New Survivor jury member Simon Mee has opened up about why he didn’t take the opportunity to join tribe mate George Mladenov and become one of his ‘pawns’.
This year’s season of Survivor has seen George orchestrate the majority of game moves and align himself with certain players who have helped his plans come to fruition. Former cast member Simon vented his thoughts throughout the season that he believes some players, namely Liz, Gerry and Matt, are George’s ‘pawns’.
During the season, there were a number of times when Simon was able to jump ship and get on board with George and his alliance, however, the former body builder regularly turned down the opportunity.
Simon appeared on The Project last night and answered why he didn’t want to become “one of George’s pawns”.
“[It was] a no brainer. I came in here to leave my own mark on this game and I wanted to play my own game my own way and I didn’t want to have my game dictated to me.”
He added, “George is one of the greatest strategic players of all time, and his presence out on that beach, you just, you feel it, you can see it. So I had a choice: you can either get in behind George, or you can fight your own way.”
At the beginning of the season, Simon received a lot of flack on social media for his questionable game play, but by the time he was eliminated, he had won over thousands of fans. Though Simon and George consistently butted heads through the game, Simon recently revealed that his former arch nemesis has gone out of his way to make sure Simon was okay.
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“George and I are in touch quite a bit and he is a very different person outside of the game,” he told TV Week. “He’s known that I’ve been doing it pretty tough the last few weeks and he’s been one of the few people to take the time to check in on me. I really appreciated that.”
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