Izzy Ortega

Izzy Ortega is a contestant from Survivor: The Australian Outback.

Izzy is infamous for yelling at his tribemate Rita Osborne after she voted against him at the third tribal council. He's also known for having a rivalry with Frank Corbett. Due to his short temper and being perceived as insensitive, he was voted out unanimously on Day 15.

Profile
Izzy grew up in Woodstock, Georgia with his mother, step-father, and his twin sister. At a young age, Izzy moved to Long Island in New York where he would live until he graduated high school. He went to college at Columbia University and got a degree in filmmaking. Izzy currently lives in Beaver, Pennsylvania with his fiancee, Veronika.

Survivor
Izzy started the game on the Ogakor tribe, and quickly became irritated when Frank Corbett took charge when he was leading the tribe to camp. When socializing with the others, he got along with Joanna Yates and Stacey Conner. During the first immunity challenge, Izzy helped his team dominate through it and even managed to win, earning them another three days.

Over the next few days, Izzy started getting along very well with Stacey, that Joanna got jealous with how well they were getting along. He also got into an argument with Frank when they were out fishing. Ogakor ended up losing the next immunity challenge. Izzy voted for Frank due to the two of them not getting along, but Izzy got into a deadlock tie with Stacey. Stacey ended up having the worst relationship with Vince Turner, and she was voted out.

Izzy was plotting against Frank to vote him out, which Vince and Joanna seemed to be on board with. Frank ended up costing the team to win the next immunity challenge and Izzy's plan worked. Frank was voted out third after a 3-2 vote.

After tribal council, Izzy was enraged after receiving two votes. He knew it wasn't Joanna or Vince, so he instantly turned to Rita Osborne and he found out she voted him. Izzy went angered, started insulting her and left her in tears. Vince and Joanna didn't appreciate this and tried to convince him to apologize, which he declined. Izzy spent the rest of the day away from Rita and was plotting against her, which didn't work. Ogakor won the next challenge and Izzy was safe for another three days.

Izzy finally came to his senses and apologized to Rita for being so rude to her, which she reluctantly accepted. This made Izzy paranoid because he knew she didn't fully forgive him. The tribe lost the next immunity challenge and he knew he was in trouble. He asked Rita if she would vote out Vince with him to make it up to her. She falsely agreed because she had a feelings for Vince and because he was the strongest in challenges. He then went to Joanna and asked if she would vote Vince out too, which she wasn't sure of doing. At tribal council, Izzy voted for Vince. However, the other three voted for him instead, and he was unanimously voted out.

^1  In No Leader Needed, the vote ended with a 2-2-1-1 tie between Izzy and Stacey, forcing a revote. The votes still tied on the revote, eliminating Stacey due to having the worst relationship with Vince.

Post-Survivor

 * Izzy married his fiance, Veronika, one month after Survivor: The Australian Outback started airing.

Trivia

 * Izzy is the youngest male member on the Ogakor tribe.


 * Izzy is the only member of Ogakor to be unanimously voted off.


 * Izzy and Kyle Willett are tied with the most votes cast against them in Survivor: The Australian Outback, with 9.


 * Izzy is the first person voted off in the Survivor: The Australian Outback to not receive a total of 4 votes cast against them.
 * He is the only pre-merge boot with this distinction.


 * Izzy received at least two votes at every tribal council he attended. Each of those times, one of them would be Rita Osborne.


 * Izzy is the only contestant to ever cast a vote against Vince Turner.