Kimberly Fortin

Kimberly Fortin is a contestant from Survivor Québec (2023).

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Age: 25
Emplacement: Mascouche
Occupation: Podiatre

Aînée d'une famille tissée serrée, Kimberly s'est occupée de ses quatre petites soeurs toute son adolescence pour aider sa mère. Elle est très proche de celle-ci, c'est son pilier et son modèle. Après avoir passé les dernières années à se consacrer à ses études et à son travail, cette podiatre de profession a soif d'aventure et de nouveauté! Ce petit bout de femme pétillant charmera tout le monde avec sa bonne humeur et son rire facile. Cependant, derrière sa candeur se cache une ténacité et un aplomb qui pourrait surprendre en cours de route! Elle serait bien heureuse de gagner pour bonifier son budget de mariage prévu en 2023.^[2]

Survivor Québec[]

Kimberly started the game on the Tiyaga tribe, where she was able to secure a place in a majority alliance with Sango Bien-Aimé, Sandrine Fortier, Marika Guay, Jean-Junior Morin, and Christophe Tiffet. The Tiyaga tribe did not lose many challenges during the early portion of the game, but when they did, this alliance was able to eliminate the outsiders except for former Kalooban tribe member Sylvain Béland and Tiyaga wild card Joël Dandurand, who in turn bonded well together. On Day 16, a tribe switch took place and Kimberly became a member of the Kalooban tribe alongside Joël, Sandrine, Sylvain, and three other original Kalooban tribe members. The three latter original Kalooban tribe members were concerned about their numerical disadvantage against Sylvain and the original Tiyaga members, but there was some hope for them as Joël felt that voting Kimberly out would weaken the dominant alliance on his original tribe. Her invitation to a pizza reward by the rival tribe further cemented this sentiment. Fortunately for the tribe, they were never forced to draw any lines as they did not lose any Immunity Challenges for the remainder of the tribal phase.

When the tribes merged into Pag-Asa, Christophe's majority alliance, which now also included Maryse Lauzon and Karine Lavigne-Fortin, was able to regroup; they recruited yet another new member into their fold, Justine Turpin. Joël was their first target for elimination, but when he won the first individual Immunity Challenge, they split the votes between Sylvain and Nicolas Brunette instead. Sylvain was voted out for a second time and, without the Pag-Asa tribe's knowledge, sent to Redemption Island. In a surprise Double Elimination, the Tiyaga Alliance immediately had another chance to vote out Joël after he lost the intervening Immunity Challenge. The alliance split their votes between Nicolas and Joël; Joël played his Hidden Immunity Idol for himself and Sango played his own for Kimberly in order to establish loyalty. As a result, Nicolas was eliminated as collateral damage.

With nine contestants remaining in the main game, Sango wanted to make a move, so he took advantage of a reward that he shared with Sandrine, Maryse, and Justine; the four agreed to work with Joël to blindside Jean-Junior at the next Tribal Council. After Jean-Junior won the following individual Immunity Challenge, their target switched to Christophe. However, Justine preferred to work with Christophe's group in the long run and leaked Sango's conspiracy to them. Thus, with the majority alliance pivoted to targeting Sango instead of Joël at the next Tribal Council. Indeed, Sango was voted out in a narrow 5-4 vote and sent to Redemption Island.

With the majority alliance now shortened to five loyal people, its members easily voted out Joël, Maryse, and Sandrine over the following three cycles. Meanwhile, though Kimberly seemed somewhat invisible, she was seen as the brains of the alliance as she came up with a few interesting voting strategies. On Redemption Island, Nicolas won the final duel against Sandrine and Sylvain and returned to the main game. While most of the tribe seemed to have the same short-term headspace to simply concentrate on voting Nicolas back out of the game, Jean-Junior began to discuss further moves with Christophe. Feeling that the pair and Karine were the "Three Musketeers" at this point, Jean-Junior suggested to Christophe that they cut Kimberly at the final five instead of Justine since Justine would be very easy to beat at the end. Unfortunately for Jean-Junior, Christophe had developed a soft spot for Kimberly over the cycles, so he told her about Jean-Junior's intentions. In response, the pair recruited Nicolas in a plan to stealthily blindside Jean-Junior at the next Tribal Council in a 3-2-1 vote. The plan succeeded, and Jean-Junior left the game. With this new trio forming the majority and wanting to stick together, they all made it to the Final Three.

At the Final Tribal Council, Kimberly explained how her machinations, especially regarding Jean-Junior's blindside, justified herself being responsible for the majority alliance that ran the game. Unfortunately for Kimberly, not many questions were directed towards her and her lack of visibility cost her. While Kimberly received Sylvain's vote to win, she and Christophe lost to Nicolas in a 6-1-1 vote.

Episode	Tribe Affiliation	Challenge	Challenge Type	Sit-Out?	Result
1	Tiyaga	Race to Shore/Losing Face	Reward	No	Won
1		Rock n' Roll	Immunity	No	Won
3		Nut Bucket	Reward	Yes	Won
5		Sumo at Sea	Immunity	No	Lost
7		Blind Cube Crisis	Reward/Immunity	No	Won
9		Brain Food	Reward	No	Won
11		Mazed and Confused	Immunity	Yes	Lost
13		United We Stand	Immunity	No	Won
15		Slip, Slide & Score	Reward	No	Won
17		Shoulder the Load	Reward/Immunity	No	Lost
19		Phish Farm	Immunity	No	Won
Switched Tribes, Day 16
21	Kalooban	Idol Hands	Reward	No	Invited¹
23		All Mixed Up	Immunity	No	Won
25		Octopus' Garden	Reward/Immunity	No	Won
27		Shut Your Trap	Reward	No	Lost
29		Hot Pursuit	Reward	Yes	Lost
Tribes Merged, Day 23
31	Pag-Asa	Keep on Your Toes	Immunity	No	Lost
33		C.A.T.	Immunity		Lost
34		Mud Pack	Reward	No	Lost
36		Survivor Québec Auction
37		Last Gasp	Immunity		Lost
41		Touchy Subjects	Reward		Lost
43		Station By Station	Immunity	No	Won
47		A Leg Up	Reward		Lost
49		Bermuda Triangles	Immunity		Lost
53		Fire and Rain	Reward		Lost
55		Vertigo	Immunity	No	Lost
59		Ram-Ball On	Reward		Invited
61		Got a Hunch	Immunity		Lost
63		Get a Grip	Immunity		Lost
65		Blind Maze	Immunity		Lost
Co-Runner-Up, Day 44
Notes: ^1 The Tiyaga tribe was instructed to invite a castaway from the Kalooban tribe on their reward. They chose Kimberly.

Episode	Kimberly's Votes	Voted Against Kimberly
1	Tiyaga Tribe Immune
6	Simon	-
7	Tiyaga Tribe Immune
12	Isabelle	-
13	Tiyaga Tribe Immune
18	No Vote
19	Tiyaga Tribe Immune
24	Kalooban Tribe Immune
25	Kalooban Tribe Immune
31	Sylvain	Joël, Nicolas, Sylvain
33	~~Joël~~¹	~~Joël~~¹
37	Sango	-
43	Joël	Individual Immunity
49	Maryse	-
55	Sandrine	-
61	Jean-Junior	-
64	Justine	-
67	Karine	Karine
Jury Votes for Kimberly	Sylvain
Co-Runner-Up, Day 44

^1 In Episode 33, Sango used a Hidden Immunity Idol on Kimberly, negating 1 vote against her. Also, Joël used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Kimberly's vote against him.