'Survivor: Nicaragua''s Jane Bright: Chase Stabbed Me in the Back
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Jane Bright was one of the more controversial figures on "Survivor: Nicaragua," partly because she turned her back on her Espada tribe as soon as she was switched to LaFlor, but also for her ongoing dislike of her fellow teammate Marty.
On Wednesday night's penultimate episode of "Survivor," Jane was finally voted out by her alliance as she was perceived as a threat. No one wanted to go up against the 56-year-old dog trainer from Jackson Springs, North Carolina in the vote for the $1 million.
Now ETonline talks to Jane so she can explain why she felt so betrayed by her ousting at Tribal Council.
ETonline: You seemed really shocked that your alliance voted you out Wednesday night. But it seemed clear to me that they would, especially after Marty had explained to everyone at Tribal Council that it would be foolish to go up against you in the finale.
Jane Bright: I knew there was a target on my back ever since Marty spoke his little speech, because up until that point in time, I don't think people took me that serious. He did a lot of damage. He succeeded in what he wanted to happen.
ETonline: But you seemed like you really felt betrayed. This is a game.
Jane Bright: This is a game, but I had Chase eating on the side that other people didn't even know about just to keep him strong so he would be good for challenges. I knew he and I would probably go to the final three with either Holly or Sash. We had all sat around and discussed that. For him to stab me in the back the way he did that hurt pretty bad.
ETonline: So are you saying you were feeding him on the side? Were you sneaking him fish?
Jane Bright: A couple of times I found a coconut that he would eat. You know, you are sitting out there and everybody is hungry and no one wants to go look for stuff. Nobody wants to fish. Why? I had lines set up all down the creek bed. Do you want to help me check them and re-bait them? No. Nobody would. I walked a mile and a half to do all this.
ETonline: You won immunity several times. Do you think they were worried that this might be their last chance to vote you out?
Jane Bright: I don't know if they thought it was the last chance to vote me out. I know if I hadn't have won those immunity necklaces when I needed them, I probably would have been voted off then. My name got written down many times. This wasn't the first time my name got written down.
ETonline: Do you have any thoughts about why Dan didn't switch his vote? If it had been a tie, it would have come down to a fire-building challenge and you would have won that.
Jane Bright: Probably. Marty controlled Dan. Marty told Dan, "If you make it, make it an all-male alliance." Dan wasn't going to waiver. He had Fabio wrapped around his little finger. Whatever Dan did, Fabio was going to do. I couldn't get Dan to come over to me because I am not a man. And Dan knew I could beat him in a challenge. He was useless in any challenge that he did. I just think it was written in stone. What I don't know is who brought my name up originally because minutes before I found that out, until that point in time, Dan was going home. Our alliance of four had discussed it many times -- who was going home based on who won the immunity. The only way I would have been saved is if Chase had given me the idol.
ETonline: You were really harsh on Marty. Why could you not let that go even after he was gone?
Jane Bright: From the day I first met him, Marty never took me serious, never took me as a team player. I was pretty much invisible around him. It irritated me that he would not ask anybody else, "What are you good at in a challenge?" He just assumed if you are blond, you are weak and we will dispose of you at a later date. I found out from Dan that he was going to target Holly and me had I stayed over at Espada and had he stayed over at Espada. He was trying to take out anybody he could and destroy the Espada team -- and at that time, we were still a team. We did not need to lose Jimmy Johnson. We did not need to lose Jimmy T.. We could have lost Yve and that would not have hurt the tribe as a whole. We were supposed to be working as a unit. It wasn't an individual game yet. It was a personal vendetta for him to get rid of those two people. He was working for himself.
He was a one-man show. He was showboating it when we were doing that one challenge like Plinko on "The Price is Right." Just catch the ball. Don't be rolling around and running around for good TV. Just catch the ball and don't drop it. I look back at the one challenge where me and Fabio were throwing the tiles. Marty insisted I go down into the water. I finally spoke up and said, "I want to throw. I can throw." Me and Fabio came from behind and won that challenge because he and I busted the tiles so our team could move forward. If it had been up to Marty, he would have been down there tossing and I would have been drinking water. We needed him up there to do the spin-around thing. I figured Jill's mouth was bigger than mine for water. Put people where they are good.
ETonline: Who are you rooting for?
Jane Bright: My thoughts are between two people and we will just have to wait until Tribal Council to see who the final three end up being and who I vote for.
ETonline: Did what happened Wednesday night affect your vote?
Jane Bright: It did up until the moment I wrote the name down.
ETonline: What was the hardest part?
Jane Bright: Sleeping on the bamboo. It is not comfortable no matter which way you sleep on it. I ended up sleeping with the hermit crabs most of the time when it didn't rain. I didn't care if they crawled around on me. At least you could dream. It was a whole lot more comfortable in the sand, but it is why I looked dirty all the time -- and I clean up better than I looked. I looked terrible on that show.
ETonline: Would you do it again?
Jane Bright: Yes, I would do it again. I would be the first one on the plane and the first one off.
The "Survivor: Nicaragua" finale airs Sunday, Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. on CBS.
