Myles Kuah was officially crowned the winner at the Australian Survivor 2025 finale, and he caught up with Chattr to dish on all the things that went down behind the scenes at the last Tribal Council.
Myles was up against AJ Antonios and Kaelan Lockhart in the finale. The first portion of the show saw Kaelan win the final Immunity Challenge, giving him the opportunity to choose one person to take through to the end with him.
In an emotional scene, Kaelan chose to take Myles, which meant sending home his best mate AJ. Kaelan’s choice ultimately sealed Myles’s fate as the winner of Australian Survivor 2025.
“It’s like it’s a dream. It still feels surreal the next day, like today, honestly, like I still can’t believe it,” Myles told Chattr.
“For me, to get that far — when I was almost voted out on day four, and then almost voted out 1000 other times after that — was just incredible,” he laughed. “It was incredible to win, and not only win but win in the way that I did — playing the game that I did — is just unbelievable.”
The gripping finale was action-packed from start to finish, so, understandably, some things happened that viewers didn’t get to see, and Myles has spilled the details about what went down.
Did Myles and AJ get to pitch their case to Kaelan?
The Australian Survivor finale aired for just over 1.5 hours — including ads — and in that time we saw AJ, Myles and Kaelan see their loved ones, take part in a final Immunity Challenge, AJ’s elimination, Myles and Kaelan’s final pitch, jury questions, and Myles be crowned the winner.
With so much to get through, after Kaelan won Immunity and the opportunity to pick who he was taking to Final Two, there was no time for Myles and AJ to pitch their cases to Kaelan. So, Kaelan had to process his decision in front of the Australian Survivor 2025 Jury at the first Tribal Council.
“That was actually a big part of why Kaelan took us away in that final Tribal, because he obviously was getting very emotional about it all, and he wanted some downtime just to talk to us man to man, and he never got that opportunity,” Myles explained.
Kaelan took AJ and Myles aside and spoke with them both away from the Jury and host Jonathan LaPaglia.
“That’s why tribal was emotional as it was, because Kaelan’s been holding in all these feelings waiting for final Tribal, and then they’re all coming out when we finally do get a chance to talk about it and express them.”
While Myles said he could see the emotional turmoil Kaelan went through to make the decision, he still went into the final with his eyes on the prize.
“Obviously, it’s rough because Kaelan is a lovely person, but it’s also, like, the game’s the game. At that point, I was so locked in, I was ready to demolish anyone who stood in my way at that final Tribal Council, even if it was the lovely puppy dog, Kaelan!”
Myles reveals the brutal Tribal question that wasn’t aired
Most Survivor fans know that in real life, the final Tribal is a long event — and a large portion of time is spent on the Jury questions.
Myles told Chattr that there was one specific Jury question that Myles thought clinched his win, but it wasn’t shown.
“The point at which I thought I had won Tribal was one that wasn’t shown. Laura [Darras] asked the question, ‘You both had a lot of protection throughout the season, Myles with your idols, and Kaelan with your necklaces; what’s a move that you made without that protection?'” he explained.
“I talked about the Rocks move, which was a really easy pitch for me — that I was vulnerable, and I was ready to go to Rocks, and then we won that vote.
“Kaelan talked about voting out Kristin [Alston]. But Kaelan didn’t realize that AJ, Zara [Callianiotis] and I already had a plan to vote out Kristen, and we were waiting for Kaelan to bring it up so we could pounce on it and be like, it’s actually our move.”
“So when he brought up voting out Kristen, I jumped in with Zara and I said, ‘Actually, we had this plan already. Zara will confirm that we, all the three of us, had already talked about it beforehand, so I don’t think that really counts.'”
“Obviously, that was a pretty brutal one, to be honest, because there’s no response there. There’s nothing that he can really say.”
“I think both our pitches were probably a bit long, and what you got were probably the better parts of our pitches without some of the fluff and boring bits.”
However, all in all, Myles said that he was impressed with Kaelan’s final Tribal Council pitch.
“[It] was what I was hoping. Honestly, I remember talking to him before, saying I just really wanted to see Kaelan bring the fire.
“I was so excited for that final pitch. And when he came out there, he came out swinging, and the first half of his pitch was genuinely fantastic. I was like, ‘Damn, where has this been hiding?'”
What will Australian Survivor winner Myles spend his prize money on?
While Australian Survivor Myle’s game may have been nothing short of exciting, his plan for spending his $500,000 prize money is comparably less spontaneous.
“I’m a finance bro. I’m just going to be investing it all. I’m going to be setting myself up for the future, and I’m just going to enjoy the financial freedom that this creates.”
What a season, and what a win!
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