1. Parvati Shallow is an American television personality, having appeared as a contestant on four seasons of the reality game show Survivor.
49 Facts About Parvati Shallow
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Parvati Shallow is set to compete in her 5th season of Survivor, where she will represent the USA on the upcoming Australia V The World season of Australian Survivor, set to air in 2025.
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Parvati Shallow is the author of Nice Girls Don't Win, which is both a book and a podcast.
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Parvati Shallow was born on September 21,1982, in Vero Beach, Florida.
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Parvati Shallow has three siblings and her family moved to Marietta, Georgia when she was 11 years old.
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Parvati Shallow was raised in a "hippie" commune that practiced Hinduism.
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Parvati Shallow graduated from Sprayberry High School and attended the University of Georgia where she was a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.
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Parvati Shallow originally auditioned for The Amazing Race along with her friend.
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Parvati Shallow originally appeared as part of the Rarotonga tribe, which represented Caucasians, along with Adam Gentry, Jonathan Penner, Jessica "Flicka" Smith, and Candice Woodcock.
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Parvati Shallow's tribe did not face any danger for the first six days as they had won immunity.
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Parvati Shallow was particularly allied with Gentry and Woodcock, who truly were romantically involved.
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Parvati Shallow survived her tribe's next three Tribal Councils as Calderon, Stephannie Favor, and Cristina Coria were each voted off.
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Raro lost the next two Immunity challenges, but Parvati Shallow remained loyal to her original Raro tribemates by eliminating Brad Virata, Rebecca Borman, and Jenny Guzon-Bae.
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Parvati Shallow became angry with Penner, and a day after his betrayal, when she cut her thumb with a machete while cutting a coconut, she said that she was imagining the coconut was Penner's head.
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Parvati Shallow was noted for being a flirt throughout the season.
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Parvati Shallow flirted with Gonzalez to ensure his loyalty, had 'cuddle sessions' with Gentry, and sat naked in a hot tub with Kwon and Lusth during a challenge reward.
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Parvati Shallow returned as a "Favorite" and part of the Malakal tribe.
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Parvati Shallow formed a close bond with James Clement and the two formed an alliance with another couple consisting of Amanda Kimmel and Ozzy Lusth.
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Parvati Shallow then made a pact with Cirie Fields to go all the way to the Final Three with Kimmel.
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At the merge, Parvati Shallow found herself in a good position as she was allied with six of the nine people left.
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However, Fields saw this as an opportunity to blindside physical threat Lusth instead, and she needed Parvati Shallow's help for it to work.
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Kimmel was the intended target, a plan of which Parvati Shallow did not want any part.
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Parvati Shallow made it all the way to the Final Three with Fields and Kimmel.
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Parvati Shallow was eliminated first at the Final Immunity Challenge but was chosen to be in the Final Two by Kimmel as Kimmel felt that Fields would be extremely tough to beat at the Final Tribal Council.
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At the Final Tribal Council, Parvati Shallow convinced the jury to vote for her because of her aggressive game play compared to her previous season.
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Parvati Shallow returned to play Survivor for a third time as a part of the Villains tribe.
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Parvati Shallow quickly accepted an alliance with Russell Hantz and Danielle DiLorenzo.
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The new tribe quickly alienated Parvati Shallow, making her swear to get revenge on all of the Heroes.
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Parvati Shallow decided to concede immunity, because she already had one idol.
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Parvati Shallow then went and talked to Kimmel, who warned that Shallow should play the idol for herself.
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Parvati Shallow tried to pit Shallow and DiLorenzo against each other, but failed.
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Parvati Shallow then aligned with the Heroes again and decided to target Shallow.
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Parvati Shallow beat out Hantz, who received zero votes, but was defeated by Diaz-Twine, who got the votes of all the Heroes, plus Yates, who was in an alliance with Diaz-Twine while still in the game.
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Parvati Shallow returned to compete on the show's 40th season, Survivor: Winners at War.
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Parvati Shallow was a member of the Sele tribe and aligned with fellow old schoolers Boston Rob Mariano, Ethan Zohn, and Danni Boatwright.
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However, when Sele lost immunity on day 6, Boatwright felt betrayed by Parvati Shallow and told Mariano to target Parvati Shallow instead of one of the new school players.
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Parvati Shallow was able to survive a few more votes until the tribe swap.
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In 2025, reports say Parvati Shallow is set to appear on Survivor: Australia v The World.
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Parvati Shallow was one of the first five inductees into the "Survivor Hall of Fame" in the year 2010, alongside Hantz, Mariano, Diaz-Twine, and Richard Hatch.
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Parvati Shallow is one of only eight players to make it to Final Tribal Council more than once, along with Hantz, Mariano, Diaz-Twine, Kimmel, Fitzgerald, Anderson, and Tony Vlachos.
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Reality TV podcaster and former Survivor contestant Rob Cesternino twice conducted online polls for the greatest contestant in the show's history; Parvati Shallow won both times the poll was held.
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Accordingly, Parvati Shallow was the only female contestant to appear in both polls, and one of only two contestants overall to appear in the "greatest players" poll and one of the "most attractive" polls, the other being Lusth, her fellow Cook Islands and Micronesia player.
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In 2017, Entertainment Weekly had fans of the series rank the 34 winners and Parvati Shallow came in 1st place.
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Parvati Shallow appeared on the second season of The Traitors, where she was chosen as the third Traitor.
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Parvati Shallow hosted the third season of the webseries Around the World For Free, which began airing on July 5,2011.
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In 2014, Parvati Shallow began dating fellow Survivor alum John Fincher, who competed on Survivor: Samoa.
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Parvati Shallow resides in Los Angeles, California and is a yoga teacher.
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In 2020, Parvati Shallow co-authored a children's book about mindfulness titled Om the Otter.
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On December 30,2023, Parvati Shallow came out as queer in an Instagram post and announced she is in a relationship with non-binary comedian and writer Mae Martin.