Ciera Eastin

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 move would backfire, though, as she was voted out at the final five for being too much of a threat to win.

When she returned for Cambodia, she fought her way from the bottom post-merge and managed to successfully break up the majority Bayon Alliance, and helped to orchestrate two blindsides before being taken out when Jeremy Collins played his Hidden Immunity Idol on the target, Stephen Fishbach, sending her to the jury in 10th place.

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 made her tribe send her home as the first boot of the season.

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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-swap Tadhana. However, they survived and made it to the merge unscathed.

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 Bankston 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 the game.

Voting History

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.

She 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 11, 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, 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.

Voting History

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 and Tony 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 Survivor: Game Changers.

Voting History

Post-Survivor

• Ciera was a finalist in RHAP's Miss Survivor 2014, finishing in third behind Candice Cody and winner Andrea Boehlke.
• Ciera plans to return to Cosmetology school in January 2015.^[5]
• In April 2018, Ciera announced on her Instagram that she is pregnant, with her third child due to be born in November 2018.^[6]
  • Ciera gave birth to her third child, Leo Daniel Eastin, on November 9, 2018.^[7]

Trivia

• Ciera has accumulated the fourth-highest number of votes over her Survivor career, with 33 votes. She follows Andrea Boehlke, who has accumulated 36 votes, Kelley Wentworth, who has accumulated 35, and Ozzy Lusth, with 34.
• 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 has 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 and the only one not sent to Redemption Island.
• Ciera lost 1.2 lbs. (0.540 kg) during her time in Blood vs. Water.^[8]
• Ciera is the youngest female castaway on Cambodia and the youngest castaway on the Bayon tribe.
• Ciera lost 14 lbs. during her time in Cambodia.^[9]
• The first two times she competed, Ciera was voted out on June 25.^[10][11][12]
• All of Ciera's finishing placements (5th, 10th, and 20th) were twice as far down as the previous time.

References

Survivor: Blood vs. Water Castaways
Aras Galang	Brad Tadhana	Caleb Tadhana	Candice Galang	Ciera Tadhana	Colton Galang	Gervase Galang	Hayden Tadhana	John Tadhana	Kat Galang
Katie Tadhana	Laura B. Tadhana	Laura M. Galang	Marissa Tadhana	Monica Galang	Rachel Tadhana	Rupert Galang	Tina Galang	Tyson Galang	Vytas Tadhana

Survivor: Cambodia Castaways
Abi-Maria Ta Keo	Andrew Bayon	Ciera Bayon	Jeff Ta Keo	Jeremy Bayon	Joe Bayon	Kass Bayon	Keith Bayon	Kelley Ta Keo	Kelly Ta Keo
Kimmi Bayon	Monica Bayon	Peih-Gee Ta Keo	Shirin Ta Keo	Spencer Ta Keo	Stephen Bayon	Tasha Bayon	Terry Ta Keo	Vytas Ta Keo	Woo Ta Keo

Survivor: Game Changers Castaways
Andrea Nuku	Aubry Mana	Brad Nuku	Caleb Mana	Ciera Mana	Cirie Nuku	Debbie Nuku	Hali Mana	J.T. Nuku	Jeff Mana
Malcolm Mana	Michaela Mana	Ozzy Nuku	Sandra Mana	Sarah Nuku	Sierra Nuku	Tai Nuku	Tony Mana	Troyzan Mana	Zeke Nuku