“I Had the Whole Game Figured Out” – RealityNewsOnline’s Exclusive Interview with Survivor: Gabon’s Jacquie

In Jacquie’s final words, she indicated that if she had made it past just one more vote, she’d have been set for the rest of the game. In this interview, she explains what she meant by that and tells us a lot about her position in the game – including many things we didn’t necessarily see. Of course, I also asked her what she thinks of Kelly – you won’t be too surprised there. But Jacquie was surprised at some of the things she saw on TV. Read on to find out more!

RealityNewsOnline: Hello, Jacquie, and thanks for taking the time to talk to RealityNewsOnline! What was your strategy coming into the game?

Jacquie: My strategy was to really lay back and try to be more shy than domineering. Usually I’m a leader in situations like that. I just wanted to mesh with the Kota tribe. I was holding back, trying to make really trustworthy alliances and make alliances with multiple groups of people.

RNO: Were you able to?

Jacquie: Oh yeah. I had the alliance with Corinne, Charlie, and Marcus – we wanted to go to the end together. I also had an alliance with Ace and Sugar.

RNO: So you were lying to the original Fang members?

Jacquie: Yeah (laughs). I was. I knew I wanted to go with the onion alliance the whole way through. But I did not see a tribal switch coming.

RNO: So Ace and Sugar were your backup alliance?

Jacquie: Yes, they were the backup. But I found out Sugar had the immunity idol, so it was a very good backup.

RNO: What did you think of your original Kota tribemates?

Jacquie: I love them. We had a blast over there. We worked really, really well together. It was difficult but it felt like a vacation for me. We were playing games and having joke night and having a blast.

RNO: When you were talking with Ken and Kelly, and you told Ken that all of original Kota was super-close, what did you think about Kelly’s comments disputing that and her statements indicating she felt excluded?

Jacquie: She totally alienated herself. Over at Kota, we had a riot. She was this person that stayed in the hut the whole time. We would go swimming or on hikes, trying to include everyone. I was shocked she mentioned that but it was pretty smart on her part because it proved she was on the outs.

RNO: Do you think the tribal switch-up was fair?

Jacquie: No, not at all. It totally ruined my game plan. I had the whole game figured out. It really put everybody that had an advantage at the bottom. One tribe was obviously going to have majority former Kota and the other former majority Fang. Whoever was not in the majority was obviously screwed if they lost.

RNO: Now that you’ve seen the episode, what do you think of the reasons the others had for voting you out?

Jacquie: It was pretty smart. I did have a stronger alliance with Ace and Sugar, and Kelly didn’t have anybody. She was next to go at Kota and they knew she didn’t have an alliance. And also being voted the top girl, it seemed obvious to them that I was close with former Kota members.

RNO: We saw that you tried hard, but in hindsight, do you think you could have done anything differently to change the outcome of the vote?

Jacquie: Yeah. They all promised me they were going to vote out Kelly, so I seriously felt really safe – I said [during Tribal Council] I was nervous but I felt safe. Kenny and Matty promised almost their life they weren’t going to vote me out. In hindsight, I could have tried to vote out Ace or tried to get Kelly on my side. I did try, but what didn’t work for me is she didn’t play very strategically. Her, me, Ace, and Matty tried to bond and it didn’t work, it went right over her head. She had it in her head that she was going to get me and Ace out, even though I thought that was poor strategy on her part.

RNO: We heard what Kelly thought of you – what do you think of Kelly?

Jacquie: On the show, I didn’t think much of her. She was really rude to everybody. Again, everything we told her went right over her head. She was pretty clueless about the game. She didn’t even want to be out there. She didn’t help in the challenges or in camp. If we would have had one more day at Fang, her true colors would have shown more and they never would have kept her. She would have kept digging a hole.

Also, I felt she was definitely projecting when she was talking about me behind my back. She is an absolute idiot.