Lee-Anne

Surname: van Renen
Age: 33
Occupation: Life coach, Mrs Cape Town 2018
From: Durbanville, Cape Town

Mother of two, Lee-Anne van Renen, interrupted her duties as reigning Mrs Cape Town 2018 to prove her resilience onSurvivor SA and tear up stereotypical beauty queen labels. She’s married to the bassist of the band Taxi Violence, holds an honours degree in Psychology, obtained five distinctions in matric, captained the KZN action netball team, counsels drug addicts and traumatised teens, and has survived several personal tragedies, including a cancer scare and double miscarriage. Even though she may come across as sweet and kind-hearted – and she is – she has a spirit of steel. A mere month after the trauma of losing her twins, she completed the 947 cycle race. Lee-Anne pours her heart into NGOs to make a difference and says she enteredSurvivor SA not only to win, “but also to step into the shoes of those who have absolutely nothing; no bed, no food, no warmth, no shelter”

Lovely life-coach Lee-Anne is the first to leave Survivor SA: Island of Secrets

After a slew of shenanigans and a most-unusual Tribal Council, Lee-Anne van Renen, Mrs Cape Town 2018, had her torch and her hopes extinguished in one fell swoop in the first episode of Survivor South Africa: Island of Secrets.

It proved again that there is no such thing as a “winning formula” in Survivor. In the previous season, Survivor SA: Philippines, the first castaway to get the boot was deemed to be too fast out of the blocks. In Samoa, Lee-Anne chose a slower approach, which was then used against her when tribe Sa’ula lost the first immunity challenge and was sent to Tribal Council.