The Survivor community is in mourning.

Sonja Christopher, who in 2000 turned the first person to be voted off the demonstrate, has died, according to Deadline and more retailers. She was 87.

The death of the ukelele-enjoying contestant of the 1st year of the CBS reality competitors show, Survivor: Borneo, was announced publicly by Liz Wilcox, who stars in the now airing 46th period.

“These days, the legend herself Sonja Christopher of Period A single passed absent,” she wrote on X April six, along with a screenshot of a FaceTime conversation with the late contestant. who is holding her signature ukelele. “I skilled the pleasure of conference her on Christmas. She skilled so substantially spunk + seriously like for Survivor and what the show introduced to her life. I hope you take place to be singing + taking component in your heart out someplace stunning, Sonja.”

Liz added in however a different publish, “No flowers, but donations may possibly effectively be despatched to Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church (Walnut Creek, CA), the Most cancers Enable Neighborhood of the San Francisco Bay Place, or the Sjogren’s Basis.”

The trigger of Sonja’s loss of life was not manufactured neighborhood.