In a shock twist, Jacqui Patterson was booted off Survivor Australia last night after she was betrayed by fellow teammate Henry.
The tribe swap threw the teams into chaos and unfortunately for Jacqui, the shift in alliances left her head on the chopping block.
“It’s all a bad dream. Fancy getting rid of me?” Jacqui jokes to TV WEEK.
She’s certainly not impressed with Henry.
“He needs a good belting that kid,” Jacqui says. “Wait til he gets home!”
Despite leaving the game she loved sooner than she’d hoped, Jacqui is very philosophical about the experience.
“Look, it’s a game. It is what it is. I’m disappointed, gutted, you know?” she says. “He [Henry] threw me under the bus. That’s how you see it first and foremost when it happens, but there was a method to his madness. But I couldn’t see it at the time.
“It’s going to be the demise of 23 people in the end – everyone is going to be frustrated and annoyed. It was my time.”
Jacqui also revealed that she tore tendons in her shoulder during a challenge on the show and has since had treatment on her arm, which led to the shocking discovery of a melanoma.
“We have to stay positive about these things because the silver lining is that I would never have found it had my arm not been injured,” Jacqui says. “I’ve got a big week next week – but onwards and upwards. You can’t get rid of me that easily.”
It’s been a rough couple of months for Jacqui and her husband Gary who has prostate cancer.
“He was diagnosed with prostate cancer before we left,” Jacqui explains. “But he’s since had an operation and he’s still got it but it’s just one we have to keep an eye on.”
“He’s good, he’s fighting fit,” she adds. “I didn’t run off and play a game on TV and leave him to die like some people think I did.”
Jacqui watched last night’s episode with last year’s winner of Australian Survivor Kristy Bennet.
“I was pleased with the way they edited it,” she says of her final episode. “I was never a bitchy or malicious player. I was pretty straight down the line. I’m glad there wasn’t some big dramatic lead up to me going home – because it was a bit of a shock.”
So who does Jacqui think could be the Sole Survivor?
“I’ve got to go for the misfit Jarrod.”
