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Who Went Home on ‘Survivor’ Tonight? Season 31 Spoilers!
It will be interesting how the Angkor tribe will deal with Abi-Maria’s drama in the next episode. Perhaps there was a certain inevitability to the velocity of Varner’s exit, given the way his game began. “I was not in control”.
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Jeff Varner: No, I don’t think so. “I cried a lot on camera”, he reveals.
Varner: No I don’t think it was unfair. You’re usually on the chopping block at the end.
“I did that entire experience by my gut”, he continues.
It’s a comedy of errors with Keith unable to hear directions, Terry wandering around waiting for someone to tell him where to go, and people dropping heavy puzzle pieces on each other. And for Andrew and Tasha, they really had no social game. I mean, you’re screwed without even unpacking. And it was a terrible situation at a frightful beach and I hated every minute of being on that beach. My head had to catch up later. The guy is good at talking. And that’s the opposite of the game I respect. He did not have an answer at the time. I’m an emotional person. Once it started rolling, it just started coming out of me.
Everyone entering Second Chance came with their forms of baggage.
Jeremy is running the challenge for Bayon, Terry for Ta Keo, and Andrew for Angkor.
When he wins in a come-from-behind victory, I start to cry. Kimmi is calling for Bayon, but it seems her tribe is having trouble hearing her. Kass is calling for Ta Keo, and Jeff Varner is calling for Angkor.
Varner: No. The TV is going to go to where the action is. When you tell me the fans love me, it really, truly brings it all full-circle to me. And I’m proud of the fact that I’m the only one who put it out there. To me, Survivor is ultimately a social game.
Second Chance’s Angkor tribe snuffed Jeff Varner’s torch during Season 31’s fourth episode Wednesday night on CBS.
What was Jeff trying to tell Kelly Wiglesworth after that challenge? I was without the injury, you know?
Woo and Jeff Varner vote for each other. But everybody knows each other. You may not have been pre-gaming, but you know what? But pre-gaming has been going on since early, early, early on. “It’s just the way it is”.
Speaking of the other tribes, life is laid back at Ta Keo. What can you tell me about that? And not only just being on that beach, but being with a couple of those people (laughs). So you can choose to participate or not, but I chose to participate. They go off and leave me. She would just beam and smile. She’s going to need a bit more convincing.
– I wish they read Tash’s amusing vote on the earth. He says he will remain her loyal ally for the rest of eternity, but it’s not enough. I sort of facilitated that. Do you want to see a rat? Tasha tries to talk to Abi and it goes as well as you’d expect it to. I have a brilliant idea. She works through her demons far away from her tribe and will not let anyone see her crack. She was a shield. All you got to do is drop her name and everyone is happy to vote that way.
It worked beautifully – until it got ugly. This is Survivor Second Chances after all.
At first, things were not so bleak.
From there, we saw the Rewards challenge footage. That could have been any one of us, any six of us could have drawn that yellow buff. “It was four against two”.
Woo talks to Abi and butters her up, telling her that she’s the one in power. “I’m thinking, ‘We’re good!'” His tribe desperately needs food and a morale boost. “The show’s making it look like Andrew’s the boss, but Tasha ran everything”. Woo campaigns on physical strength to help win challenges, and he claims he will be loyal to Abi from now on. The point is, he was not a fan. We’ll never know unfortunately. I’m dragging my foot. I love her and she drives me insane. Do you have any regrets about any move?
So, I had to pretend to go with her for a little while. There were things that if I could go back and do again I may approach differently, but I don’t review anything as a regret. “He can’t keep his mouth shut'”.
Varner: I love that, thank you for that. Andrew Savage says they’re stuck in “Survivor Hell”. “I said, ‘I’m open to working with you”. I mean, who knows, you know? Let’s see Angkor get a few food in their bellies tonight.
That was the first problem. He knows he’s indebted to Andrew Savage and Tasha now, which makes him sick, but he’s going to do what he has to do to stick around.
Tom Santilli: Your whole meltdown after that Immunity Challenge…I got the vibe that they didn’t really show everything that went down there. Tasha’s plan works, and Varner is voted out. I was going to blow the whole thing up, but then Abi switched and went with Tasha and it threw a wrench in the mix.
Jeff Probst, the executive producer and host of the show, teased fans that there will be a “hero” challenge in the next episode, and viewers are excited to see the survivors battle it out to win a reward for their tribe. It was clear to me. I was pandering and playing but I was also honest. I know it’s a little toe, but when it’s shot it effects everything.
The immunity challenge was one of those blindfolded challenges where one tribe member calls out directives to their teammates. My toe was black. I lost my toenail last week. I was on crutches for two-and-a-half weeks after it was over with.
Varner: No. No. They made the wrong decision. I can’t let them down. “It was bad”, he says. So for them, probably, but who knows.
Of course Abi was a big part of your game. And it was. I felt like I had never played this game when I played it this time. Abi was pretty entertaining to me. Abi said she had been reflecting on who to vote off because Varner had helped her in the game, but Woo was winning challenges.
“I didn’t even think about it”, he says. I was going to tell everybody everything. It just wasn’t something I was going to do. “I had your back, so what’s the beef?”
But there’s no turning back the clock. And I looked at her like what are you doing? I got zero votes that night because of my hustle. I wouldn’t change a thing. I don’t quite know what they are, but I have this momentum and this energy that’s pushing me forward. That’s the beauty of being on a quest. Survivor is a pure game when nobody knows each other, but when you do know each other, it’s not.
Do you sense that people nearly forgot about how hard you played?
So who’s going home? Although I am a little sad for him that once again, he’s missed the merge. And if it hadn’t of been for that element, I’m not sure I would have played as hard as I did. You’d get the same person, I’m sure. But strategically, had they kept me, it would have been a very different game and things would have happened differently. Absolutely, I’d do it in two seconds.
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The mysterious, mischievous Varner, just like his quest, soldiers on.