Survivor's first-ever victor has astir go 1 of its astir infamous, arsenic the firm trainer was a polarizing fig acknowledgment to his arrogance, ruthless gameplay and fondness for walking astir campy nude during the inaugural play successful 2000. 

After helium was the archetypal to outwit, outplay and outlast, Richard became a TV property and vigor host, and yet returned for different changeable astatine $1 cardinal successful Survivor All-Stars. (He besides was connected Celebrity Apprentice and The Biggest Loser). 

In 2005, helium was accused of taxation evasion for failing to pay  the taxes connected his $1 cardinal prize and the quality fees helium received pursuing his win. While helium claimed CBS had told him they would ft the bill, helium was convicted and sentenced to 51 months successful situation successful 2006. After helium was released successful May 2009, helium was ordered backmost to jailhouse for taxation usurpation aft helium didn't refile his taxes for 2000 and 2001.

After winning the 2nd season, acceptable successful the Australian Outback, beingness went beauteous overmuch backmost to mean for Tina. 

"My beingness hasn't truly changed," the then-nurse and motivational talker told the TV Guide Network, though she did uncover she built her imagination cabin in North Carolina, and successful 2006, she published a book, Out Live, Out Laugh, Out Love. She besides became a spokeswoman for the National Arthritis Foundation and an advocate of adoption.

She returned for 2 much seasons, getting voted disconnected archetypal during All-Stars and competing with her girl during Blood vs. Water. She besides competed connected The Amazing Race. 

"Survivor to maine was conscionable different experience, but it was an acquisition that allowed maine to spell bash a batch of different amusive things that I would person ne'er got to do," she said successful 2018. "My beingness is fundamentally what you see...I unrecorded present successful the woods. I bike, swim, kayak, motorcycle, thing I privation to do, conscionable instrumentality your pick. And past I play, and travel."

The play 4 Sole Survivor fundamentally went close backmost to her mean beingness aft her 39 days successful Marquesas. 

"Survivor changed my beingness precise little," she said during the TV Guide Network Survivor Winners special. "I accidental that due to the fact that my hubby I some chose to not let it to alteration our lives. I inactive store astatine Walmart."

Still, Vecepia managed to onshore her ain section TV amusement and traveled arsenic a motivational speaker.

"It's been a really, truly bully ride," she said. 

The erstwhile nonrecreational shot subordinate was a fan-favorite during play three, yet going connected to triumph implicit the jury, too. He returned in All-Stars, but didn't person arsenic overmuch luck successful his 2nd appearance. 

After returning from his triumph successful 2002, Ethan co-founded Grassroot Soccer, combining his emotion of shot with foundation work, helping rise wealth and awareness to combat HIV/AIDs successful Africa.

In 2009, Ethan was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, and battled a 2nd bout 2 years later. After receiving a stem compartment transplant from his brother, Ethan became cancer-free. 

After his 10-year narration with fellow Survivor winner Jenna Morasca (more connected her successful a second!) ended, Ethan recovered emotion with interior designer Lisa Heywood. When the mates announced their engagement, Ethan said, "This is the crushed I survived crab twice... to conscionable Lisa and commencement a beauteous and steadfast caller beingness together."

The mates joined successful 2016, with his rep telling E! News, "It was a beauteous solemnisation of existent emotion and life."

The soft-core porn stud turned used-car salesman (No. 1 successful the U.S. astatine the clip of his play BTW!) is 1 of the franchise's astir polarizing and arguable figures—on and especially disconnected the island.

After winning Survivor: Thailand, Brian was arrested successful 2006 on misdemeanor artillery and carnal cruelty charges aft his then-wife Charmaine Costigan called the constabulary claiming helium had changeable a puppy with a bow and arrow. This came after Charmaine was arrested for spousal maltreatment aft allegedly smacking him successful the chemoreceptor successful 2002 conscionable up of his season's finale airing.

"I don't deliberation he's ever adapted to existent beingness since then," Charmaine told the Journal-Constitution of the interaction Brian's clip connected the amusement had connected him pursuing his arrest. "He thinks helium tin bash anything. He thinks he's invincible." They divorced aboriginal that year, with Brian going connected to marry Courtney Heidik. 

Brian, 1 of the slightest likable winners ever, spent a ample information of his wealth connected sports cars, according to the TV Guide Network peculiar successful 2009. 

The swimsuit exemplary and assemblage pupil was conscionable 21 erstwhile she was crowned the sole Survivor of play six, which included her infamous determination to get bare for immoderate peanut butter. (Relatable, tbh!) She is inactive the youngest pistillate subordinate to ever triumph the game. 

Aside from the cheque for $1 million, Jenna besides received different prize during her finale: a caller beau successful play 3 victor Ethan, with the winning duo going connected to day for 10 years earlier splitting successful 2013. 

After taking clip disconnected from schoolhouse (though she yet returned and graduated with a grade successful psychology), Jenna went connected to big immoderate shows for TV Guide Network and appeared successful respective movies. She and Ethan besides competed connected The Amazing Race and starred connected their ain show, Everyday Health. 

Jenna was invited backmost to All-Stars but ended up quitting the amusement to beryllium with her parent who was battling cancer. Her ma ended up passing distant 8 days aft she returned home. 

In aboriginal 2018, Jenna was arrested for a DUI and cause possession aft allegedly biting a constabulary serviceman while being treated for an evident overdose. According to the Pennsylvania constabulary report, the SUV she was driving possessed a vanity licence sheet that reads "AMAZON," apt a notation to her season, Survivor: Amazon.

After the incident, Jenna broke her soundlessness connected Twitter, penning to her followers, "Been a agelong time. I'm backmost and amended than ever. Jenna 4.0 version." 

The subordinate truthful bully she won twice! The erstwhile service specializer and ma of 2 is the lone castaway to ever triumph 2 seasons, netting $2 cardinal successful the process. (She returned for a 3rd time, but didn't triumph Game Changers, voted retired pre-merge by her chap competitors.)

Despite her double-win grounds (winning play 7 [Pearl Islands] and play 20 [Heroes. vs. Villains]), Sandra's beingness didn't alteration each that much.

"Everything other is the same," she said during the 2009 TV Guide Network Survivor victor special. "I inactive halt successful stores similar Walmart, K-Mart, I clip coupons and I spell to the matinee."

Sandra inactive lives with her hubby successful North Carolina, and 1 of her daughters precocious graduated from college.

Talk astir the eventual world TV powerfulness couple.

Boston Rob became 1 of Survivor's astir notorious players of each time, acknowledgment to his four appearances connected the  show, yet winning the $1 cardinal during Redemption Island (Season 22). 

But he'd already benignant of won, falling successful emotion with chap Survivor (originally from The Australian Outback) and tribemate Amber during All-Stars. In the finale, Amber bested her fellow to instrumentality location the $1 cardinal prize...just aft helium got down connected 1 genu and projected during the unrecorded reunion. (Who cares if immoderate radical booed and they received a batch of harsh disapproval from their jury?!)

Rob and Amber competed connected The Amazing Race arsenic an engaged couple, coming successful 2nd place, earlier competing during the All-Stars play 2 years later. They got joined successful 2005, snagging their ain short-lived world series Rob and Amber: Against the Odds successful 2007. The mates has welcomed 4 daughters. 

After his 4th and last play resulted successful a win, with Probst calling it "as adjacent to a cleanable crippled arsenic anyone's played on Survivor," Boston Rob, who besides snagged $100,000 aft winning the viewers' ballot arsenic well, told EW helium was retiring from the show.

"I accomplished everything I've ever wanted to accomplish. This clip astir it wasn't astir the wealth arsenic overmuch arsenic it was astir the title. I don't person to fell successful my ain location anymore. And plus, Amber's getting a cheque anyway."

Some radical bargain houses; the season 9 victor decided to physique 1 instead. 

He did admit to 1 splurge, telling TV Guide Network, "As soon arsenic I won the game, I did spell retired and bargain maine a Harley. It is thing I've astir apt wanted since I was 16 oregon 17. I was ne'er financially unafraid capable to bash so, truthful that was my archetypal purchase."

Aside from that, helium returned to his pre-Survivor job, looking guardant to eventual status and post-retirement travel. 

"Everyone said my beingness would change, but beingness returned to normal," the Ohio autochthonal told People. "I enactment arsenic a task inspector for the Department of Transportation. I person the aforesaid friends, unrecorded successful the aforesaid municipality and americium truly blessed with wherever I am."

The firefighter from Long Island was crowned the victor of play 10 aft playing 1 of the astir coagulated games in Survivor history, managing to triumph a grounds fig of idiosyncratic immunity idols (5) portion remaining beauteous damn likable; he's adjacent 1 of big Jeff Probst's picks for his favourite winners of all-time. Tom, who went connected to go a motivational speaker, returned arsenic a leader during Heroes vs. Villains, but was yet voted retired fifth. 

After his $1 cardinal win, Tom retired from the occurrence section and went into the security concern successful New York City, selling beingness and disablement insurance. "Everything that has travel my mode afterwards has conscionable been a blessing," helium said during a 2009 TV Guide Network special.

A stealthy player, Danni flew nether the radar to triumph Survivor's 11th season. 

The former Miss Kentucky USA and exemplary went connected to wed erstwhile NFL player Casey Wiegmann, and the mates has 2 baseball-playing sons, Bo and Stone. The household inactive resides successful Kansas City, with Danni saying, "I'm a state miss truthful I had to beryllium adjacent to the sticks. I virtually question each play for competitory baseball."

Danni besides started her ain covering line, Sideline Chic, worked arsenic a athletics newsman and much precocious became a children's publication author. 

"Winning a cardinal dollars is wonderful, of course, but I inactive unrecorded a precise mean life," she told People. 

After the yogi won Survivor: Panama, helium saw the wealth arsenic an accidental to prosecute his eventual passion: music. "It's fixed maine a state certainly, wherever I get to research what I love," helium said connected the TV Guide Network peculiar backmost successful 2009. (He besides revealed helium bought cars for his begetter and brother, arsenic good arsenic started a Russian chapeau company.)

Thanks to his clip connected the show, helium was capable to signifier a relationship with singer-songwriter Damien Rice, who became a mentor to him. Aras went connected to merchandise euphony nether the sanction Odd Us. 

But helium aboriginal admitted to struggling with his newfound fame from the show. (He returned to vie erstwhile again successful Blood vs. Water alongside his older brother.)

"We each person our idiosyncratic barriers. After I won Survivor, I got truly depressed. It was conscionable excessively much," helium told Irvine News successful 2012. "Too overmuch vulnerability to the elements, to myself, to the world. I couldn't vibrate that precocious for that long." He yet opened up a yoga workplace successful Cape Town, South Africa, and successful 2015, helium joined exemplary Christy Petersen and they person 2 children.

After winning 1 of the series' astir arguable seasons ever, Cook Islands, which began with the castaways separated into tribes by race, Yul has gone down arsenic 1 of Survivor's astir beloved (and nicest) contestants of all-time. 

"I consciousness truly lucky. I deliberation since Survivor I've had a batch of opportunities to bash things I've truly wanted to do," helium said during the 2009 TV Guide Network special. "I've worked with a batch of crab organizations, leukemia organizations and bony marrow organizations to effort and summation the fig of radical who go registered bony marrow donors." Yul besides started a nonprofit that helped victims of home abuse. 

Following his crook on Survivor, Yul became a TV big and a lecturer for the FBI, portion besides opening up respective Red Mango frozen yogurt shops successful San Francisco aft discovering the institution erstwhile helium was looking for a steadfast dessert enactment erstwhile helium returned from the crippled (and gained 25 pounds). 

Oh, and helium besides recovered a batch much than hidden idols during his clip connected the show: "I besides met my aboriginal wife, Sophie, done my tribemate, Brad Virata," helium told EW. They've gone connected to invited 2 children. 

The Survivor: Fiji victor has the chiseled grant of being the franchise's first-ever unanimous final tribal assembly vote-getter successful the play 14 finale. 

After winning, Earl utilized immoderate of the wealth to travel, visiting 35 antithetic countries alternatively than bargain worldly items. "I wanted this beingness acquisition due to the fact that that's priceless," helium explained. Earl decided to marque a instrumentality travel to Fiji, too, saying, "I went backmost to Fiji aft winning due to the fact that I wanted to acquisition the much luxurious side!"

He besides utilized the wealth to make the Earl Cole Fund with the Perthes Kids Foundation for Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease, a bony illness helium had arsenic a child. 

The formation attendant ended up taking location the $1 cardinal prize during Survivor: China and planned connected seeing the satellite with it, but helium publically struggled with alcoholism aft his clip connected the CBS world hit. 

A predominant impermanent connected the Dr. Phil Show, helium made headlines in 2017 erstwhile helium alleged to Stat and The Boston Globe that the producers of the amusement supplied him with intoxicant and Xanax earlier carrying him retired onto the signifier during his infamous 2013 appearance, erstwhile helium blew a .5 connected a Breathalyzer test. (He appeared again successful 2016, revealing helium had relapsed.)

A rep for the amusement denied the claims, telling E! News, "The Stat article does not reasonably oregon accurately picture the methods of Dr. Phil, the TV show, oregon its ngo to amended millions of viewers astir cause and intoxicant addiction. The amusement does not springiness drugs oregon intoxicant to its guests and immoderate suggestions to the contrary is errant nonsense. "

During his Reddit AMA successful 2018, Todd said, "I'm grateful successful a batch of ways for the amusement [Survivor]. For getting maine assistance successful the nicest places successful the country. That's a acquisition close there. There are immoderate things astir the amusement that I don't like, and that I don't deliberation are real. … I should person been successful the hospital, successful that sense. There should not beryllium liters of vodka successful my dressing room."

Following his triumph successful 2007, Todd, who erstwhile dated chap castaway Spencer Duhm, became a waiter successful Orlando, telling People successful 2012, "Customers say, 'I cognize you from somewhere,' but I ne'er archer them from where. They're gonna permission a lousy extremity if they cognize I won a cardinal dollars."

Now "happy and sober," Todd revealed successful his Reddit AMA that helium manages a movie theater. 

One of the astir fashionable winners (or players, really) of all-time, Parvati utilized her looks to her vantage during her 2nd season, yet netting the expansive prize successful Micronesia (Season 16) by uniting the women successful the Black Widow Brigade alliance. 

"Parvati represents the powerfulness of the beauteous woman, and however they tin wield that powerfulness successful a societal environment," Probst said. "What's absorbing astir Parvati is watching her grow. She started arsenic idiosyncratic who lone had 'flirt' arsenic a tool. By the clip she won the game, she evolved into a young pistillate who knew she could usage her looks to a definite degree, but present had to absorption connected however to subordinate to radical and get them to spot her." 

After her celebrated win, she donated $50,000 to Knockout For Girls, combining her emotion for boxing and charity. She besides took a travel to Peru, with plans to question adjacent more.

Parvati, who went connected to go the runner-up of Heroes vs. Villains, besides got emotion successful summation to wealth from her Survivor experience: In 2017 she wed John Fincher of Survivor: Samoa and they welcomed their archetypal kid successful July 2018. Parvati filed for divorcement this past August. 

Since her clip playing the game, Parvati has go a yoga teacher and idiosyncratic improvement and concern coach, per her Instagram. 

At 57, Bob (and his signature bow-tie) was the oldest idiosyncratic to triumph Survivor, taking location the expansive prize successful play 17. 

Because of his age, the remainder of the castaways underestimated the precocious schoolhouse teacher, who notched an awesome fig of immunity wins. In summation to his $1 million, helium besides won $100,000 from the "player of the season" poll.

The arrogant Maine native, who has since retired from teaching, utilized his winnings to commencement Maine Forest Yurts with his family, which offers radical an eco-friendly camping acquisition successful his beloved location state. He besides started a non-profit, Durham Warriors, that covers the costs for disabled veterans, progressive work subject and their families, and different non-profits to enactment astatine Maine Forest Yurts.

The cattle rancher from Alabama unanimously won his archetypal play (18, Tocantins), going connected to play successful 2 much seasons (Heroes vs. Villains, during which helium made 1 of the dumbest moves successful the show's history, and Game Changers).

"I'm going to support working…keep supporting myself by managing the cattle ranch," helium said of his plans for the prize wealth successful the 2009 TV Guide special. "Hopefully usage this wealth and put it decently and acceptable up assemblage funds for each my nieces and nephews."

Two years later, helium revealed that helium bought caller cars for his sisters, gave his parents immoderate wealth and past invested the bulk of the remaining sum. 

In 2015, J.T. joined his longtime girlfriend, with chap castaway and champion friend Stephen Fishbach officiating the ceremony.

The 21-year-old surfer became the youngest subordinate to ever triumph Survivor erstwhile helium took location the expansive prize during play 21, which was Old vs. Young. 

"I'm starting a accumulation company. We're conscionable gonna bash 45-minute abbreviated films," Fabio said of his plans for the wealth instantly aft his finale. "I'd similar to bash a small spot of stand-up, I deliberation it'd beryllium truly fun. I've written similar 60 poems. Some truly chill stuff." (We're not definite the accumulation institution ever panned out, beryllium helium was a drummer in the set Space Funk Odyssey.)

Shortly aft his win, the antheral exemplary was arrested for skateboarding nether the influence successful Santa Monica successful 2011. And, due to the fact that of his newfound cash-flow, aft he posted $37,000 bail helium was promptly picked up from situation successful a agelong limo, filled with his friends and immoderate beer, a beauteous hilarious flex. 

On the Survivor After Show, helium revealed helium bought a workplace for his dada and a condo for himself.

The witty and blunt aesculapian pupil came into play 23 with 1 goal: triumph $1 million.

"I person been bragging to friends for mode excessively agelong astir however casual Survivor is and however bully I would be," the past 22-year-old told CBS up of the game. "I would similar to person the state successful med schoolhouse to take my specialty based connected passionateness and not wealth and the imaginable to much rapidly wage my debts."

And that's conscionable what she did erstwhile she was crowned Sole Survivor, yet graduating from the Icahn School of Medicine astatine Mount Sinai successful 2017.

During Survivor: One World, Kim ended up pocketing $1.1 million, arsenic she was besides named the Player of the Season by the fans, which wasn't overmuch a astonishment fixed her sheer dominance and awesome crippled play passim play 24.

As the bridal store proprietor had not grown up with a batch of money, Kim said she was excited to beryllium capable to beryllium generous with her household erstwhile it came to spending her prize money. 

"I decidedly person immoderate bills to pay, immoderate tiny bridal shops I'm excited to enactment immoderate wealth into. And spruce up a small bit. I'm going to person immoderate amusive with it," she told EW. "I didn't travel from a ton of money, truthful conscionable getting myself acceptable up successful a amended way—that's that's truly appealing to me. And getting to beryllium generous with it with my household and friends."

Since Survivor, Kim has gotten joined and had 3 children, and started an interior plan business. One of her biggest clients? Fellow Survivor castaway and champion person Chelsea Meissner, who is present a formed subordinate connected Southern Charm. 

The improbable victor of play 25 managed to flooded a beauteous sizable losing streak (losing each immunity situation and going to each post-merge tribal council) to instrumentality location the $1 cardinal prize. 

After joining the amusement for the experience, the enactment therapist admitted she didn't person immoderate large plans for the currency in an interrogation with THR. 

"I'm going to instrumentality my clip and breathe, and past marque a batch of decisions," she said. "My hubby and I are going to beryllium down and marque a batch of decisions. We person a 9-year-old girl who, archetypal and foremost, needs a assemblage money that is afloat loaded and taken attraction of. We've got nieces and nephews. I mean $1 cardinal successful Iowa could beryllium truly life-changing. We conscionable privation to instrumentality our time."

Known arsenic conscionable Cochran, helium archetypal competed during play 23, earlier coming backmost to triumph Survivor's 26th season. A monolithic fan-favorite, he's Jeff Probst's favorite winner of all-time, with the enforcement shaper and big explaining to EW, "I'm going to prime Cochran, and the crushed I'm picking Cochran is if I conscionable look astatine the amusement from afar, Cochran fulfilled the poster, the premise, erstwhile we started—which was, connected immoderate fixed time thing tin happen."

Cochran was a Survivor super-fan (He adjacent sent retired a newsletter successful precocious schoolhouse each astir the show), truthful the $1 cardinal prize wasn't precisely his No. 1 crushed for competing. 

"It's going to beryllium a batch of boring stuff; it's going to beryllium invested, astir apt a down outgo connected an apartment, and I'm reasoning of a small impulse purchase," helium said of his plans for the prize wealth successful an interrogation with THR. "Nothing extravagant that I'm going to walk my wealth on. When I get a caller apartment, I'll astir apt … crockery it up? Soup it out? I don't adjacent cognize the lingo. I'll astir apt marque it arsenic high-tech arsenic possible, a batch of wireless gizmos and stuff. And I benignant of privation to get a Segway, arsenic lame arsenic that it. I don't cognize however often I'd usage it, but I'd similar to conscionable thrust astir connected one. Even if it's conscionable doing circles successful my surviving room."

Following his clip connected Survivor and graduating from Harvard Law School, Cochran ended up becoming a TV writer, moving connected CBS sitcoms specified arsenic The Millers and Kevin Can Wait. 

After 2 erstwhile attempts, Tyson was crowned the victor of Survivor: Blood vs. Water, which besides recovered his woman Rachel Fougler competing alongside him. 

Tyson didn't person immense plans for his prize money, telling ET, "I volition astir apt effort to wisely put it and marque it past arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable truthful that I tin footwear backmost a small bit."

But the erstwhile nonrecreational cyclist did admit, "I don't attraction astir fancy cars, possibly a bicycle. I'm much of a bicycle feline than a car guy. The lone crushed I would bargain a car is to marque my car feline friends jealous."

Though she was voted retired of the crippled early, Rachel besides got a blessed ending, conscionable connected a antithetic world amusement erstwhile Tyson projected to her during the play 2 finale of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. Tyson's Tocantins co-star Stephen Fishbach officiated their wedding successful February 2015 and the mates has welcomed 2 children since swapping vows. 

From the commencement of Cayagan, it was wide the New Jersey bull was going to beryllium a large subordinate successful the play and the franchise. While helium yet won the $1 million, his hopes of becoming a two-time victor were dashed erstwhile helium was voted retired 2nd successful Game Changers. 

Still, the play 28 champ (and villain to galore viewers for his tactics, helium was adjacent booed during the unrecorded finale) won and had liable plans for his monolithic paycheck, with the begetter of 2 telling The Hollywood Reporter, "The archetypal happening I'm going to bash is acceptable up a assemblage money for my kids, due to the fact that acquisition is huge."

He did person 1 frivolous purchase: a pinkish chandelier, which his woman requested. "That's what my woman wants," helium told People aft the finale. "She tin prime it retired astatine Home Depot oregon determination similar that. Maybe I'll request to bargain a location to spell astir it."

After competing connected The Amazing Race doubly and ne'er winning, the fitness fanatic had amended look during play 29, winning the $1 million.

"I'm going to bargain my parents thing truly nice. I'm going to springiness Nadiya a bully chunk of change. And I'm going to effort to beryllium astute with it," the CrossFit manager told The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm not a large spender. When I went on The Amazing Race the archetypal time, my extremity was to spell to carnal therapy school, truthful this could wage for that. And we besides person dreamed of opening up a CrossFit, truthful it's wholly imaginable now."

The Survivor: Worlds Apart victor was a subordinate of the bluish collar tribe, with the lipid driller rapidly becoming 1 of the group's leaders and proving to beryllium a fierce competitor, tying the grounds for astir idiosyncratic immunity wins. 

And for Mike, it was much astir his bequest than the money, telling TV Guide, "More than a million, I got a title. And that's what I was playing for. Money comes and goes. You walk it and marque it. But the title. You can't instrumentality the title."

But helium did person plans for the money, utilizing it to commencement a t-shirt company, Sweet T's Designs.

Post-Survivor is going to beryllium trying to instrumentality this 1 cardinal dollars that CBS graciously gave to maine and crook it into 20 5 oregon 30 million, past beryllium backmost connected a formation determination and bash immoderate spear fishing," helium told TV Junkies. "Live the Survivor life but successful existent life."

After winning, Mike besides recovered love: he's been dating Big Brother alum Meg Maley since 2015. 

After his disappointing archetypal outing successful Season 29, helium made the astir of his 2nd chance, winning Survivor: Cambodia—Second Chance, dropping the quality that his woman Val Collins was large conscionable earlier the assemblage formed their last votes. It was unanimous: the firefighter and dad-to-be deserved the $1 million.

"I already gave the cheque to Val. She's gonna instrumentality it and bash the baby's room," helium said of his earnings. "I'm going to instrumentality her connected vacation, but I'm going backmost to work."

Their son Remy Bodhi was calved successful December 2015, and the mates welcomed their 4th kid successful June 2017.

Jeremy noted helium would beryllium redeeming astir of his Survivor wealth for their college tuitions, telling People, "That's the apical priority. There are a batch of things that I'll bash with the money, but it volition beryllium each astir helping my family."

A subordinate of the quality people successful play 32, which divided up the castaways as Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty, the bartender didn't person large plans for her $1 million. 

"I'm archetypal going to wage disconnected my car, and then, I don't know, possibly question a small bit, but yet I'm conscionable going to prevention up," Michele, who went connected to go a question cause and past concern improvement manager, told The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm young close present and truthful that tin spell a agelong mode successful the future. I don't privation to impulsively spend; I privation to marque definite I enactment it successful the close place."

She did person a spot of amusive with the wealth though, telling EW she planned to spell connected a girls' travel to vino country.

Season 33's Sole Survivor was an obsessed Survivor instrumentality who recovered himself successful the millennial people successful the series' Millennial vs. Gen-X face-off. 

After his win, the stateless structure manager utilized his $1 cardinal to go a crab probe advocator successful grant of his mother, who was diagnosed with lung cancer. He has partnered with organizations specified as Stand Up 2 Cancer (donating $100,000 of his prize money), American Cancer Society and American Lung Association. Adam and his parent Susie, a chap super-fan, applied to beryllium connected the amusement unneurotic for Blood vs. Water earlier she was diagnosed, with Adam going connected to articulation the formed of the pursuing season; she passed distant conscionable 9 months later, soon aft Adam was capable to instrumentality location and archer her that helium won. 

"I had perfectly nary thought what I was coming location to. And the happening is, she was beardown passim the full play due to the fact that they had made the determination to halt treatment," helium told EW after his affectional win. "My ma did not privation to propulsion maine from the game. That was not an enactment successful her mind. But they made the determination that if I was voted out, adjacent if I were connected the jury, that I would travel location immediately...I judge that she waited for me."

Aside from donating wealth to the causes and charities helium believed in, Adam said, "I truly conscionable don't walk a full batch of money, but thing my household has ever loved to bash is traveling truthful I volition decidedly usage immoderate of my winnings for that. But for the astir part, that wealth is going to get locked distant and let maine to proceed to unrecorded the benignant of beingness I privation to live."