Lisa Loyacano Keiffer[1] is a contestant from Survivor: Vanuatu.
A member of Yasur, Lisa was initially a part of the tribe’s “younger alliance”. However, after her alliance fell into the minority following their first Tribal Council, she quickly defected to the majority group. After the tribe switch, Lisa accidentally let slip to Ami Cusack that she might be targeting her. Marking her as disloyal, Ami convinced her tribe to remove Lisa from the game.
Profile[]
Retrieved from CBS.com
Lisa Keiffer was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She considers herself a true Cajun, thanks to the French influence of her mother, who grew up on the Louisiana Bayou.
Keiffer attended Louisiana State University for three years, where she was an LSU cheerleader for both football and basketball. She was a member of the Homecoming Court for two consecutive years and was elected Alpha Tau Omega's "Mardi Gras Queen." She participated in the 1981 National Collegiate Cheerleading Championship and cheered at the 1981 NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament in Philadelphia. She then went on to finish college at Loyola University in New Orleans where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications.
Keiffer was employed for 10 years as a pharmaceutical sales representative. She enjoys tennis, antique shopping, cooking and homemade soap making. She has also acted in community theatre and directed dramas at her church, Trinity Evangelical Free, for the past ten years.
Born-again Christians, Keiffer and her husband, Thomas, currently live outside New Orleans on the "Northshore" in Mandeville, Louisiana, along with five of their six children (Nate, 22; Callie, 14, and Rachel, 13 (Keiffer's stepdaughters); TK, 8; Charley, 7; and Nicholas, 5). They also have a goat (Waddles), a dog (Murray) and a miniature donkey (Dexter). Keiffer's birth date is May 3, 1960.[2]
Survivor[]
Lisa began the game on the all-female Yasur tribe. Though she was the second oldest member of the group, Lisa bonded more with her younger tribemates and sided with them when the tribe divided into two factions of four. At Yasur's first Tribal Council on Day 6, Lisa voted for Leann Slaby with the rest of the younger women, but the older members of the tribe joined Eliza Orlins in blindsiding Dolly Neely, who initially refused to commit to either alliance and was considered a swing-vote.
Before Yasur's second Tribal Council on Day 7, Eliza rejoined the younger women, seemingly setting up a 4-4 deadlock. Although Lisa reassured her alliance that she would vote with them again, she instead defected to older women to avert the tie, voting off her former ally Mia Galeotalanza; who was blamed for disturbing the peace around the camp. On Day 11, the two tribes were swapped, with Yasur gaining Travis Sampson and Rory Freeman. At the first opportunity, Lisa and the other women used their numbers advantage to vote off Travis after he was caught communicating with his old tribemates at the Immunity Challenge.
Yasur went on to lose a second consecutive Immunity Challenge on Day 15 and were sent to Tribal Council once again. Ahead of the vote, Lisa joined Ami Cusack in going to the tribe's food supply, wanting to know where it was "just in case" something were to happen to Ami. Believing this remark to be a threat against her, Ami promptly turned the majority of the tribe against Lisa. At Tribal Council, a desperate Lisa stressed her loyalty to the women, but Ami's influence proved too great and she was voted out in a 4-2 vote over Rory.
| Episode | Tribe Affiliation |
Challenge | Challenge Type | Sit-Out? | Result |
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| 1 | Yasur | Fire Starter | Reward/Immunity | No | Won |
| 2 | By the Numbers | Reward | No | Won | |
| Four on the Floor | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| 3 | Great Escape Run | Reward/Immunity1 | No | Lost | |
| 4 | Remembrance | Reward | No | Won | |
| Tribal Tiles | Immunity | No | Won | ||
| 5 | Dive Masters | Reward | No | Lost | |
| Outwit, Outplay, Outrig | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| 6 | Pig Pen | Reward | No | Lost | |
| Strung Out | Immunity | No | Lost | ||
| Voted Out, Day 15 | |||||
| Notes: ^1 Both tribes were sent to Tribal Council. The tribe that won the Reward Challenge earned the right to compete in an individual Immunity Challenge.
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Post-Survivor[]
- In 2008, Lisa appeared as a contestant on The Price Is Right. She won a Jeep Wrangler, hockey equipment and $230 cash.[3]
- On January 9, 2010, Lisa attended Survivor's 10th anniversary party along with all of her Vanuatu cast mates.
Trivia[]
- Lisa is the first contestant to not be picked in a tribe switch and instead be given the option of choosing either tribe.
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