SOUTH PORTLAND — Dan Foley of Gorham is moving steadily, week by week, toward $1 million and a longtime dream.
The 48-year-old postal worker survived the seventh episode of “Survivor” on Wednesday night. He’s now one of 11 people left on this season of the hit reality show.
Foley watched Wednesday’s episode with about 200 fans and friends at Thatcher’s Restaurant & Sports Pub in South Portland. He’s been on the CBS reality show since the current season began Feb. 25, with 18 contestants.
Being on “Survivor” has been a long-time passion of Foley’s. Since 2000 he had applied more than 100 times and logged thousands of miles driving to auditions.
Wednesday’s episode began with the two competing tribes merging into one group. Immediately, competitors were seen on screen plotting to vote off Foley and the others who had originally been in the “blue collar” tribe together.
They were seen as a threat because they had always voted together at tribal councils, where someone gets voted off each week.
But when it came time for the tribe to vote, Foley’s voting block of “blue collar” competitors stayed together, and he survived for another week.
This season of “Survivor” was filmed in Nicaragua over 39 days in August and September.
The next episode of “Survivor” will air April 8 at 8 p.m. The finale will be May 20.
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