From cheeky Jericho through to the Golden God: Where are the Australian Survivor winners today?
But who will be joining the Hall of Fame next? Meet the previous winners here and see what has happened since they wrapped filming.
Season one: Rob Dickson
Australia’s first Sole Survivor Rob Dickson played smart and won the premiere series in 2002 – back when the show aired on Channel Nine – with an impressive 5-2 jury vote.
Back then, the show was filmed in South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula and the castaways only had to spend 39 days there. How times have changed!
As a former AFL player for both Hawthorne and the Brisbane Bears in the late eighties and early nineties, he had the physical strength but went on to be a film director.
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However tragedy struck in 2009 when Rob and his five-year-old son Byron died in a car accident whilst on holiday in South Africa. Not only that, but his eight-year-old son Gabriel died four days later in hospital due to injuries sustained in the crash.
Season two: Guy Leech
The celebrity edition of season two was taken over by Channel Seven and featured 12 celebrities battling it out in Vanuatu to win $100,000 for their chosen charity.
Despite getting originally voted out, former ironman champ, Guy Leech not only made his way back into the game but was crowned the winner. The money went to his chosen charity, Ride Aid Inc and was used to build two schools in North Cambodia.
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Since then, Guy has been living his best life with his wife and two daughters advocating for defibrillators to be more readily available through his business Heart180 and playing plenty of golf.
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Season three: Kristie Bennett
By 2016, Channel Ten had claimed ownership and it was the beginning of the Survivor we know and love today. So you can call it season three or season one, take your pick.
That year, Sydney-based senior account executive Kristie Bennett became the first female winner of Australian Survivor at 24-years-old. But after snagging the prize money, she didn’t want to go back to her old life.
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“I wanna be a facilitator, that people can find a way if they have a dream or a goal — motivational stuff but also strategic things as well,” she told the Manly Daily in 2017. “I’m not prepared to do what I don’t really believe in anymore.”
Until recently, Kristie spent her time travelling around the world looking for the best op shop buys, and her Instagram gave us serious wanderlust. Of course, the coronavirus pandemic pumped the brakes on her international travels, but she still spends plenty of time exploring her own backyard in Australia. She also has her own YouTube channel!
She also posts heaps of Survivor throwbacks on her Instagram.
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Season four: Jericho Malabonga
Known for his bromance with Luke Toki, Victorian flight attendant Jericho was crowned Sole Survivor in 2017 and put the prize money to good use.
Jericho took Luke, Luke’s wife Mary and their two boys to Disneyland after Luke promised he’d take his family there if he won. Now if that’s not friendship, we don’t know what is!
Aside from travelling (he kept his day job at Qantas) and keeping up his fitness at his local F45 gym, Jericho also spent time volunteering in Cambodia in 2018. He was even joined by former Survivor contestants Elena Rowland, Lee Carseldine and his runner up Tara Pitt.
He returned in 2019 for the show’s All Stars season, but didn’t take home the top prize that time. As for his job as a flight attendant, Jericho kept up his passion even through the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing on Instagram that he was working on some flights returning stranded Aussies to the country in 2020.
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Nowadays he’s enjoying life on the edge, documenting his many travels on Instagram as well as sharing his love of Jesus.
