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[]
Retrieved from survivorsa.dstv.com
Age: 25
Hometown: Lone Hill
Occupation: Entrepreneur
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.[3]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[]
Voting History[]
| 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.[4]
Trivia[]
- 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".[5]
- 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.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg3lLjVDmLO/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140124011238/http://survivorsa.dstv.com/category/profiles/marian-de-vos/
- ↑ https://www.dstv.com/m-net/en-za/show/survivor-south-africa/season/9/castaways/marian/profile
- ↑ https://robhasawebsite.com/survivor-south-africa-champions-zavion-kotze-and-marian-de-vos-deep-dives/ (1:23:00)
- ↑ https://robhasawebsite.com/survivor-south-africa-champions-zavion-kotze-and-marian-de-vos-deep-dives/ (1:26:30)
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