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The Australian Survivor winners group consists of a handful of castaways who have managed to outwit, outlast, and outplay their fellow campmates.

Australian Survivor first aired for a single season in 2002 on Channel 9, and it was followed by a celebrity edition in 2006. However, neither season attracted many viewers, so the franchise was put on hold until it was revived by Channel 10 in 2016 — the network where the series still airs.

With Australian Survivor 2025 done and dusted, a new name has been added to the Hall of Fame.

So, on that note, we decided to have a look at where the past winners of Australian Survivor are now.

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With the final decision in the hands of a jury of former players, Myles Kuah was crowned the winner at the Australian Survivor 2025 finale, earning seven votes to Kaelan Lockhart’s single vote.

On Survivor, contestants who are voted out towards the end of the season are sent to the Jury Villa. The Jury members return for each Tribal Council, and at the finale they place votes for who they belive should win.

In previous seasons of Australian Survivor, there were nine Jury members, which meant there was no chance of a tie between the final two. Australian Survivor Brain v Brawn II was on track to have nine Jury members until Morgan Mitchell decided to skip the jury portion and head home.

“You may have noticed that Morgan is not on the Jury. She’s decided to leave the game and go home, but the game continues,” host Jonathan LaPaglia told the tribe members after she left.

Without Morgan, there were eight Jury members casting votes, which meant a possibility of a tie vote between Myles and Kaelan. So, what would have happened if that were the case?

There was a backup plan if the Australian Survivor 2025 finale ended in a tie

Speaking to Chattr the day after his triumphant win, Myles revealed that the cast was actually told about a plan that was in place if the end result was a tie, but his memory was a little hazy about the exact details.

“I remember we were told,” he said. “I can’t quite remember. I think it was some sort of Rock draw — like a Rocks draw.“

“I might be wrong, that’s what I remember, but I was also in a crazy, 47-day fatigue state at that stage,” he added.

Rocks is a concept that happens at Tribal Council when the contestants can’t decide who they want to vote out, so the players without votes take part in a game of chance, and one of those people is eliminated. Myles explained that Rocks would be slightly altered to fit a finale, in the case of a tie.

“[The jury would] go to a revote, and then if no one flips their vote over, then the Jurors draw a rock. Whoever draws the rocks on the Jury, their vote gets removed from the next revote, with the idea being that it is similar to a real Rocks draw; it incentivizes people to flip over because no one wants to risk losing their jury vote.

“Is it the cleanest thing that could happen? No, but thankfully, we didn’t have to worry about that.”

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Kaelan Lockhart officially took the top spot in the Survivor Hall of Fame after bagging seven Immunity Challenge wins, surpassing the previous record of five.

Kaelan not only has the most wins in the Australian Survivor franchise, but he also holds the world record for the most triumphs in a single season worldwide.

However, despite his remarkable results, Kaelan told Chattr that he was actually throwing challenges at the start of the season so that he could fly under the radar and avoid getting a target put on his back.

“The one that Logan [Johannisen] won with the balls — the balance part is pretty much stand-up paddleboarding. I probably could have just told the balls what to do there,” the pro-stand-up paddleboarder explained.

“I just wanted to not do so well in any challenges that resembled the final challenge,” he explained.

“So if I could make Logan see me as I can’t balance, I can’t stand on poles. I would try to try to get off those pretty soon. Anything with balance, I was trying to try to throw off.”

Of course, Kaelan was gracious about his fellow castmates’ victories, acknowledging that even though he held back in some challenges, it didn’t guarantee he would win more.

“They would probably beat me anyway, but there’s some I definitely could have gone a bit harder in.”

Kaelan played down his puzzle skills in Immunity Challenges

Kaelan was dubbed a Challenge Beast on Australian Survivor 2025, and he aptly adjuted his nickname to Challenge Enthusiast to lower his threat level. Every Survivor challenge involves mental or physical skills, and some require applying both.

While Kaelan’s physical strength was plain to see, the PhD student told Chattr that he also tried to play down his intellect.

In episode 18, contestants participated in a three-stage Immunity Challenge that involved balancing on a barrel, crossing a beam, and solving a puzzle. Kaelan had a clear lead by the puzzle leg but appeared to be taking his time on the challenge.

As host Jonathan LaPaglia was narrating to the group what each contestant was doing, Kaelan told the host: “Hey, don’t tell them where I’m at; don’t tell them I’m doing well. I don’t want them to know I’m good at puzzles,” suggesting that he was purposely trying to slow down the challenge.

“Even when I was winning challenges, I was trying to show weaknesses in different aspects,” he explained of the moment.

“So on that challenge itself, when there was the balance beam, I jumped off it like three times or something. And then when I got ahead, I thought, nobody can see me behind this wall. I’ll get the puzzle done and disassemble it, and then I’ll finish it when people come over.

“Even Myles [Kuah] said to me that he thought I absolutely sucked at puzzles, and he couldn’t wait to go up against me in the puzzle. So it worked. Every challenge, I was trying to make it appear that I wasn’t so good at some part of it.”

Kaelan added that he wishes he had mentioned his actions at that particular challenge at the final Tribal Council.

“I didn’t think of it!” He said. “Maybe I could have gotten JLP on it and brought him into the final pitch. It would have been fun.”

The strategy behind Kaelan’s attempt to lower his threat level

Any Survivor fan will know that it’s seriously impressive for a Challenge Beast of Kaelan’s calibre to make it to the final Tribal Council and not be picked off by the other contestants as a threat.

Kaelan said that his constant awareness of his threat level and his ability to manage it were strategies in themselves.

“Everything I was doing, it was quite measured,” he explained. “Even fishing — early on, people told me that in previous seasons, no one had gone out fishing or snorkelling because they were scared they’d be talked about.

“And I thought, that’s perfect. If I go out there, how innocent do I look? In every conversation I’d have people trying to explain the game of Survivor to me, and I’d be trying to act like I needed help to understand that.

“So, there were just little things, even though they were not strategic, as in making big moves. I was always trying to influence people in different ways.”

Kaelan is currently skiing the entire length of Norway to raise money for the charity Cottage by the Sea, which helps underprivileged kids. You can donate to his cause here.

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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.”

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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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The Australian Survivor 2025 winner has officially been crowned, and it’s Myles Kuah.

After 47 days stranded on a beach in Samoa, Kaelan Lockhart and Myles Kuah faced the jury and Myles won, receiving every vote except for one.

Here’s everything that went down in the Australian Survivor 2025 finale.

What happened in the Australian Survivor 2025 finale?

Myles, Kaelan and AJ Antonios were the final three castaways left standing.

Before the final three got down to business in the final challenges, their loved ones came for a visit. Myles welcomed his bestie Ollie, AJ’s best mate Nabil headed in, and Kaelan was joined by his mum Lydia.

The three spectators watched on as their loved ones competed in the final Immunity Challenge, which involved standing on a variety of thin bamboo pegs and supporting their body weight for the longest amount of time.

Myles was the first person to drop out of the Immunity Challenge. AJ tried to convince Kaelan to give up with the promise that he’d take him to the final two. However, Kaelan decided to weather it out.

Three hours into the challenge, AJ started to show signs that he was struggling. He ended up slipping and Kaelan won the final Immunity Challenge, guaranteeing him a spot in the final two.

In a normal scenario, players would head to Tribal Council after the immunity challenge and one person would be voted out. However, with just three players left, no one can vote for the person with immunity, and the other two players votes cancel each other out, so the Immunity winner chooses who to take to final two with them.

Who was voted out of Australian Survivor 2025 before the final Tribal?

When pitching his case to stay with Kaelan, Myles said that he’s played a “sloppy game” at times. AJ took a different approach and instead painted a target on Myles, saying that he broke six Survivor records.

With a big decision weighing on him, Kaelan chose to take Myles to the final two, meaning that AJ was sent home.

What happened at the final Tribal Council?

Kaelan and Myles faced the eight jury members and pitched their case as to why they thought they should win.

Kaelan told the jury that his play was to be “underestimated” and be the “golden retriever” of the tribe. The PhD student said that he aligned with Myles and AJ so that they could do the dirty work or strategising for him.

Meanwhile, Myles said that he deserved to be the winner because of the risks he took during the game and highlighted his journey of playing from the bottom.

Each eliminated contestant then had an opportunity to ask Myles and Kaelan a question about their gameplay.

Once that was done, each juror headed to the voting booth and scribbled the name of the person they wanted to win on parchment.

Australian Survivor host Jonathan LaPaglia read out the votes, and it was Myles who was crowned the winner of Australian Survivor 2025.

A big congratulations to Myles!

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Myles Kuah has made it to the Australian Survivor 2025 grand finale alongside Kaelan Lockhart and AJ Antonios.

While it’s abundantly clear that Myle’s strategic game has been almost flawless, he told Chattr in an exclusive interview he actually had a pre-game strategy that he brought to the show.

The Financial Analyst used his trade skills to nut out what had happened in previous seasons and figure out the odds of when they would likely happen in Australian Survivor: Brain v Brawn II.

Myles said those predictions — including when Merge and the Tribe Swaps would happen — turned out to be true, except for one twist he missed.

“I actually built multiple Excel spreadsheets from previous seasons. So I predicted every twist, except for the Baron twist,” he revealed.

“Every single one! I could get the timings of them, because of the averages that I was looking at,” he explained. “I made weighted averages of previous twists, and I looked at the timings.”

Myles told Chattr that while the data helped him figure out when twists, like non-elimination Tribal Councils, were happening, he knew that anything was possible on Survivor, so he used the spreadsheets as a guide rather than as gospel.

“I wasn’t expecting expecting the twists because you can’t go into a Tribal Council thinking, ‘Oh, this is going to be a normal one’, in case it isn’t.”

However, Myles said that he was “very wary” during the Tribal Councils that lined up with the timings in his spread sheet.

“It felt pretty good to be right. As they came along, I was like, ‘Yep, got this one right in the spreadsheet.'”

Myles also used his data to figure out his Survivor strategy

Myles didn’t just use his spreadsheets to predict when twists would happen in the game — he also used them to plan a game strategy.

The 24-year-old told Chattr that he was on the younger side of the players cast on the show and had studied previous contestants of similar ages.

“I looked at other younger players. I had a list of all the Survivor players, and I looked at stuff like their careers, age and whatnot.

“What I found with younger players, and I really understand it now having played, is that even the ones that make it deep, often make it deep as second in commands and as sidekicks, essentially,” he explained.

There has only ever been one Australian Survivor winner under the age of 25, which was Kristie Bennett in Season 3. Myles said he considered this when devising a strategy that varied from the young players who’d competed before him.

“It was a big driver for me, especially as we hit Merge, to try and find a bit of agency and not just get swept along in the game as the really young, under-25 players often do.”

Myles doesn’t consider himself a Survivor superfan

While Myles may sound like the oracle of Australian Survivor knowledge, he told Chattr that he only started watching the reality series recently.

“I’m actually not as big of a fan as a lot of people think I am. I only got into it a couple of years ago, but the way that I enjoy things is I get a very intense level of interest,” he said.

“I would go out there [on the beach] and I’d be rolling Survivor SAP off the top my head, and it’s like, freaked people out a lot, like, ‘Oh my god, Myles, is this massive fan.’ Like, I am a big fan, but very much a recent convert who just gets a little bit obsessive.”

Give this man the title of Sole Survivor 2025, already.

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