Season 49 of CBS’ hit reality competition TV series Survivor ended with one winner: Savannah Louie. The journalist-turned-marketing strategist was crowned the champion of the 2025 season after she proved to be a dominating force and got the most votes from the final tribunal council.
“I didn’t come out here to tie any records. I didn’t come out here to make Survivor history in that way. I came out here to be the winner,” Savannah said earlier in the show.
Get to know the winner of Survivor‘s 49th season here!
The finalists of the 49th season of Survivor were first-place contestant Savannah, runner-up Sophi Balerdi, from Miami, runner-up Sage Ahrens-Nichols, from Roxboro, North Carolina, fourth-place contestant Rizo Velovic, from Yonkers, New York, and fifth-place contestant Kristina Mills from Houston, Texas.
Savannah hails from the small city of Walnut Creek, California.
TV wasn’t a brand-new world for Savannah, though reality TV is a different realm. She is a former journalist who worked for KSDK in St. Louis, Missouri, WANF in Atlanta, Georgia, and KENS in San Antonio, Texas, according to USA Today.
Savannah chose to leave her job as a journalist in late 2024, as seen on her Instagram. That September, she said she was ending her career as a reporter.
