Kimmel doesn't survive tribal voting

Kalispell's favorite player finishes close second on 'Survivor: Micronesia'

The Daily Inter Lake

The second time did not prove the charm for Amanda Kimmel.

The former Kalispell resident came in second on CBS' "Survivor" on Sunday evening - losing by a 5-3 vote.

The 23-year-old aspiring designer won the final two immunity challenges on Sunday's episode to watch her competition shrink from three to two to one - her closest ally, Parvati Shallow, who then beat her in the final vote.

Kimmel showed the strain of competition in Sunday's broadcast - her voice quavering after the producers unexpectedly told the final three they would have to compete again to trim the field to two.

"It's like: 'When is it going to end?'" Kimmel said in an on-camera interview on her 38th day of the 39-day contest.

Kimmel earlier told the camera: "I'm at my breaking point right now. I feel I've been doing this forever. I came straight from China to here, and I'm losing it."

She came in third in the "Survivor" contest in China. Soon after she left China, Kimmel was asked by the producers to compete again with 19 other players in Micronesia.

On Sunday's broadcast, Kimmel sucked it up to turn in a strong plea for her case to win $1 million before eight players whom she and Shallow helped to vote out. Those same eight chose who would win.

She earlier blamed her third-place finish in China for a tired, unfocused plea to the jury, which had three finalists to choose from last year.

One of the eight voting players for Sunday's broadcast - Ozzy Lusth, a 26-year-old photographer from Venice, Calif. - started a relationship with Kimmel during the competition.

On Sunday's broadcast just before the final vote, Lusth told Kimmel: "I'm having feelings I've never felt before. I feel like I'm starting to fall in love with you."