HitFix: John Rocker told me last week about watching his elimination with a few of you and mentioned that some trash-talking about him was involved. It's too bad, because Drew says in one of the responses that he didn't think the edit was a good representation of his time out there, but several questions that would have let him go into depth on his own interpretations went unanswered. In the case of my Drew interview, I probably would have wanted follow-ups to nearly every question and I would have wanted second shots at the five or six questions that didn't get answered at all. But doing interviews in this way makes it impossible to ask follow-up questions or to reask questions when queries come up that the subject would prefer not to answer. The email option is one I'm tremendously grateful to have when, every season or two, I just can't do my normal phone interview.

Unfortunately, I was out of town this week and had to conduct my “Survivor” exit interview with Drew via email through the show's team. Along the way, he decided to throw a challenge, but didn't tell anybody, led a campaign to vote out Kelley, but couldn't get a single person to join him, and managed to mobilize the tribe's women so that, amidst the chaos Drew created, they were able to vote him out in an impressive blindside.ĭrew pulled off the unthinkable and I was, indeed, eager to ask the 25-year-old traveling sales rep how he did it. In 44 minutes of television, Drew went from a position of power in a tribe that couldn't lose, a tribe on which the women were on a minority and couldn't create any sort of meaningful alliance to having his torch snuffed. On Wednesday night's “Survivor,” Drew absolutely pulled off the unthinkable. People will ask me… How did you do that?” In his online “Survivor: San Juan Del Sur” bio, Drew Christy says of his Personal Claim To Fame: ” I seem to pull off the unthinkable with ease.

The Return by Christy Newman