Why do they call him troyzan

Inspiration in Life: Muhammad Ali. He changed the face of boxing and perhaps sports in general. He is the most recognized athlete on the planet and an outspoken social activist who crossed the racial limits. Hobbies: Studying monkeys, swimming, walking in nature with my dogs and working in exotic locations. Pet Peeves: People that constantly text while I'm having a conversation with them, bad drivers and women with manly hands.

I'm Troy Robertson, I'm like nobody else! Reason for Being on Survivor : I need this challenge for myself more than you will ever know! I want to know "how" and "who" I am in a major competition like this. This show is all I have thought about and concentrated on in the past 11 years!!!

I need to know dreams come true. I can make a fire with two sticks. I am a swimmer and a natural born leader. I have the ability to make people the best they can be. I have great animal instincts and swim like a dolphin. I'm mentally stronger and more prepared to be a social person around my tribe in camp life and the game, in general. I'm more aware that most castaways play this as a "game" and don't play it as real life, so I must adapt to that way of thinking.

What skills do you bring to Survivor that will make you a useful member of the group and what skills have you been learning since you last played? I've always been percent a team player. And, I also think of myself as a great motivator with the people I'm around. I like taking the leader role in a low-key way. I've lived my life as an adventure and I'm extremely in touch with nature. I've been a jungle boy my whole life so fishing, fire-making, and shelter-building come very easily to me.

Also, I've been re-watching past Survivor seasons to pick up any clues I missed the first time around. I work my best to stay young at heart. What are you most proud of from the last time? I'm proud that I stayed true to myself. You pretty much saw percent of me! I'm happy that everyone watching, including my tribe mates, got to see all my emotions. Whether I was laughing, smiling, carefree, kind-hearted, ecstatic, sympathetic, happy, sad, angry, irritated, heart-broke, or you name it… you got to see it all.

All of Troyzan! I'll look back years from now and still laugh at that moment! What, if anything, do you most regret? I regret that I didn't confront my enemies face to face more.

I also would have called out Kim Spradlin eventual winner of Survivor: One World in front of the entire tribe daily! I was putting too much thought into winning challenges as opposed to letting the tribe see the obvious plan Kim had. My mistake. Troyzan started the game on the all-male Manono tribe. As Manono won the first two Immunity Challenges , he was never in danger of being voted out until Day 8 where his alliance voted out Matt Quinlan.

However, the alliance did not need to vote anybody out as Salani won the next Immunity Challenge and Colton was medically evacuated in the following days.

Troyzan won the first post-merge Immunity Challenge and despite thinking that Jonas deserved to stay, he ended up voted with his post-swap alliance in ousting Jonas. Knowing the women had the numbers advantage, the men were thinking of voting out Christina Cha next. However, Kim lied to Troyzan about Michael wanting him gone. Motivated by his reignited anger towards Michael, he voted with the women, eliminating Michael.

However, Troyzan was shocked at the next Tribal Council when the women in his alliance betrayed the alliance and blindsided Jay. The women continued voting out the men, with Troyzan being safe by winning individual immunity on Day 27 with Leif being voted out at that night's Tribal Council.

On Day 30, after Troyzan failed to win immunity, he took the loss hard and turned his back for the duration of the Immunity Challenge. That night at Tribal Council, despite an effort to mess with the majority Salani Alliance 's split vote plan and get Christina out, he was eliminated for being the strongest male contestant left, as well as his clashes with the women.

Troyzan started on the Mana Tribe. I raised a set of marmoset monkeys for the past 20 years. My friends know I work in a jungle area and a coworker compared me to [the character] Tarzan and it kind of just spread from there.

What did you mean when you told Kat "do it" as you left tribal council? Did you think about how that could make the women not trust her? You were a one-man alliance for a while out there. The girls were acting so smug and cocky. Come here, buddy. We hugged there in the ocean, all bloody with a dangling eel. We realized that the whole thing must have looked pretty crazy to the camera guy filming us. Then we started laughing our heads off! It was quite the moment.

One that I'll never forget. Wink, wink. I'm always happy for any edit, honestly. I thought my edit pretty much showed the real me. Sometimes they edit things that don't actually happen in the time frame that the TV audience sees… but they need to tell a story to give the people watching something to follow.

There are tons of stories all going on at the same time, but they can't possibly show them all. Things happen out there where some people get credit for something that they actually didn't do or say. It's always fun to watch the season back on TV and say "What?!

That's not really how it happened! Plus, when the jury gives you zero votes, it doesn't really help the ol' edit action. It's tough to show everything we do out there, so I get it. Plus, on Game Changers they felt like they needed to show all the returnees as much as possible. So all of our edits get cut to the max.

I often wonder what's better: getting fourth or fifth place and everyone thinks you played fantastic, or getting to the final Tribal and getting zero votes where everyone thinks you sat around eating coconuts all day.

Oh well, it's all good. I'm always honored to play! What was it like coming back to regular society after being out there? Was there culture shock or an adjustment coming back? It's always a very weird feeling coming back. I don't like it at all. I'd rather stay out on the island for another month or two. When they give us back our cell phones at the airport, that's when it hits me. I'm back to the crazy real world again.

I stare down at my phone and actually debate whether I want to turn it on or not. The simple island life is tough for me to leave. Once I'm home, I go right to the grocery store and buy everything and anything I wouldn't normally eat. I do a major pig-out for a solid week! Tons of chocolate anything! Looking at my skinny-ass body in the mirror is always amusing a well. Was there ever a point either during the game or after you got back where you regretted going on the show?

Never regretted one moment during the game at all. The only time I really felt bummed out and disappointed was after the live finale of One World. I kind of sat there after it was all finished and realized my dream hadn't come true. I don't know if you guys realize it took me 11 years to get on the show. Year after year after year waiting for a dream. It was quite the journey to just make it on the show. I was up that season for the fan-favorite vote and I got second to Kim, which made it even worse to me, only because so many people had been telling me, "It's okay, Troy, that you didn't win this season, I'm pretty sure you're going to be a fan favorite.

So I thought well that would be a great consolation prize. Again, it was what I was hearing from people, not so much that I thought everybody was going to vote for me or something. But it's kind of like when someone is up for an Academy Award and everyone is telling them, "Hey, Jack Nicholson, you're gonna win an Oscar tonight!

I think because it took me so long, and 11 years of my life were dedicated to Survivor , just walking away from the finale I felt completely empty. I was bummed out, I didn't want to talk to anybody. Kim came up to me and asked me if I was okay.

I lied to her and said yes. But I wasn't okay. Honestly, I was just sad. I honestly try to keep in contact with almost everybody from both of my seasons.

I'm just that kinda guy. So I reach out here and there by text to mostly everyone from both my seasons, except for maybe a few. I'll always be super-close with Brad and Monica Culpepper.

I go and visit them in Tampa quite a bit. What a great couple. Their Wi-Fi is "troyzan troyzan. Sarah Lacina and I have talked probably once a week for the last four years now. We're really close. She's funny as hell, and I was super-proud to watch her play Winners at War.

I FaceTime a lot with Sandra. We talk about life and other s besides Survivor , like her dogs. We have a good laugh or two reminiscing.

I just talked with Hali a week ago and had a great conversation. I loved her energy out there. I used to talk to Aubry quite a bit about crazy slike UFOs and things, but she went and got herself a boyfriend so the convos have dissipated a little. Tai and I still talk every month or so. You'll be surprised that I talk to Dr.

Greg Smith Tarzan the most! I probably talk to Tarzan more than anybody else from my first season. I've been to his house like three times. He lives in kind of this wild mansion.

It's an amazing house and he's an amazing guy. He's pretty eccentric, but I really like talking to him even though he constantly uses words I have no idea what they mean.

We laugh about it. He is a real Survivor fan to this day as well. I still talk with Crazy Kat , she's like a little sister to me.

And also Jonas, Chelsea, Kim, and Jay. Do you still watch Survivor , and, if so, what's your favorite season you were not on and why? Oh, of course I do! But honestly, my favorite is still the first season, only because it got me so excited about actually playing.