Survivor Live: Gregg

Survivor Live, the Internet Talk Show
Guest: Gregg
Hosts: Dalton Ross (Entertainment Weekly) and
Jenna Morasca, sole survivor Survivor Amazon

Gregg once again said the he should have seen it coming but he didn't; he had blinders on. He was blinded from the Reward. He innocently choose his friends Jennifer and Katie to go on the luxury yacht with him because they hadn't had a taste of Reward at that point. Gregg admits that he should have been thinking about the game at that point but it's a lot tougher when you're actually there. He just "shut down" game-wise at that point.

The Others
Gregg said that five of them were real close: Gregg, Jennifer, Tom, Ian and Katie.

Jennifer
Early on with Koror winning all of the Immunity challenges there wasn't too much to worry about and their relationship just developed. Gregg maintains that they weren't trying to be another Rob and Amber. (I believe him, Jennifer isn't as good a player as Amber.) Furthermore he says that they were a good team. She focused on the women and he on the men, "an extra set of eyes and ears" he said. He naively said that their alliance wasn't revealed until the Reward challenge last week. (Snuggle partners get noticed.) Jennifer talked with Gregg about the Girl Power alliance and voting off Tom, but it sounds like Gregg talked her out of it. A future with Jennifer? It doesn't sound likely; he said he's in Chicago and she's in Los Angeles. (As Rene Syler said on the Early Show, "that's what airplanes are for.") If he wanted to keep seeing her he could. I think this was just a Survivor relationship.

Katie
What isn't shown is how funny and entertaining she is (he used the word "hysterical"). Gregg's not sure how serious of a relationship she has with Ian. Ian did tell her brother that he would take care of her.

Stephenie
She was a real wild card that's why he wanted her gone. He was with Koror so long he knew them well, but Stephenie was new and he didn't know how to read her. If she were in the final two no one would beat her out for the million dollars; it just would have been too good of a story. Gregg wanted her to go first after she joined them but Coby "dug his own grave."

Caryn
Caryn was supposed to go after Willard and she's still there. (That's because she became a pawn of Tom's.)

Jeff Probst
Jeff is sneaky and knows what questions to ask. You have to choose your words carefully not to "give up the goods." Jeff plays games too. Dalton Ross states the obvious: Jeff sometimes asks questions to see the reaction by other people. I'm sure Jeff watches video daily while they're shooting the show. I also bet he talks with the camera crews every day so he knows what's going on all of the time. This makes it a lot easier for him to ask probing questions.

Next for Gregg: he's working to help a village devastated by the tsunami (in Sri Lanka, I think he said). He mentioned a web site ( http://www.tsunamichallenge.org ) but it wasn't up when I checked it.

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