Strategic and savage!īut as it turned out, Austin wasn't too upset. Ultimately, the jury chose to award the $1 million prize to Dee in a 5-3 vote over her island boyfriend, due in large part to her key decision to not tell Austin she betrayed him in an early vote until they were in front of their eliminated castaways. 20 finale, verbally battling it out for the title of Sole Survivor.
And after several episodes of hand-holding, helicopter rides and, okay, some lies, the twosome found themselves sitting next to one another on the Dec. In the latter half of Survivor season 45, a showmance began to blossom between alliance members Dee Valladares and Austin Li Coon.
Is this the modern era's Boston Rob and Amber Mariano?!