Jessica "Sugar" Kiper — a pin-up model and actress — was the emotional center of Survivor: Gabon. Banished to Exile early, she found the hidden immunity idol and turned it into real power, an openly tearful, openly strategic player who used the idol to swing votes and attached herself to the right people at the right times. She rode that game all the way to the Final Tribal Council and a third-place finish.
The sting was the jury: convinced she'd been a loyal number for Bob Crowley rather than the architect of her own run, they handed her zero votes as Bob took the crown. She got the call for Heroes vs. Villains and drew the short straw on the loaded Heroes tribe, becoming the very first person voted out of the all-stars season in twentieth. A heart-on-her-sleeve player whose best game ended one jury's opinion short.
