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17. Natalie Tenerelli (Survivor: Redemption Island - 3rd Place, 338/390)

Yeah, she's not much better than Matt in my opinion.  Honestly, the only positive Natalie has going for her is the fact that she has those two EXTREMELY hot ass-gifs, not to mention she has one of the more attractive bodies we've seen in recent years.  The face is a little bad, but it can be improved upon, as evidenced by her reunion makeover.  But this entry isn't about why Natalie is fucking hot.  It's why she sucks badly enough to be ranked in the bottom fourth of my list.

Honestly, I think the reasons for hating Natalie can be summed up in a single scene, and anyone who suffered through the entire season knows EXACTLY what scene I'm talking about before I even type the next sentence.  I'm referring to, of course, the scene in which she runs and tattles to Rob that Ralph said he would vote for Ashley if she was in the finals, which led to Rob immediately cutting Ashley out of his final three.  This scene showcases everything Natalie did during the entire course of the season (with one exception, but I'll explain).

From episode one, Natalie's entire storyline was about being in love with Rob and wanting to be friends with Rob and all that.  Hell, her first confessional talked about how awesome Rob is and how much better he was than Russell.  Then in episode two it became apparent that she was his go-to girl and they were the closest allies on the tribe, and Edgic, particularly a certain Edgician who roots for the pretty, under-the-radar brunette EVERY fucking season, took her confessional about how she would make big moves as a sign that she was the undisputed winner of the season.  And then despite being completely ignored for pretty much the rest of the season, save for the last three episodes, they never gave up hope.  But yeah, Natalie's Rob-love continued on and on, even going so far that she/Ashley refused to even consider Steve's plan against Rob, because they were content to be his bitches.  And then when it came down to it, Natalie blindsided Ashley, her best friend, because Rob told her to.  You could see the way she looked so upset when he told her because she knew it was going to happen even though she didn't want it to, and she just accepted it.  Needless to say, the jury grilled the shit out of her for being Rob's lackey all game, and she did a horrible job because her jury speech basically said that she did whatever Rob told her to do because she knew that could get her to the end.

Outside of her Rob love, there wasn't a lot to Natalie.  She had her friendship with Ashley, but Ashley was clearly the dominant personality in that relationship as she was the one who fought more with Phillip while Natalie was just there and stayed quiet and picked at Ashley's armpit hairs.  That's another image that encompasses Natalie nicely: someone who picks other players' armpits hairs because of how useless they are.  And I mean USELESS.  Natalie won the first immunity challenge miraculously and did well in the final ten endurance challenge, but other than that, she was absolutely useless.  The last few challenges, when she was so far behind that Jeff started bashing her for her piss-poor performance (especially when she was getting beaten by a crazy, 52-year-old man)...I didn't even feel bad for her.  Normally, I would HATE when Jeff injected his personal opinion into challenge commentary because he's such an absolute douchebag about things sometimes...but in Natalie's case, I felt he was absolutely right.  And he told her to just give up and sit down at the first final five challenge, I agreed with him because of how worthless Natalie was.

Honestly, Natalie played the role of a sheep all game.  She never once made a move of her own, or tried to better her position in the game, and it helped lead to one of the most boring seasons of all time.  Yes, pretty much the entire Ometepe tribe did the same thing as her, but the difference is that they all at least had SOME positives to their actions and they wound up getting screwed over.  They got their comeuppance for bad gameplay.  Natalie's only comeuppance was getting no votes in the final tribal council after she fucked over her best friend because Rob told her to.  That's just awful.