And the Survivor Redemption Island winner is Boston Rob Mariano. He beat Phillip Sheppard and Natalie Tenerelli on Sunday night’s finale

In an in a phone interview to the Associated Press, Mariano said “You don’t know for sure until the votes are read, but I had a pretty good feeling. I played my heart out. I love this game, but you’ve got to get lucky along the way, too. I know what it takes. It’s really, really difficult. I’m really, really happy things happened the way they did this time.”