Brenda Lowe is a contestant from Survivor: Nicaragua and Survivor: Caramoan.
In Nicaragua, Brenda established her reputation as a "femme fatale" by using her charm and looks to her advantage. Alongside Sash Lenahan, she took charge of the La Flor tribe and headed the dominant La Flor Alliance that controlled both the La Flor tribe and the first few votes after the merge. Ultimately, her strategic gameplay threatened even her allies, leading to her blindside.
Returning as a "Favorite" in Caramoan, Brenda was appreciably less conniving, forming several genuine friendships and emerging as one of the most well-liked and honest players of the season. After a deep run as a member of the majority Stealth R Us alliance, her congenial nature led to her becoming identified as a significant threat, resulting in an emotionally-charged blindside.
Profile[]
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Name: Brenda Lowe (27)
Name (Age): Brenda Lowe (30) |
Survivor[]
Nicaragua[]
Brenda began the season on the younger La Flor tribe. In the first few minutes of the game, Brenda found the Medallion of Power, which La Flor exchanged for fishing supplies. At camp, Brenda became close friends with Chase Rice, but eventually learned that he had made an alliance with Shannon Elkins. This made Brenda target Shannon, who in turn targeted her. Following La Flor's first Immunity Challenge loss on Day 6, NaOnka Mixon recruited Brenda to join her alliance with Sash Lenahan and vote out Shannon. Brenda agreed to the alliance, and also added Kelly Shinn to their group.
With four guaranteed votes for Shannon, Brenda hoped to get Chase to join her alliance and give them a possible majority. Though reluctant at first, Shannon's outburst at Tribal Council swayed Chase to vote with Brenda's alliance, sending Shannon home. With Chase now on her side, Brenda's alliance assumed control of the La Flor tribe, targeting Shannon's allies Alina Wilson and Kelly Bruno. However, La Flor won the following two Immunity Challenges, putting Brenda's plans on hold. In the meantime, she strengthened her alliance with NaOnka, who shared the clue to the tribe's Hidden Immunity Idol with her. The two eventually found the idol near Tree Mail, with Brenda allowing NaOnka to keep it for herself.
At the tribe switch on Day 12, Brenda remained on La Flor along with most of her alliance. She, along with the other younger members of the tribe, quickly bonded with Jane Bright, who warned Brenda about Marty Piombo's control of the original Espada tribe. Seeing Marty as a threat, Brenda and Sash decided to have their alliance split their votes between Marty and his ally, Jill Behm, in case either of them used Espada's idol during the Double Tribal Council on Day 15.
However, Jill won individual immunity at the challenge, forcing Brenda's alliance to split their votes between Marty and original La Flor outsider Kelly B., whose prosthetic leg was deemed by Brenda as too threatening should she make the Final Tribal Council. Despite initially planning to eliminate Marty, Kelly B. was ultimately viewed as too dangerous to continue and Brenda's alliance voted her out on the revote. Despite this minor setback, Brenda and her allies successfully eliminated Jill on Day 18, after Sash convinced Marty to give him his idol in exchange for safety from the vote.
Brenda was among the contestants to make it to the merge on Day 19, joining the new Libertad tribe. Brenda's original alliance reassembled and proceeded to vote out her longtime rivals Alina and Marty. Recognizing Brenda's growing control over the game, Holly Hoffman decided to campaign for her elimination on Day 25. She successfully recruited most of the tribe, including Brenda's ally NaOnka to her side. Holly also attempted to get Chase to assist them as well, but he was hesitant about voting against Brenda and ended up telling her of Holly's plan.
Despite Chase's revelation, Brenda remained confident in her safety, believing that Sash would use his idol to save her if she was truly in danger of being voted out. However, prior to Tribal Council, NaOnka advised Sash against this and warned him of the repercussions of doing so. Thus at Tribal Council, Sash did not use his idol on Brenda and she was voted out in an 8-1-1 vote, becoming the third member of the jury.
At the Final Tribal Council, Brenda stated that she was proud of the finalists, but criticized Sash for breaking the alliance that they had. She then chastised Chase for easily accepting the fact she was going to be eliminated, despite the bond they shared. In the end, though, Brenda voted for Chase to be the Sole Survivor.
| Episode | Tribe Affiliation |
Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Flor | Race to Shore | Reward | No | Won |
| Getting Tanked | Immunity | No | Won | ||
| 2 | Hay Mate | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost | |
| 3 | Get Barreled | Reward/Immunity | No | Won | |
| 4 | Seers and Doers | Reward/Immunity | No | Won | |
| 5 | Don't Let Your Balls Drop | Reward | No | Lost | |
| Spit It Out | Immunity | No | Won | ||
| 6 | Kitty Litter1 | Immunity | Lost | ||
| Reward | Yes | Won | |||
| 7 | Jump Shot | Reward | No | Lost | |
| Cannon Ski-Ball | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| Tribes Merged, Day 19 | |||||
| 8 | Libertad | Push Me, Pull You | Immunity | Lost | |
| 9 | TLP O-Course | Reward | No | Lost | |
| Flashback | Immunity | Won | |||
| 10 | Barrel Bridge | Reward | Lost | ||
| Splash Back | Immunity | Lost | |||
| Voted Out, Day 27 | |||||
| Notes: ^1 The tribes competed in separate individual Immunity Challenges where the winners from both tribes competed against each other for tribal reward.
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| Episode | Brenda's Votes |
Voted Against Brenda |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Flor Tribe Immune | |
| 2 | Shannon | Alina, Fabio, Shannon |
| 3 | La Flor Tribe Immune | |
| 4 | La Flor Tribe Immune | |
| 5 | La Flor Tribe Immune | |
| 6 | Kelly B.; Kelly B.1 |
Jill, Marty; - |
| 7 | Jill | - |
| 8 | Alina | - |
| 9 | Marty | Individual Immunity |
| 10 | NaOnka | Benry, Chase, Dan, Fabio, Holly, Jane, NaOnka, Sash |
| Voted Out, Day 27 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Chase | |
^1 In "Worst Case Scenario", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Kelly B. and Marty, forcing a revote. Brenda did not change her vote on the revote.
Caramoan[]
Brenda began the game on the Bikal tribe along with nine other Favorites. While she initially aligned with Francesca Hogi against Stealth R Us at Bikal's first Tribal Council, Francesca was voted out instead, leaving Brenda in the minority of the tribe. Luckily, Brenda avoided being targeted by the majority alliance and made it to the Tribe Switch on Day 14, where she was switched to the Gota tribe. Since Gota would win the remaining tribal Immunity Challenges, Brenda made the Day 20 merge, becoming a member of the Enil Edam tribe.
During this time, Brenda developed a close relationship with Dawn Meehan after she helped Dawn find her lost retainer in the river. She also became an official member of Stealth R Us, helping to eliminate the rival Cool Kids Alliance. Following Reynold Toepfer's elimination, Andrea Boehlke targeted Brenda for her strength in challenges, after Brenda barely lost to her at the Day 31 Immunity Challenge. However, the rest of the tribe felt threatened by Andrea's Hidden Immunity Idol and blindsided her at the following Tribal Council.
On Day 35, Brenda won the Loved Ones Challenge with her father, Raymond, and selected Dawn and her husband to accompany them to a barbecue reward. Surprisingly, Jeff Probst gave Brenda an alternative option where she could give up the reward and time with her loved one (as well as Dawn's) in order for the rest of the tribe to have time with theirs. She chose the latter, pleasing the other contestants, but upsetting Dawn. Thus, at the next Immunity Challenge, Brenda intentionally dropped out so Dawn could win immunity.
After returning from the Immunity Challenge, Brenda believed that her alliance would vote out Eddie Fox, the last remaining member of the Cool Kids Alliance. However, John Cochran was intimidated by Brenda's act of selflessness at the Loved Ones Challenge, viewing her as a jury threat. He persuaded Dawn and Sherri Biethman into voting for Brenda that night, blindsiding and devastating her in a 3-2-1 vote. On the way out, Brenda remarked that "it hurts" before departing in tears. She became the sixth member of the jury.
At the Final Tribal Council, Brenda said little to Cochran and Sherri and focused the majority of her speech on Dawn. She brought up the incident where she helped Dawn retrieve her retainer. Brenda asked if had she not been able to return her false teeth, would Dawn have quit the game like she said she would, to which Dawn answered no. Unsatisfied, Brenda ordered Dawn to take out her teeth to prove that being seen without them was not a big deal. Dawn refused at first but eventually gave in, satisfying Brenda, but in the end, Brenda voted Cochran, who would receive all the jury votes and become the Sole Survivor.
| Episode | Tribe Affiliation |
Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bikal | Water Slaughter | Reward | No | Won |
| It's a Long Way to the Top | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| 2 | Plunge, Pull, Pop | Reward/Immunity | No | Won | |
| 3 | Cell Block Sea | Reward/Immunity | No | Won | |
| 4 | Head and Shoulders | Reward | No | Won | |
| Smash and Grab | Immunity | No | Won | ||
| 5 | Nut Bucket | Reward | No | Won | |
| Crate Outdoors | Immunity | No | Lost1 | ||
| Switched Tribes, Day 15 | |||||
| 6 | Gota | Crate Outdoors | Immunity | No | Won |
| 7 | Hot Pursuit | Reward | Yes | Won | |
| Phoenix Rises | Immunity | No | Won | ||
| Tribes Merged, Day 20 | |||||
| 8 | Enil Edam | Caramoan Catering | Immunity | Lost | |
| 9 | Jump Shot | Reward | No | Lost | |
| Last Gasp | Immunity | Won | |||
| 10 | Muddy Waters | Reward | Lost | ||
| Keel Hauling | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| 11 | Survivor Auction | ||||
| Drop A Log | Immunity | Lost | |||
| 12 | Bermuda Triangle | Reward/Immunity | Lost | ||
| Fun Climb | Immunity | Lost | |||
| 13 | Dizzy Gillespie | Reward | Won2 | ||
| I Hold On | Immunity | Lost | |||
| Voted Out, Day 36 | |||||
| Notes: ^1 Bikal opted to forfeit the Immunity Challenge, giving the win to Gota by default.
Brenda gave up her reward to the tribe. | |||||
| Episode | Brenda's Votes |
Voted Against Brenda |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrea | - |
| 2 | Bikal Tribe Immune | |
| 3 | Bikal Tribe Immune | |
| 4 | Bikal Tribe Immune | |
| 5 | Brandon | - |
| 6 | Gota Tribe Immune | |
| 7 | Gota Tribe Immune | |
| 8 | Corinne | - |
| 9 | Michael | Individual Immunity |
| 10 | - | |
| 11 | Reynold; Malcolm2 |
- |
| 12 | Reynold | - |
| Andrea | Andrea, Eddie | |
| 13 | Eddie | Cochran, Dawn, Sherri |
| Voted Out, Day 36 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Cochran | |
^1 In "Zipping Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Eddie used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Brenda's vote against him.
^2 In "Come Over to the Dark Side", the vote ended with a 3-3-3 tie between Andrea, Malcolm, and Reynold, forcing a revote. Brenda changed her vote to Malcolm on the revote.
Post-Survivor[]
- Brenda currently works as a fashion model, appearing in commercials for Stanton Optical[3] and Swarovski.[4] She is signed to Caroline Gleason Management and Wilhelmina International.[5]
- Brenda appeared in a cameo in the 2017 movie Baywatch as a surfer.[6]
- In July 2018, Brenda appeared as a briefcase model in the 2018 revival of Deal or No Deal, which began airing on December 5, 2018.[7][8]
Trivia[]
- Brenda first applied for Survivor at an open casting call in Miami for Samoa.[9]
- Brenda is of Chinese and Bolivian descent.
- Brenda was a former cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins.
- Brenda is the oldest woman on the original La Flor tribe.
- Brenda lost 14 lbs. during her time in Nicaragua.[10]
- Brenda is currently the only returning player from Nicaragua.
- Brenda is the first contestant to appear in the Reunion Show through live stream in Caramoan as she was in the last stages of her pregnancy, thus making her unfit to fly to Los Angeles.
References[]
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20230529125705/https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/44276/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20230321182539/https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/203535/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJ9nXHUNeY
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5xibz5Oso
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-lowe-1a581199
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1469304/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
- ↑ https://survivingtribal.com/2018/07/25/survivor-brenda-lowe-deal-no-deal/ Survivor's Brenda Lowe will appear in Deal or No Deal
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BlqmnwFDGlS/ Brenda Lowe on Instagram: "beyond grateful to share that i'll be a part of the all new ✨Deal or No Deal Show✨ with @howiemandel! 🎬💥 it's unreal!!!😱 ps. this isn't my…"
- ↑ https://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-brenda-lowe-talks-about-her-survivor-nicaragua-ousting-11733.php
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SMq5cQPuD0
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