Keeley Jenkinson, the razor-sharp fraud prevention specialist from Brisbane (raised on the Sunshine Coast, QLD), debuts on Australian Survivor: Redemption (Season 12) as a strategic newcomer poised to turn her professional deception-detection skills into game-winning advantages.

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At 30, Keeley joins the 24-player cast premiering February 23, 2026, on Network 10, under new host David Genat in Samoa. In a season themed around redemption—with four returning players—she enters as a calm, calculated social butterfly determined to pull strings from the shadows while others underestimate her.

Keeley has spent over a decade in high-pressure anti-financial crime roles, helping organizations across Australia and the Pacific (including Fiji and Papua New Guinea) combat fraud, money laundering, bribery, and corruption.

Her expertise lies in reading people: spotting natural cues versus deceptive ones, extracting information, and communicating under tension—skills honed in environments studying criminal behavior.

“The more time you spend with someone, the more you begin to learn their natural cues versus when they’re being deceptive or manipulative,” she says in her official bio.

On Survivor, she sees this as her superpower: “In my work life, I have to have the ability to read people, communicate with them and get information out of them.

And in the game of Survivor, people should be scared of that.” Keeley describes herself as “the baddest girl who ever lived,” playing intentionally smart with little interest in moral perfection.

Friends call her big-hearted and calm, yet she’s strategic and adept at reading the room. She doesn’t mind looking unassuming: “Do I look like the person leading the boardroom? No. But am I going to be pulling the strings? Absolutely.”

Initially on the Green Tribe (per cast previews and wiki details), Keeley’s profile highlights her social nature—she loves traveling and is described as a social butterfly who thrives on connections.

Her analytical edge could help her navigate alliances, spot threats early, and avoid being an obvious target in a cast mixing returnees like Brooke Jowett, Simon Mee, Harry Hills, and Mark Warnock with other newcomers and crossovers.

Off the island, Keeley keeps a low-key online presence (no prominent public Instagram tied directly to her Survivor bio in early coverage), focusing on her career and adventures.

As a first-timer, she embodies the season’s fresh energy: underestimation as camouflage, with skills perfectly suited to Survivor’s lies, bluffs, and social warfare.

Keeley Jenkinson’s entry brings a unique blend of corporate intrigue and quiet confidence to Australian Survivor: Redemption. Whether her fraud-busting instincts lead to a dominant alliance or an early blindside remains to unfold in Samoa.