“It’s simply so many feelings and plenty of them are actually — devastation and anger and confusion — there are plenty of damaging feelings.”
Spoiler alert: This text comprises spoilers for the Survivor 46 finale.
One of many issues that makes Survivor such a compelling recreation to look at and play is how technique weaves into interpersonal relationships and vice versa. Survivor 46 had some of the intense post-merge video games of the New Period with constant blindsides up till the Closing 5, when Maria Shrime Gonzalez was unanimously voted out for “being the largest menace.”
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The vote was pushed, partly, by her primary ally all through the sport, Charlie Davis, who made it to the Closing Three and misplaced in a 5-3 vote to Kenzie Petty. The most important shock of the finale, nonetheless, wasn’t essentially Kenzie’s win (which was well-deserved), however the truth that Maria voted for Kenzie to win over Charlie. Many followers are saying they would not be mates with Maria after a betrayal like that, so what’s Charlie and Maria’s relationship like now?
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Charlie and Maria are on talking phrases, however their friendship was affected by her resolution to vote for Kenzie.
There is not a lot data out but in regards to the standing of Charlie and Maria’s relationship after Survivor 46 aired, however there’s sufficient to place the items collectively. The official Survivor podcast, On Hearth, interviewed the Closing Three and gave us some perception into how Charlie and Maria are actually. Charlie was clearly harm in the course of the finale that Maria didn’t vote for him.
“It’s simply so many feelings,” he mentioned on On Hearth, “and plenty of them are actually — devastation and anger and confusion — there are plenty of damaging feelings. And I’m happy with myself for retaining my composure and I stand by all the pieces however it’s brutal. It sucked to be taught that on the after-show that somebody I performed the complete recreation with, who knew my recreation so properly and who, the very last thing that Maria mentioned to me was that she was voting for me to win the sport, so if there was one vote I used to be relying on at Closing Tribal Council, it was Maria’s.”
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When Jeff requested if it felt incorrect, Charlie admitted that it did. However he added, “There’s the equal components aspect of me that’s like, ‘You understand what? I don’t management Maria. Maria isn’t beholden to me.’ She voted the best way she voted, and the circumstances of the way it occurred are actually upsetting and arduous for me to digest and course of, however on the similar time, they could make excellent sense to Maria.”
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“And who am I to inform her that how she thinks in regards to the recreation is incorrect? That’s what makes Survivor so so difficult … It actually sucks to have somebody you thought you have been relying on as not solely a vote, however somebody to be an advocate for you on the jury, to not vote for you in any respect is de facto actually brutal.”
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So Jeff requested Charlie if he had spoken to Maria since. “I’ve spoken with Maria,” Charlie revealed to Jeff. “I stand by all the pieces I mentioned. She’s an incredible particular person, actually actually spectacular lady, wonderful mom, has an incredible profession, whereas doing an unbelievable job elevating her household.” In fact, nonetheless, there’s a ‘however.’”
“I’m a Survivor superfan,” Charlie mentioned. “So I’ll name again to a second in Survivor: Tocantins once I know Stephen [Fishbach] was speaking about JT [Thomas] bringing him into the ultimate two from the ultimate three and he mentioned, ‘If he doesn’t deliver me, I don’t know if our friendship could be the identical. That is what we got down to do.’”
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“And I might be mendacity to you if I mentioned Maria not casting a vote for me on the finish to win doesn’t add an actual complicating wrench into our friendship. That’s simply the character of the sport and the way emotionally invested and the way necessary it’s to me and the way a lot I gave blood, sweat, and tears to get to the place I did within the recreation after which to have my closest pal in the end not vote for me is a troublesome one to swallow.”
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Jeff additionally added that after his interview with Ben, he discovered that Ben would have voted for Charlie within the case of a tiebreaker. So Maria actually did value Charlie $1 million, which should be robust for Charlie to swallow.
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Though they’re seemingly repairing their friendship, Charlie nonetheless shaded Maria on Twitter with a Taylor Swift lyric.
Whereas Survivor was airing, the talks of lifelong friendship and Charlie turning into “Uncle Charlie” to Maria’s children appeared actual. Now, nonetheless, as Charlie revealed, it appears that evidently their relationship is “difficult” even when they wish to work in direction of the friendship they imagined.
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Simply a few hours after the finale aired, Charlie shared a pic with the caption, “I’ve plenty of ideas. However proper now, I simply wish to tweet this photograph,” which was a hilarious pic of him, Jelinsky, Jess, Ben, Venus, and Jem, with Maria notably absent. Different folks observed that whereas each Charlie and Maria have been on the reside finale occasion in New York Metropolis, they sat on reverse sides of the room.
In actual fact, some observed that Charlie and Maria have been seemingly not following one another on social media, including much more gasoline to the fireplace that their friendship was fractured. However the last kicker is that on the finish of the finale, Charlie tweeted, “thanks aMARIAmee,” which is a reference to a Taylor Swift music that’s all about her feud with Kim Kardashian titled, “thanK you aIMee.”
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The capital “Ok-IM” is a not-subtle reference to their feud, as is Charlie’s shout-out, which might have simply been in good religion contemplating what he mentioned on On Hearth. No matter their present relationship, we belief that we’ll see extra of Charlie in Survivor’s future and we hope that he and Maria are in a position to heal from their time on the present, whether or not meaning as mates or acquaintances.
All episodes of Survivor 46 can be found to stream on Paramount Plus.