Varner is most known for infamously publicly outing fellow Survivor: Game Changers contestant Zeke Smith as transgender.
He played right defense for a team in the local youth ice hockey league, and earned his black belt in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 15.
It was revealed on the Survivor: Australia DVD, in the special commentary section, that it was Kimmi Kappenberg that inadvertently gave away the vote he had against him during the Episode Two Reward Challenge.
The castaways colored in the books and signed their autographs in it, and after the show, he sold the pictures on eBay to raise money for charities.
As a result, Varner began to panic and decided to turn on one of his own allies, ultimately voting with the majority to send Law home on Day Nine.
At Mana's second Tribal Council, he joined the majority in voting out Survivor: Cagayan winner Tony Vlachos.
Varner, along with Sandra Diaz-Twine, Malcolm Freberg, Aubry Bracco, and Michaela Bradshaw were then switched to Nuku.
Varner and Diaz-Twine remained on Nuku after the second tribe switch, but were excluded from the alliance of new members Ozzy Lusth, Andrea Boehlke, Tai Trang, Sarah Lacina and Zeke Smith.
In the end, Probst asked the rest of the tribe if they are set on voting out Varner, and they said yes, thus sending him out of the game without the usual written-vote style of elimination.
He was part of the first team in the corporate world to utilize the internet to communicate project information in Citicorp's "Product Design and Development Division.