Nick Wilson

Nicolas Joseph Caleb Wilson (born June 11, 1990) is an American politician and former public defender who is a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

He also competed on the reality competition show Survivor.

Wilson was voted the winner of Survivor's thirty-seventh season, Survivor: David vs. Goliath, in 2018, and returned in 2020 for the fortieth season, Survivor: Winners at War, to compete against former winners in the Survivor franchise, where he would finish in seventh place.

Wilson, a Republican, won an election to become a state representative of the 82nd district in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 2022.

Wilson grew up in Williamsburg, Kentucky.

Wilson's parents divorced while he was growing up.

His grandmother helped raise him and his four siblings while they stayed with their father.

He became the first person in his family to graduate from college when he completed a Bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Kentucky.

At Kentucky, he became a member of Kappa Sigma (Beta-Nu) fraternity.

He eventually went on to the University of Alabama School of Law and graduated to become a public defender.

While at Alabama, his mother died due to a drug overdose.

As part of the original David Tribe, Wilson began his game with a bit of a rocky start, being seen as someone who was lazy and sat around camp all day.

In particular, he became targeted by tribemates Pat Cusack and Carl Boudreaux.

However, Wilson was spared from the chopping block of the first tribal council when Cusack was medically evacuated following the season's first immunity challenge.

Afterward, Wilson immediately shifted his focus and became an aggressive alliance-builder, crafting one-on-one allegiances with several players in the game.

In the next Tribal Council, Wilson voted with Christian Hubicki (with whom he'd founded the Mason-Dixon Alliance), Elizabeth Olson (together, the Thoroughbreds), Gabby Pascuzzi and Lyrsa Torres to send Jessica Peet out of the game.

Wilson also forged a friendship with Davie Rickenbacker during this time.

A tribe swap occurred on Day Ten, putting Wilson on the Jabeni tribe with Torres and three former Goliaths: Natalie Cole, Mike White and Angelina Keeley.

During his time on Jabeni, Wilson aligned with White and Keeley, and together the three of them ousted Cole (a former Goliath) and Torres (a former David) at the next two Tribal Councils.

This alliance would become a crucial fulcrum in the rest of the season.

The merge occurred with thirteen players, forming the Kalokalo tribe.

From that point, Wilson became part of an alliance with Hubicki and Pascuzzi from the Davids, as well as White, Alec Merlino and Alison Raybould from the Goliaths.

Olson became the first person unanimously voted from the merge.

Afterwards, Wilson found a vote stealer advantage.

At the next Tribal Council, he voted with the Davids to blindside Goliath John Hennigan with a hidden immunity idol play and minority vote split.

The former Goliaths remained in control of the numbers with a 6–5 advantage, but Wilson used his advantage along with Boudreaux's idol nullifier to send Goliath Dan Rengering to the jury.

At the next Tribal Council, Merlino was unanimously sent to the jury, giving the surviving David players the majority.

At this point, Wilson and most of the Davids sought to target Raybould, but tribal lines were crossed when Hubicki and Pascuzzi flipped on their original alliances to orchestrate Boudreaux's elimination, leaving Wilson out of the vote.

Frustrated by their betrayal, Wilson sought revenge.

He and Keeley won the Family Visit in the next reward challenge, and together they selected White and Davie Rickenbacker to accompany them.

They forged a Final Four deal on the reward, with the idea that Hubicki would be the next target.

However, Hubicki sensed the tide had turned on him and played an immunity idol, voiding the votes against him and causing Pascuzzi (who had been attempting to engineer Hubicki's elimination) to be sent to the jury.

Hubicki's safety would prove short-lived, as he was soon eliminated at the following Tribal Council.

At the Final Six, Wilson won his first immunity challenge of the season.

During this time, he strengthened his bonds with Keeley and White, agreeing to a Final Three deal.

Wilson once more attempted to target Raybould, but Rickenbacker was eliminated instead, having been seen as a bigger threat by White and Keeley.

Furious at Rickenbacker's boot at the hands of his own allies, Wilson was now the last David Standing.

However, he secured his safety within the game by winning the next immunity challenge, finally ousting Raybould from the game as a result.

He then went on to win the final immunity challenge of the season, becoming the only player from the season to win multiple immunities as well as guaranteeing his spot in the Final Tribal Council.

Wilson selected Keeley to sit alongside him at the Final Three, forcing Kay and White to compete for the final slot via the Fire-Making Challenge.