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Keith Famie

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Keith Famie

Keith Famie

A finalist on Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001), finishing third.

Seasons
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The story

Keith Famie was a Michigan celebrity chef whose Survivor: The Australian Outback run became a long-running joke at his own expense — the professional cook who couldn't get a pot of rice right, to the endless exasperation of his Ogakor tribemates. Abrasive and divisive around camp, he answered the doubters where it counted, winning two individual immunities down the stretch to muscle his way deep into the game.

He made it to the final three on Day 41, and then watched the season's most famous strategic blunder save and doom him in the same breath: Colby Donaldson won the last immunity and chose to take Tina Wesson to the end over Keith — the stronger jury threat — and lost to her 4-3. Keith, cut one step short, was left as the season's last juror, a footnote in one of Survivor's defining final-two decisions.

By the torchlight

Career record

3rd
best finish
2
immunity necklaces
41
days on the island

Where they finished

the bigger the blaze, the deeper the run

  1. 3rdS2
  1. 2

    The Australian Outback

    3rd

    2001 · Queensland, Australia · Ogakor

    41 days2 immunities

Read the votes

At Tribal Council

Pulled from the urn — every vote ever cast against Keith, and how often Keith read the night right.

10
votes against
11
Tribals sat at
9 / 11
read right
82% of the time
The tribe weighs in

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Tribe rating

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Your scores

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The wider tribe

Played alongside Keith

Castaways Keith shared the island with — tap any face to cross over to their game.

Around the fire

Common questions

Did Keith Famie win Survivor?
No. Keith Famie competed on Survivor but did not win. A finalist on Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001), finishing third.
How many times has Keith Famie played Survivor?
Keith Famie has played 1 season of Survivor: Season 2 (The Australian Outback).
What is Keith Famie's best finish on Survivor?
Keith Famie's best finish is 3rd on Survivor: The Australian Outback (Season 2).
How many days has Keith Famie played Survivor?
Keith Famie has spent 41 days on the island across 1 season.
How many immunity challenges has Keith Famie won?
Keith Famie has won 2 individual immunity challenges across 1 season.
How many times was Keith Famie voted against at Tribal Council?
Across 11 Tribal Councils, 10 votes were cast against Keith Famie.
How good was Keith Famie at reading the vote?
Keith Famie voted for the eliminated castaway at 9 of 11 vote-decided Tribal Councils — 82% of the time.
What is Keith Famie known for?
A finalist on Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001), finishing third.

Around the fire

The tribe's debating Keith's game right now

Cirie never needed an idol. She WAS the idol — read every vote a round early and bent the whole jungle to her will without a single immunity win. That's the cei…
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