Where Is Shay Williamson Now? After Winning Alone Australia Season 3

Spoiler note: this covers who won Alone Australia season 3.

Shay Williamson won Alone Australia season 3 by surviving 76 days in the West Coast Range of lutruwita/Tasmania, the longest duration of any completed season in the franchise at that point, according to our season 3 guide. He's a professional possum trapper from Whakatāne, New Zealand, who has worked off the land since he was 16, and it showed in how he fed himself out there, mainly eels, fish, plants, and worms, with a pademelon catch around day 67 proving decisive late in the game.

Medical staff flagged concerns over his weight loss during the season but cleared him to keep going. He ended up winning the $250,000 prize when runner-up Murray "Muzza" James was medically evacuated for low blood pressure shortly after Williamson's own close call. His wife Abby surprised him at his campsite to deliver the news that he'd won, which is one of the more genuinely emotional reveal moments the format has produced.

Life since the show

As of mid-2026, Williamson is back home in New Zealand with his family. He and his wife Abby have two young daughters and have spoken publicly about expecting a third child. He has talked about using the prize money to pay down his mortgage, describing it as a significant weight off his shoulders rather than a windfall to be spent extravagantly.

He has continued the bushcraft and outdoor living lifestyle that got him cast on the show in the first place, and by his own accounts he headed straight back into the New Zealand wilderness after filming wrapped, just no longer alone.

Why his win landed the way it did

Williamson's edit throughout the season leaned heavily on his connection to trapping and land-based skills passed down through his life rather than raw gear optimization, and his 76-day run backs that up. Fishing and small catches sustained him for most of the season, with the pademelon catch near day 67 giving him the caloric boost to hold on through the final stretch against Muzza James, who was himself closing in on 73 days before his medical evacuation.

For a season with this much attrition, both finalists pushing well past the 70-day mark, the story of who actually wins often comes down to who avoids a medical stoppage in the final days, and Williamson's trapping background gave him just enough of an edge in food reliability to be the one still standing.

If you want the rest of the field and how each contestant's run ended, the aus season 3 guide has the full placement list, and our general winners roundup covers how his story compares to other champions across the franchise.