“Australian Survivor” contestant Simon Mee today tweeted – then rapidly deleted – some insight about just how tough life will be for those playing the sport.
Simon responded to a fan’s meme concerning the show with some behind-the-scenes goss, revealing that life on the beach in Samoa can get very “Lord of the Flies.”
One temporary scene in a recent episode of the fact series saw fellow contestant Gerry angrily chastise Simon about where he’d placed the tribe’s firewood within the camp.
It was a surprising outburst from the normally mild-mannered rescue pilot, to this point one in every of the sport’s most softly spoken players.
As fans shared the moment online, Simon – perpetually on the underside this season, but one way or the other still in the sport because it enters its final stages – explained that the blow-up was a symptom of greater issues, as players jostled to maintain their spot in the sport’s fragile hierarchy.
Simon said that “Survivor’s” rudimentary sleeping arrangements, wherein players huddle together for warmth under a makeshift shelter (with – in the event that they’re lucky – a tarp to maintain the rain out), revealed “rather a lot concerning the pecking order of the tribe.”
“Gerry slept in the course of the shelter with the blanket every night. But when he collected fire wood, he stacked down the top of the shelter,” he wrote.
“Which also happened to me by bed.”
In a follow-up tweet, also deleted, Simon revealed that he would must move the firewood any time he wanted to create space for himself in his less protected area of the shelter.
Former player and “Survivor” megafan Matt Tarrant responded to the tweet, saying it was “legit true” that players should “never sleep on the sting of the bed at camp” in the event that they desired to stay within the players’ inner circle.
“Aww thanks Matt,” said Simon. “I remember how excited I used to be once I was in a position to fit under the tarp for the primary time after Shaun left.”
Over time, many “Survivor” contestants have spoken to news.com.au concerning the unique challenges they faced on the show: Intense hunger, an unexpected lack of heat, no contact with family members.
But Simon’s candid (perhaps too candid, given they didn’t stay online very long) tweets shine a light-weight on one other hazard for “Survivor” players: Managing their place in the sport’s pecking order, in a situation where even a patch of sand to sleep on is jealously guarded.
This season of “Australian Survivor” continues on Sunday night, after Monday’s tribal council ended with a surprise non-elimination.
As an alternative, Gerry and fellow player Nina were sent to “Survivor isolation,” where they’ll remain until they compete against one another for the possibility to rejoin the sport.