Twenty-six year old Oscar "Ozzy" Lusth from Venice, California was born on August 23, 1981 in Guanajuato, Mexico. A couple of years after he was born, his parents divorced and he moved with his mother to Durham, North Carolina, where his mother eventually remarried and had two more children. His father, on the other hand, also built a new family in Mexico.
During his teen years, Ozzy moved from state to state with his mother, who eventually divorced and remarried for the third time. They settled in Mountain View, California, where Ozzy learned to surf. While in high school, he immersed himself in acting and photography. Upon graduating high school, he moved to Santa Barbara and attended two years of college at Santa Barbara City College before moving to the Los Angeles area.
Currently, Ozzy is working as a freelance photographer and writer. Aside from the arts, he also enjoys athletic activities such as big wave surfing, skateboarding, sailing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, gymnastics and motorcycle riding. He bought land in Panama and enjoys spearfishing there. A highly athletic person, he can dive up to 30 feet and can hold his breath under water for three minutes. Also a skilled handyman, he is able to build traps, forts, shelter and can survive in the wilderness on his own. In fact, he spent the summer of 2005 camping from Panama to San Diego in the span of five months. Aside from his athletics, Ozzy also immersed himself into developing a non-profit organization to build skate parks in Mexico.
In 2006, Ozzy became a castaway on season 13 of Survivor: Cool Islands. On Cook Islands, the teams were divided by race, and Ozzy was originally part of the Aitutaki tribe, which was the Hispanic American tribe. Allegedly, he was one of the greatest physical competitors in the history of Survivor, having won five personal immunity challenges and one personal reward challenge. He was the runner-up who lost in a close vote to winner Yul Kwon. Ozzy returns to reality television as one of the Survivor favorites competing against ten fans on its sixteenth installment, Survivor: Micronesia – Fans vs. Favorites.
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