Nominated for 43 Emmys, HBO’s The White Lotus returns for it’s third season in 2025. Season 3 has an all-new cast, though one character from Season 1 returns, similarly to how one character from Season 1 took on a much larger role in Season 2.

The ensemble cast includes Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Lek Patravadi, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong, Aimee Lou Wood. Additional cast include Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Christian Friedel, Scott Glenn, Dom Hetrakul, Julian Kostov, Charlotte Le Bon, Morgana O’Reilly, and Shalini Peiris. This season will take place in Thailand.

With Kpop superstars, icons like Leslie Bibb (Popular), Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) and Parker Posey (Josie And The Pussy Cats) headed to the luxurious resort for the upcoming season I of course, spent half the trailer looking for who from Survivor would make a cameo. If you didn’t know, Mike White, runner-up on Survivor David vs Goliath is the creator of the hit HBO series The White Lotus.

After White brought on one of his former Survivor castmates in the first season, he soon promised more castaways would join the show. To the delight of fans of the CBS reality series, White has delivered. Here are all of the Survivor castaways who have made cameos on The White Lotus — so far.

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Alec Merlino

Merlino was in White’s original Goliath tribe on Survivor before becoming the fourth jury member when he was voted out on day 28. Merlino appeared in five episodes of The White Lotus‘ first season, playing a bartender named Hutch.

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Angelina Keeley

Keeley finished third on White’s season, losing out in the final vote to both Wilson and White. Like Merlino, she was also on White’s original tribe, but her stay at The White Lotus was short-lived. Keeley appeared alongside Kara Kay in the opening scene of season 2, where they play a pair of friendly beachgoers. Keeley had never acted prior to The White Lotus, and recalled a funny moment over brunch where White told her and Kay that they would have a guest appearance.

“I was a little frazzled; I was running late,” Keeley told Variety. “As I sat down, he goes, ‘I’m putting you two in White Lotus.’ I was like, ‘Oh, that’s funny, let’s get some mimosas and lattes.’ Why would he let us goofballs anywhere near his set? Mike was front row to some of the worst acting moments of my life on Survivor: jacketgate and the fake idol.”

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Kara Kay

Kay, the final jury member and fourth-place finisher on Survivor: David vs. Goliath, was surprised to learn she and Keeley would have speaking roles on the show.

“I was like, Maybe we’re in the background, waving, drinking some cocktails,” she recalled to Variety. “Then we got a draft of the script and realized, oh we have lines, we’re going to say something. We’re going to be acting.”

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Natalie Cole

With shooting for season 3 of The White Lotus just underway in early 2024, we don’t know yet exactly what Cole’s role will be on the show. The fourth player voted out of White’s Survivor season, Cole will appear on the season, along with fellow castaway Carl Boudreaux, according to Evan Ross Katz.

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Carl Boudreaux

Boudreaux is the sole Survivor: David vs. Goliath player confirmed to appear on The White Lotus who was not on White’s original tribe. The 10th player voted out and the fifth jury member played with White for 10 days after the merge. Like Cole, we do not know yet what his role will be on The White Lotus.