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Heather is a character on Total Drama Island, voiced by Rachel Wilson.

Contents 1 Basic Information 2 Character History 3 Trivia 4 Quotes

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Heather is a member of the Screaming Gophers team on the show, and she claimed leadership of the team from early on. She auditioned for the show in hopes of using it as a training ground for her long-term goal, in her words, "of ruling Europe", and she becomes determined to win the competition by any means necessary.

Heather comes from a well-to-do background; as seen in her audition tape for the show, she emerges from pampering herself in the shower in a fancy bathroom while discussing why she wants to be a contestant on TDI. Although she is quite pretty and she fancies herself as popular, Heather also posesses a very unpleasant personality. She is stuck-up and snobby and is often mean-spirited, bossy and bitchy to teammates and opponents alike, and she does not hesitate to use and take advantage of other campers for personal gain (including pretending to befriend those she chooses, such as Lindsay and Beth, then dumping them when they serve no further purpose to her). Heather also harbors a jealous streak toward Gwen, whom she personally regards as a threat to her in the game and therefore targets for retribution in various ways, including stealing and publicly reading Gwen's diary during a talent competiton (exposing Gwen's crush on Trent in the process) and later plotting to break up Gwen and Trent through nefarious means.

Heather makes her way through the show, winning challenges and thus often gaining immunity from elimination from the game, through cheating, sabotage, manipulation and deceit. She achieves this, for example, by bribing some of her fellow Gophers into voting Justin off the show, and she later gets Trent eliminated by turning him and Gwen against each other, then kissing Trent and getting him voted off the show by the other campers while avoiding elimination herself due to winning immunity. Late in the competition, Heather becomes hated by all the other contestants on the show because of her unscrupulous ways and manipulative behavior, so much so that all of them want to vote her out of the game—but Heather manages to dodge yet another bullet when, through an act of chicanery to keep the conflict going, show host Chris Maclean tricks the eliminated contestants into voting off Leshawna instead.

Heather does not always get away with her dirty deeds, however. She sometimes ends up paying for her actions through acts of karma, such as when she accidentally loses her top while trying to sabotage Harold during a jet ski race. As Heather also quickly discovers, Leshawna is one of the few contestants who not only refuses to be intimidated by the snobby girl and will stand up to her, she is also the only camper who will get physical against Heather and make her pay for her evil ways when the situation calls for it, like chasing Heather into the woods for her accidental flashing of Harold and getting him voted off because of it.

Heather becomes the 23rd contestant to be eliminated from the competiton when her vanity proves to be her undoing as she accidentally gets her head shaved while attempting to refuse a dare she draws from the vengeful Lindsay, resulting in her automatic ejection from the game due to a pre-challenge stipulation laid out by Chris. She returns with all the other eliminated campers for the final showdown between Gwen and Owen and vindictively causes Gwen to lose by cheating for Owen against her; this earns her some payback from Leshawna when she grabs Heather and throws her into the Confessional Can (which had earlier been visited by Owen, who came down with an attack of diarrhea caused by a prank of Heather's against Gwen gone awry).

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• Heather's name in the show's French-language version, L'île des Défis Extrêmes, is Marilou
• She is one of just three characters (along with Gwen and Owen) to appear in all 26 episodes of TDI's first season

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