“I Could Have Made a Good Run of It” – RealityNewsOnline’s Exclusive Interview with Survivor: Tocantins’ Erinn

RNO: You said at Tribal Council that scrambling never works... and then it did! Did you know you made some headway with your argument that Taj would be tough to beat in the finals?

Erinn: The thing about scrambling is that I worked on that for a long time. It wasn’t a last-minute scramble, it was planting the seeds over time that she is a huge threat and would be hard for all of them to beat. She’s never upset anybody or made anyone mad. Everyone is going to walk out of here friends with her and they would have handed her the million dollars. Coupled with that, she doesn’t need it! (Taj in the background says everybody needs a million dollars!)

We are all about the money and she just wanted to come out to do it (Taj contributes: “And to lose weight”). To go through all of that, I had had talks with J.T. and Stephen two or three days into the merge where we said this is what we’re going to do. And it was a lot of spending time getting to that. So when it came down to that, I was not horribly surprised that it was me.

RNO: Describe your feelings about Coach.

Erinn: (Laughs) I think that Coach an enigma of a man. He is just – his ego is bigger than he is and he has created this mythical character for himself. There are also a lot of sides of him you don’t see, which is unfortunate. He is a good guy wrapped in layers and layers and layers of experience and ego and legend. When you compound all of those things, of course he’s going to pass a lie detector test because he has told the stories so much that he believes them. He is impossibly arrogant and horrible to be around at times, but he has this character he created for the game and he’s a really irritating guy. Those things coupled, oh I had a tough time.

I really do think his stories are based in fact, but they have been made to be so much bigger than they are. A lot of that is half the reason that I kept him around. I never felt like Coach is the next to go – I didn’t have that feeling like I had to vote him out. You always knew what he was going to do – it was so predictable. He had created this character that was so big and noble and honest and chock-full of integrity. He wanted to be that guy whether he was or not, so you kind of have to take him at that. So even if he hates me, he probably won’t lie to me, so it made him not so big of a threat.

RNO: Was there anything you saw on TV that surprised you because you didn’t know about it while you were out there?

Erinn: Not really.

RNO: We’re about out of time, so do you have anything else you’d like to tell us about your time on Survivor?

Erinn: There is one thing – I read your interview with Sierra where she said I was digging for days and days for that immunity idol she had placed. Here’s what happened. I walk to treemail and see this clue and read it and whatever. There are like six potential lone trees. I walk, dig my toe in the dirt, see this clearly isn’t it, etc. I think I spent ten minutes looking around. This doesn’t seem right to me. When you look at this, it was a brilliant plan but the only flaw was she placed the idol in an area where it was full grown grass that had been there for years and years. If CBS had buried an idol, it was like five years ago and it didn’t take me more than ten minutes to figure out.

RNO: Thanks again, Erinn!

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