Elyse Umemoto
People who drink decaf. Survivor 23
Played on
14 days played
Game record
Vote alignment2of 3 ballots
Too few ballots to rank
Immunity record0career immunity wins
No wins to rank
Occupation at casting Dance Team Manager Hometown Las Vegas, Nevada
Played with 17 castaways across 1 season See every connection ↓ Elyse Umemoto's time on Survivor 23: South Pacific was short: they went out as the 5th voted out, gone after 14 days, sent home by a 3-2-2 vote. While the run lasted, Umemoto cast 3 tribal council votes in Survivor 23, 2 with the majority.
Get to know Elyse Umemoto
Elyse Umemoto's own answers from the pre-game cast profile CBS published before the season aired.
- Claim to fame
- I was the second runner-up to Miss America and I raised my three younger sisters.
- Hobbies
- Baking cupcakes, amassing useless trivia and quotes and reading memoirs.
- Pet peeves
- Professional athletes with bad attitudes, wet laundry that doesn't get moved to the dryer immediately, pretty girls wearing ugly shoes and people who drink decaf.
- Inspiration
- My Grandma, Viola. God rest her beautiful soul. She taught me three of the most important things I'll ever learn: how to read, how to pray and how to appreciate music.
- Castaway they say they are most like
- Brenda from and Parvati. They know what they want and how to get it. They truly understand the social game.
- Why they wanted to play
- I thrive on challenge and the rush of competition. I always push the envelope and my limits. There's no better avenue to do this than Survivor.
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.
Fan poll Players
Survivor Hall of Fame: is Elyse Umemoto in or out?
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Seasons
| Season | Result | Days | Tribes | Votes against | Confessionals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 South Pacific Season 23, 2011 | 5th voted out | 14 of 39 days
| Savaii | 3 | 5 |
The vote that sent Elyse Umemoto home
Three of the seven ballots named Elyse Umemoto on day 14 of Survivor 23: South Pacific, a 3-2-2 vote.
Elyse Umemoto voted for John Cochran.
Castaway network
Elyse Umemoto’s connections
The strongest overlaps are surfaced first; every castmate is organized by season below.
- 17
- castaway connections
- 8
- tribemates
- 2
- winners
- 6
- returning players
Connections worth exploring
Repeat pairings, other-show overlaps, tribe overlap, winners and Survivor veterans rise to the top.
The other 11 castaways
Open the season for the rest of the cast and the context behind each connection.
South Pacific 11 castaways View cast
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Albert Destrade Shared the cast1 season -
Christine Shields Markoski Shared the cast1 season -
Edna Ma Shared the cast1 season -
Jim Rice Shared a tribe1 season -
Keith Tollefson Shared a tribe1 season -
Mark Caruso Shared a tribe1 season -
Mikayla Wingle Shared the cast1 season -
Rick Nelson Shared the cast1 season -
Semhar Tadesse Shared a tribe1 season -
Stacey Powell Shared the cast1 season -
Whitney Duncan Shared a tribe1 season