Burton Roberts
Born: April 10, 1972
Hometown: San Francisco, California Occupation: Marketing Executive Seasons: Pearl Islands Placing: Fifth (Pearl Islands) Tribes: Drake; The Outsiders; Balboa Total Challenge Wins: 12
Days Lasted: 30 Votes Against: 10 Awards: Challenge Beast (Pearl Islands) |
Survivor: Pearl Islands
Burton was initially placed on the Drake Tribe. He made a strong alliance with Michelle Tesauro and Shawn Cohen. After winning the first three Immunity Challenges Burton decided to end his tribes winning streak to eliminate some of the weaker tribe members. After winning the challenge the Morgan Tribe won the right to kidnap someone. They decided to kidnap Rupert Boneham, which resulted in the tribe being mad at Burton. At Drake's first Tribal Council, the Drake Alliance deemed Burton untrustworthy and he was subsequently blindsided. He later returned as an Outcast, which gave him one more shot to return in the game. When the The Outcasts won the challenge, they elected Burton and Lillian Morris to return to the game. Burton then made amends with his old tribe, while Lillian was still resented by hers. Burton won the first Individual Immunity Challenge after the merge, but due to The Outcasts twist he already had immunity and was given the choice to either give up immunity to a castaway of his choice, or keep immunity resulting in the Outcasts immunity being useless. He ultimately decided to give Immunity to Rupert Boneham due to the fact that Rupert was a member of his alliance. Later, Burton and Jonny Fairplay caused Rupert to be blindsided. He then conspired with Jon to eliminate the girls, getting rid of Tijuana and Christa. His downfall was when Jon selected him to join him on a reward, which gave Lillian, Sandra, and Darrah time to conspire to get rid of Burton and Jon. After talking to the girls when he returned from the reward Burton was sure that he was safe. Burton was then blindsided when he thought Sandra was on Burton's and Jon's side, when she really stuck with the girls to vote him out for a second time.
At Final Tribal Council, he gave his jury vote to Sandra who won 6-1.
At Final Tribal Council, he gave his jury vote to Sandra who won 6-1.
Voting History
Episodes |
Burton Voted For |
Voted For Burton |
4 |
Christa Hastie |
Christa Hastie, Jonny Fairplay, Sandra Diaz-Twine, Shawn Cohen, Trish Dunn |
8 |
Outsiders Vote: Michelle Tesauro, Nicole Delma |
Michelle Tesauro, Ryan Shoulders, Trish Dunn |
8 |
Andrew Savage |
Individual Immunity |
9 |
Ryan Opray |
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10 |
Individual Immunity |
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11 |
Tijuana Bradley |
Darrah Johnson, Tijuana Bradley |
12 |
Christa Hastie |
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13 |
Lillian Morris |
Darrah Johnson, Lillian Morris, Sandra Diaz-Twine |
14 |
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Trivia
- Burton and Lillian Morris are the first two people to return to the game after being voted out.
- Burton was the first person to possess two individual immunities simultaneously (he had immunity as a returning Outcast and as the winner of an Immunity Challenge).
- He is also the only castaway to give up immunity and not be left vulnerable. Burton is also the only one to not be the youngest contestant on the season.
- He is the only player to give up individual immunity and not receive votes.
- In "The Great Lie", Burton became the first person to win individual immunity, only to have it stripped.
- Burton became the first person to be voted off more than once in a single season. He was the only one with this "distinction" for seven years, until Matt Elrod and Andrea Boehlke were voted off from Survivor: Redemption Island twice in 2011. Their "record" was broken when Ozzy Lusth was voted out three times on Survivor: South Pacific.
- Burton remains the only person voted off more than once in a non-Redemption Island season.
- Burton was nominated in Survivor: America's Tribal Council in the Sexiest Male category, but lost to Colby Donaldson.
- Burton is tied with Lillian Morris to have the most votes cast against him in Survivor: Pearl Islands with 10.
- Burton is the only Outcast who voted for two contestants of the same gender at the episode 8 returnee vote.