“Survivor 50” star Rick Devens is “super psyched” for nan unrecorded reunion adjacent week — but he’s dreading seeing first footwear Jenna Lewis-Dougherty.
“I do deliberation there’s going to beryllium drama. You know, pinch nan exit press, there’s been a batch of backmost and forth,” nan news anchor exclusively told Page Six aft being voted disconnected during Wednesday’s episode.
“The only personification I don’t really want to spot is Jenna,” he continued. “She trolled maine nan full season. It conscionable blows my mind.”
Lewis-Dougherty, 48, started nan beef pinch Devens, 42, erstwhile she claimed connected societal media that he and Christian Hubicki were bragging astir getting a batch of airtime nan first nighttime of filming.
But Devens told america that Lewis-Dougherty took his comments retired of context.
“When we mislaid nan first challenge, I’m like, ‘Hey, bully news, guys. We’re going to get nan airtime because we’re nan people that loses,'” he explained. “That’s a joke, but it’s an evident joke if I opportunity it successful beforehand of nan full tribe.”
Devens said erstwhile he saw Lewis-Dougherty astatine nan premiere statement successful February, she only “had bully things to say” astir him, truthful he’s particularly irritated she later changed her tune.
“In her exit property she’s name-calling and bashing us, and past she conscionable kept doing it each season,” he stated. “That’s not nan measurement I play nan game. So I was conscionable complete it.”
The “Survivor: Edge of Extinction” alum besides insisted Lewis-Dougherty’s claims she made to Page Six about him, Hubicki, and Emily Flippen making an confederation earlier Season 50 are “not existent astatine all.”
According to Devens, nan only group he said to earlier filming were Aubry Bracco and Angelina Keeley.
“Aubry and I texted, and erstwhile I recovered retired she was on, I was like, ‘Hey, I wanna spot you retired there,'” he recalled.
“And Angelina had reached retired to maine — I deliberation astir apt each azygous person,” Devens added.
Devens besides revealed that while Joe Hunter had “animosity” towards him because of their different styles of gameplay, they’ve made amends.
“He is simply a awesome guy. We’re friends now,” Devens said. “We sent our apologies backmost and forth.”
The “Survivor 50” finale and unrecorded reunion airs adjacent Wednesday astatine 8 p.m. ET connected CBS.