Yet another player’s torch has been snuffed as “Survivor 49” continues at CBS. On the season’s most recent episode, which aired on Wednesday, October 1, Kimberly “Annie” Davis became the second castaway to be voted off the island after attending back-to-back Tribal Council ceremonies with long-time host Jeff Probst and her “disaster” Kele Tribe.
While Annie was on the right side of the numbers during the tribe’s first elimination – which sent castaway Nicole Mazullo packing after a 5-1 vote in the premiere – the 49-year-old alt-rock singer was not so lucky during this week’s installment.
Annie Davis Reacts to Her ‘Survivor 49’ Elimination
Though some fans pegged Davis as the “easy vote” during last week’s episode, the castaway herself reported feeling “completely blindsided” by her tribemates. The feeling was particularly potent in regards to her tribemate Alex Moore.
“”It was rough,” Annie told Entertainment Weekly in her exit interview. “I was completely blindsided last night. I really had no idea that I was going home. And so, you know, your heart breaks. It can’t not.”
CBSShe continued, “It’s not that I don’t understand it. I really do in hindsight, but it’s rough to see your name come up anytime, and to see it come up over and over again, it gets worse and worse and worse.”
Like Nicole before her, Annie was eliminated from the show following a near-unanimous vote, with all four of her remaining Kele tribemates – Jeremiah Ing, Jake Latimer, Sophi Segretti and Alex Moore – writing down her name at Tribal Council.
Annie Reveals How Her Trust in Alex Moore Ended Her Game
The parallels between Nicole and Annie’s eliminations don’t stop at their unanimity, however. According to Davis, both herself and Nicole were blindsided after placing their trust in Alex, who in Episode 2 revealed to Davis that he had unearthed a Hidden Immunity Idol.
After showing her the idol, Davis told EW that Alex announced his intentions to use the advantage to protect her, should he need to.
CBS“He said, ‘This is for us. I will use it for you if you feel like you have any inkling that somebody’s going to vote you out. Or we can use it, we can take it to the merge, whatever’,” Davis reported. “So his message to me was: This is for us as a team. Because at the time, I thought we had a really strong alliance.”
Unfortunately for Annie, Alex didn’t play the idol to save her. Instead, he voted with the rest of the Kele Tribe to send her home, a move that Davis described as “a bummer.”
“I would’ve never asked him to use the idol for me,” she revealed. “I just wouldn’t have, because I was just happy that he found it because I felt like, ‘I love this guy and I’ll never write his name down. We, we got this thing.’”
As to why Alex would show her the idol only to blindside her moments later, Annie told EW: “He was doing to me what he did effectively do to Nicole in the first episode…I’m an idiot for not seeing it because I had participated in that the first time around.”
CBSIf she could change anything about her “Survivor” journey, Annie said that she would’ve employed a “stronger social game,” and “done a better job about connecting with [her] tribemates.”
Be sure to catch Episode 3 of “Survivor 49” when the season returns on Wednesday, October 8 at 8:00pm ET on CBS.
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