{"id":396601,"date":"2026-04-25T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396601\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:05:10","slug":"mike-white-says-he-heard-nothing-from-christian-hubicki-after-survivor-50-but-he-says-he-reached-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396601\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike White Says He Heard Nothing From Christian Hubicki After \u2018Survivor 50\u2019\u2014But He Says He Reached Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike White says he hasn’t heard from Christian Hubicki since being voted off Survivor<\/a> 50\u2014but now Hubicki is telling a different story.<\/p>\n

White was voted off in episode 4 of season 50, which aired on March 18, while Hubicki was booted during the most recent episode on Wednesday<\/a>, Apr. 22.<\/p>\n

In his exclusive exit interview with Parade<\/a>, The White Lotus<\/a> creator said he and the robotics professor “[hadn ‘t] talked since the season.” Hubicki, who starred on Survivor: David vs. Goliath with White in 2018, orchestrated his blindside.<\/p>\n

However, in Hubicki’s exit interview<\/a>, he claimed that he did, in fact, reach out.<\/p>\n

“I reached out to Mike as soon as I got back. I sent him a long message saying, ‘You know why I did what I did.’ Because I really wanted to work with him,” Hubicki told Parade exclusively<\/a>. “And I didn\u2019t want him to think I was always planning to deceive him and get him out. So I gave him a really long message saying all the reasons that it happened. And also, I hated the fact that it got him, because I know he cared deeply about this game. He cares so much about\u00a0Survivor,\u00a0and to take him out of it, I knew it would hurt him.”<\/p>\n

“So I tried to give him every element of the explanation. So hopefully at some point, he absorbs that. And I hope someday he understands, and I\u2019m hopeful that he will, because there certainly was no malice behind it,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Also during his exit interview, White claimed Hubicki “was doing a lot of crazy stuff” on the island compared to their first season together\u2014even alleging he made a preseason boot list.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes I felt like, ‘Oh, he\u2019s doing this for attention, for the cameras or something,'” White said. “Because he\u2019s pratfalling, he\u2019s doing a lot of crazy antics. And so I was like, ‘Maybe this is just him hamming it up for the cameras.'”<\/p>\n

Hubicki, for his part, said he was unaware of White’s allegations, but said he hopes “everyone knows that I respect everyone on that island in terms of my time I got to spend with them.”<\/p>\n

“I respect them as competitors,” he said of White and fellow David vs. Goliath alum and season 50 castaway Angelina Keeley. “And I hope that one day we can really have a relationship with everyone on that island, them included.”<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Apr 24, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike White says he hasn’t heard from Christian Hubicki since being voted off Survivor 50\u2014but now Hubicki is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49410,156,204895,3343,111,139,69,14484,437,51565],"class_list":{"0":"post-396601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-christian-hubicki","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-exit-interview","11":"tag-mike-white","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-survivor","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-white-lotus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}