Portrait of Dee Valladares

Dee Valladares

I like everybody on this tribe, but we're an absolute mess. Survivor 50, E2
Winner

Played on

40 days played

Game record

Vote alignment58%of 12 ballots

27th percentile of 423 castaways

Immunity record4career immunity wins

97th percentile of 751 castaways

Jury vote share63%of 8 jury votes

75th percentile of 125 finalists

Occupation at casting Entrepreneur Hometown Miami, Florida

Beyond Survivor
Big Brother The Challenge
Played with 39 castaways across 2 seasons See every connection ↓

Valladares has shared a beach with thirty-nine castaways, inside the most-connected tenth of everyone who has played.

Biography

Dee Valladares won Survivor 45 with a confident, aggressive game and a title-clinching Final Tribal Council. A Cuban-American entrepreneur from Miami, Dee combined challenge strength, strategic control, and a season-long alliance and showmance with runner-up Austin Li Coon, then won the jury vote 5-3-0.

She returned for Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans as one of the season's prior winners. Dee reached the jury and placed fourteenth, giving her one victory and one jury finish across two appearances.

Dee Valladares is one of the defining winners of the new era, a champion whose blend of physical ability, strategic aggression, and social relationships carried her through Survivor 45 and back to the landmark fiftieth season.

Get to know Dee Valladares

Dee Valladares's own answers from the pre-game cast profile CBS published before the season aired.

Hobbies
CrossFit (don't judge), running, traveling, anything outdoors, spending time with fam, anything that gets my heart racing.
Pet peeves
Bad tippers, road ragers, constantly being late, [and] injustice to kids, old people or dogs.
Inspiration
My dad. He is my perfect example of not needing materialistic items to be happy. And I think I've only ever seen him mad three times!

Alliances fans have named

Survivor never names an alliance on screen. These names, and who counts as a member, are how the fan community records the game rather than an official record of it.

Birthplace, pre-game profile and alliance facts adapted from Survivor Fandom and Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-07-21. Licensed CC BY-SA.

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Seasons

Season Result Days Tribes Votes against Confessionals
Survivor 45 2023 Reba Mergatory Dakuwaqa 2 67
In the Hands of the Fans Season 50, 2026 10th voted out Kalo Cila Mergatory Manulevu 8 17

Castaway network

Dee Valladares’s connections

The strongest overlaps are surfaced first; every castmate is organized by season below.

39
castaway connections
27
tribemates
1
repeat castmate
2
other-show overlaps

Connections worth exploring

Repeat pairings, other-show overlaps, tribe overlap, winners and Survivor veterans rise to the top.

Survivor 45 & 50

Emily Flippen

2 Survivor seasons

2 seasons together Shared a tribe

Survivor 50

Aubry Bracco

4 Survivor seasons

Shared a tribe Winner

Every castaway, by season

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Survivor 45 2023 17 castaways 2 returning players View cast

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In the Hands of the Fans Season 50, 2026 23 castaways 3 winners 23 returning players View cast

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