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Before the season started, you were looking forward to being on an island as opposed to being inland. Man, was I wrong! It was a million times harder. The rain is just unrelenting. On TV, they will show it raining for two minutes and from being out there, it will rain for five days straight. The hardest part is being out there for the first week and unfortunately I didn't get to stay out for much longer than that. But once you're there a week or 10 days, you are on auto-pilot and you can put up with it forever.
Were the Villains as unorganized around camp as we've seen depicted?It was a mess, but it was also exaggerated. There were a lot of doing work. Instead of naming the doing work, I'll name the three that weren't, and they were the three in bikinis!
It seemed were forming a consensus to vote Parvati out. Why didn't it happen?We were, and when I say 'we,' I mean Coach, Jerri and I, probably some others, wanted Parvati gone. There was two problems for me and that's Sandra and Russell. Sandra wanted Parvati to stay because she was another million-dollar winner, and that was protection for Sandra, and Russell wanted her there for obvious reasons -- he made a deal with her on Day 1. But I was pretty pleased with the way I was depicted and the things I said. There's a lot of from China and Micronesia. We knew that going into the game and didn't take me seriously. We'll have to see how that plays out.
Yet you put Boston Rob's name down instead of Parvati's. From watching him in the first three episodes, I'm so glad I voted for him. I blame him for my demise. He has claimed to be on the buffoon tribe three times playing Survivor but he's the common denominator!
Was it a disadvantage not knowing Russell's game before starting this season?What do you think? Yeah, if we had seen 15 minutes of the first episode with him pouring out water from the canteen and burning 's socks, you would be talking to him right now instead of me! There's two kinds of villains. There's both an honorable villain and then there's the kind that's not honorable, and by that, you know, Boston Rob and Russell screw their best friends. Coach and myself, we're snarky and we tell the truth, but we're loyal.
Why were you matched up with James at the push-off challenge?I was never going to beat James at that challenge. I know that and he knows that and the world knows that. That was intentional on my part and my tribe's part. We knew that no one on our tribe was going to have a chance against James. To give the Villains a better chance of winning, we decided and I decided that I will take one for the team and lose to James.
Would you play a third time?I would do it a third time if it wasn't on TV and there was no host. Things like burying the machete and stuff like that are simply done for airtime. I don't agree with that style of play. I am going to have to rewatch Borneo or Australia to remind myself why I used to love this game and show because it's become a little crazy!
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