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Survivor 50\u2019 Winner Aubry Bracco Reveals Final Tribal Scene That Was Cut From TV<\/h3>\n
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\"Survivor<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aubry Bracco\u00a0took years away from\u00a0Survivor<\/em>\u00a0to heal her relationship with the game she loved that hurt her badly. Going on\u00a0Survivor 50<\/em>\u00a0was meant to cap off that healing journey. Winning\u00a0Survivor 50<\/em>\u00a0made it even better (read our\u00a0finale recap here).<\/p>\n

The Season 50 winner tells TV Insider that she thinks this should be her final season. After three tries (Ka\u00f4h R\u014dng, Game Changers<\/em>,\u00a0Edge of Extinction<\/em>), ending her fourth season on the ultimate high is a pretty pitch-perfect ending. But it wasn\u2019t a battle that was easily won.<\/p>\n

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Below, the\u00a0In the Hands of the Fans\u00a0<\/em>victor reacts to her second career immunity challenge win, which got her into the final three, reveals what she wishes had been shown in the final tribal council, which vote was the hardest, and more. Plus, she reacts to the wild\u00a0spoiler from Jeff Probst\u00a0during the live finale.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations, Aubry. It\u2019s obviously the most exciting of endings for you. How does it feel today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Aubry Bracco:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh, feels amazing, Kelli. I\u2019m just trying to take it all in. Surreal, and I just feel relieved.\u00a0Survivor 50<\/em>\u2018s been this amazing buildup. So much effort has gone into it from everyone. It just feels nice trying to be in the moment.<\/p>\n

Last night, after the finale, you said that you didn\u2019t want to count your eggs before they hatched in terms of expecting votes. But did any of the votes that you did get surprise you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian, Devens, and Emily, I wasn\u2019t sure where they\u2019d gone. I was hoping they\u2019d go for me, and they did, which was amazing.<\/p>\n

Why did you think that they might have not?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, Christian, Devens, and Emily, poker faces for nine months to a year. I was very impressed, very impressed with them.<\/p>\n

What would you say to those who said that you didn\u2019t play as active of a game as your other competitors?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes the flashiest game \u2026 I would say this, I played the game I had to play for\u00a0Survivor 50<\/em>. I was proud of my game of\u00a0Ka\u00f4h R\u014dng<\/em>. I was proud of myself in\u00a0Survivor 50<\/em>\u00a0because I was able to adapt to the game that worked for this season. This was a season of big personalities. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and I had to manage all of that, and this was the game that had to be played for this season.<\/p>\n

Do you think there was one turning point for you earlier this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I would say that\u00a0the Ozzy vote\u00a0really was where I\u2019m like, \u201cOh my gosh, I have a shot at this.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had spent time with Ozzy. I love Ozzy. He\u2019s a wonderful human being, and I had built a relationship with him, and I didn\u2019t have any social equity coming into the merge. And when that happened, I realized that some of the work that I had started to do with the merge was starting to pay off.<\/p>\n

\"Aubry <\/p>\n

Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How were you feeling when he started telling you all that stuff? Because if I were you, I would\u2019ve been a little annoyed, like, \u201cYou are treating me as a jury member.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. I mean, I definitely was. I cringed a little bit because I just feel so bad. The Ozzy vote was so hard. But yeah, I was like, \u201cI\u2019m not on the jury yet. Come on, man.\u201d But I was also like, \u201cThank you. Keep going. Keep telling me so I can turn this around for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

You talked about this in your pitch in the finale last night, but Jonathan posited the Ozzy vote as something that he fully orchestrated, but expand on how that\u2019s not necessarily true.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, sure. It\u2019s really interesting.\u00a0Survivor 50<\/em>, I don\u2019t think there were many unilateral decisions. It was very much a consensus season. A lot of people wanted a consensus. They wanted to make sure most people were in on the plan, so I think it was more nuanced than that. I played the role that I had to play in that vote, and that contributed to that vote, and that was the role I had to play. I mean, I think everyone wanted Ozzy out. His name had come up. Emily had brought his name up. Emily and Devens had voted for him before. Stephenie and Jonathan, and I were talking about it. I think we all knew Ozzy had to go.<\/p>\n

You and Tiff were close in the beginning, but then we didn\u2019t see you together as much later on in the season. Was there a shift there, or was that just an edit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiffany and I always had a great working relationship, but I think that she became very close to Cirie. And Tiffany, I mean, I went into this game being like, \u201cYou know what? It\u2019s OK to be a little bit aloof. You don\u2019t want to be so close to people that you overly hurt them if you get to the end, but you don\u2019t want to be so far away that they won\u2019t work with you.\u201d So I think Tiffany was super loyal. She\u2019s a ride or die. My gosh, look at her at the end. I love her so much, but I tried to keep a little bit of distance for my positioning, and Tiff was really working more closely with Cirie, but we always had a good working relationship.<\/p>\n

When I was\u00a0talking to Cirie last week, she said that you two have a lot of love for each other, but it just wouldn\u2019t work for you guys to work together in this season. Is that how it felt for you as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah. I mean, Cirie and I, we weren\u2019t coming for each other, and we have a very intuitive relationship where she\u2019s like, \u201cI can work with you, but we\u2019re not really talking to each other.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cFine.\u201d So we worked together as much as we could.<\/p>\n

Do you think you would\u2019ve beaten Tiff if she was in the final three with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I would\u2019ve beaten Tiff. I think Tiffany was on fire. Outwit, outplay, outlast. Tiffany\u2019s all of those big time. I really don\u2019t know. It would\u2019ve been really close, or I think she could\u2019ve gotten it.<\/p>\n

When she won her last individual immunity, she said there was a big effort to have anyone but her win, right? Tell me what that was like in that challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh. It was embarrassing because I\u2019m like, I could\u2019ve gotten that puzzle if I didn\u2019t try to help them spell. But Tiffany, like I said, she was so charismatic. She\u2019s so on fire. I was getting flashbacks of in\u00a0Ka\u00f4h R\u014dng<\/em>. I really grappled with voting out Michele [Fitzgerald] at six, and it was feeling like we were right there again. I was afraid we were going to lose the moment, so it was a nail-biter. And it was a nail-biter at five and four and three until last night.<\/p>\n

The face that you made when you realized that you won Simmotion, you were still playing. Jeff called the game, you didn\u2019t fully hear that it happened. What was going through your head the second you realized you won?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh, it\u2019s so true because I was ready to keep doing that for half an hour. I was so locked in. I mean, there really were no words. I couldn\u2019t believe. I\u2019ve won one other individual immunity, a challenge in Season 34. It just seemed impossible.<\/p>\n

\"Aubry<\/p>\n

Based on your talks with the jury in the time since filming ended, what players do you think might\u2019ve had a real chance of winning had they made it into the final three?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh. Cirie. Ozzy. Tiffany. I think there\u2019s a world in which Rizo [could have won]. They were all amazing players. I think Devens and Christian were incredible. I really respected Emily\u2019s game. There were so many good players. It\u2019s hard to answer that. Depends on the combinations.<\/p>\n

True. And when you decided to send Rizo and Jonathan into the fire-making challenge, how aware of the fact that they both lost in fire in their previous seasons were you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was very aware that they had both lost in fire, so much so that I was like, \u201cAll right, Aubry, are you sure you want to do this? Because if you do this, you\u2019re going to give one of them a redemption story.\u201d I was worried about it, but then when I worked out how I thought votes would be split and if certain people went out, certain people would be on the jury, they vote for this person, the other person. That didn\u2019t trump it.<\/p>\n

Obviously, you ultimately still made the right call.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

To talk about the live finale, what was the vibe like on set before the big spoiler happened? Because they went out at the wrong time, right? What happened there?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know what? I got to tell you, Kelli, I was in my own little world about what I was going to say if I won or lost. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

In the commercial break, what was the vibe like when they were trying to figure out what happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n

People were just trying to figure out what happened, and then Jeff owned it and moved on.<\/p>\n

I mean, props to his ad-libbing abilities because his save was pretty funny.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He did, and I love he just owned it. It was great. More of us should do that. Just own it and move on.<\/p>\n

\"Jeff <\/p>\n

Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now that you\u2019ve watched the entire season, what\u2019s something that you wish you had done differently, if anything? It\u2019s kind of hard to say when you won. And what do you think is your biggest improvement?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh. Something I wish I\u2019d had a better relationship with Stephenie earlier in the game, because I think that would\u2019ve unlocked that original Vatu tribe for me. My biggest improvement since my first season?<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I\u2019m more able to remain grounded and recover from hard things more quickly.<\/p>\n

What was the toughest elimination for you this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emotionally?<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was really hard to see Christian go. Christian\u2019s such a great guy. I\u2019m getting upset, but I remember it took me \u2026 It was delayed a day, and it was just really hard because he\u2019s just such a wonderful person and I really, really respect him. And it was also really hard to see Ozzy go that way because Ozzy and I have both done a lot of similar work to heal our intuition. It\u2019s really hard to go out with an idol in your pocket. Ozzy and I have both been there, and to do it again to Ozzy when he\u2019d already been there was hard as a human, but had to do it from a game.<\/p>\n

There are so many new twists introduced in this season. What\u2019s one that you liked and would love to see again, whether you\u2019re a player or a viewer, and what\u2019s one you would like to do away with?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh. I don\u2019t even know how to answer that question because it depends on the season. I look back on Season 46, everyone went out with an idol in their pocket. People don\u2019t like the Billie Eilish Boomerang Idol. What happens when that\u2019s in a season, and it works? I don\u2019t know. I know that sounds wishy-washy. Look at me playing the middle, but I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not sure. I can\u2019t even think about it because it just worked out how it was supposed to for me, but it was hard to see Christian go and lose his vote and vote for himself and have to read it in front of the tribe. Never again.\u00a0Jimmy Fallon, why?<\/p>\n

To remove your ability to lie in\u00a0Survivor<\/em>\u00a0is brutal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That was hard. That was savage. I\u2019m like, \u201cOh my God, I don\u2019t want that to happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the final tribal council, of course, that goes on for much, much longer than viewers see. What were some things that went down that you wish had made the cut?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We talked more about our stories. And I would also say there was a conversation, just very brief, about why Jonathan gave Christian back the Shot in the Dark after he got voted out. That was interesting. There was just a little bit more hashing out of certain votes that we could have gone on for hours, but we really did get the meat of it.<\/p>\n

\"Survivor <\/p>\n

Robert Voets \/ CBS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And when Stephenie did her spiel to Jonathan, and then Tiff asked, \u201cIs there a question?\u201d W<\/strong>as there a question? Because we didn\u2019t hear a question.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, I don\u2019t recall there being a question. And it was funny because Steph said that Jonathan did a lot around camp, and Christian chimed in and said, \u201cWell, if you ever needed to start a fire, Aubry always had the husk ready.\u201d And I really appreciated that. It was more of a statement, but statements happen, and I don\u2019t hold it against her.<\/p>\n

Do you think this is your\u00a0Survivor<\/em>\u00a0grand finale?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think it should be. I should take a cue from my buddy, John Cochran, and know when it\u2019s time to stop. And I think there\u2019s so many other wonderful people who deserve a chance to play.<\/p>\n

I mean, four seasons and ended on a win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean, come on. Doesn\u2019t get better than that. $2 million and a\u00a0Price Is Right<\/em>\u00a0moment with a beautiful car that you didn\u2019t expect. Oh my gosh.<\/p>\n

That sounds like a good finale to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It does to me too.<\/p>\n

But if they did another all-winners season, would you consider it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, give me a second, Kelli [laughs<\/em>]\u2026I don\u2019t know. I mean, I can\u2019t even think like that.<\/p>\n

What about reality TV in general? Is that also a too-soon question?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh. I mean, this is the funny thing. I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, I shouldn\u2019t.\u201d And then I\u2019m like, ooh, how fun would it be to do\u00a0Traitors<\/em>,\u00a0Million Dollar Secret.<\/em>\u201d I\u2019d love to do\u00a0Alone<\/em>, but that\u2019s definitely not my demographic.\u00a0Amazing Race.<\/em>\u00a0Ooh, but I don\u2019t know. It may be time to be a normal person for a little bit.<\/p>\n

If this is your last season of\u00a0Survivor<\/em>, what do you want to leave it off on? What do you want to say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh my gosh, thank you. And thank you to the lovers. Thank you to the haters. I appreciate you all. I\u2019ve learned so much about myself. It\u2019s been an education, not just in the game, but in life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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