Publication - The Latch
Welcome to the ‘Survivor Five’ — where we asked each contestant eliminated from Australian Survivor: Brains vs Brawn five questions about their time in one of the most gruelling reality competitions in the world.
While George’s chaotic approach to the game put him in practically everybody’s line of fire, Cara was one of the few to embrace the King, even going so far as to play a Hidden Immunity Idol for him early in the game. The move ultimately backfired and ended Cara’s time in the game, or so she thought at the time.
“I was fully prepared to exit the competition,” Cara told 10 play, “I frankly never thought I was going to win. I hoped I’d win, but I never thought I was going to win... I just wanted to go as far as I could.
“I’m such a believer in the journey, there’s no point getting to the end and being miserable,” she continued. “George wanted that so badly and I did too, but I would rather have given that gift to allow him to have his journey.”
It’s been an extraordinary adventure for empath, real estate agent and “Duchess of Double Bay” Cara Atchison who was voted out of Australian Survivor: Brains vs Brawn early in the game, only to re-enter as part of the Brawns tribe.
Atchison then successfully navigated the competition, with her trusted ally George by her side, to make it to the final four Castaways in the game. Her Australian Survivor journey came to an end after Flick won the final Immunity Idol, leaving George and Cara no choice but to do the inevitable and place their votes on each other.
“We’d actually discussed it between the four of us about the fact there would come a time when it happened,” Atchinson told The Latch following her exit. “It just ended up happening one move earlier than I would have liked and that came down to our World Champion, Flick, winning that Immunity Challenge.
If that hadn’t happened things would have gone very differently, but she so deserved it — she had a lot of other things going on so I don’t begrudge that. I am just so stoked that I made it to the final four, I’m quite humbled really.”
What was the first
thing you did when you got to the Jury Villa?
“When you get back in, it’s literally 1-2am. It’s really late and the people in there really are troopers because they’ve set up a lovely spread. So I just walked straight in and there was so much food, it was quite overwhelming.
“Also, the colours and the lights, because we hadn’t had any unnatural light, electricity or anything like that, it’s really quite jarring and I’m bit sensitive to that anyway. A couple of the guys were watching television and I couldn’t even look at the screen!
“But the first thing I did was, everyone just put food on my plate, and I’m pretty sure I ate it with my hands — my dirty hands, I didn’t even bother washing them!
“I stayed up until 5am, because you’ve got that post-game adrenalin. So Gerald, Baden and I stayed up watching bad television.”
https://10play.com.au/australian-survivor/articles/everyone-underestimated-us-cara-atchisons-ultimate-alliance-finally-comes-undone/tpa210906htpzx
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