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“Survivor 50” star Angelina Keeley is going scorched-earth connected nan show’s editing team.
“I deliberation that they tin do a batch better,” she told Page Six aft she was voted disconnected the CBS series connected Wednesday’s episode.
“I deliberation they salary a batch of articulator work to diverseness and to inclusion and to empowering voices and women, and I deliberation they’re doing a really mediocre occupation this play truthful acold of displaying female stories and telling female stories.”
Keeley, nan third-place finisher connected Season 37 successful 2018, said she came backmost for the milestone season because she was inspired by nan alteration successful editing complete nan past 10 seasons.
“I felt successful nan 40s that they had turned a corner. I felt that they were treating stories pinch attraction successful a measurement that they hadn’t previously,” she shared.
But pinch Season 50, nan JoyBabe Studio laminitis thinks nan accumulation squad has “gone backwards.”
“Where’s Tiffany? Where’s Kamilla? Where’s Dee? Where’s Chrissy?” she said, noting nan different under-edited female players connected Season 50.
“Why is everything we spot astir Chrissy negative? Why is everything we spot astir maine negative?”
Overall, Keeley believes that nan long-running reality show owes much to its female contestants.
“I consciousness for illustration pinch their reach, pinch their show, they tin either beryllium a reflection of society, they tin push society, aliases they tin conscionable provender nan beast,” she explained. “And by provender nan beast, I mean pander to our worst traits. And that’s what I feel for illustration they’re doing this clip around.”
“I dream they move it around,” Keeley continued. “I cognize they’re still editing nan season, truthful I’ve been telling folks that I’ve gotten to talk to coming that I deliberation they request to do better.”
She added, “And I deliberation a batch of nan women connected this play consciousness nan aforesaid way, and they’re fresh to speak up arsenic well.”
As for nan gameplay this season, Keeley told america that she thinks chap Season 37 alum Christian Hubicki “premeditated” backstabbing their communal pal Mike White.
“I mean, he was talking to himself successful his room [at Ponderosa earlier nan game,]” she claimed. “We shared a wall. He was virtually rehearsing lines that he was going to say. I could perceive him done nan wall. And I was like, ‘Okay, a small weird, but to each their own.'”
“But past looking backmost connected it and benignant of piecing it each together, I’m like, ‘Oh, he really was readying connected his attack and his crippled and who he was going to get and what he was going to say.'”
Keeley believes that Hubicki was ne'er going to beryllium loyal to their Season 37 trio, contempt his adjacent relationship pinch White.
“I deliberation maine and Mike’s priorities were very different than Christian’s, and he chose to prioritize nan crippled complete a existent friendship,” she said.
“Whereas Mike is 1 of nan astir loyal group you’ll ever meet,” Keeley added. “So those priorities came into conflict.”
“Survivor 50” airs Wednesdays astatine 8 p.m. ET connected CBS.
