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\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat To Know<\/p>\n

Dee Valladares was eliminated from Survivor 50 after sharing information about Rizo Velovic\u2019s idol with multiple players.
\nConflicts with Jonathan Young and Coach Wade further sealed Dee\u2019s fate.
\nDee reveals the deleted scene with Jonathan that led to her fight with Coach and more.<\/p>\n

The old and new eras of\u00a0Survivor<\/a> players came together to eliminate Dee Valladares<\/a> from\u00a0Survivor 50<\/a> in Episode 7. The April 8 episode was the Season 45 winner\u2019s<\/a> last as a player, but she\u2019s the first member of the jury, so we\u2019ll see her for the rest of the season. Dee tells TV Insider that even before her fight with Benjamin \u201cCoach\u201d Wade<\/a> and Jonathan Young<\/a>, she knew she was going home, but she says viewers didn\u2019t see<\/a> what Jonathan did to cause the fight in the first place.<\/p>\n

According to Dee, she had a conversation with Jonathan during which she said she didn\u2019t trust Coach. Jonathan, she says, then immediately told Coach that information. She later asked him why he looked sad, and that\u2019s when their fight began. But that\u2019s not the first time this season that deleted scenes showed Jonathan targeting Dee.<\/p>\n

Dee held a fashion show on her original Kalo tribe that was viewed in a different light after the tribes swapped. When people heard that the original Vatu held a fashion show as well, Dee says that players suspected she had an advantage just like the one Maryanne Oketch found in Survivor 42<\/a> (Jonathan\u2019s first season). That advantage was given to one person from each tribe and triggered by a code word, so Jonathan started questioning this possibility and kept his eyes on Dee after that.<\/p>\n

Dee made a fatal mistake in telling Emily Flippen<\/a> (her fellow Season 45 alum<\/a>), Jonathan, and Tiffany Ervin<\/a> about Rizo Velovic<\/a>\u2018s idol. Rizo entrusted her with that information in earnest and expected her to keep it to herself. Finding out that she shared the secret with anyone, let alone three people, in Episode 7 made him turn on their alliance. A fight with Coach and Jonathan also put a target on her back. It was a mess that she ultimately couldn\u2019t clean up, even with the possibility of voting Coach out on the table.<\/p>\n

Jonathan targeted Dee because she blindsided him by eliminating Charlie Davis<\/a>. She thought they had mended fences, but trust was broken. When Jonathan blindsided Kamilla Karthigesu<\/a> with Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick<\/a> and Chrissy Hofbeck<\/a>, it was a betrayal of his alliance with Dee, Tiff, and Kamilla. Coach\u2019s plan for a seven-four vote against Dee was successful, even though there was a last-minute push to vote out Coach.<\/p>\n

Here, Dee breaks down her elimination and why deleted scenes convinced her that her fate was sealed.<\/p>\n

Explain your thought process behind telling the people you told about Rizo\u2019s idol. Did you view them as closer allies than Rizo?<\/p>\n

Dee Valladares:\u00a0I was always going to tell Tiff. I was immediately going to tell her. For Emily, it was like, \u201cHey, this is the merge; we haven\u2019t played this entire game together. This is the information I have. I want you to know about it because I want you to know that I\u2019m on your side.\u201d For Jonathan, it was more of a, \u201cHey, I know we\u2019ve been coming at each other since day one, and I know I screwed you over with the Charlie vote,\u201d although he was going to screw me over too, \u201cbut this is my way of showing you I really want to rebuild this.\u201d That was my thought process.<\/p>\n

It sucks because I\u2019ve never done that before, and it obviously came back to bite me. It did hurt a lot. It hurt to do that to Rizo. It really did.<\/p>\n

\"Dee<\/p>\n

Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n

Did you have a plan in mind for telling Rizo about that?<\/p>\n

No, so you guys didn\u2019t see this, but after that, Rizo was like, \u201cEmily told me,\u201d and I\u2019m shocked. I sat down with Rizo afterwards, and I\u2019m like, \u201cI know you know I\u2019m lying. You know that I know that I\u2019m lying. I\u2019m very sorry, and my biggest regret in this game is screwing you over like that, because I pride myself in keeping secrets.\u201d In and out of the game, but mostly obviously, we\u2019re talking about game. I had never done that. When I had an ally on 45, we rode for each other. Going into Season 50, I\u2019m like, \u201cI\u2019m going to try new things. This is house money. I\u2019m not even supposed to be here, I\u2019m one of three winners.\u201d That was my way of trying new things, but obviously, it backfired because it\u2019s just not my gameplay. But I\u2019m glad I tried. I still, to this day, tell Rizo I\u2019m so sorry.<\/p>\n

It seemed like you wanted to maintain a close relationship with Rizo. It didn\u2019t seem like you were trying to betray him, but you wanted to build trust with Emily and Jonathan.<\/p>\n

Yes, the thing that happened too is I trusted the wrong people. I think I was going to do that anyway because I really liked Rizo and we were locked in, but I was willing to just try new things and maybe build things with somebody. I should\u2019ve done that with other people. Who knows what would\u2019ve happened then?<\/p>\n

Right idea, wrong people, maybe.<\/p>\n

Correct, yeah.<\/p>\n

Why didn\u2019t you expect pushback from Jonathan after leaving him out of the Charlie blindside? Did you trust that your conversation after tribal was enough?<\/p>\n

I 100% expected pushback. After Charlie got voted off, you guys don\u2019t see this, there was a whole night section where me and Kamilla were telling him why we blindsided him, and the things Charlie was saying, trying to mix in Jonathan, as if Jonathan was going around telling people about things. He was just being really messy, Charlie, and so we were telling him about that and about how, you didn\u2019t see this, but I did a whole fashion show in the OG Kalo that wasn\u2019t shown. I made everyone wear the opposite sex\u2019s clothing, and all of the guys thought that I had an advantage. So I was expecting a fallout eventually. It was just a matter of who was going to get who first.<\/p>\n

During the fashion show, suspicions were raised about you having an advantage. Why did they think that?<\/p>\n

Yes, so you know in Season 42, where Maryanne [Oketch]<\/a> had to say something to trigger an advantage? As soon as we get into the split, Rizo said that they did a fashion show on Vatu, and Jonathan was asking him questions like, \u201cDid they have to wear the opposite sex clothing?\u201d [Jonathan] wanted me out since day one. You see, in the first episode, he\u2019s saying my name since day one, so it didn\u2019t shock me that he was upset, but what shocked me was how were you\u00a0so shocked that I went against you when we weren\u2019t even aligned from the beginning? That was what shocked me. Don\u2019t act like we were besties, because we never were. You were coming after me. I wasn\u2019t necessarily coming after you, but I was coming after an ally of yours. Going into 50, I really wanted to play with Jonathan. It just didn\u2019t work. He was coming at me from the start, and I don\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n

\"Jonathan<\/p>\n

Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n

I can see the logic about the two fashion shows.<\/p>\n

One-hundred percent.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s crazy we didn\u2019t see that.<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

Was the argument with Coach longer than what we saw? What wasn\u2019t shown?<\/p>\n

It was a little bit longer. Because there was so much happening, you can see when the camera doesn\u2019t face us, and we\u2019re not talking, and then it goes back to talking. You didn\u2019t get the full story. That happened right before tribal. I was already going home. Emily already spilled the beans. Basically, Jonathan and I were talking about, \u201cLet\u2019s play two sides.\u201d He asked me, \u201cDo you trust Coach?\u201d I said, \u201cNo.\u201d He also said he didn\u2019t trust Coach. Obviously, it was game talk. Should I have said that? Absolutely not. He ran back to Coach and told him that I didn\u2019t trust him, so that was great on his side, because he put a divide in between Coach and I.<\/p>\n

Coach and I, even though we were coming for each other, we were still trying to play the game together. I see Coach all sad in the hammock, and usually, in OG Kalo, if someone was having a bad day \u2014 we got sick, a lot of us were throwing up, periods, a lot was happening that you didn\u2019t see on OG Kalo. Coach with his calf [cramp] was really bad. We were all dismantled. I go up to Coach and was like, \u201cWhat\u2019s up? You look sad.\u201d He goes, \u201cI\u2019m sad because I heard you don\u2019t trust me.\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cAll right, who\u2019s saying that?\u201d And I knew, obviously, it was Jonathan, because he was the only person [to whom] I said that I didn\u2019t trust Coach, but I wanted it to come out of his mouth. I was like, \u201cPoint to the person. I\u2019ll go up to them right now.\u201d And he was like, \u201cNo, you\u2019re not being honorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is in\u00a0Survivor? Sorry, Coach.<\/p>\n

I was like,\u00a0bro. We\u2019re playing a game. That\u2019s why you see me pointing [to other players]. Just seeing the guys in front of me, I was like, \u201cBro, if I\u2019m going to go out, I\u2019m going out with a bang, and I\u2019m not going to stay quiet.\u201d Because what do I have to lose? Nothing, I\u2019m already going to the jury.<\/p>\n

\"Chrissy<\/p>\n

Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n

You felt your fate was sealed, and you said screw it, let\u2019s play.<\/p>\n

My fate was sealed the moment I told Emily about Rizo\u2019s idol. Well, actually, going into this game, my fate was sealed. I had an expiration date in this game, unfortunately, but I also knew going in that it wasn\u2019t my season, and I was OK with it. The only thing that I wasn\u2019t going to be OK with was either not making jury or playing somebody else\u2019s game. I didn\u2019t want to look back in hindsight and have those regrets, and I don\u2019t. I\u2019m super happy.<\/p>\n

Explain that. You obviously had a target on your back being a former winner, but why do you say it just wasn\u2019t your season?<\/p>\n

I am delusional enough to think I can win again. What I mean with it just wasn\u2019t my season. With three winners on the cast, do people really want another winner to win this season? No one wants that again. You want someone new to win Season 50. You want someone that can represent 25 years. I already won, I got the experience, so nobody\u2019s going to feel as bad voting me off as somebody else. And also, the further you have me in the game, I will gain momentum, because I am good at speaking with people. It just so happened that it was the first freaking tribal where everybody could vote. I\u2019ll tell you something, if I were in a smaller [group], I will get my a** in somehow, someway. I will weasle my way through, but this was just way too big of a vote. This was a very pivotal moment where alliance lines, it\u2019s not there yet, some people haven\u2019t chosen sides, but it\u2019s warming up. And it\u2019s not the time to go against anybody for my vote. I thought it was the perfect moment for me to leave.<\/p>\n

When you caused the live tribal, did you really think you had the numbers to get Coach out? Was it just, \u201cLet me try\u201d?<\/p>\n

No. Girl, I wish. I said, \u201cLet me try, because I\u2019m not going to sit here like a duck.\u201d When you\u2019re sitting at tribal council, and Jeff [Probst]<\/a> is sitting in front of you, I don\u2019t know if this happens to any other players, but for me, I don\u2019t want to disappoint Jeff. You asked me to be in this season for a reason. Whatever you saw in me, I appreciated, and I\u2019m going to give you a show. I will try because I care about this game so damn much that I\u2019m not going to just zip and stay shut. I\u2019m going to fight, because at the end of the day, Kelli, you never know. I didn\u2019t have the numbers, but maybe one person was like, \u201cLet\u2019s actually do Coach,\u201d and it would\u2019ve worked.<\/p>\n

Or maybe your Shot in the Dark would\u2019ve worked.<\/p>\n

Or maybe my Shot in the Dark! I am a lucky person. Obviously, it didn\u2019t pan out this time, but I\u2019m a lucky person. You never know. Season 50, this is a great season. There are so many things that are going to happen that you guys are going to be excited about.<\/p>\n

\"Dee<\/p>\n

Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n

I want to know what your reaction was to seeing Emily spill other people\u2019s secrets when you were watching this season, knowing that she told your secret.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I was laughing. There\u2019s no animosity towards Emily. I love her. I was cracking up. That girl, she doesn\u2019t know it, but she\u2019s so special. Even in the real world, she\u2019s very humble and very funny, but I don\u2019t think she sees the greatness that people see in her. Yeah, it\u2019s annoying that you\u2019re spilling people\u2019s secrets, because what are you doing? Girl, it\u2019s Season 50, stop being a snitch. But she\u2019s this really special person, and watching her, I\u2019m having a blast watching her. Her takes on the game are spot on. It\u2019s just that the way that she plays is not, from my opinion, the best way to play. But it\u2019s funny to watch as a fan.<\/p>\n

She has been entertaining this season, for sure.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s so entertaining. She just says the truth. What comes out of her brain is really it.<\/p>\n

Everyone\u2019s learning, and I don\u2019t know if everyone learned in season, that if you tell her a secret, she doesn\u2019t care to keep it. And that\u2019s a choice she can make. That\u2019s fine, it makes for good TV.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s her gameplay, absolutely. It makes for good TV. It hurts us, the players, more, obviously, but it makes for good TV. We\u2019re going to look back on this and laugh, because girl, what are you doing?<\/p>\n

So you and Emily are on good terms?<\/p>\n

Yes, 100 percent.<\/p>\n

What about you and Coach, and you and Jonathan?<\/p>\n

I think we\u2019re on good terms. I don\u2019t really talk to many people. Even to this day, I\u2019ve not reached out to one player to see why they voted for me or what they said about me. Absolutely not. Once the game is all said and done and you\u2019re in the real world, I told two people, \u201cHey, you guys are not safe from my confessionals.\u201d That\u2019s all I said. \u201cJust so you know, you\u2019re not marked safe.\u201d I think I\u2019m on good terms. I feel that there\u2019s some feelings of bitterness or some resentment. I feel it, I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s true. But things get back to you. Things have gotten back to me, but I [couldn\u2019t] care less. I just laugh about it. I have no ill will towards anybody. If someone is hurt by something I said, just call me, and we\u2019ll talk about it. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

Who did you tell that they were not safe from your confessionals?<\/p>\n

[Laughs] Chrissy and Coach. I told them. I didn\u2019t tell Jonathan, but at one point, way later, I said, \u201cHey, you guys are not safe.\u201d Chrissy was like, \u201cYou\u2019re not safe either.\u201d It just wasn\u2019t shown. Everything has been said. Some things just get shown, and other things don\u2019t get shown.<\/p>\n

Is there anything else that didn\u2019t get shown this season that you really wish had?<\/p>\n

Just the fashion show. It was a lot of fun. We were so hungry. It was that moment when the starvation\u2019s starting to kick in. I was wearing Jonathan\u2019s clothes, he was wearing mine, my little crop top. Mike [White] was Kamilla, Kamilla was Mike, and then Chrissy and Coach were each other. It was so funny. We went all out. Chrissy put feathers in her hair. We did a whole palm frond entrance. It was hilarious. That was it, because it was a fun character development moment.<\/p>\n

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