Survivor winner Nick Wilson secures seat in Kentucky legislature

Not each Republican tv character who ran for political workplace throughout Tuesday’s US elections misplaced.

The winner of the TV competitors Survivor: David v Goliath in 2018, Nick Wilson, secured a seat as a Republican in Kentucky’s state home of representatives. Wilson’s path to victory wasn’t notably fraught, as he ran unopposed for a seat that was left empty when the prior officeholder, Regina Huff, retired.

Some viewers could bear in mind Wilson competed on Survivor: David v Goliath, which pitted contestants thought to be underdogs with these labeled overachievers. He emerged on the prime of a subject that included the creator of the HBO present The White Lotus, Mike White.

Wilson appeared once more on Survivor within the present’s Winners of Warfare season in 2020, however he completed seventh.

He’ll signify Laurel county – which has a inhabitants of greater than 60,000 individuals – and his dwelling city, Williamsburg, in Kentucky’s legislative home starting on 1 January.

Wilson graduated from the College of Kentucky and labored as a public defender after acquiring a legislation diploma from the College of Alabama. He has spoken about how he misplaced his mom to drug habit whereas in legislation college, and he mentioned his position as a public defender let him assist these battling the nationwide opioid epidemic.

“That is a matter I’ll all the time maintain near my coronary heart,” Wilson instructed the Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky after declaring his candidacy. “These mountains [in Kentucky] have been onerous hit by it.”

Wilson on Tuesday afternoon issued an announcement describing himself as “grateful to so many for the assist”.

“I’m excited to serve and hope to signify the group nicely,” mentioned the assertion, accompanied by pictures of him and his spouse, Grisel Vilchez, casting their ballots.

Wilson fared higher than one other Republican tv character, the talkshow host Dr Mehmet Oz, who misplaced a Pennsylvania US Senate seat to his Democratic rival, John Fetterman. The Democrats will retain management of the Senate in the event that they win both the unresolved race in Nevada, which had not been referred to as as of Saturday afternoon, or the 6 December runoff in Georgia.