Survivor

All right!

Thank you. ****

Let's get to this vote. Here we go.

Love the enthusiasm. Nice to be live.

Well, for a season that started old versus young, I think it

says a lot that we have three people from the young tribe in the final.

Congratulations. But there can only be one winner.

The winner of "Survivor: Nicaragua" gets a million dollars.

Could be life changing. There are nine votes in here.

These are votes for a winner. Let's read them.

Love you, Fabio!

First vote...

Fabio.

One vote Fabio.

Chase. One vote Fabio, one vote Chase.

Fabio. That's two votes Fabio, one vote Chase.

We are tied. Two votes Fabio, two votes Chase.

Chase.

That's three votes Chase, two votes Fabio.

Chase.

Four votes Chase, two votes Fabio.

Fabio.

That's four votes, Chase, three votes Fabio. Two votes left.

Fabio. We are tied.

We have four votes Chase, four votes Fabio. One vote left.

The winner of "Survivor: Nicaragua"

Fabio.

Fabio!

Come on down!

"Survivor: Nicaragua" started as a showdown between old versus young,

Resulting in our youngest winner ever, 21-year-old Fabio.

Was he really a goofball or just playing cool?

NaOnka is here and she has even more to say how she played,

Why she quit, and the parents who want her fired from her teaching job.

Plus coach Jimmie Johnson will share his "Survivor" experience

and he's brought along a few of his football buddies to shed

some light on why he was voted out so early.

It is the "Survivor: Nicaragua" reunion show live in Hollywood, only CBS.

That's next.

My whole strategy bro, is to kind Of make people laugh

and be all Crazy but it goes deeper than Just oh, ha-ha.

Let's keep him around because he's funny, it's like...

Hermit crab on my foot.

I hate playing stupid so much But it's, like the smartest thing to do right now.

Fabio wins immunity.

I haven't double-crossed anybody on the jury and I won

the final three immunity challenges, and if that's not

outwit, outplay, outlast, then maybe I'm a fool but right now,

I'm feeling like a million bucks.

Welcome to "Survivor: Nicaragua" live reunion show.

We're in Hollywood, and a huge reaction from this house at Fabio's victory...

A lot of love.

- And a very good vote. Very close. - Yeah!

First and most important question, Fabio.

Did the name stick or... because for people who might have

forgotten you actually started this as Judson.

Yeah... And people ask me, "so what's your real name?

People asked my mom, "why did you name your son Fabio?"

- I'm Fabio right now. - You're still Fabio?

I have a few characters, but, yeah.

Here is the question that was most on my mind as we played this entire game.

I could never figure out if you really were a goofball just kind

of stumbling along or if you were playing a bit of a goofball

because you figured maybe that's what people take me for.

I'll give them what they're looking for.

It comes down to knowing yourself really well.

You can't... I'm very aware of the vibes that I give off and

the way other people perceive them, and I'm also aware of what

I'm getting back and if there's an imbalance or another, I remember a few

times catching somebody, just one little look will tell everything, dude.

What's your family history? How did you grow up?

- How did you come to be this guy? - Dude, I have been crazy for a while.

Really... no, a family of artists on both sides.

My great-grandfather invented the color wheel on my mom's side.

And my dad... my dad's grandpa, I believe

invented the folding card table for Samsonite.

- Really? - So...

I have been thinking seriously about human creative powers,

like in a physical sense almost.

And when you're down in the jungle, there is a certain forest

down there that you can work with.

It sounds a little crazy, but, it's there, dude, ***

And... and so the modeling career, is it on hold?

Do we have... put something up if we have anything of Fabio.

Because before "Survivor"... There we go.

You were modeling and then you end up with this name Fabio,

coincidentally, and you had the long hair, which you cut.

What's happening? You've got a million dollars. You're 21.

What happens tomorrow with your life? Is it going to change?

Yeah. For sure. Yeah.

Dude, I... I don't even know, man. I'm going to have a lot of fun.

I'm going to start a production company.

I mentioned that to you, traveling around and doing music,

***** connecting our dots around the world and reminding

the government, communications and art, you know, it's like a corporation.

You have 55% of the influence, and you get all these people together.

Yes, the entire time we were out there you were telling me your plan,

"if I win, this is what I'm going to do."

Chase, very close, 5-4. Very close vote.

I think the, you know, like Fabio, for me,

anyway, there was one real big question for you.

You came off... Even to me at tribal council... Always wishy-washy.

Yes-No, red-Black, up-Down.

I was. I was wishy-Washy the whole game.

The game drove me insane. ***

But, for me, strategy, lying to people, stabbing people in the back.

That's the way the game is played.

If I'm bad at that and crazy about it I'll take that as a compliment

because it really drove me crazy.

Was there anything going on with Brenda and you

because in the beginning, it seemed like there was a little flirtation going on?

There was. But... it wasn't ever like that.

It really wasn't. Like, we were just good friends,

and everyone took it as the other way. But, I mean,

we were just good friends the whole time. We snuggled together.

- It was a show-mance. - ***

I couldn't do that in front of my mom. My mom would see that.

Sash you had a little something with Brenda in another way.

In a... you have this really strong alliance for a long time and your game

started to crumble when you lost Brenda and then NaOnka and

Purple Kelly, which we'll get to later.

Did you ever think... did you consider giving her the idol that night?

That was the big question of that episode. You were tight together.

Why not save her?

I think what it didn't show was the day before or when I was

on the zip lining reward, which was amazing, I think Brenda and NaOnka

had a little time on the beach...

I made a big plan to take out Sash, and that's what people don't see

- and I told a certain someone... - You told NaOnka.

I told NaOnka, the person I thought I could trust, and she,

of course, went and told Sash.

- So... - And I confronted Brenda about it

before tribal council. And I asked her...

- Pointblank. - Did you conspire against me.

So you knew, Brenda, you weren't getting the idol?

Yeah, but I... I mean, there's still that...

Why? I'm going to go back to the question I asked you at tribal.

Why wouldn't you scramble at that point? ***

Because I was still hoping for it.

I was going to approach the people that I started the game with,

the people that would want to continue with me versus people

who didn't want... Wanted me out from day one.

So it was Chase and Sash, and I just had to keep on banking on that.

I have to make a public apology to you, Sash,

because during casting, and even the day before the show, I said to

Sash numerous times, "you will be the first person voted out of your tribe"

And when I'm looking at you snuffing your torch, just remember

that's what I'm thinking. And here you are, in the final.

So I give it up to you. You scrambled a lot.

- I thought of that on day 39, Jeff. - What's that?

- I said I'd see ow day 39. - Yes.

So, Chase, "Survivor" is not your passion.

- I know your passion, music. - Absolutely.

So give me... There are so many reality shows now

that being on "Survivor" doesn't necessarily change your life.

Has this made it harder for you to do music or has it opened any doors?

I don't think it's done either one.

For music, the music industry, you're going to go to Nashville,

which is where I live now, and they'll sit there and say

"you were on Survivor? Okay. Can you sing? Can you write?"

They don't care that you're on "Survivor."

- And that... - Yes, they do.

No. ***

That's fine with me. I know the big-Time guys the in

the music industry, *** Kenny Chesney, *** they fought to get there

*** but I'm fine fighting, doing it the way everybody else did it.

I want to give you an opportunity.

I want "Survivor" to maybe help you in this case.

- So we've got a guitar here... - Yeah!

So... Chase, give us just a taste of something that you have written.

All right, we wrote this last week *** we recorded in EP on Thursday, so...

It will be out soon so this will be the first single.

- *** - ***

Chase sounding pretty good from you up here on the stage.

Still to come tonight, one of the most despised survivors ever, NaOnka.

And one of the season's most likable, Jane.

Plus, one of the season's biggest underdogs, Holly, and

find out how "Survivor" saved Jimmie Johnson's life.

We are live in Hollywood. It's the "Survivor: Nicaragua" reunion show.

Pick it up!

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Welcome back to the "Survivor: Nicaragua" live reunion show.

Coach Jimmie Johnson, what is it... You said in that clip we saw

toughest thing you've ever done and you're a guy who's done a few things.

What is it about "Survivor?"

In football practice you work throughout the day but you have a soft bed.

You have lot of food. You have plenty water.

You know, we didn't have water. We didn't have food.

We didn't have a soft bed. We didn't have any sleep.

That, you know, that really played on me more than anything else.

At night, you're cold and shivering. You're standing by the fire.

It was the most difficult thing I've ever gone through.

Now at my age, now these young kids they held up a little bit better than I did.

- How old are you? - 67.

67.

You got fame.

One would assume you have enough money that you're okay for the moment.

- Why do this? - I love the show since day one.

I mean, it's been my favorite... Other than football, my favorite show.

You know, I tried to get on this thing about six, seven years ago