“Survivor 50” star Angelina Keeley is going scorched-earth on the show’s editing team.
“I think that they can do a lot better,” she told Page Six after she was voted off the CBS series on Wednesday’s episode.
“I think they pay a lot of lip service to diversity and to inclusion and to empowering voices and women, and I think they’re doing a really poor job this season so far of displaying female stories and telling female stories.”
Keeley, the third-place finisher on Season 37 in 2018, said she came back for the milestone season because she was inspired by the change in editing over the last ten seasons.
“I felt in the 40s that they had turned a corner. I felt that they were treating stories with care in a way that they hadn’t previously,” she shared.
But with Season 50, the JoyBabe Studio founder thinks the production team has “gone backwards.”
“Where’s Tiffany? Where’s Kamilla? Where’s Dee? Where’s Chrissy?” she said, noting the other under-edited female players on Season 50.
“Why is everything we see about Chrissy negative? Why is everything we see about me negative?”
Overall, Keeley believes that the long-running reality show owes more to its female contestants.
“I feel like with their reach, with their show, they can either be a reflection of society, they can push society, or they can just feed the beast,” she explained. “And by feed the beast, I mean pander to our worst traits. And that’s what I feel like they’re doing this time around.”
“I hope they turn it around,” Keeley continued. “I know they’re still editing the season, so I’ve been telling folks that I’ve gotten to talk to today that I think they need to do better.”
She added, “And I think a lot of the women on this season feel the same way, and they’re ready to speak up as well.”
As for the gameplay this season, Keeley told us that she thinks fellow Season 37 alum Christian Hubicki “premeditated” backstabbing their mutual pal Mike White.
“I mean, he was talking to himself in his room [at Ponderosa before the game,]” she claimed. “We shared a wall. He was literally rehearsing lines that he was going to say. I could hear him through the wall. And I was like, ‘Okay, a little weird, but to each their own.’”
“But then looking back on it and kind of piecing it all together, I’m like, ‘Oh, he really was planning on his approach and his game and who he was going to get and what he was going to say.’”
Keeley believes that Hubicki was never going to be loyal to their Season 37 trio, despite his close friendship with White.
“I think me and Mike’s priorities were very different than Christian’s, and he chose to prioritize the game over a real friendship,” she said.
“Whereas Mike is one of the most loyal people you’ll ever meet,” Keeley added. “So those priorities came into conflict.”
“Survivor 50” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
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