Janu Tornell
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Janu Tornell (May 9,1965 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American reality show contestant and former Las Vegas showgirl and beauty pageant contestant of Cuban descent.
Janu was born in Las Vegas, the daughter of Juan and Maria Tornell. She attended Valley High School. She then went to Spain, later moving to Los Angeles. She then studied at Los Angeles Valley Community College, before moving back to Las Vegas and pursuing a career as a showgirl.
After twenty years, she finally received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from the University of Nevada.
Pageants
In 1989, Tornell competed at the Miss USA pageant as Miss Nevada USA. She failed to place at the pageant, which was won by Gretchen Polhemus of Texas.The following year she competed in Miami's Nuestra Belleza Internacional pageant, and was 1st runner-up.
Survivor
Janu was the 13th person eliminated from [[Survivor: Palau]]. She was eliminated in Survivor when she voluntarily laid down her torch in a shocking twist, partially to save Stephenie LaGrossa, who was destined for elimination by her tribemates.Tornell created new Survivor records, by becoming:
- The 2nd player to quit at Tribal Council since Survivor's start in 2000
- The 4th person to quit the game since survivor's start in 2000
- The 9th person in Survivor history to be eliminated without being voted off
- The 3rd female player to quit
- The first contestant to quit the game and still be allowed a goodbye speech during the closing credits.
- The first player to quit the game and still be allowed to participate in the jury.
- The first player to be "exiled" from their tribe, and to be left on a separate island for a night.
|width="30%" align="center"|Preceded by:
Coby Archa
|width="40%" align="center"|[[Survivor: Palau|Castaway of Survivor: Palau]]
13th
|width="30%" align="center"|Succeeded by:
'''Stephenie LaGrossa
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| Aras Baskauskas1| Carl Bilancione4 | Danni Boatwright 1 | Chris Daugherty1 | Neleh Dennis 2 | Sandra Diaz-Twine1 | Danielle DiLorenzo2| Paschal English5 | Cirie Fields4 | Katie Gallagher 2 | Brian Heidik1 | Kim Johnson 2 | Clay Jordan 2 | Bruce Kanegai6| Jonathan Libby7 | Jennifer Lyon4 | Jenna Morasca1,3 | Mitchell Olson5| Lindsey Richter5| Wanda Shirk7 | Michael Skupin6 |Twila Tanner2 | Osten Taylor3 | Janu Tornell3 | Vecepia Towery1 | Jeff Varner5 | Matthew Von Ertfelda2 | Tom Westman1 | Kelly Wiglesworth 2 1Won the Game| 2Runner-up | 3Quit | 4Elimination Challenge | 5Eliminated based on Tiebreaker| 6MEDEVACed | 7Never Joined Tribe Note: Some Survivors played twice, and weren't voted out only once. For those Survivors, see [Template]
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