Ethan Zohn

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Survivor contestant
Ethan Zohn
Date of birth November 12, 1973 (1973-11-12) (age 34)
Resides Lexington, Massachusetts
Season(s) Africa
All Stars
Finish Winner (Africa)
8th voted out (All Stars)
Tribe(s) Boran, Moto Maji (Africa)
Saboga, Mogo Mogo (All Stars)

Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of Survivor. Zohn also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show. After winning Survivor Ethan co-founded Grassroot Soccer [1] which uses the power of soccer in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

On August 20, 2008, Ethan will begin a 500 mile soccer dribble from Foxboro Mass to Washington DC to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and raise money for Grassroot Soccer. See Grassroot Soccer United [2]

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[edit] Soccer

Zohn was a soccer goalkeeper at Vassar College, and played professionally for the Hawaii Tsunami and Cape Cod Crusaders of the United Soccer Leagues and in Zimbabwe for Highlanders Football Club. He parlayed his victory on Survivor: Africa by donating some of his $1,000,000 first prize money to starting Grassroot Soccer, an organization whose goal is to "mobilize the global soccer community to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa."

In 2005, Zohn began to co-host the Metro Soccer Report (later renamed MSG Soccer Report) on the MSG Network, a weekly show dedicated to Red Bull New York (formerly MetroStars) of Major League Soccer. As of April 2006, Zohn hosts FC Fox on the Fox Soccer Channel.

[edit] Awards

For his combined humanitarian efforts to spread HIV education throughout Africa via soccer teams for youth and young adults, Zohn received the Courage of Conscience Award from The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts [3].

[edit] Survivor: Africa

As part of the Boran tribe, Ethan did not become an immediate target in the game, he was seen as a strong player who could potentially help to win many tribal immunities. When his tribe lost two back-to-back immunity challenges, he joined the majority to vote off Diane Ogden and Jessie Camacho in Episodes 1 and 2. Over the next few days, Ethan would form a long-term alliance with Lex van den Berghe and Tom Buchanan from his Boran tribe.

But a twist in Episode 5 of the game saw both of Ethan's alliance members switch from Boran to the Samburu tribe, leaving Ethan alone with old Boran members Kim Johnson and Clarence Black. Two of the new Boran members from the Samburu tribe, Teresa Cooper and Frank Garrison, had an old misunderstanding with younger old-Samburu member Silas Gaither. So, in Episode 5, a consensus was reached in which Ethan's tribe threw the immunity challenge in order to vote out the unpopular Silas. Both of Ethan's alliance members Tom and Lex remained safe on the Samburu tribe, carrying all three into the merge.

Ethan's alliance soon began to control the game, with other members Kim Johnson and Kelly Goldsmith, all from the original Boran. They immediately targeted old-Boran member Clarence Black due to his physical strength and he was voted out. But, unbeknowst to Lex, he had received another vote at tribal council, who he believed had come from Kelly, but which actually came from Teresa. This led Lex on a witch-hunt against Kelly which almost led to the demise of Ethan's alliance when Kelly possessed the power with the other four ex-Samburu members, Teresa, Frank, Kim Powers and Brandon Quinton. But at the last minute, Brandon switched his vote, saving Lex, and voting out Kelly. But this move came back to haunt Brandon, when Ethan's alliance saw him as untrustworthy and voted him out at the next tribal council.

Ethan, Lex, Tom and Kim Johnson regained control of the game, outing previous Samburu members Frank, Kim Powers and Teresa in the next three tribal councils, carrying them into the Final 4. At the Final 4 immunity challenge, Kim Johnson, the next target to be voted out, won immunity, leading to the alliance having to resort to voting one of their own out. Ethan joined Lex and Kim Johnson in voting out Tom, carrying them into the Final 3. However, the Final 4 immunity challenge contained some controversy, which you can read about here.

At the Final 3 immunity challenge, older tribe member Kim outlasted the two young, fit men to win immunity in an endurance challenge. With Kim holding the power to choose who she would sit next to in the Final 2, she chose Ethan, believing that she could not win against either Lex or Ethan and she thought Ethan deserved the money more than Lex did.

In the end, Ethan Zohn beat out Kim Johnson in a 5-2 vote to become the Sole Survivor, gaining the votes of Kelly Goldsmith, Frank Garrison, Teresa Cooper, Tom Buchanan and Lex ven den Berghe.

[edit] Survivor: All-Stars

Ethan was invited to participate in Survivor: All-Stars, which he gladly accepted. Originally part of the Saboga tribe, Ethan was immediately targeted as a previous winner, along with Survivor: The Australian Outback winner Tina Wesson. When Saboga lost immunity, the rest of the tribe decided to vote out Tina first, needing Ethan's strength to win future challenges. When Saboga lost immunity once again, Ethan was spared once more over physical liability Rudy Boesch, who had hurt his ankle previously.

In Episode 5, Ethan and the rest of the Saboga tribe were disbanded after losing a challenge. Ethan and Jerri Manthey joined the Mogo Mogo tribe, while Jenna Lewis and Rupert Boneham joined Chapera. Later in that episode, Ethan joined the rest of his new tribe to vote out Survivor: Borneo winner Richard Hatch. In episode 7, Ethan was on the outs when the alliance of Jerri, Lex van den Berghe, Shii Ann Huang and Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien left him out in their decision to vote out Colby Donaldson. Ethan was shocked at the decision, feeling betrayed by old Survivor: Africa alliance member Lex.

In Episode 8, Mogo Mogo lost immunity once again, and Ethan, the last former winner, was voted out in 11th Place overall, by a vote of 4-1. He was the most successful of the four previous winners who competed on All-Stars, lasting longer than Tina Wesson, Richard Hatch, and Jenna Morasca did.

[edit] Trivia

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  • Ethan, to date, is the only Jewish individual of either gender to win Survivor.
  • In 2005, Ethan appeared in the reality television program, Kill Reality, which follows various reality television personalities as they film a horror movie called The Scorned.
  • Ethan is a supporter of animal rights. He posed nude (while holding a leaf to cover himself) for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked, Than Wear Fur" Campaign [4] along with Jenna Morasca.
  • While a senior at Lexington High School, Ethan was a member of the Student/Faculty Senate and was known for wearing the same sweatshirt to every meeting of the Senate throughout the school year.
  • On May 5, 2007, Ethan's nose was broken by Vassar College soccer goalie Jake London during an alumnae game.
  • During his entire stay on the show (Survivor Africa), not a single person cast a vote against him. (Except in the Final tribal council, in which contestants vote for who they want to win.)
  • According to his official website, [6] he is currently single and living in New York City.

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