Earl Cole

Earl Cole is the winner of.

Having agreed to appear on the show two days prior to the filming, he became the first person to earn all the votes from the jury against Dreamz Herd and Cassandra Franklin: a feat that would later be repeated on.

Profile
He attended business school at the University of Washington in Seattle and received a National Scholastic Achievement Award before moving to Southern California. He is currently a Senior Advertising Executive who creates and manages new media strategies, brand marketing and advertising budgets for major accounts. He formerly worked as a marketing manager at a cable company, a sales analyst for a film company and a writer’s assistant for a television comedy series.

In addition, Cole also works as a composer and is an accomplished musician. He plays multiple instruments (piano, saxophone, guitar, violin…and a little bit of drums). He also enjoys playing chess, hiking, watching movies, billiards and playing basketball. He considers himself to be very intelligent, creative, athletic and confident, with a witty sense of humor. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Earl currently resides in Santa Monica, California. His birth date is April 9, 1971.

Trivia

 * Earl is the first person to win in a unanimous Jury vote.
 * He is the only player to receive 9 jury votes.
 * Earl is the first African-American male contestant to win Survivor (the first African-Amrican to win is Vecepia Towery on Survivor: Marquesas).
 * Earl is the second player to play a Hidden Immunity Idol when it was not necessary, following Alex Angarita, who had done it earlier in the season.
 * Earl never saw Survivor and hardly knew what it was when he got recruited to be on Survivor: Fiji.
 * Rita Verreos's vote for Earl at the third Tribal Council prevented Earl from having the first "perfect game" of Survivor, a title that was also barely missed by prior winners Sandra Diaz-Twine and Tom Westman, but was eventually earned by J.T. Thomas.