“Survivor 50” star Q Burdette claims that castmate Angelina Keeley only cared about making good TV on the show.
“The things about Angelina that ticked me off wasn’t things that I actually voiced out to anybody. But I was targeting her because she didn’t do much around camp. And a lot of the things that she would do, I felt like it was done for the camera, for the TV,” Burdette exclusively tells Page Six following his elimination on Wednesday’s episode.
The 31-year-old real estate agent says Keeley, 36, played up her behavior multiple times, including during their original tribe’s mock fashion show and in Episode 2’s immunity challenge.
“In the challenge when she was doing the ball, it just felt so rehearsed to me,” Burdette vents. “She had to pull the ball. But instead of just pulling the ball, she was like, ‘Okay, guys, I’m gonna pull it! I’m gonna pull it now! I’m gonna do it!’”
“Just pull it. Why are you doing all that extra stuff? And that right there just made me feel like, ‘Okay, she’s doing this for the camera.’ Like, come on. Why else would she make all this fuss about just pulling a dangling ball?”
The “Survivor 46” alum also reveals that Keeley tried to repeat one of her Season 37 classic moves when she attempted to negotiate with Jeff Probst over the fishing gear their tribe won in the first challenge.
“Everybody on my tribe was like, ‘Angelina, no.’ She was like, ‘I want to try,’” Burdette recalls.
“Which makes me again feel like she only want to do that for the camera,” he adds, pointing out, “because she did it on her first season and all this other stuff.”
But what “really did it in” for Burdette was Keeley lying about her relationship with “The White Lotus” creator Mike White, whom she sat in the final three with on her first season.
“She told us that she hadn’t talked to Mike White in three years,” Burdette says, revealing that when he spoke to White on the island, the Emmy Award winner spilled the beans that he and Keeley talked right before they flew to Fiji.
“And I’m thinking like, ‘Oh my God, this girl is lying. She’s trying to cover up their relationship. What else that she’s lying about?” Burdette tells us. “At that point, it was just like, ‘Okay, she’s done. She was already done for me anyway.”
While Burdette knows he got unlucky with the outcome of the Episode 3 tribe swap, he has a theory for why he was voted off so early.
“Before I came on ‘Survivor 50,’ I was talking to players who’ve played three or four or five times, they were like, ‘Q, something you have to be careful about is people will try to vote you our for screen time,” he shares.
“So when I got out there and I felt that Angelina’s doing crap for the cameras… that put a bad taste in my mouth,” Burdette continues.
The reality star adds, “Because I’ve heard former players who have played this game more times than I say that people do stuff for the cameras. And now to be here and feel like I’m witnessing it, I carry my own baggage into the game.”
“Survivor 50” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
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