Getting voted out of Survivor is no mean feat in and of itself – just getting on the show is one thing, inspiring enough disdain or fear amongst your fellow tribemates to unify them in a majority voting bloc is an another – but Abbey Holmes, forever the overachiever, somehow found a way to not only get voted off the show twice, but voted off the show twice on the same day.
Holmes found herself on the wrong end of a game in flux on last night’s edition of Australian Survivor: All Stars, following a tribe swap and a mini-mutiny, Holmes was booted from the game at the hands of a burgeoning tribal alliance headed up by arch rival Shonee Fairfax.
Remarkably enough, that wasn’t the only time she was voted off the show that day.
Speaking to PEDESTRIAN.TV, Holmes revealed how a quirk of scheduling saw her receive the boot from two separate seasons of the show on the very same day.
“Funny story,” Abbey said, “[Champions vs Contenders II] was still airing in Australia when we went back [to film All Stars].” The day she was voted out of All Stars during filming, Abbey tells us, just-so-happened to be the same day the Australian public watched her be voted out of Champions vs Contenders II as it aired on Channel Ten.
“I’m the only player to have ever been voted out twice in the same day,” Abbey said with a knowing laugh.
Abbey also had some issues with the way the show edited her All Stars run, which portrayed her as having something of a standoffish, Tribe Strong mentality that favoured physically strong bodies over the more popular social players.
“My gameplan was to surround myself with the biggest physical and strategic threats,” she said, noting that the show only showed her talking about the physical players.
“I wanted to surround myself with as many shields and buffers as I could. At the merge, it’s always the physical threats that get voted out first. [I wanted to get] the social players, the biggest threats, voted out.”
As for the remainder of the game, Abbey sees David Genat as the “best Survivor player globally.” And honestly? We back that.
