Stephenie LaGrossa

In 2004, LaGrossa was selected for Survivor: Palau, the tenth overall season of Survivor. The season aired in Spring 2005. At the beginning of the game, LaGrossa made an alliance with Katie Gallagher, Tom Westman, and Ian Rosenberger. When the tribes were picked, LaGrossa ended up on Ulong, while Gallagher, Westman, and Rosenberger were put on Koror, thus alienating LaGrossa from her initial alliance. After Ulong lost every single immunity challenge, she and Bobby Jon Drinkard, the only two Ulongs remaining, competed in a fire-making challenge at Tribal Council, with the loser being eliminated from the game. LaGrossa won and returned to her camp alone. The following day, she was instructed to go to the Koror camp as she was joining their tribe (an unofficial merge). She survived the first vote with her new tribe, when Coby Archa was voted out. However, at the next Tribal Council, the tribe was torn between voting out her or Janu Tornell. But before the vote took place, Tornell quit the game, thus saving LaGrossa from elimination. Before the following Tribal Council, LaGrossa tried to pull all the girls into an alliance, but despite strong lobbying, she was unanimously voted out. As a member of the jury, she voted for Westman to win.

In one of the bigger twists at the start of Survivor: Guatemala, the 11th season of Survivor, LaGrossa and Bobby Jon Drinkard returned as players to the game, thus making them the second and third contestants in Survivor history to compete in back-to-back seasons (after Rupert Boneham). LaGrossa's gameplay this time was the opposite of her performance in Palau. She played a more cutthroat game, and made it to the Final Three along with Rafe Judkins and Danni Boatwright.

In the Final Three, Boatwright had won immunity during the final challenge, and chose to take LaGrossa instead of Judkins to the final vote. Boatwright's decision worked out well for her, as she beat LaGrossa by a 6–1 vote at the Final Tribal Council.

LaGrossa returned for a third appearance in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, the 20th season of the show. She was a member of the Heroes tribe but was labeled kryptonite by fellow cast member James Clement, who stated that whatever tribe she was on would be destined to fail, due to her poor performances in immunity challenges. Her alliance included Tom Westman and Colby Donaldson, but they were forced into the minority by the other contestants (including Clement) who all had a pre-existing alliance dating back to Survivor: Micronesia, as well as several ties from outside the game. In the second episode, she was eliminated 6–3 despite an effort to target Amanda Kimmel.