Lex van den Berghe was Africa's tattooed strategic engine — a marketing director who ran the dominant Boran alliance with a mix of loyalty and menace that earned him an early 'supervillain' reputation. He won three individual immunities, the most of anyone that season.
His fatal flaw was emotion: feeling betrayed, he engineered the blindside of his own ally Kelly Goldsmith, and his hard-line loyalty tests made enemies. He dropped from the final immunity challenge with stomach pains and was voted out third — then returned for All-Stars.
