Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien
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Born: January 6, 1955
Hometown: Burlington, Vermont Occupation: Real Estate Agent Seasons: Marquesas; All Stars Placing: Third (Marquesas); Eighth (All Stars) Tribes: Rotu; Maraamu (v2); Soliantu; Mogo Mogo; Chapera (v2); Chaboga Mogo Total Challenge Wins: 19
Days Lasted: 66 Votes Against: 11 Awards: Challenge Beast (Marquesas); Strategy With A Smile (Marquesas); Meal Ticket (Marquesas); Best Strategic Move (Marquesas); Bamboozled! (Marquesas); Worst Strategic Move (All Stars) |
Survivor: Marquesas
Kathy started on the dominant Rotu Tribe, as they were undefeated in Challenges. Luckily for Kathy that they were, because she was outcasted early on. Just as she managed to turn things around for her relationships with her Tribemates, there was a Tribal Switch which saw Kathy, Neleh Dennis and Paschal English from the original Rotu go to Maraamu with Sarah Jones and Gina Crews. Because of this move, Kathy, Paschal and Neleh formed a tight-nit alliance but befriended Gina. They voted out Sarah and then Maraamu won their first Immunity after that. They lost the next one, however, and were forced to vote out Gina. Then came the Merge and Rob Mariano told Kathy that her old Tribemembers, John Carroll, Zoe Zanidakis, Tammy Leitner and Robert DeCanio were turning against her, Paschal and Neleh and wanted them out first. Kathy didn't know what to believe but she won Immunity, saving herself from being the one out. John and Boston Rob, as well as Sean Rector would later have it out, which caused John and his four-person alliance to join back up with Kathy, Paschal and Neleh to vote Boston Rob out. Over the next day or two, Kathy wanted to join Sean and Vecepia Towery to vote out John, as she feels like she had been deceived, but Paschal and Neleh didn't want to join, saying she was just paranoid. However, after a Reward Challenge, which clearly layed out the pecking order, with Paschal and Neleh going right after Sean, Vecepia and Kathy. This caused Paschal and Neleh to jump ship with Kathy and they voted out the old Rotu alliance of John, Zoe, Tammy and Robert, in that order. Now that they were in the Final Five, Kathy was the swing vote between the duos of Sean and Vecepia and Paschal and Neleh, but chose to go with her original Tribemates to vote out Sean. However, when Vecepia won the next Immunity, Kathy made a deal with Vecepia to tie it up to try and save her. The votes were tied between Kathy and Neleh and a new Tie-Breaker was introduced, as Paschal, Neleh and Kathy all drew rocks and the one who got the Purple Rock would be eliminated. Paschal drew the Purple Rock and was thus eliminated without receiving a single vote against him during the game. In the Final Immunity Challenge, Kathy was the first out, so Vecepia made a deal with Neleh, saying that she would step down and give Neleh Immunity if Neleh took her to the end, which Neleh agreed to. Neleh would stick with her word and voted Kathy out. Kathy would then vote for Neleh to win during the Jury Vote but Vecepia Towery was crowned the winner, having received more votes.
Voting History
Episode |
Kathy Voted For |
Voted For Kathy |
4 |
Sarah Jones |
Sarah Jones |
6 |
Gina Crews |
Gina Crews |
7 |
Zoe Zanidakis |
Individual Immunity |
8 |
John Carroll |
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9 |
Zoe Zanidakis |
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10 |
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11 |
Robert DeCanio |
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12 |
Individual Immunity |
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13 |
Neleh Dennis |
Neleh Dennis; Paschal English |
13 |
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Neleh Dennis |
13 |
For Sole Survivor: Neleh Dennis |
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Survivor: All Stars
Kathy returned to Survivor as part of the Mogo Mogo tribe, which found itself divided from the start, as the men and women immediately plotted against one another. After a brief meeting, the tribe agreed to set politicking aside and focus on winning challenges. For the first twelve days, Kathy was in no immediate danger as Mogo Mogo routinely finished second at Immunity Challenges.
On Day 13, a high-stakes Reward Challenge was held, with the last placing tribe to be absorbed by the other two tribes. Mogo Mogo finished first, and chose to take in Ethan Zohn and Jerri Manthey from the dissolved Saboga tribe as new tribe members. Two days later, Kathy and the rest of Mogo Mogo suffered her first immunity loss; and while it would seem the tribe was united enough to continue the ongoing trend of voting out former winners (in this case, Ethan), Kathy and Shii-Ann were approached by Lex van den Berghe, who proposed an idea to vote out their tribe's former winner, Richard Hatch, who was perceived as the biggest competition by virtue of being the first Survivor winner. Kathy found herself in the middle all afternoon between two blocs: Hatch and the women who agreed to vote out Colby Donaldson, and the men, who wanted Hatch gone. Ultimately, Kathy and the Mogo Mogo tribe unanimously voted Richard out.
Kathy joined a separate women's alliance consisting of herself, Shii Ann Huang and Jerri along with being in the main alliance with Lex. The women planned to vote off Colby first for his mistreatment of Jerri in their first season. Later, Jerri convinced Lex to join the women's alliance. When Mogo Mogo lost the Immunity Challenge in "Sorry... I Blew It" Kathy was kidnapped by Chapera. She felt very accepted by Chapera and was surprised at the easy going nature of the tribe, in comparison to Mogo Mogo's serious nature. Since Kathy was at Chapera she skipped the Tribal Council where Colby was voted out.
When Kathy returned to Mogo Mogo, she was saddened because her small break from her tribe was over. After receiving Tree Mail saying that the tribe had to send a member from Mogo Mogo to Chapera. Kathy was selected because she had already formed a bond with the tribe. Once again Kathy had a great time at Chapera. Kathy returned to Mogo Mogo after the Reward Challenge. Mogo Mogo failed to win the Immunity Challenge sending Kathy to Tribal Council again. Kathy's alliance targeted Ethan for being the only outsider of the tribe and for being a former winner. Although Ethan was the easy choice, Kathy was approached by Ethan to form a counter alliance and vote out Jerri. At Tribal Council Kathy stuck with her original alliance and Ethan was voted off.
On Day 23, the tribes met with Mogo Mogo and Chapera expecting a merge. Jeff asked the castaways to pair of and have a private chat with one-another. Kathy was paired up with Alicia Calaway. Jeff later revealed that the tribes were not merging, instead they were switching. Kathy, along with all the remaining Mogo Mogo members were all switched to Chapera. Amber Brkich was the only new member on the tribe. Chapera celebrated when they reached their new campsite. The new Chapera tribe lost the Immunity Challenge. While leaving the challenge Lex struck a deal with Mogo Mogo member, Rob Mariano to save Amber. The tribe went along with Lex's idea and targeted Jerri. Kathy went along with Lex's plan to vote out Jerri and Jerri was voted out at Tribal Council.
The tribes merged on Day 26 into the Chaboga Mogo tribe. Kathy assumed she was in a good place in the game, having a previous bond with the members of Mogo Mogo and having made a deal with Rob. Kathy won the first Individual Immunity Challenge. When Rob revealed he planned on betraying Lex, Kathy considered giving Immunity to Lex to save him but possibly eliminate herself, but Lex told her no and to keep her immunity. At Tribal Council Kathy decided to keep her immunity so Lex was voted out. Kathy then became a target due to her being one of the last remaining original Mogo Mogo members. At the Reward Challenge, Kathy was teamed up with Jenna Lewis, Tom Buchanan, and Rupert Boneham. Kathy's team lost, which also prevented her from competing for immunity. Rob gave up his reward so everyone else can have there's. Kathy wonder if the move was strategic or from pure kindness. Kathy warned the lower members of the Chapera Alliance to come with Mogo Mogo or be picked off. Kathy's lobbying failed and she was voted out 6-2.
At the Final Tribal Council, Kathy was the second person to speak. Kathy reminded Rob on after Marquesas he was worried about how he was going to be perceived. Her question to him was what will people think of him after he used and killed friendships to get to a place, where is that place and he is concerned about this. Rob admitted to abusing friendships and is worried about it, but he didn't know where that place is. Rob also claimed he was not a malicious person and would intentionally hurt anybody. Kathy then asked Amber if she was playing Rob and if she won, would she continued her relationship with him in real life. Amber admitted that she was initially flirting with Rob as strategy. However, as the game continued, she did genuine feelings for him and would hope to continue their relationship. Kathy then give an emotional heartfelt speech about how Rob crushed her severely and that the finalists could have taken a different way that would not have left the jury hurt as they are now. Kathy voted for Rob to win. Her reason was that she still believed that they had a friendship, just it was fractured. However, he lost to Amber by one vote 4-3.
On Day 13, a high-stakes Reward Challenge was held, with the last placing tribe to be absorbed by the other two tribes. Mogo Mogo finished first, and chose to take in Ethan Zohn and Jerri Manthey from the dissolved Saboga tribe as new tribe members. Two days later, Kathy and the rest of Mogo Mogo suffered her first immunity loss; and while it would seem the tribe was united enough to continue the ongoing trend of voting out former winners (in this case, Ethan), Kathy and Shii-Ann were approached by Lex van den Berghe, who proposed an idea to vote out their tribe's former winner, Richard Hatch, who was perceived as the biggest competition by virtue of being the first Survivor winner. Kathy found herself in the middle all afternoon between two blocs: Hatch and the women who agreed to vote out Colby Donaldson, and the men, who wanted Hatch gone. Ultimately, Kathy and the Mogo Mogo tribe unanimously voted Richard out.
Kathy joined a separate women's alliance consisting of herself, Shii Ann Huang and Jerri along with being in the main alliance with Lex. The women planned to vote off Colby first for his mistreatment of Jerri in their first season. Later, Jerri convinced Lex to join the women's alliance. When Mogo Mogo lost the Immunity Challenge in "Sorry... I Blew It" Kathy was kidnapped by Chapera. She felt very accepted by Chapera and was surprised at the easy going nature of the tribe, in comparison to Mogo Mogo's serious nature. Since Kathy was at Chapera she skipped the Tribal Council where Colby was voted out.
When Kathy returned to Mogo Mogo, she was saddened because her small break from her tribe was over. After receiving Tree Mail saying that the tribe had to send a member from Mogo Mogo to Chapera. Kathy was selected because she had already formed a bond with the tribe. Once again Kathy had a great time at Chapera. Kathy returned to Mogo Mogo after the Reward Challenge. Mogo Mogo failed to win the Immunity Challenge sending Kathy to Tribal Council again. Kathy's alliance targeted Ethan for being the only outsider of the tribe and for being a former winner. Although Ethan was the easy choice, Kathy was approached by Ethan to form a counter alliance and vote out Jerri. At Tribal Council Kathy stuck with her original alliance and Ethan was voted off.
On Day 23, the tribes met with Mogo Mogo and Chapera expecting a merge. Jeff asked the castaways to pair of and have a private chat with one-another. Kathy was paired up with Alicia Calaway. Jeff later revealed that the tribes were not merging, instead they were switching. Kathy, along with all the remaining Mogo Mogo members were all switched to Chapera. Amber Brkich was the only new member on the tribe. Chapera celebrated when they reached their new campsite. The new Chapera tribe lost the Immunity Challenge. While leaving the challenge Lex struck a deal with Mogo Mogo member, Rob Mariano to save Amber. The tribe went along with Lex's idea and targeted Jerri. Kathy went along with Lex's plan to vote out Jerri and Jerri was voted out at Tribal Council.
The tribes merged on Day 26 into the Chaboga Mogo tribe. Kathy assumed she was in a good place in the game, having a previous bond with the members of Mogo Mogo and having made a deal with Rob. Kathy won the first Individual Immunity Challenge. When Rob revealed he planned on betraying Lex, Kathy considered giving Immunity to Lex to save him but possibly eliminate herself, but Lex told her no and to keep her immunity. At Tribal Council Kathy decided to keep her immunity so Lex was voted out. Kathy then became a target due to her being one of the last remaining original Mogo Mogo members. At the Reward Challenge, Kathy was teamed up with Jenna Lewis, Tom Buchanan, and Rupert Boneham. Kathy's team lost, which also prevented her from competing for immunity. Rob gave up his reward so everyone else can have there's. Kathy wonder if the move was strategic or from pure kindness. Kathy warned the lower members of the Chapera Alliance to come with Mogo Mogo or be picked off. Kathy's lobbying failed and she was voted out 6-2.
At the Final Tribal Council, Kathy was the second person to speak. Kathy reminded Rob on after Marquesas he was worried about how he was going to be perceived. Her question to him was what will people think of him after he used and killed friendships to get to a place, where is that place and he is concerned about this. Rob admitted to abusing friendships and is worried about it, but he didn't know where that place is. Rob also claimed he was not a malicious person and would intentionally hurt anybody. Kathy then asked Amber if she was playing Rob and if she won, would she continued her relationship with him in real life. Amber admitted that she was initially flirting with Rob as strategy. However, as the game continued, she did genuine feelings for him and would hope to continue their relationship. Kathy then give an emotional heartfelt speech about how Rob crushed her severely and that the finalists could have taken a different way that would not have left the jury hurt as they are now. Kathy voted for Rob to win. Her reason was that she still believed that they had a friendship, just it was fractured. However, he lost to Amber by one vote 4-3.
Voting History
Episodes |
Kathy Voted For |
Voted For Kathy |
5 |
Richard Hatch |
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8 |
Ethan Zohn |
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10 |
Jerri Manthey |
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11 |
Amber Brkich |
Individual Immunity |
12 |
Amber Brkich |
Alicia Calaway, Amber Brkich, Jenna Lewis, Rob Mariano, Rupert Boneham, Tom Buchanan |
14 |
For Sole Survivor: Rob Mariano |
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Trivia
- Kathy is the first, and so far only, Survivor contestant from Vermont.
- Kathy's luxury item in Marquesas was a painting kit.
- Kathy was the first woman to finish in third place.
- Kathy was the oldest castaway on the original Mogo Mogo tribe and the oldest woman on Survivor: All-Stars.
- Kathy was the first castaway to win individual immunity in two separate seasons.
- In All-Stars, Kathy became the first person to be voted out on Day 28.