Joey Gladstone

Joey Gladstone is a contestant from.

Joey has the distinction of being the first person ever voted off from the American Survivor franchise.

Profile
Retrieved from CBS.com

Joey was born and raised in San Francisco, California and has resided there ever since. After he graduated high school at 18 he very quickly began discovering his talents. At the age of 21 he performed his first stand-up comedy gig and soon developed a talent for impressions. Performing at several children's parties and comedy clubs, he recieved several notable reviews from critics regarding his performances. Then, a few years after his comedy debut he recieved his biggest job, performing comedy on a cruise line which gave him the opportunity to travel to various other countries around the world, a job which he treausres to this day. Now he's settled back in to his old life and began working with a friend of his to produce comedic jingles which he sells to advertising companies. To this day he's produced several pieces that have been shown worldwide.

Joey describes himself as courageous, open and fun-loving. He also says he's open to whatever life or survivor has to throw at him and will try anything once. In describing his perfect day, Joey would wake up late and have brunch with his family. Then he'd spend some time with his nieces for a while and do a few impressions to make them laugh. After this he'd head out for the day and run some errands, making sure to stop for a hot dog or burger. Then he'd hit the late night comedy circuit and either perform or watch an up-and-coming performer because if he's not laughing, he wants to make people laugh.

Joey currently still resides in San Francisco, California, living withing walking distance to his closest friends. He says that competing in Survivor is all about the experience for him and can't wait to get started.

Survivor
Joey was placed on the Tagi tribe at the beginning. To bring up tribe spirits, he told jokes and did impressions which his tribemates enjoyed. However after the first day, he began slacking when it came to work around camp and after a poor performance in the first immunity challenge he was targeted for the first boot.

Despite trying to shift focus on to Shandy, Joey's naivety caused him to be voted off first, in a unanimous vote.

Post-Survivor

 * Joey performed on a celebrity telethon raising money for charity in 2001.

Trivia

 * Joey's luxury item was a ventriloquist dummy.
 * Joey is the first ever Survivor contestant to be voted out.
 * He also is the first Survivor contestant to be unanimously voted out of his tribe.
 * Joey won $2,500 for his time on Borneo.