By Andy Sloan

 

After 27 days on the islands of Nicaragua, Jenn Brown finally got her wish, becoming Survivor's 10th casualty in the show's milestone season. After an explosive episode of drama, personal attacks and the introduction of a brand new advantage, Jenn's exit was the final act of a show to remember. She talks game and gives her opinion on Will's controversial arguments.

And if you haven't been following Jenn on twitter, check her out @jenncantdance

 

Hey Jenn!

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Hey Andy! What's up?

 

Nothing much. I'm actually creepily scrolling through your twitter right now. How was your night last night? NOTE: Jenn tweeted "I think we tried to steal a taxidermy squirrel that was mounted on the bar last night

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Oh god. Ha. ha. I had a good time last night. Just a normal Wednesday night.

 

Alright, well I brought this up because Shirin tweeted "What we're doing to avoid tonight's episode" with attached pictures of tattoos. Why were you avoiding the episode?

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Well, I'm on the west coast, as is Shirin and a couple of Survivors. It airs at 5pm our time on the east coast. Sometimes I forget that it's Wednesday, but then my phone blows up at around 5 because it's all the east coast people coming in on twitter, on instagram, on everything. This episode was a very heavy episode with a lot of hate. It was also my exit episode. Sometimes it's just too much. I don't want to see everyone on the internet right then telling me I'm a piece of sh*t, you know?

 

Sometimes you just have to say, "We're avoiding this. See you in a couple of hours." You have your phone on you all the time, right there, in your face. It's nice to take a little break and avoid the negativity for a little bit.

 

Two weeks ago I talked to Hali and she said the following, "If you want to be good in my book, just be who you are. Do you." She then went on to say that some people were not themselves both on and off the show. Can you give me your opinion on people not being true to themselves on the show?

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Ya absolutely! A lot of people were not the people that I know them to be today. But a lot of people were themselves. I thought that I played pretty much how I am as a person. I've been asked "hey do you think you were portrayed how you actually are?" I respond yeah pretty much, that's me.

 

But there were some people that would play it up a little for the camera and then some people that would play it down. The Tyler you see out there is not the Tyler I know now. Tyler talks a lot, but you never see him talking on the show. It's fun to see the edits though!

 

Did being a No Collar affect how you played the game at all? Is there anything we didn't see?

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Well in the last episode it showed a little bit too much of me quitting, but it might have been a little strategic on my part! It was not just me being like I QUIT. That kind of bums me out a little but it wasn't bad. I don't think I've had a bad edit at all. I'm fine with it! It's just a TV show, it's not that big of a deal.

 

What was the strategy of you saying you wanted to go home?

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Myself, Shirin and Hali, when she was around, tried to get Dan, Sierra or anyone really to come with us. We'd try every route that was possible, but it just wasn't possible. This was my last ditch effort at staying in the game, by telling them I don't want to be there.

 

Although it was kind of true because I didn't want to be around terrible people all the time, I didn't want to leave the game. I liked the game and playing challenges. But generally if you tell someone you don't want to be there, than there not going to vote you out. They want to take someone like that to the end with them.

 

That was my strategy for an episode, to play by not playing. It didn't work out, but it lasted me another episode

 

What happened last night? Why did they vote out you instead of Shirin?

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Well I told them to vote me, that's why. I told Shirin and Mike to vote for me to save Shirin.

 

Lets go back a little bit. After the merge it took a while for you to realize when Will flipped. When did you actually figure it out?

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I actually feel stupid for this, but we didn't know Will had flipped until Joe left. We had suspicions after Hali left, but it was right around Joe leaving that we were like "OH MY GOD, WILL FLIPPED!" We then realized we were on a sinking ship and that we were all going to get voted out. Which Joe and I did!

 

A lot happened last night. While we're on the topic of Will, what's your opinion on his treatment of Shirin?

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I thought it was unacceptable and disgusting. Everyone says there's not a line but that's not true. There is a line when you take people's personal stories that they've opened up about to you, and use it against them in a malicious manner for no real reason. I just couldn't believe it happened and I felt horrible. I felt completely different about Will after that night.

 

You were there on the island and you experienced the lack of action from some of the remaining players. Shirin called everyone out at tribal council for just sitting there and watching her like it's entertainment. Why wasn't anyone saying anything? Was it strategy?

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I honestly don't know why no one said anything. I was not there when it happened so I can't give my two cents on why I didn't do anything. But Mike did step in. I know since then some of them have apologized. Sierra apologized to Shirin for not stepping in or helping at all, but at the time I don't know.

 

Going into tribal, why couldn't you get Dan or Sierra to flip sides?

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Sierra has a logical excuse, Dan does not. Sierra said that the people she was with at the time were much less likable than me, Shirin and Mike. If she went to the final tribal council with them she'd have a better chance at winning against us. That was her excuse and I'm like it makes sense, alright! I can't hurt you with that.

 

Dan, so many times, oh god so many times, we told him he was on the bottom of 6. We told him he could be at the bottom of 4. 4th place is better than 6th place, why don't you give it a shot? But he says FLIPPERS NEVER WIN. He would rather take 6th place than 4th and flip. So I was like okay Dan, everyone who has won has flipped at some point, so you are very crazy. There was just no logic there. It didn't make any sense to me.

 

The edit shows he was thinking about flipping, but there was no chance he was ever, ever, ever going to come with us and we knew that. We knew going into tribal that I was going home. It wasn't even a question.

 

Lets just switch gears for a second and talk about Joe. On the island you guys connected right off the bat. If you won the third individual immunity challenge, were you really going to give up the immunity necklace if you won?

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Yes. Absolutely. 100%. Joe was the biggest target and I wanted to see what would happen if they had given it to him. Would they have voted out me? Shirin? Mike? I think they would've voted out Mike because he was the next big threat and Rodney already had it on his mind. Also I just kind of like to screw with people. I think it'd be fun to keep the person they want gone around longer. But mainly he was just one of my friends and I didn't want to see him leave.

 

Real talk Jenn. What's your relationship with Joe right now?

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I love Joe so much. He's one of the best people.

 

You had a lot of great moments on the island, what was your favorite one?

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The feeling of seeing my name come up a bunch when I played my hidden immunity idol. When I saw Hali's name, I was like Oh My God I played it for the wrong person. But then I saw my name again and again. I got so ecstatic that it worked. I'm stoked, Hali's stoked, Shirin's stoked, Joe's stoked. It felt so good to know that my plan had worked and I did something right.

 

Even though I got a lot of heat from people saying, "You gloated. You rubbed it in their face." and all this stuff. I'm like dude, I wasn't trying to rub it in their face. I was legitimately excited! Nothing else mattered at that point. Even though I'm still on the bottom, that was a great moment and I didn't care if other people thought I was rubbing it in their face.

 

At least I didn't have to go on the loser's trip to Costa Rica.

 

Well It was a great moment to watch! Why did you decide to go after Kelly though?

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Oh god I don't know. We ask ourselves that everyday. Why did we vote out Kelly? We should've honestly voted out Mike. I do not know why we voted out Kelly. It makes zero sense. She was not a strategic or challenge threat. I don't know, I can't tell you.

 

Taking that situation out of the equation, out of your whole experience, what would you change?

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For some reason I'm wondering what if the host was Jared Leto? But no! I would like more water challenges. I know we couldn't really do it in Nicaragua, but water challenges are the best. I'm actually good at those. I wanted to dive underwater and break open a bottle in a pirate's chest. But we just couldn't do those.

 

I also wish I would've let the chicken go in a more hidden area so they didn't find it.

 

Last question! If you could go back again, would you? And would you play any differently?

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I would definitely go back again! I will not say how I'd play because what if I play with someone who sees this?! Strategy man, strategy!

 

Thanks so much Jenn! You were great on the show and I'm definitely looking forward to your jury speech on finale night!

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Oh god. Haha thanks!

 

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