Savannah Louie isn’t sure if their pre-game alliance was the cause of her emotional departure from ‘Survivor 50.’
“So me and Jenna and Joe[Hunter]felt like all the little leftovers, the little leftovers,” Louis tells Page Six exclusively of First Boot Jenna Louise-Doherty’s claims that some of the tribe matched before the cast arrived in Fiji.
“As far as the pregame goes, I wasn’t on any calls with them, so I can’t really speak to what they did or didn’t do,” says the former TV news reporter and anchor.
“But I think you also have to consider that Survivor is literally a community. The game doesn’t necessarily end when the cameras stop on Day 26.”
Louie notes that some of the Season 50 players, such as Seeley Fields and Ozzie Russ, “had relationships for years,” so it was inevitable that they would work together.
“They may not be best friends, but they have mutual friends. They have mutual friends who can say, ‘Hey, I know person X. Please trust person Y. Let me be the bridge between you.'”
“So I’m not saying everyone here jumped on a Zoom call and made plans, but there are certainly pre-existing relationships and as someone who comes into the game without any of that, that can be really difficult,” she added.
Louis won “Survivor 49” just before Season 50 began filming, so he didn’t have time to bond with the other returning players and immediately started the game at a disadvantage.
“During the week-and-a-half break between seasons, I spent a lot of time with my loved ones and everything,” she says.
“And I wish I could have sent a DM to every Survivor player in existence and connected me to some of the pre-game alliances that may or may not have taken place on the island,” she added with a laugh.
Louis also shed more light on the alliance between the players who unanimously voted her out.
“You have the trio of Christian (Hubicki), (Rick) Devns, and Emily (Flippen). And then you have the duo of Cirie and Ozzy. And those were very obvious from a viewer perspective,” Louis shares.
“But in addition to the trio of Christian, Emily and Devens, I think Cirie was also in the loop with them. So there’s four there. And Cirie is bringing Ozzy, so there’s five,” she continues. “And those five guys pretty much controlled everything that was going on in the game.”
“Survivor 50” airs every Wednesday at 8pm ET on CBS.
