Ashley Underwood, a former Miss Maine and basketball star who’s now playing the rough-and-tumble game of “Survivor,” discovered in Wednesday night’s episode that her tender sensibilities simply couldn’t tolerate another contestant’s weird personality and nasty underwear.
“Phillip, I cannot stand him,” Underwood said, describing her feelings toward her tribemate Phillip Sheppard, a strange character who claims to be a former government agent. “I cannot look at him. That’s how bad I cannot stand him.”
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It may have been her longest period of air time on the CBS reality show since she joined the Ometepe tribe in Nicaragua to compete for $1 million on “Survivor: Redemption Island.”
Mostly, she was shown looking pensive and biting her lip during the second half of the show, after her tribe lost the immunity challenge and had to go to tribal council to vote a team member out of the game.
The show began with Survivor’s most famous villain, three-time player Russell Hantz, squaring off against Matt Elrod, a pre-med student, in a duel on Redemption Island that involved a Survivor-style dominoes game. Hantz, who had never been voted off before, was sent packing for good after he lost the challenge.
But not before pulling his ever-present fedora over his eyes and crying.
Host Jeff Probst asked him what the tears were about. Sadness? Embarrassment?
Hantz spent his last 15 seconds of fame doing what he does best: blaming someone else.
He tore into his teammates for throwing the immunity challenge that landed him in that position. “I respect this game too much to go out this way,” Hantz said.
He said this would be the last time he would ever play Survivor.
Back at the Ometepe camp, Sheppard’s tribemates were doing what they do best: making fun of him.
“Boston Rob” Mariano said the team had had enough of Sheppard and his “pink tighty whities with the stuff hanging out.”
“It’s not only disturbing,” Mariano said, “it’s disgusting.”
Ultimately, Underwood’s tribe lost the immunity challenge and its members found themselves headed to tribal council. When it came time to choose whose head to put on the chopping block, it came down to Sheppard or law student Kristina Kell.
Boston Rob said of Sheppard, “At this point, there’s an utter malice toward him. It’s palpable.”
Underwood made it clear that she wanted to see Sheppard go.
“Phillip, it’s just more stressful having him around,” she told ex-NFL player Grant Mattos as they walked on the beach. “He’s a ticking time bomb. That’s what scares me.”
But Boston Rob was more threatened by Kristina, so he pulled his strings and Kristina Kell was voted out 4 to 3.
Staff Writer Meredith Goad can be contacted at 791-6332 or at mgoad@pressherald.com
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