Savannah Louie has become the winner of Survivor Season 49 tonight, and defeated fellow finalists Sophi Balerdi, Sage Ahrens-Nichols, Kristina Mills, and Rizo Velovic to crown.
Here are five things to know about Savannah Louie.
Savannah Louie: 5 things to know
- Louie worked as a breaking news reporter. She also interned with CBS 11 News before moving on to San Antonio’s KENS 5 news network. By 2021, she served for Atlanta News First. She’s now left her journalism career and picked the world of marketing.
- Savannah Louie likes to do solo travel. She said to EW – “I’m a big solo traveler! Some of my favorite memories include overnight camping in the Sahara Desert, running with the bulls in Spain, clubbing in Berlin, and the four-day Salkantay trek in Peru.”
- She is dating Brandon Stiles, a software engineer.
- She said – her parents are her biggest inspiration
- Louie started preparing for Survivor at the age of 17. She told CBS – “I started watching before I could really understand what ‘Survivor’ was,” “And I’ve always loved the show ever since I was like, you know, this tall, right? So the first time I applied, I was 17 years old.”