Kim Spradlin
| Kim Spradlin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Kimberly Brooke Spradlin January 30, 1983 |
| Residence | San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Bridal shop owner, television personality, interior designer |
| Employer | Kate Kingman Interiors |
| Television |
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| Spouse(s) | Bryan Wolfe (m. 2013) |
| Children | 3 |
Kimberly Brooke Spradlin Wolfe (born January 30, 1983) is a bridal shop owner and interior designer from San Antonio, Texas. She is best known as the winner of 2012's Survivor: One World and its $1 million prize. She was also named the Sprint "Player of the Season" as voted by the show's fans, winning her another $100,000.
In spite of being one of the quieter contestants of Survivor: One World, Spradlin caught the attention of Alicia Rosa during the trek to the girl's camp because she posed as a strong player which forged her into Rosa's alliance along with Chelsea Meissner, Kat Edorsson, and Sabrina Thompson. Spradlin, and the rest of the Salani tribe then prospered, winning three consecutive challenges, and received free immunity when the Manono tribe decided to go to Tribal Council despite winning the Day 11 Immunity Challenge.
Following Spradlin's victories at the last two Immunity Challenges, she found herself in the Final Three with Meissner and Thompson. Spradlin's quiet and effective strategy earned the respect of seven of the nine Jury members, crowning her as the 24th Sole Survivor. She was awarded $1 million for winning the Survivor contest, and $100,000 more as the Sprint Player of the Season, which was awarded by viewer votes.
Soon after winning the $1 million prize, Spradlin appeared on the CBS daytime talk show The Talk, where she said she would use the money to improve her San Antonio bridal shop, and to take vacations. She also said she planned on being "generous" with family and friends. Shortly thereafter, she signed on with KENS, San Antonio's CBS affiliate, as an on-air contributor for the television show Great Day SA, where she did a segment called "Kim's Kart." She served in that capacity until 2016, when she left the station to focus on her interior design work. As of September 2016, she was working with Kate Kingman Interiors.
In 2013, English professor Ellen Sorg name-dropped Spradlin in a book which compared Survivor winners to Ken Jennings, a software engineer with a notable 74-game winning streak on Jeopardy! As an example, Sorg wrote that Spradlin won on Survivor because of a combination of practical and interpersonal intelligence, and suggested that Jennings, though very knowledgeable on many topics, would not fare as well on Survivor because the ability to recall many facts is not as valuable in daily life as overall intelligence is.
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