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has anyone read the RNO interview with Charlie, he has some interesting things to say about Ken/Sugar/Crystal

http://www.realitynewsonl...rticle8515.art&page=1

I'll just post the interesting stuff

About Ken

RNO: Until last night, did you have any idea that Ken was behind your ouster?

Charlie: People talk about the show afterwards, so I had heard that.

RNO: What do you think of the reason behind it?

Charlie: Honestly, I think I'm surprised because he prides himself on being a strategic player and it sounds like he made an emotional decision because he had a personal grudge against me for a silly reason. If you want to win, I'm not sure it's good to lie to your allies for personal reasons. If you make these moves over and over… he lied about Ace to Sugar and it seemed more necessary. But this one didn't seem that way. I think at some point it's going to catch up to him.

RNO: In your final Tribal Council, you indicated that you thought Ken was a great guy. Once you were voted off and especially now that you've seen the episode, has your opinion of Ken, as a person, changed?

Charlie: I had very little experience with Ken. The only experience I had with him were those three hours we spent as a merged tribe after the challenge and before Tribal Council. The other thing with Ken was when Dan, Susie, and Randy came into our tribe, I learned Ken had been calling me "fag" behind my back.

I was in a game where there were a lot of abrasive, in your face, obnoxious people there and I was still able to foster good relationships with them. I was kind of nervous to meet somebody who perhaps might have negative views on my sexuality. It was just hearsay at that time. When Jeff asked me, I had just met him. Within three hours, my opinion of Ken had not changed. I didn't want to make a snap judgment so I said that.

When we arrived at camp, it was chaos. We were scrambling to get the food and shelter in order, and the strategy. There wasn't enough time to get to know Ken very well. The only thing I got to know was the one thing I heard.

Isn't it interesting that the one person I didn't get along with and who wanted me gone was the person who called me that behind my back?

RNO: When I talked to Ace, he said he thought Ken was just lucky. Then Marcus told me he thought Ken took advantage of people. What do you think about the way Ken has played?

Charlie: I didn't know [at the time] how he was playing. As a viewer, I think he [had some luck] - you see before the first switch, the axis of evil were down in numbers, then there's a switch, then they're down in number and there's a switch. He was fortunate but he did make some smart moves. I commend him for convincing Sugar. I was very impressed with that move.

RNO: Speaking of her, Corinne and others obviously had a pretty low opinion of Sugar's intelligence and ability to play the game. What did you think?

Charlie: Sugar, I think she's getting the most inaccurate edit. She was very unlikable out there. She was kind of like a princess. She demanded where to sleep in the hut. She tore up our bags and would wear them as dresses without asking; she would wear our clothes without asking. She said what on her mind all the time and did what she wanted to do. That's great in real life, but in Survivor, I never felt like she stepped back and thought, "Is this fight really a strategic move? Is tearing up their bags going to piss people off?" And she aligned with the one person originally in Kota that everybody despised, Ace. I sort of wrote her off as making big errors in this game.

As a viewer, she was playing the game more than I thought. But I think she was duped a lot - she goes along with the last person who talked to her. She aligned herself with the big alpha male, first Ace, then Marcus, then she clung to Matty. I think she's playing the game more than I thought she was, but I don't think she's playing the game very well.

RNO: In Tribal Council last night, you seemed to agree when somebody was talking about how there were mean people out there.

Sugar was like, "I know I'm a nice person and I don't annoy people." I remember wildly rolling my eyes. They played me agreeing with her. I like her as a person, but out there it wasn't exactly as it's been edited. With Paloma and Jacquie, the sweethearts of the show, gone so early, they needed to put someone else in that spot.

RNO: We'll see when I'm writing it. Anyway, what was the most eye-opening thing you saw on TV that you didn't know about while you were there?

Charlie: I didn't realize Crystal was so mean. I didn't know what was going on at Fang. We were very strategic and happy and there was a lot of teamwork. I thought they would be wildly strategic. But everyone was flip-flopping and there was no strategy. Crystal is mad at GC. They had Kelly and didn't have Kelly. Everything we guessed was as if they were playing logically and with common sense.

I knew Crystal had a very strong personality - at challenges she was very emotional. But I didn't know she was playing with such a mean-spirited nature. I commend her for some moves, but she could have done them with some grace. Like in the voting booth…

RNO: When she flipped off the person she was voting against?

Charlie: You can say, "I didn't get along with you." But you're a mother and you represented our country in the Olympics. Is that how you want to behave? It's not how I would.