Ciera Rae Eastin[1] is a contestant from Survivor: Blood vs. Water, Survivor: Cambodia, and Survivor: Game Changers.
Originally competing in Blood vs. Water, Ciera became the only contestant to vote out her own loved one, when she voted out her mother, Laura Morett. She later flipped on the majority Singles Alliance, which caused the second rock drawing tiebreaker in Survivor history. This unsuccessful leap of faith proved to be her undoing, as her overwhelming threat status led to her being voted out at the final five.
Being voted to return in Cambodia, Ciera and her Witches' Coven alliance fought their way from the bottom post-merge and managed to successfully break up the majority Bayon Alliance, helping to orchestrate two blindsides. However, after showing her strategic acumen and being seen as the leader of the Witches' Coven alliance , she was taken out by Jeremy Collins, who played his Hidden Immunity Idol on the target, Stephen Fishbach.
Ciera played for a third time in Game Changers, where she was placed on the Mana tribe. However, she was deemed by her tribemates to have over-strategized too early into the game, which caused her to be unanimously voted out at the first Tribal Council of the season.
Profile[]
Retrieved from CBS.com
Name (Age): Ciera Eastin (24)
Age: 27 |
Survivor[]
Blood vs. Water[]
Ciera entered the game with her mother, Laura Morett. She was placed on the Tadhana tribe with the other loved ones of the returning players. Ciera formed a friendship with Katie Collins, and the two always seemed to be in danger of elimination on pre-switch Tadhana due to the emergence of an all-men alliance led by Brad Culpepper. However, they survived and made it to the merge unscathed, in Ciera's case in large part due to Caleb Bankston flipping his vote at the fourth Tadhana Tribal Council.
After Ciera's mom, Laura, returned from Redemption Island and rejoined her at the merge, Ciera and Laura allied with Tyson Apostol, Gervase Peterson, Monica Culpepper, Hayden Moss, and Caleb to counter the strong couples alliance made of Aras Baskauskas, Vytas Baskauskas, Tina Wesson, and her former ally Katie. The alliance of seven successfully voted out Aras, Vytas, and Tina. Then, Ciera made the tough decision to vote out her own mother in order to prevent the two of them being seen as threats and eliminated one after the other. She then allied with Tyson, Gervase, and Monica to vote off Caleb, rather than side with the former Tadhana tribe.
At the final six Tribal Council, Hayden made it clear to Ciera that she was number four in the alliance she was in, and that she should take a risk and draw rocks. She decided to risk her game and drew rocks with Katie and Tyson. Unfortunately for her, her ally Katie chose the wrong rock and was promptly eliminated. Ciera won the next Immunity Challenge, saving herself temporarily. Hayden was sent to Redemption Island instead of her, and Tina returned and became her closest ally. The two tried to convince Monica to flip on her alliance and go the Final Three but to no avail. Ciera was voted out over Tina for being a bigger threat, placing 5th overall.
At the Final Tribal Council, Ciera voted for Tyson to win over Monica and Gervase, making him the Sole Survivor in a 7-1-0 vote.
| Episode | Tribe Affiliation |
Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tadhana | Blue Lagoon Bustle | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost |
| 2 | In the Barrel | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost | |
| 3 | Sumo at Sea | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost | |
| 4 | Boats, Brains & Brawn | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost | |
| 5 | Slide Show | Reward/Immunity | No | Won | |
| 6 | Buoy Oh Buoy | Reward/Immunity | No | Won | |
| 7 | Chain Reaction | Reward/Immunity | Yes | Won | |
| Tribes Merged, Day 19 | |||||
| 8 | Kasama | Flashback | Immunity | Lost | |
| 9 | Pesky Palate | Immunity | Lost | ||
| Balancing Point | Immunity | Lost | |||
| 10 | Back Splash | Reward/Immunity | Invited1 | ||
| 11 | Wrist Assured | Immunity | Yes2 | Lost | |
| 12 | Ram-Ball On | Reward/Immunity | Lost | ||
| 13 | Pulled Up | Reward/Immunity | Won | ||
| 14 | A Bit Tipsy | Immunity | Lost | ||
| Voted Out, Day 37 | |||||
| Notes: | |||||
| Episode | Ciera's Votes |
Voted Against Ciera |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laura B. | - |
| Marissa | - | |
| 2 | John | Rachel |
| 3 | John | John |
| 4 | Brad; Ineligible |
Brad, Hayden, Vytas; Hayden1 |
| 5 | Tadhana Tribe Immune | |
| 6 | Tadhana Tribe Immune | |
| 7 | Tadhana Tribe Immune | |
| 8 | Aras | Katie, Tina |
| 9 | Katie | - |
| Tina | - | |
| 10 | Laura M. | - |
| 11 | Caleb | Caleb, Hayden, Katie |
| 12 | Monica; Monica2 |
- |
| 13 | Gervase | Individual Immunity |
| 14 | Gervase, Monica, Tyson | |
| Voted Out, Day 37 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Tyson | |
^1 In "One Armed Dude and Three Moms", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Ciera and Brad, forcing a revote. On the revote, Ciera did not receive enough votes to send her to Redemption Island.
^2 In "Rustle Feathers", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Hayden and Monica, forcing a revote. Ciera did not change her vote on the revote.
^3 In "It's My Night", Gervase used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Ciera's vote against him.
Cambodia[]
Ciera was chosen by public vote to be one of the twenty competitors in the "Second Chance" season, Survivor: Cambodia.
Ciera started on Bayon which won the first two challenges. She was switched to Ta Keo as a result of the tribe switch. Ta Keo dominated the next three challenges. However, on Night 13, her tribemate Terry Deitz left the game to be with his son. The next day, another tribe switch occurred where Ciera remained on Ta Keo. After losing the Immunity Challenge, Andrew Savage planned to target Spencer Bledsoe but made Ciera the decoy target. This scared Ciera and she believed Andrew was more loyal to Woo Hwang than her. She convinced Kass McQuillen and Abi-Maria Gomes to target Woo. Ciera got her way as Woo was blindsided.
Ciera made it to the merge. While Kass and Tasha Fox were fighting, Ciera told Jeremy Collins that Andrew told her he and Woo wanted to get rid of him and Joe Anglim, which Andrew denied. Ciera then became a target. At Tribal Council, Ciera voted for Andrew, received four votes, and her ally Kass was voted out. At the next Tribal Council, Ciera and her allies blindsided Andrew by using Kelley Wentworth's Hidden Immunity Idol. At the final eleven, Bayon Alliance members Jeremy, Spencer, and Stephen Fishbach worked with Ciera and her allies to blindside Kelly Wiglesworth.
On the next reward trip, Ciera proposed that Stephen should be blindsided next because of his advantage. After the Immunity Challenge, Ciera, Spencer, Kelley, Abi-Maria, Joe, Tasha, and Keith Nale agreed to target Stephen, but throw two votes on Kimmi Kappenberg in case he plays the advantage. However, at Tribal Council Jeremy played one of his idols on Stephen which negated the five votes cast against him, and Ciera was eliminated in a 3-2-0 vote.
At the Final Tribal Council, Ciera voted for Jeremy to win which he did in a unanimous 10-0-0 vote.
| Episode | Tribe Affiliation |
Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bayon | The Marooning | Reward | No | Lost |
| Quest for Fire | Reward/Immunity | No | Won | ||
| 2 | Yank Yer Hank | Reward/Immunity | Yes | Won | |
| Switched Tribes, Day 7 | |||||
| 3 | Ta Keo | Draggin' the Dragon | Immunity | No | 1st |
| 4 | Stomp-ede | Reward | Yes | 2nd | |
| Blind Leading the Blind | Immunity | Yes | 2nd | ||
| 5 | In the Barrel | Reward | No | 1st | |
| Air Raid | Immunity | Yes | 2nd | ||
| 6 | Slip n' Slide | Reward | No | Won | |
| Cambodian Catering | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| Tribes Merged, Day 17 | |||||
| 7 | Orkun | Hard to Handle | Immunity | Lost | |
| 8 | Boats, Brains, and Brawn | Reward | Won | ||
| Take the Reins | Immunity | Lost | |||
| 9 | Styx | Reward | No | Won | |
| Bermuda Triangles | Immunity | Lost | |||
| 10 | Basket Brawl | Reward | Won | ||
| Ballin' A Jack | Immunity | Yes1 | Lost | ||
| Voted Out, Day 26 | |||||
| Notes: ^1 Ciera elected to sit out of the challenge to help her tribe win a new shelter.
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| Episode | Ciera's Votes |
Voted Against Ciera |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bayon Tribe Immune | |
| 2 | Bayon Tribe Immune | |
| 3 | Ta Keo Tribe Immune | |
| 4 | Ta Keo Tribe Immune | |
| 5 | Ta Keo Tribe Immune | |
| 6 | Woo | - |
| 7 | Andrew | Jeremy, Joe, Kelly, Spencer |
| 8 | Andrew | - |
| 9 | Kelly | Kelly, Kimmi, Tasha |
| 10 | Kimmi | Jeremy, Kimmi, Stephen |
| Voted Out, Day 26 | ||
| Voted for Sole Survivor |
Jeremy | |
Game Changers[]
Ciera was placed on the Mana tribe. Early on in the game, she began to play hard and told some of her other tribemates that she wanted to break the bond between Caleb Reynolds and Tony Vlachos by splitting votes, which did not sit well with the tribe. After losing the first Immunity Challenge of the season, one that she had previously competed in, the target on her back became larger. While the tribe planned to vote her off, she was told that the target for the night was Michaela Bradshaw. Satisfied that the target was not on her, she decided to go along with the plan. Later that day, Michaela was upset that her name had been thrown out as a decoy, and the tribe contemplated taking out Michaela instead of Ciera. Ultimately, the tribe decided it was best to keep challenge strength and tribal unity, and thus Ciera was voted off unanimously, becoming the first casualty of the season.
| Episode | Tribe Affiliation |
Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mana | The Marooning | Reward | No | Lost |
| Blue Lagoon Bustle | Reward/Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| Voted Out, Day 3 | |||||
| Episode | Ciera's Votes |
Voted Against Ciera |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michaela | Aubry, Caleb, Hali, Jeff, Malcolm, Michaela, Sandra, Tony, Troyzan |
| Voted Out, Day 3 | ||
Post-Survivor[]
- Ciera was a finalist in Rob Has a Podcast's Miss Survivor 2014, finishing in third behind Candice Cody and winner Andrea Boehlke.
- Ciera gave birth to her third child, Leo Daniel Eastin, on November 9, 2018.[5]
- Some time after Game Changers Ciera separated from Marcus Eastin and reverted back to using her maiden name, Morett.
- Ciera currently works as a hairstylist and is promoting her work on Instagram.[6]
Trivia[]
- Ciera is the third of five Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian contestants to compete on Survivor. She was preceded by Brad Virata and her mother Laura Morett, and she would be followed by Rachel Ako and Tiyana Hallums.
- Ciera, along with fellow Blood vs. Water contestants Katie Collins, Marissa Peterson, and Vytas Baskauskas are the second through fifth people to be a blood relative of a past contestant. The first was Brandon Hantz, being the nephew of Russell Hantz. She is also the highest-ranking one, placing 5th and lasting 37 days on her first attempt.
- Ciera and Vytas are the fourth and fifth people to represent the only gender on a tribe after a tribe switch. Paschal English was the first, Lex van den Berghe was the second, and Lisi Linares was the third.
- Every season Ciera has competed on has been partially or completely composed of returning players.
- Ciera played in every single returnee season from her debut until Edge of Extinction.
- Ciera is the first castaway to vote against, and consequentially vote out, their own loved one.
- Ciera is the highest placing member of Tadhana.
- Ciera is the only contestant voted out of Blood vs. Water to not be sent to Redemption Island.
- Ciera lost 1.2 lbs. (0.540 kg) during her time in Blood vs. Water.[7]
- Ciera is the youngest member of Bayon and the youngest woman to compete on Cambodia.
- Ciera is the second contestant to sit out of the last Immunity Challenge before their elimination, after Phillip Sheppard in Caramoan.
- Ciera lost 14 lbs. during her time in Cambodia.[8]
- The first two times she competed, Ciera was voted out on June 25.[9][10][11]
- Ciera is the first returning player to accumulate over 30 elimination votes over their career. She would be followed by Ozzy Lusth, Andrea Boehlke, and Kelley Wentworth.
- All of Ciera's finishing placements (5th, 10th, and 20th) were twice as far down as the previous time.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.instantcheckmate.com/people/ciera-eastin/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20220630094944/https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/214732/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20230205174520/https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/215114/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20230321051632/https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/215581/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-OJCbF-7t/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/hairbycieramorett/
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZksIyeKrrw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMm9-AL1u_g
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Josumar93/status/670869498421862400
- ↑ http://www.truedorktimes.com/s27/calendar.htm
- ↑ http://www.truedorktimes.com/s31/calendar.htm
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