Survivor: Philippines is the twenty-fifth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor. The contestants include 15 new players to the game and three returning players, who were previously removed from their earlier seasons due to injuries. Notable new contestants this season include The Facts of Life star Lisa Whelchel and former Major League Baseball player Jeff Kent. The fifteen new castaways were split into three tribes and then introduced to their final tribe members, three returning castaways that had been medically evacuated from their previous seasons: Michael Skupin was assigned to Tandang, Jonathan Penner to Kalabaw, and Russell Swan to Matsing.