & Maryanne.
- Kyle was the first man to win the final individual immunity challenge and win the season since Chris in Edge of Extinction.
- He’s the first man to win final immunity, keep it, and win the season since Nick in David vs Goliath.
- Kyle is one of 6 players to use a hidden immunity idol to negate enough votes that would’ve otherwise sent him home, after Mike H, Jeremy, Ben, Chris U, & Rachel.
- Kyle is the only one to do this but play his idol pre-merge.
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