Meet the San Diego city employee competing on "Survivor"
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The full cast of "Survivor" season 46. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS
Moriah Gaynor, a 28-year-old San Diego resident, is competing on Season 46 of "Survivor," which premiered Wednesday night.
What she's saying: Gaynor thinks she'll be "perceived as a nerdy dork" while stranded on the islands of Fiji competing for $1 million, she said in a CBS promo video.
- Previous "Survivor" contestants with similar personas inspired her to "make connections in a very true-to-yourself form."
- She'd also rather get voted out with "guns blazing" than as a contestant who "woulda, coulda, shoulda."
Fun facts: As a program coordinator for the city of San Diego's performance and analytics department, Gaynor is responsible for optimizing the Get It Done system.
- Off the clock, she can be found brewing beer, surfing or playing "Dungeons & Dragons," according to Entertainment Weekly.
Context: "In "Survivor," one of the longest-running reality TV shows, contestants compete in physical and mental challenges — with limited food and resources — and rely on their social skills to be crowned the "Sole Survivor" by a jury of the same people they voted off the island.
Tune in: Watch this season Wednesdays at 8pm on CBS or Paramount+.
💠My thought bubble: I'm a big "Survivor" fan — and competitive enough to actually want to be on the show — even though I only got into it in the past few years.
- Unfortunately, I started with Winners at War (season 40), which ruined the endings for nearly all of the previous seasons … but I still watched every one.