Randy Bailey

 is a contestant from Survivor: Gabon and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. He placed 8th and 18th respectively.

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Randy Bailey wants to be personally responsible for crushing the hopes and dreams of all other contestants with delusions of winning SURVIVOR. He considers himself a ruthless bully who enjoys picking on those that were not blessed with his strength or intellect.

Randy describes himself as angry, blunt, mean and sarcastic (yet charming), and admits he's a train wreck. Bailey declares he has no living relatives besides an older brother, from whom he hasn't heard from in years. He says he has never met a person who didn't eventually disappoint him. The only "person" he has ever loved was his recently deceased black Labrador mix, Johnson, with whom he lived for 13 years.

His biggest pet peeves are cell phones and overly religious people, and he says he doesn't allow either in his home or car.

Bailey's hobbies include scuba diving, marathon running and triathlons, including competing twice in the Hawaiian Ironman. Despite having competed in over 100 triathlons, he claims that he has not been off the couch in years. Instead, he now enjoys his nightly hot tub with a scotch on the rocks. He is also a private pilot, enjoys watching football and occasionally plays golf.

Bailey's primary motivation for being on the show is to be hungry, tired, dirty and smelly. He also says he needs a long vacation where he will not be hassled with the mundane issues of his boring life. He's a SURVIVOR purist and guarantees he will win if the game is not "poisoned" with too many twists.

Bailey is currently single and lives on a lake in rural southwest Missouri. Randy recently moved from Plano, Texas where he lived for 20 years and still claims to be a Texan at heart. He plans on returning there after he wins the million. He has an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, but chooses to work as a wedding videographer where he can set his own schedule.

His birth date is March 31, 1959.

Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
Randy was put on the Villains tribe for being memorable for hating everyone and anyone he met. Randy was considered the weakest member of his tribe due to him being the oldest of the tribe. This weakness was seen in the Day 1 Reward Challenge against J.T. Thomas and against James Clement in the Day 8 combined Reward/Immunity challenge. Randy was in awe when Rob Mariano created fire for his tribe without any flint.

Despite Randy's setbacks physically, he found a notable amount of food for his tribe, although it was not appreciated by many, to his dismay. Facing their first Tribal Council in Day 8, Randy campaigned for the elimination of former winner Parvati Shallow, who had the most relationships among the cast. In the end, Randy's lobbying failed and was eliminated in an unanimous 9-1 vote. Before leaving, a furious Randy threw his buff at the fire pit.

Trivia

 * During pre-game interviews for Survivor: Heroes vs Villains, it was revealed by Jeff Probst that had Randy reached the Reward Challenge with the survivors' loved ones in Survivor: Gabon, nobody would have been there to see him. The loved ones challenge took place the cycle after his elimination.
 * Randy has the least amount of total days overall out of any returning contestant with 38 (Randy spent 30 days in Survivor: Gabon and 8 days in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains).
 * This places him behind all other returning contestants, finalists, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Keith Famie on the all-time list of most days played. He is the only returning contestant to be behind non-returning contestants on the list.
 * Randy is the only person to be on one tribe, be swapped to another, and be swapped back to his original tribe before the merge. This is due to Gabon's two Tribal Swaps.
 * However, such a situation also occured with Candice Woodcock and Jonathan Penner in Survivor: Cook Islands due to a mutiny in that season.
 * In an interview after his elimination, Randy had stated that he lost his original Villains buff. The production team provided a new one and warned him against losing it in the future - hence the reason he threw it in the fire pit.
 * Total number of votes against him: 14.
 * Randy is the first male to play a fake hidden immunity idol.