Savannah Louie isn’t so sure that pregame alliances are responsible for her emotional exit from “Survivor 50.”
“I mean, it did kind of feel like me, Jenna and Joe [Hunter] were like the little scraps, the little leftovers of it all,” Louie exclusively tells Page Six of first boot Jenna Lewis Dougherty’s claims that some of their tribemates aligned before the cast arrived in Fiji.
“As far as pregame goes, I wasn’t on any of calls with these people, so I can’t really speak to what they may or may not have done,” the former TV news reporter and anchor says.
“But I think you also have to consider that ‘Survivor’ is literally a community. The game isn’t necessarily over when the cameras stop on day 26.”
Louie notes that some of the Season 50 players like Cirie Fields and Ozzy Lusth “have had relationships for years,” so it was inevitable they’d work together.
“You have some people who maybe they’re not best friends, but they have mutual friends, a mutual friend who can say, ‘Hey, I know person X, you can trust person Y. Let me be that bridge between you guys.’”
“So I’m not saying everybody here hopped on a Zoom call and formulated a plan, but you do have pre-existing relationships and it can make it really hard as someone who comes into the game without any of that,” she adds.
Louie won “Survivor 49” shortly before Season 50 started filming, so she didn’t have time to make bonds with the other returning players and started the game at an immediate disadvantage.
“During my one-and-a-half-week break in between seasons, I took a lot of time to spend time with my loved ones and everything,” she tells us.
“And I really wish I would have DM’d every single ‘Survivor’ player to ever exist and hook me up with some of those pregame alliances that may or may not have taken place on the island,” she adds with a laugh.
Louie also shed more light on the alliances between the players who unanimously voted her out.
“But I think along with the Christian, Emily and Devens trio, Cirie was also looped in with them as well. So you got four right there. Plus, Cirie’s bringing Ozzy along, so that’s five,” she continues. “And those five pretty much ruled everything that was happening in the game.”
“Survivor 50” airs Wednesdays at 8 pm ET on CBS.
