Who is jay byars

Finally, Rob asked Jay if he could ever enjoy Chicken Wings and beer ever again and Jay mentioned that maybe he will open up a new Chicken wings and beer restaurant back home in South Carolina. Follow Rob Facebook Youtube Twitter. Toggle navigation. Listen to the Podcast Download. So it's no surprise when players often decide to take guaranteed food over a chance to possibly win immunity.

But the surprise is often on the contestant who believes they're safe and therefore does not need to win, only to then be voted out later that night. With only three players left competing in an endurance challenge on 25, Jay stepped off when tempted with chicken wings and beer, leaving only Leif Manson and Chelsea Meissner who eventually won to battle it out.

He was then voted out of the game a few hours later. The decision still haunts him. Now, Jay explains why he gave away his shot at immunity, the castmates he's still in touch with, his pitch for a season do-over, and much more. As soon as I came back, I went straight back to modeling. For the record, I did work for my brother's landscaping company for many years prior to modeling why I was labeled as a landscaper on the show. I actually had to say no to the biggest modeling gig I have ever been offered to date to make Survivor happen; CBS wouldn't let me fly out one day later than everyone else to make it happen, so I had to try to get that momentum back.

I worked in nearly every major city in the U. A few years ago, on set I met a sexy lil' lady that was my pretend wife for a day, Jessi Boseman, and we actually ended up getting married this past November. Ahh man, that's tough, but a few highlights come to mind. I can remember standing on the island on day one right before the game started and Jeff was giving the intro, I was like, "WOW, I made it.

Sitting in Tribal with the immunity necklace is the obvious one, I think it's the only time during the game the paranoia eased up for a second. It was also cool to have my family in N. That was special for me to have them share in the experience. You really gonna make me relive this?

Those damn chicken wings! I could have easily won that competition too, but I was trying to not look like a physical threat and I was so sure Alicia was going home that night. What's something that will blow fans' minds that happened out there in your season but never made it to TV? How many times Jeff cussed Tarzan out for saying "the game is afoot" lol. You're being filmed 24 hours a day, there's so much that happens that never makes it. I think me getting sent home had more of a story to it, but that was left out too.

I think I got a fair edit. I was so worried about coming back to my industry attached to reality TV, thinking it could negatively affect my career, that I played it way too safe. Plus, I was young. I'm going to be calm and consistent when people are breaking down.

I have overcome a lot in life, and who you are is how you play. I'm a winner. Jay Byars started the game on the all-male Manono tribe. He was initially in the Muscle Alliance, along with Matt Quinlan , Bill Posley , and Michael Jefferson who successfully led their tribe to 3 back to back victories, winning one Reward Challenge and two Immunity Challenges. However, this alliance's mistake was isolating themselves with an obvious 4-man alliance in a tribe of 9.

She gave it to Colton who used it to create a 5-man alliance in order to vote out the muscle alliance. When Jay noticed that the power was no longer in his hands, he was forced to change strategies and align with Colton and took part in voting out Matt and Bill from his former alliance despite being against the idea of voting out the latter.

During the tribe switch, Jay was switched to the Salani tribe and since he was in the minority group with a disadvantage; he was forced to create a new alliance with Troyzan Robertson , Kim Spradlin , and Chelsea Meissner , the latter two eventually taking control of their tribe and later on, the merge. This new Salani tribe seemed unbeatable and won 3 straight challenges and were shocked to find out that they were merging with 12 people. This led Jay to question whether it was still Men vs.

Women or Salani vs. The entire Salani tribe agreed that it would have been better off if they kept it Salani vs. Manono, so they targeted the biggest threat from the Manono tribe, Jonas Otsuji. Having speculations on whether the girls' intentions, they targeted Alicia Rosa , who was the biggest female threat from the Manono tribe, but Kim and Sabrina plotted against the men, which confirmed that they had no intention of keeping it Salani vs.

They told Troyzan that Salani member Michael was planting seeds in everyone's head that Troyzan was going to win and that everyone needed to eliminate him as soon as possible, which convinced Jay and Troyzan to vote out another man.

Troyzan had speculations on whether the girls were really on their side, so he and Jay talked to everyone in the Salani tribe and asked them to vote for female Manono member Alicia Rosa to confirm that they were really keeping it Salani vs. All the women confirmed it, but they were really planning to vote out Jay or Troyzan; since Chelsea Meissner won the Immunity Challenge which Jay forfeited for chicken wings and beer , all the women banded together but because Kim was afraid of a Hidden Immunity Idol, she decided to split the votes so that if one would be played, it would still be either Jay or Troyzan going home.

Troyzan actually had a Hidden Immunity Idol and tried to rally the rest of the tribe to vote out Kim minutes before Tribal Council, but Jay felt that he could trust Kim and Chelsea and had actually wanted to vote Troyzan out at some point in the game so he warned Kim about Troyzan's Idol and intentions and proposed that they go along with their plan to vote out Alicia to flush out the Idol then blindside Troyzan at the next Tribal Council.

However, despite Troyzan's attempts to save himself by using his Hidden Immunity Idol to keep himself in the game, it was really Jay who needed it after getting 5 votes from a split vote. At Final Tribal Council , Jay stayed true to his friendship with Kim, giving her his jury vote who would win in a vote over Sabrina and Chelsea.