by David McAlpine
Last night upon Survivor: South Pacific, Ozzy’s series dual Elyse Umemoto, the twenty-seven year-old dance organisation physical education instructor from Las Vegas, faced off with Christine upon Redemption Island, after her organisation deemed her as well melancholy to keep upon their tribe. In the exhilarated game of shuffleboard, Elyse mislaid out upon her possibility during redemption. Today, Elyse talked to RealityWanted about her clan as well as Redemption Island.
Q. David, RealityWanted: What finished we try-out for the show?
A. Elyse: When we competed during Miss America (as Miss Washington), they did the being uncover which year. Someone told me which we should demeanour in to Survivor as well as asked me if I’d seen any of the episodes. we pronounced no, so they destined me to the site as well as told me to fill out an focus as well as do the video. Soon sufficient we was removing vaccinated as well as upon my wish to the South Pacific!
Q. David, RealityWanted: What was your plan starting in to the game?
A. Elyse: The plan which we had was radically the non-strategy. we was perplexing to take it minute-by-minute as well as go with the flow. I’m not the Cochran, we know? I’m comparatively latest to the Survivor world, as well as we consider we was during the waste being latest to the game. Going behind in to the game we would have finished the same thing: hurl with the punches as well as see what happened next. we wasn’t starting to take upon the plan similar to Jim or Brandon, those guys had clear, sincere skeleton as well as personalities. It only wasn’t meant to be.
Q. David, RealityWanted: Clearly we as well as Ozzy were close. Did we consider we were which viewable to your clan mates?
A. Elyse: I did feel similar to Ozzy as well as we were flattering close, yet we didn’t consider it was as out in the open as it assumingly was. we suspicion it was some-more supposed which it was the organisation of 5 of us, or maybe the 4 of us, yet over that, we didn’t consider there was which many to be concerned about. If we could go back, that’s the a single thing we would change, we would have which attribute some-more invisible. That’s unequivocally what led up to the Tribal Council.
Q. David, RealityWanted: What was the indicate where we knew we were starting home?
A. Elyse: The preface to which impulse was when we saw Dawn’s name? we saw it come up, as well as we knew which something was wrong as well as something had changed. we didn’t unequivocally know it was me until Jeff flipped the final card, yet we was in finish disbelief. Immediately, my wheels proposed spinning to try as well as figure out who did what, what changed, what happened, who voted how.
Q. David, RealityWanted: You got to outlay the little time with Christine upon Redemption Island. What’s your sense of her?
A. Elyse: Earlier in the game, Christine had been unequivocally outspoken about not guileless Coach, so we suspicion she was starting to get voted out early. When we got to Redemption Island, though, this lady did as many appropriate as she could to have me feel welcome, it was similar to this big, comfortable hung after we only got run over by the Mack truck. She offering me the place to sleep, common her blanket, showed me where the glow was, where the gin rummy was, where the stone was to chuck during things which yield up your leg–Im unequivocally rooting for her to win.
Q. David, RealityWanted: Christine had been out there for the *long* time. Did we consider we could kick her in the duel?
A. Elyse: we did, we positively did. we didn’t go in to it meditative we could dominate, yet we went in to it with the many confident of hopes. Clearly all which we suspicion was starting upon in the game had only been thrown out the window, so we stopped perplexing to go with what we suspicion we knew.
Q. David, RealityWanted: The duel looked flattering difficult. How tough was it?
A. Elyse: It was the lot harder than shown upon TV. The disks were unequivocally complicated as well as personally, we do not fool around shuffleboard. I’m not 85 as well as we do not take journey ships often, so I’ve never played it prior to ever. we suspicion it was unequivocally anticlimactic which my time upon Survivor finished this way. we suspicion I’d be scaling waterfalls as well as racing by the jungle as well as overhanging upon vines, as well as we got separated since fundamentally we can’t fool around pool.
Q. David, RealityWanted: Would we do an additional being show?
A. Elyse: Possibly. Rock of Love? Definitely not. Another arrange of foe show, we consider so. Survivor competence not be the many appropriate outlet, yet we consider we have the lot some-more to suggest as well as the lot some-more to uncover than what came across.
Q. David, RealityWanted: What do we take divided from the experience?
A. Elyse: Was it fun? Absolutely not! It was the hardest thing I’ve ever finished in my life, yet I’m the improved chairman for it.
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