Jonny Fairplay

Jon "Jonny Fairplay" Dalton
Dalton at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 17, 2009.
Born	Jon Dalton (1974-03-11) March 11, 1974 (age 43) Danville, Virginia, U.S.
Television	Survivor: Pearl Islands Survivor: Micronesia
Spouse(s)	Michelle Deighton (2005-2011)

Jonny Fairplay, formerly known as Jon Dalton, (born March 11, 1974), is a reality TV participant and former art consultant from Danville, Virginia. He came in third place as a competitor on the reality TV show Survivor: Pearl Islands. He also appeared in the sixteenth season of Survivor, Survivor: Micronesia, and was the first contestant voted out.

Jon Dalton is originally from Danville, Virginia He attended George Washington High School, and subsequently attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute. After college, he moved to Washington, D.C. and Portland, Oregon before settling in Los Angeles.

On Survivor: Pearl Islands, Dalton constructed what host Jeff Probst called "the greatest lie in Survivor history." Before Dalton left to compete on the show, he told a friend of his that if the friend were ever invited to Panama as part of a loved-one-related challenge to tell Dalton that his grandmother had died. There was indeed such a challenge, and Dalton's friend told him, according to plan, that his grandmother had died. Probst has also publicly said:

On January 3, 2008, it was announced that Fairplay was the only pre-All-Stars castaway who accepted an offer to join the tribe of returning contestants in Survivor: Micronesia, the show's 16th season. However, Fairplay asked his tribe to vote him off in the first episode so that he could return to his pregnant girlfriend.

Dalton did not participate in the Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains in 2010. When asked about the reason for this, Jeff Probst remarked, "The reason that Fairplay isn't here is that this season is called Heroes vs. Villains, not Survivor Quitters." Dalton acknowledged in a 2010 interview that there is animosity between himself and Probst, stating, "It's no secret that Jeff Probst hates me, and I don't go out of my way to be his friend either."