“Survivor 50” star Q Burdett claimed castmate Angelina Keeley only cared about making good television on the show.
“What annoyed me about Angelina wasn’t that I actually called anyone out. But I targeted her because she didn’t really do much during camp. And I felt like a lot of what she would do was done for the cameras and television,” Burdett exclusively told Page Six after her elimination on Wednesday’s episode.
The 31-year-old real estate agent said Keeley, 36, flaunted her antics on numerous occasions, including during the original Tribe’s mock fashion show and during the immunity challenge in episode two.
“In the challenge when she was playing ball, it felt very rehearsed,” Burdett gushes. “She had to pull the ball. But instead of just pulling the ball, she was like, ‘Okay, guys, I’m going to pull it! I’m going to pull it now! I’m going to do it!'”
“Just pull it. Why do all that extra stuff? And then I saw what was right there and I was like, ‘Okay, she’s doing this for the camera.'” Come on, come on. Why else would she make such a fuss just to tug at a dangling ball? ”
The “Survivor 46” alum also revealed that Keeley tried to repeat one of his classic moves from Season 37 when he tried to negotiate with Jeff Probst over fishing gear that the Tribe won in their first challenge.
“Everyone in my tribe was like, ‘Angelina, no,’ and she was like, ‘I want to try it,'” Burdett recalled.
“Then you feel again that maybe she only wanted to do it for the cameras,” he added, noting, “because she did it in the first season and everything else.”
But what “really helped” for Burdett was that Keeley lied about her relationship with “The White Lotus” creator Mike White, who was one of the final three finalists in the first season.
“She said she hadn’t spoken to Mike White in three years,” Burdett said, revealing that when she spoke to White on the island, the Emmy winner spilled the trivia she had spoken to Keely just before flying to Fiji.
“So I thought, ‘Oh my god, this girl is lying. She’s trying to cover up their relationship. What else is she lying about?'” Burdett tells us. “At that point, I was like, ‘Okay, she’s over. She’s over for me anyway.'”
Burdett knows the outcome of Episode 3’s tribe swap was unfortunate, but he has his own theory as to why he was voted out so quickly.
“Before I went on ‘Survivor 50,’ I was talking to players who had played three, four, five times, and they were like, ‘Q, the thing you have to watch out for is people are going to vote you out for screen time,'” he shared.
“So when I got on set, I felt like Angelina was acting shitty in front of the cameras…It put a bad taste in my mouth,” Burdett continues.
“Because I’ve heard it more times from former players who have played this game than I have that people do things for the camera. And to be here now and feel like I’m witnessing it, I bring my own baggage to the game.”
“Survivor 50” airs every Wednesday at 8pm ET on CBS.
