{"id":107806,"date":"2025-10-31T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/107806\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:55:10","slug":"survivors-shannon-fairweather-on-sage-ahrens-nichols-hug-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/107806\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor\u2019s Shannon Fairweather on Sage Ahrens-Nichols&#8217; Hug Snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \u2018Survivor\u2019s Jeff Probst Teases Why Season 49 Was the \u201cAntithesis of Loyalty\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This story contains spoilers from the Oct. 29 episode of Survivor.<\/p>\n<p>The tribe wasn\u2019t ready to hug it out.<\/p>\n<p>After Shannon Fairweather was voted off the island by her fellow cast members on the Oct. 29 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/survivor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Survivor<\/a>, she asked those who voted her out for a hug. And while Jawan Pitts and Steven Ramm obliged, Sage Ahrens-Nichols did not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m gonna give you a handshake because I want the hug to be genuine and I don\u2019t think I can give that to you right now,\u201d Sage explained to Shannon. \u201cBut I look forward to hugging you in the future, OK? Take care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And while Shannon was surprised by Sage\u2019s reaction, as she shared after the episode aired, she also \u201crespected\u201d her decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love these people so, so much. And so to feel like there was a reason for her to reject my hug, that was heartbreaking,\u201d the 28-year-old recounted to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/survivor-49-shannon-fairweather-reacts-heartbreaking-sage-hug-denial-interview-11839711\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> in an interview published Oct. 30. \u201cBut I also respected it, because Sage is incredibly authentic from second one, and it was very on-brand for Sage to not give me a hug.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Survivor\u2019s Jeff Probst Teases Why Season 49 Was the \u201cAntithesis of Loyalty\u201d This story contains spoilers from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-107806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}