Earl Cole

Survivor contestant
name = Earl Cole


birthdate = birth date and age|1971|04|9
location = Santa Monica, California
season =
finish = Winner
tribe = Ravu, Moto, Bula Bula

Earl Cole (born April 9, 1971 in Kansas City, Kansas) is the winner of the reality television series "". He is a California advertising executive. cite paper
author=Aaron Barnhart
title=Ultimate player hails from KCK
publisher=The Kansas City Star
date=2007-05-14
url=http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/106162.html
accessdate=2007-05-17 ]

"Survivor: Fiji"

Cole joined the 18 other contestants of "Survivor: Fiji" never having watched the show. He was asked to be on "Survivor" only two days before it started shooting.Fact|date=October 2007 Upon arriving in Fiji, he identified Yau-Man Chan as a person similar to himself with the best combination of intelligence and integrity and formed an alliance with Chan that lasted until the final four contestants. Earl became a silent leader of the core Ravu Alliance, where he targeted weak links: Jessica and Sylvia (he was not there for the Tribal Council where Erica was voted out). His tribe was granted a reprieve, when Moto chose to go to Tribal Council. His alliance returned to Tribal Council in the next episode where Rita was voted off. In a tribal swap, Yau-Man, Michelle, and Himself were moved to the Moto beach with Stacy, Boo, and Cassandra. He lost Michelle at the merge, when she was at tribal council alone. At the Final Nine, Earl was able to recruit the original Moto outsiders: Cassandra and Dreamz, and New Moto outsiders: Stacy and Boo. The Alliance of Six picked off the Horsemen: Edgardo, Mookie, and finally Alex. A coup started by Dreamz to evict Yau Man, failed and Stacy was voted out (via Immunity Idol), and was followed by Boo. They cooperated over the course of the game to discover two hidden immunity idols from information that they discovered on several independent visits to exile island. Cole visited Exile Island more than anyone that season (4 total) and proved to be a resourceful and very strategic Survivor contestant. When Andria "Dreamz" Herd reneged on a deal for immunity at the final tribal council and Chan was eliminated, Cole immediately became the jury's unanimous vote to become the 14th Sole Survivor. For the first time in American "Survivor" history, Cole received all of the votes from the jury and he became the first African-American male Sole Survivor. Cole made it through the entire season never winning an individual immunity, only having had one vote cast against him and he was the only survivor ever to have a 9-0-0 vote. One million dollars richer, Cole is now CEO/Founder of his own entertainment production company, A-Frame Studios, as well as an internet company, Wondertwin Technology, which are both based in Santa Monica, CA where he was first discovered.

References

External links

* [http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor14/survivors/earl.shtml Earl Cole bio] for at CBS.com