Former San Antonio reporter returns for allstar 'Survivor' season
Feb 24, 2026
After winning the 49th season of Survivor in December, Savannah Louie is once again sunning on the beach. But it isn’t a vacation — the former KENS 5 personality is returning to Fiji for the all-star 50th season, kicking off Wednesday, February 25.Louie didn’t have much time to recover after h
er $1 million victory lap. According to an Entertainment Weekly interview, she was back on a plane 10 days after arriving home, squeezing in three massages and all the fried food she could eat.“You cannot recover from Survivor in two weeks mentally and emotionally,” she told the magazine. “You probably need two years to recover from that, but at the same time, that's kind of to my advantage. I'm already suspicious of the average, everyday person.”The 32-year-old California native was once a fixture of Alamo City airwaves, wearing multiple hats as a correspondent, traffic anchor, and occasional morning show co-host. She left San Antonio for St. Louis, Missouri, and later Atlanta, Georgia, but has since left the media business altogether.Louie follows in the footsteps of another former KENS 5 personality, Kim Spradlin-Wolfe, who was the sole survivor of the 24th season of the series, adding an extra $100,000 to her haul as the fan favorite. While Spradlin-Wolfe isn’t one of the 24 players this round, Louie will be vying for the “last survivor” title against some of the series’ all-time heavyweights.The landmark 50th season of the CBS reality competition pits players from the show’s earlier seasons against castaways from the “new era,” which shortened gameplay and made participants earn tools like flints that were once provided from the get-go.
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