For the second year in a row, the winner of the reality show “Survivor” is a Canadian.
At the end of Season 42 on Wednesday night, Maryanne Oketch, a 24-year-old seminary student from Ajax, Ontario, became the last standing.
Oketch won a million-dollar prize and became the second black woman to win “Survivor”; the first was Vecepia Towery, which won in 2002.
Last year’s winner was Canadian Erika Casupanan, who is from Niagara Falls.
After 23 days in the desert, the episode began with the remaining five players: Oketch, Jonathan Young, Mike Turner, Romeo Escobar and Lindsay Dolashewich.
After a series of games and obstacles, it all came down to Oketch and Turner, a New Jersey firefighter. With seven votes against one of the jury, Oketch took the victory to the applause of his fellow competitors.