Marian de Vos

Marian de Vos
Contestant Profile
Born	August 5, 1988 (1988-08-05)
Hometown	Lone Hill, Gauteng
Occupation	Entrepreneur; Fashion Buyer
Survivor Career
Version	South Africa
Tribe(s)	Utara Juara
Finish	11/20
Alliance(s)	Utara Alliance
Challenge Wins	8
Votes Against	10
Days Lasted	19/27
Tribe(s)	Masu ► Yontau ► Masu Salan
Finish:	3/20
Alliance(s)	Breakfast Club
Challenge Wins	8
Votes Against	5
Days Lasted	38/39

Marian de Vos is a contestant from Survivor South Africa: Champions and Survivor South Africa: Return of the Outcasts.

In Champions, Marian stood out as one of the most conniving members of the Utara tribe. Working in lock step with Shane Hattingh, she controlled her tribe and did not shy away from underhanded tactics to rile up her tribe members. Shane and Marian also pulled off multiple Hidden Immunity Idol heists on their way to the merge. However, their trail of deceit had burned all their bridges with their former Utara tribemates, leaving them on the bottom of the Juara tribe. After Marian played their shared idol for Shane, she was voted out as the secondary target of the Rugrats Alliance's split vote.

Marian reunited with her partner-in-crime Shane eight years later in Return of the Outcasts, where she was a founding member of the Breakfast Club alliance and held impenetrable control over the game until the final nine, when she lost her ally Steffi Brink. Thereafter, she bonded with Dino Paulo on the basis of getting the most deserving players to the Final Two, and she recovered from Steffi's blindside to regain control over the game, notably bluffing about the non-existent Vote Steal and Idol Nullifier advantages to pull off her late-game moves. After losing the Final Immunity Challenge, Marian's identity as the most dominant player of the season became impossible for Dino to overlook, and she was voted out on Day 38.

Profile

• Champions
• Return of the Outcasts

Retrieved from survivorsa.dstv.com

Age: 25
Hometown: Lone Hill
Occupation: Entrepreneur

Marian studied Fashion at the College of Fashion Design in Cape Town and made the move to Johannesburg two years ago to start her own business. She's the ultimate Survivor fan – and isn't afraid to plot and scheme to get what she wants.

Retrieved from dstv.com/m-net/en-za

Name: Marian de Vos
Previous season: Survivor SA: Champions S5
Age: 32
Hometown: Cape Town

Marian de Vos studied fashion at the College of Fashion Design in Cape Town and now works as a buyer in the retail industry. She grew up in a big family and is the youngest of five siblings

Marian is probably the biggest Survivor fan in South Africa. She's followed each season closely and has been a particularly online vocal commentator about the show. She knows the game inside out, but still struggled during her season when the addition of captains put her off her game.

Despite that, she still made her mark on the game as Survivor SA's first true female villain – confident that she had a better grasp of the game than her fellow castaways and was more astute than them. Her biggest challenge this season will be adapting to the way the game has changed in the eight years since she played.

Survivor South Africa

Champions

Voting History

Episode	Marian's Votes	Voted Against Marian
2	Utara Tribe Immune
3	Utara Tribe Immune
4	Killarney	-
5	Zan	-
6	Utara Tribe Immune
7	Gena	Gena
8	Sonette	-
9	Stephen	-
11	Graham; Ineligible	Buhle, David, Moyra; Altaaf, Buhle, David, Moyra, Solly, Zavion1
Voted Out, Day 19
Voted for Ultimate Survivor	Graham

^1 In "Episode 11", the vote ended with a 3-3-0 tie between Marian and Graham, forcing a revote. Altaaf, Solly, and Zavion changed their votes to Marian on the revote, eliminating her from the game.

Return of the Outcasts

• Challenge History
• Voting History

Episode	Tribe Affiliation	Challenge	Challenge Type	Sit-Out?	Result
1	Masu	Water Slaughter	Reward	No	Won
2		Ladder Daze	Immunity	No	Lost
3		Catch of the Day	Reward/Immunity	No	Lost
4		Nut Bucket	Reward/Immunity	No	Won
5		In the Trenches	Reward/Immunity	No	Won
6		Reinventing the Wheel	Reward	No	Lost
		(No title)	Immunity	No	Won
Switched Tribes, Day 12
7	Yontau	Bog Roll	Reward/Immunity	No	Lost
8
9		Blind Leading the Blind	Reward/Immunity	No	Won
10		Swing Break	Reward/Immunity	Yes	Won
11		Will Power	Reward		Lost
			Immunity		Lost
Mutinied, Day 18
Tribes Merged, Night 19
13	Salan	Blue Plate Special	Reward		5th1
		Splash Back	Immunity		Lost
14		(No title)	Reward/Immunity		Lost
15		Centrifuge / House of the Holey	Reward/Immunity		Lost
16		Rusty Gates	Immunity		Won2
17		You Shook Me	Reward		Lost
18		Keep on Your Toes	Immunity		Lost
19		Supertramp	Reward		Lost
20		Running Down a Dream	Immunity		Lost
21		Station By Station	Reward/Immunity		Invited3
		Always on the Run	Reward		Won
22
		Out on a Limb	Immunity		Lost
23		Hanging by a Thread	Immunity		Lost
Voted Out, Day 38
Notes: ^1 The reward was dependent on each castaway's finish in the challenge. ^2 Marian gave up her immunity to Shane at Tribal Council. ^3 Phil shared his reward with Marian.

Episode	Marian's Votes	Voted Against Marian
2	Chappies	-
3	PK	Palesa, PK, Tejan, Toni
4	Masu Tribe Immune
5	Masu Tribe Immune
6	Masu Tribe Immune
8	Shona	-
9	Yontau Tribe Immune
10	Yontau Tribe Immune
12	Palesa	Masu Tribe Immune
13	Toni	-
14	Danté	-
15	Meryl	-
16	Safety Without Power1
18	Felix	-
20	Killarney; Felix2	-
21	Killarney	-
22	Phil	-
23	Ineligible	Dino
Voted Out, Day 38
Voted for Sole Survivor	Dino

^1 In "Dipping into the Dark Side", Meryl used a Safety Without Power advantage on Marian, granting her immunity, but at the cost of her vote.
^2 In "Our Little Alliance", the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Felix and Killarney, forcing a revote. Marian changed her vote to Felix on the revote.

Post-Survivor

• Since her first appearance on Survivor South Africa, Marian was diagnosed with vitiligo. Shortly thereafter, she was recruited to be a model for two different agencies and started her job as a retail buyer.
• Marian previously dated PK Phetoe from Survivor South Africa: Philippines, according to Survivor South Africa: Return of the Outcasts.

Trivia

Statistics of Marian de Vos
Longevity
Seasons competed:	2
Days lasted:	57
Challenge Wins
Tribal wins:	15
Individual wins:	2
Total wins:	17
Tribal Council
Total votes received:	15
Exile Island
Times sent to Exile Island:	0

• Marian previously made it to the casting finals for Maldives, but was cut from the final cast as she was told she was "too girly".
• Marian is the youngest woman on the original Utara tribe.
• Marian is the second contestant with vitiligo, following Jacques Terre'Blanche.
• Marian is the first person in Survivor South Africa to be the first and last jury member in two seasons she played.
  • Internationally, she is the fourth person to accomplish this, after Lex van den Berghe, Kass McQuillen, and Sarah Lacina. She is followed by Flick Palmateer.
• Both times Marian competed:
  • She was on the same starting tribe with Shane Hattingh and was outlasted by him.
  • She was able to successfully eliminate Killarney Jones.
  • She voted for the Sole Survivor, who is a male from the rival starting tribe.